Richard Osborne "Wherever I Fall" (feat. Torch of Triple Cs)

Someone's horny! UK R&B artist Richard Osborne already released a strong EP earlier this year with "Late Night Thoughts" and is already working towards releasing his third. To be honest, I'm ready for a full-length project but I guess you can't rush perfection. His latest output is ditty called "Wherever I Fall" and features Maybach Music Group's Torch. I assumed the title was about getting back up again after failure, but nope! It's about making wherever you fall a bed...so you can do the nasty!!! The production is a more straight-forward affair, with Osborne reaching for falsetto in the middle part of the song (and pulling off quite nicely). Vocals are consistent, but maybe Torch's part could have been done without, as it really doesn't add much to it as a whole. Side note: you know you're about to hit it big when you have a Parental Advisory sticker on your single cover. I'm just saying.

VIXX Releases a Darker Version of SHINee's "Dream Girl" With "Voodoo Doll"

VIXX has been doing the damn thing all year with their concepts, but this has to be their darkest and most disturbing yet. The K-Pop boyband will release their first full-length LP on the 25th of this month after a string of successful singles, EPs and repacks (which includes the glorious "G.R.8.U"). The title track, "Voodoo Doll" is the dark electropop banger that I've always wanted them to do, but instead we got "Hyde", a song I didn't particularly enjoy. It reminds me of SHINee's "Dream Girl" but shrouded in a dark throbbing shroud of mystery and Miley Cyrus's failed coming-of-age single "Can't Be Tamed." The music video is NSFW (in my opinion) and if you are squirmish, I don't recommend watching this at all. A lot of people are desensitized to these things now (I blame "American Horror Story" tbh), but I cringed through about 85% of the video as the boys we're poked, prodded and stabbed within an inch of their lives. I mean I'm all for artistic expression through any means necessary, but...yeah. Enjoy the M/V.

Lily Allen "Hard Out Here"

Lily Allen. Oh Lily Rose Cooper, how I missed you so! First she teases us by releasing her John Lewis advert song, a cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" then she drops the second best song of her career ("Who'd Have Known" stiil reigns surpeme in my book) "Hard Out Here" or as I like to call it: The "Blurred Lines" Antithesis.
It's the Lily Allen we know in love: cynical, critical, honest, conversation starting and still catchy as fuck. She's one of the few artists who are putting Miley's new contrived image on blast and highlighting Robin Thicke's rapey "Blurred Lines" song (no matter how catchy the tune is, rape is still rape).
1.The large amount of Auto-Tune in the chorus
2.The objectification of women in the music industry (and as a whole)
3.Double Standards
Lily Allen leaves no stoned unturned!
Of course there are people who miss the entire message of the song and video and jump to silly and untrue conclusions, like how she's using the black women in the video to propel herself as some type of white saviour or how she's perpetuating all the messages she's against in the song with the video.

Lily can't help the way that she looks: she was born a Caucasian woman. Also, I don't think she had any stereotype in her mind when the concept of the video was brought up, like what another pop singer did earlier this year with her comeback single. The fact that Lily has to make a song like this is sad because we haven't moved past women being looked as pieces of meat rather than talented strong, intelligent equals. She wasn't lying when she said it was hard out here for a bitch...

A Snippet of Pixie Lott's Next Single Has Surfaced...

British singer Pixie Lott is coming...and she wants you to be N-A-S-T-Y. Her last LP, "Young Foolish Happy" as a whole was considered a flop after peaking at #18 on the charts, though it spawned three top ten singles ("What Do You Take Me For, Kiss The Stars, and All About Tonight). Now a 16 second snippet of Pixie filming the music video for her single, "Nasty" has surfaced and I'm loving every minute  second of it. Apparently the original was recorded by Christina Aguilera and Cee-Lo Green for the "Burlesque" soundtrack, but clearance issues got in the way. Oh well. I feel like this is more Pixie's style any way. Christina's version does nothing for me, while Pixie's short clip has me fiending for the full song as soon as yesterday. Let this leak soon before I have to download the Xtina version...

Rebecca Ferguson "Freedom" Album Sampler

Rebecca Ferguson's "I Hope" will be released in a few weeks and the (partial) album sampler for its parent album "Freedom" is out! From what I heard, it's a bit more upbeat then her debut, but still packs a punch! "Hanging On" and "All That I've Got" are early favourites!

Taeyang Has Been Hanging Around G-Dragon Too Much...

Taeyang's comeback has been a long time coming. His "Solar" album is a great R&B/K-Pop album ("Wedding Dress, "I Need a Girl" anyone?) and I assumed that we would be getting a updated spin on that sound, until I saw the teaser photos. Then again, sometimes teasers are very misleading. Then I saw the title...Again, titles are misleading. Then I heard the song..."Ringa Linga" sounds like it was meant for G-Dragon (he did produce it after all) but he didn't have room for it on his "Coup D'etat" album, so he gave it to Young-Bae. GD already had his time to shine with his solo efforts and was featured on Seungri's album back in the summer, so maybe he should have a seat until BIGBANG comes back as a group. The song is a banger that grows on you though, the best part of the song being the bit where before the chorus starts and the blantant "We Can't Stop" rip-off towards the end. I was impressed with the dance video, though EXOtics weren't feeling it because they assume that everything EXO does is original and accused YG of copying their one take "Growl" M/V. Then you have the actual video, which takes me back to the 90s when Busta Rhymes made those crazy ass videos. This is pretty much the best video from the YG camp all year. But can we please petition YG from messing with his and Dara's hair whenever they have comebacks? Let's keep it subtle like in the "I Need a Girl" video plz.
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2AM Club "Evidence"

Overall amazing band and musical trolls 2AM Club have released another single, which is (hopefully) gonna be on their upcoming album (which I'm now declaring will come out in 2014 since all they did was release freebies, tour and tease us with singles). "Evidence" is a midtempo tune about breaking up with someone and removing every trace of their existence, including pictures, toothbrushes and clothing. It isn't as hard-hitting as their past tunes, but it's still a winner in my book. Make sure to pick up a copy on iTunes!