Dirty Kissin' by poppostergirl
I enjoyed British soapstar-turned-popstar Preeya Kalidas's debut single "Shimmy" (out July 26) quite a good bit--it never stood out to me in its original incarnation on Janet Leon's album, but Preeya's version is a lot of fun in an Alesha Dixon-type way. "In My Heels" on her MySpace sounded promising, enough to keep me interested in the project. Today's song, though, which she's recorded, takes it all up a level. No, at least two levels. If this song isn't worth skipping a grade at popstar school, I don't know what is.I'm not familiar enough with her voice yet to swear that this is her singing on the song I've posted above (to be honest, make me guess and I'd say it's a demo singer, but that's an uninformed opinion), but demo or final version--amazing. It's a hard-edged, attitude-filled pop track that demands aggressive action, be it the way one walks down a catwalk or pursues a boy. It shares a lyrical conceit or two with Sugababes' "Wear My Kiss" and maybe has a similar beat to Kat DeLuna's "Unstoppable," but it approximately 100 TIMES BETTER. It's faster, harder, punchier, catchier. Ohhh, can we talk about how catchy it is? I am going to be spitting out this chorus for days, and those guitar riffs, the biting electro pulses--yeah, they've all robbed me of my ability to write passable sentences and forced me into capitals and italics.
It's basically exactly you want as an attention-getting, "I am a proper popstar" debut. It's not an exact replica of the sound any other singer has going at the moment, and yet I have trouble seeing how fans of modern female-fronted pop-dance couldn't enjoy this. Whoever this is on this recording needs to release it NOW.
(Edit: maybe it's a little like Serebro's "Song No. 1," just in that hard beat beneath it?)
