If you can't play it on daytime radio, don't bother

Its been a while since i did any single reviews. Have we seen a new dawn of brilliant music? What do you think....?

Alexis Jordan - Good Girl
Deep joy. Another bland American songstrel has come along and seems prepared to build a career on making the same song over and over. This sounds practically identical to her previous portion of dripping Happiness.

Avril Lavigne - What The Hell
My thoughts exactly. What the hell is a woman in her late twenties doing making teenage angst music and dressing in a similar manner? Horribly predictable and sounds like every other Avril Lavigne record.

Dr Dre featuring Eminem and Skylar Gray - I Need A Doctor
Its the comeback we've all been waiting for! Dre is back and he's made his first record for a decade.... Or has he? Most of the record is given over the Eminem for one of his current trademark whiny, self pitying raps, most of what is left is the tedious and highly repetitious chorus and finally we have one short rap from Dre. Its a very weak comeback.

Jessie J - Price Tag
Even if it was free, i wouldn't.

Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Ignoring the obvious comparisons to Madonna's Express Yourself for a moment, this isn't a disaster by any means. Gaga seems to have (probably only temporarily) weened herself off the stupid earworms that blighted Telephone and Bad Romance in favour of recording a straightforward modern disco floorfiller. Surprisingly gimmick free.

Rihanna - S&M
Oh deep joy. Rihanna has released another record about Making Sexys With Boys and this time she's decided to sing about how whips and chains excite her. Except she doesn't most of the time because most radio stations are playing a heavily butchered version of the song, which is endlessly looped and repeated throughout in order to appeal to eight year olds, because ultimately every parent wants their eight year old singing "Sex in the air, you know i love the smell of it". Unlike Gaga's latest offering, there is no way of interpreting this in an innocent manner. Vile and despicable.

Take That - Kidz
Oooooh! Aren't they hardcore?!? Putting a "z" on the end?!? Actually, this upbeat protest warning themed tune is Take That's most interesting single since Shine and it comes from an album which is quite short of TT's now trademark epic anthems. Far more appealing than it deserves to be.

Breakage & Jess Mills - Fighting Fire
I'll probably end up loving this, but at the moment i simply can't decide on a conclusion about it. It feels like it should be a slow burning, crescendo building electro dance track, but never quite gets anywhere beyond its opening pace. If it does achieve anything, it is the sense of menace which runs all the way through it. Its certainly interesting and i find it confusing whilst familiar, which has to be a good thing.

The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness
Lead vocalist Julian Casablancas has lost his vocal distortion effects machine and there are one too many flat notes in this. For a band making so much noise about how creative they are since they've reformed it sounds like old Strokes by numbers to me, except without the massive riffs of songs like Reptillia and Last Night.

Clare Maguire - The Last Dance
I don't get it. Clare Maguire is supposed to be one of the big new things of 2011, but this dull pop dance record could have been released any time in the past fifteen years and nobody would have cared.