#pop singles

[weaversweek]

Uncool50 - finding my place

Part of the #Uncool50 project, a sort-of autobiography told through the memories of pop singles. This installment covers the second half of the 2000s. Nothing from 2005 or 2006, by now my head had been turned by European hits and the anglophone stuff just wasn’t fun.

The theatre kid who made it. "Grace Kelly" came out of nowhere at the start of 2007, as flamboyant and ostentatious and unashamedly queer as anything. Mika sounds like Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen who was snatched from us far too soon.

The homophobes hated it. Of course the homophobes hated it, they cannot stand anything fun, colourful, honest. One review at the time said, "Like being held at gunpoint by Bonnie Langford", as if this was a bad thing!

This song is fun, it's catchy, it worms into your ears and is never going to leave. Might just be the greatest pop song of the decade. More power to Mika.

The greatest pop moment of the decade comes straight after the breakdown in "About you now". We hear the chorus line again – "can we bring yesterday back around?" But this time it's different – a little higher-pitched, a touch yelpy. And there's a gloriously discordant high tone, "coz I know how I feel about you now".

By this time, we're up to Sugababes 3.0 – Siobhan's long-gone, Mutya's been replaced by Amelle - but the songs still remain awesome. Dancey-electronica with a scuzzy overtone. And the video with the young man parkouring his way around south London, hopes to meet up with his date on the Southbank.

My long list of 300 songs had a lot of Sugababes – "Overload" and "Freak like me", "Too lost in you", "Ugly" and "Change" all featured. But none of them have this yelp of joy, that’s the clincher.

"This is the life", Amy MacDonald's defining hit. Breakthrough single "Mr rock and roll" had positioned Amy as a troubadour, sings songs about people's lives. She uses a few words to describe a scene, and whoosh – we're in it!

"This is the life" is a personal, probably autobiographical, song. "So you're sitting there with nothing to do, talking about Robert Riger and his motley crew". Life-affirming through its melancholy, drunken nights out and waiting in for friends and thinking both that this is excellent and this is terrible.

Number one for the year in Belgium, Netherlands; for some weeks in Austria and Czechia; top five in all civilised markets around the continent. And number 28 on Britain, because the playlisters and programmers in London are a complete waste of space and goodness knows who pays them. Amy's built a hugely successful career in Europe, and still makes top-drawer albums to this day.

So I started hanging out with a bunch of friends from the karaoke bar, and we went out to a maize maze, ears of corn up to eye level. Or for Caz, ears of corn over the top of her head. Caz managed to lose contact with the group, get lost, and had to be rescued by the tall stablehand.

We welcomed Anna into our friendship group, and she turned out to be the glue to hold us together, and we loved her dearly. "Bulletproof" by La Roux is one of many many songs from those years. This time, maybe, I'll be bulletproof.

#uncool50 #uncool 50 #personal #autobiography #pop singles #mika #queer #queer representation #sugababes #video #amy macdonald #troubadour #la roux #genderqueer

[theladyyavilee]

you all know the drill, corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures 🤣🤣🤣

#9-1-1 #911 spoilers #eddie diaz #buddie #(yes this goes in the tag because I am OBSESSED with the way eddie's entire body language changes at the revelation that buck is single #again like HELLO AND WHAT THE FUCK I know everyone has been freaking out over it but I am very much still stuck in this single frame) #because funstuff #I'm sorry this is not my best work but I couldn't stop thinking about this every since I first saw eddie's face like that last night and #this meme immediately popped into my head #I just had to wait until now to actually grab screenshots xD

[xavierpayne]

Max + Kyle

#living single #black pop #xpayne

[cloned-eyes]

don't worry, daddy's home

#the bad batch #tbb hunter #tbb fanart #star wars tbb #clone force 99 #the batch batchs single dad #eyesdraws #the sergants looking good #i really popped off with this #find hot single dads in your area #i can't #i'm sorry

[icaruspendragon]

every so often my group chat will do a search history check where we share our recent search history and here are some of my favorite contributions

#i just wanna know everything #i can’t believe people don’t just google every single thought that pops in their head #random person: ‘i wonder why-’ #me: phone out and fingers already flying

[tomwambsgays]

roy was asked to fill in for ted at the press conference without any talking points or anything (based on this)

#ted lasso #roy kent #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso fanart #my art #my animation #the moment roy sat in front of the press this meme instantly popped in my head #idk if anyone has already done it but here's my version lol #i was too lazy to draw the crowd so i animated this single frame instead...... #yeah for some reason that's easier actually #anyway pls dont make a big deal out of this lmao #I Know He Wouldn't Say That but this is my swamp #personally i think he's bi

[spaciebabie]

i heard you were transjester so i give you this

idk i thought it was funny and i thought you would like it

tag yourself im rat

#SANS???? UNDERTALE??? #spacie splains #my inbox really popped off last night dam #never gotten that many asks in a single night b4 #happy ta interact w/yall as always #forgive the lack of energy 2night im very tired skjsfjkd

