sugababes - "round, round"
the kind of beat that sucks up everything in its path and makes it all xxxtra-dull. i'm thinking this is meant to be sugababes' sultry/sulky take on the "get the party started" vibe, but no matter how many little permutations and glitchy flourishes are added, it comes out kind of soggy and sluggish, even the torch-song middle eight diversion! (i'm picking up a hint of desperation as well, which makes me less likely to be charitable). maybe it's this set of textures - i find it tiring because no hook can really break out and hit hard and actually compel me to listen to the whole thing again.

it's quite possible the chorus is fine, but fucking hell, what sort of arrangement is this? regardless of genre-specific production, they need to listen to sticky or someone expertly arrange loads of weirdo sounds into four minutes of dancefloor gold. i'm particularly incensed by the unnecessarily real-sounding guitar - they're only using it for some pointless mid-range fill, it might as well be a really cool electroclash synth noise! in fact it would have been a good idea if sugababes had done something sounding exactly like that "missy queen's gonna die" song.