12 Days Of Christmas – Happy New Year

Here we are. Welcome to Twenty-Twelve (that’s going to get on my tit), year of the Olympics, Euros and probably the year the world will end. Until the Armageddon arrives, we will strive to put good songs and other bits of light entertainment for you to listen to. Starting as we mean to go on, here’s a good song…

It’s from French DJ duo Cassius, who rub shoulders with Etienne De Crecy, MC Solaar and Daft Punk. It’s quite the group of peers and this song is cracking example of why they have been at the forefront of the French house scene for over a decade. So, if you’re not too hungover then listen to this. If you are, download if for later.

#113 – Joe Goddard – Gabriel

#7 – David Guetta

David Guetta Ruined Pop Music

I don’t mind pop music. It has a place in society… Clubs where you can get a double vodka for a quid, as backing on easy-to-watch TV shows or just to occupy the daily commute when the news gets boring. What I do mind is crappy pop music. The songs where it is just one hook, played over and over again, with a crappy, middle of the road house beat in the background and that ‘whooosh-ing’ sound that heralds the chorus/drop like the met office promising a great summer guarantees a shitty one. (I’m bitter about that too, but I’ll not start.)

David Guetta is, in my opinion, responsible for so much of this awful music that I barely know where to start. He is not the only producer who makes it, and he is definitely not the worst, but he is almost certainly the most visible. In the last two years or so he has been behind an awful lot of crappy songs. The worst of which has got to be that abortion by the Black Eyed Peas, ‘I Gotta Feelin’.