[hiveswap]

#10 second untagged shitposts will get 100k but the moment im pround of something no one gives a shit!! i dont suck that much at it!! #and i hate pointing it out because im not entitled to notes no one owes me anything #but man it sucks the life out of me every single time #i admit the last one i posted is kinda niche and messy but this happens with my better fanarts made of popular media too #my one drawing to get above 100 notes is a little kark@t doodle #for a while i refused to draw because i wanted aknowledgement for it. dont be like me kids. draw for the drawer #and also draw for your roommate whose eyes nearly pop out of their skull over the mildest body horror #augh i was so pround of the body horror one too but i had to delete that from here due to the 5 whole notes it got #my french teacher said it looked cool though so whose winning

[jaccats]

stress relief also kinda test

#booster gold #rani carter #dc #skeets #im reading bg2007 and i finally reached her. i love you rani carter #im a big fan #i just love his collar so much i miss you popped collar booster #my sweetie pie single father of two kids

[michaelsfavgirl]

#every single fucking day #he really needs to start paying rent #wanna be startin somethin #michael jackson #king of pop #bad era #jacksons era #off the wall era #mj

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Meanwhile roxy doing Easter stuff for the pizzaplex.

There she goes!! Very busy doggo!! She's got Easter eggs to hide!!

#she's working very very hard!! #it's a difficult job but get through it!!! #such a hard worker!! so dedicated!! doesn't even eat any of the eggs on her way!!! #the kids just don't always find them all!! she's just too good at hiding them sometimes!! #roxanne wolf #fnaf security breach #I've changed how I colour Roxy every single time I've coloured her lmao #pop rox answers #pop rox draws #also made a new signature watermark I think it's neat

[sciderman]

lord i am always thinking about him

#i want him so bad. i dont need him. i dont need him. i dn #rotates him in my mind. #bay. byaby. baby. #bbbabbY. bbabayy. #BABY. #sci speaks #one day i will have you. #he is like £40 and that is homophobic. i cannot in good conscience spent that much money on one single funko pop. #how could i look myself in the mirror. #but look at him. look at him. LOOK AT HIM. #one day the planets will align and i will find him at a reasonable price. #in the meantime i will cry over him. #theres also a spider-man in the spider-mobile funko i'd die for. i'll kill for him. sci show them the spider-mobile funko.

[evankinard]

every time 9-1-1 doubles down on buck being chris' dad and buck and chris having a different relationship to every other kid on the show with an adult that's not their parent an angel gets its wings

#its not even a novelty anymore its very much the status quo i just get equally giddy every time #can you tell this is a night im just gonna post every single thought that pops in my head #911 spoilers #911 abc #evan buckley #christopher diaz #weewoo brainrot

[vixendoesstuff]

Don't be afraid, to let them show

Your true colours,

True colours, so beautiful~

Rushed AF, but I only had a day before Valentine's to finish this, and that day was spent going grocery shopping, so...

Yeah, have True Colours Techno!Branch (and Poppy) with all his vanilla blue ice pop glory.

#he very bright #like vanilla blue ice pop #man i miss drinking that #yum #also yea perspective is wonky #and anatomy also #but again #time frame is limited #branch trolls #trolls #techno!branch au #trolls poppy #also #happy valentines to all yall lovelies #both couples and singles #reject the love theme #embrace tbe choco #valentines is only for the chocolates dont lie to me

[delilah-briarwood]

Rather than trying to prove Gaylor is real and that Taylor Swift is actually just trying to secretly signal that she’s a lesbian, why don’t y’all just go and listen to openly queer artists instead of forming conspiracies to try and make your faves queer instead?

Like it says so much about how people would rather waste their time trying to prove she’s queer instead of y’know looking into queer artists and their music.

It comes across as if y’all don’t actually care about LGBT artists, you just feel like you need some justification as to why you enjoy your faves.

#discourse #disk horse #music #pop music #queer music #there is such a plethora of queer musicians out there and so many of them are good #they’re not that hard to find! #this is something that genuinely irritates me #it’s fine for you to like Taylor Swift is she’s straight #this also goes for every single celebrity people try to insist is secretly gay #Gaylor isn’t real lads #behold a creation

[pansyfemme]

cringe guy who still refers to himself as a malewife years after it was relevant but still manages to burn everything he cooks and gives the worst head of all time

#im fond of him as you can tell #he was an old oc of mine i made in highschool i like the design of but never had anything interesting to do with #i had named him mikey at the time but i dont quite like that but feel something that still ends in -y is fitting. ricky? davey? tony? #he’s in an awful indie band and works at whatever my oc’s universe newberry comics is #just imagine a reigonal chain comic/records/pop culture store #he’s between 26 and 28 in my mind and has a thing for older men much to the annoyance of all of his friends #he’s ‘single’ but has ‘things’ with like eight people but none of it anything very serious