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I feel like I should like this song but I can't for some really simple flaws.
1. The whole thing seems half hearted as if they wanted to make a party record but didn't really feel like having a party, unlike 'I Gotta Feeling' (the song which Timbaland has said inspired this record) which sounded like a party was going on in the studio.
2. Katy's voice isn't strong enough for some parts of the song, at 3:24 when all the music drops away and it's just her voice it doesn't sound powerful enough therefore the hook falls flat.
3. The video is seriously bad! I mean get it together Timbaland, 'Morning After Dark' but at least it was funny in it's sheer rubbishness (pretty sure that's not a word). This video's just shocking.
Apart from those small faults this is one hell of a tune!

Good points harry, especially what you said about the lack of party in it. Basically it´s just another timbaland production, i e joyless, overproduced, robotic, and what else? Oh yeah, joyless...
The autotune drives me mad and every emotion feels fake. Suddenly Lady Gaga seems tear-jerkingly sincere. In comparison.
I do think Timbaland has (almost single-handedly) changed and destroyed the pop landscape in the past few years. We wouldn´t have Jason Derulo, Iyaz, mooing Akon or any of that stuff in the charts if it hadn´t been for him. And to think that he used to be so exciting and clever in the days with Missy Elliott! Mr Timbaland... autotune, really?
And the saddest thing is that there is quite a good tune underneath the mess. And that it will be a hit.

So no joyclaps from me. Obviously.

By the way, where´s all the Liams and Curtains and Spirits and the rest of you these days? Have you all gone on holiday? I´ve checked this great blog for ages (hey, Fraser, big fan of yours!) but only now decided to join in the rantings.
So, where are you all?

I have been on the Gorillaz thread if you haven't noticed, as has Liam, fighting a House Rule.

I kinda like this song. I'd have given it 4 stars.

I much prefer Morning After Dark though. SoShy is well good. I wanna hear more from her.

I absolutley love this track, It's a future hit for sure! Iam sure everyone will fall in love with it like I have. I googled the guy who wrote the song, Jim Beanz, he's written sooooo many songs that I love!!
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Mangsy, I like you. You seem like an intelligent person. Yeah, I get what you're saying about Timbaland. He's changed man, he used to be cool.

All the same I quite enjoyed Shock Value II simply cos its in the now and has some great tunes that we'll all hate in 2 years time.

Lose Control (featuring JoJo) and Long Way Down (featuring Daughtry) for next singles.

mangsy Im still here. Not posted for a couple of days. There was a point last week where I commenting every 5 minutes lol. Spirits on another mystery break for a bit. I think the sheep were objecting to him being online so much. Harry seems to have gone a tad quiet too, maybe he's Spirit's alter ego?

There's not been any massive releases this week I've felt inclined to post on. I didn't even know Calvin Harris had churned out another average track.

Im still making my mind up about this track.

I think my main issue with it, is that it's rubbish.

No no no you shouldn´t need massive releases to put pen to paper or whatever!
Glad to see you´re there Random, Thranjax and Liam. Silly of me to not check past blogs, but I feel it´s a bit stressful to keep track of where everyone is. I keep going back to Rybak still, just to make sure.

Just to clear up one thing about Timbaland, I´m all for chart pop, it´s not just about Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear for me. I´m a big old pop fan! But Timbaland really annoys me most of the time. Rubbish. You said it Liam.

Don´t blame the sheep by the way, I´m sure it´s not their fault. And if that´s some kind of code you´d better watch it...

same old typical music we keep hearing lately, timbaland has gone severely down hill in my opinion, hes decided to just do what everyone else is doing by making commercial music, he should go back to his original style of music and create unique hip-hop beats insted of this club stuff.

As for the track its ok, like he said the chorus is repeated loads like i expected, i hope when JT's new album drops he doesnt go off track too much as i can imagine he will get timbaland to produce again.

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A collaboration between Katy Perry and Timbaland fused Perry's suggestiveness to Timbaland's stock beats in the single "If We Ever Meet Again".

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