Finding the Rhythm

I can’t believe that even with the recent time change (Daylight Savings) I’m starting to miss the sunrise again already each morning. It’s throwing-off my rhythm big-time. But that’s not kept me keeping a chart update rhythm going for the last week, which I completed and posted last night.

The Top 5 just sort of juggled position a little bit, but Carol Hahn, Jamie Knight, “The Damiens” (Damien J. Carter and Damien Heck), Junior Caldera and Taylor Swift are all still there. Perhaps the only surprise is that John Kano isn’t in that mix, sitting at #6, but aside from Taylor, none of it’s surprising because I could have named them all anyway. (The chart is based on play frequency, so I’m sometimes as surprised with the results as anyone.)

So rather than rehash anything, I’ll talk a bit this morning about the new entries.

One of them is Tod Miner at #20 with Luv N Music. This is one of those tracks that I just did not like. Not the first time I heard it, not the second, not the third. Harry Towers is promoting the record, and after giving him my reaction to it, he encouraged me to listen one more time to a specific mix (the so-called “Rubber Mix” for reasons I can’t explain), and finally, I thought, “OK, so this isn’t that bad.” After listening to and playing the song, I have to say it’s growing on me. In fact, I think I can safely say now that I like it. 

At #18 is Vertigo pres. Peyton. I don’t know much about this track, All That Matters, but I do like it and it’s fantastic lyrics. Peyton, a US-born singer living in the UK now, has had a number of dance tracks in the past, most notably A Higher Place.

Lily Allen’s smash hit The Fear isn’t a favorite, but I have been playing it, and it makes an entry at the bottom at#25. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a catchy song with an interesting if somewhat goofy lyric, but considering it’s one of those tracks that’s getting played everywhere by everyone, it’s already growing a little tiresome. I even heard the non-remixed version while out and about someplace over the weekend; as is often the case, I didn’t even know the track was mainstream.

Have a great week ahead.