So underrated I could Scream

Apologies for the recent silence on The Pop Web. We've been fairly busy with this thing called "life" (electric word, that). Anyway, we're returning with what we feel is a bit of a pertinent observation.

Kelis' Scream is phenomenal.

In the absence of some kind of "official video" we'll highlight the song via a rip which has been made available on popular website "youtube".



The album Fleshtone has produced some of the most interesting pop moments of the year so far, with the obvious highlight being Acapella. This latest single sees Kelis teaming up with the man with the most crowded Google Calendar in pop, David Guetta. Guetta's intervention in the pop world has produced some decidedly mixed results over the past couple of years, with him working absolute wonders for Kelly Rowland, and kicking I Gotta Feeling into the stratosphere of amazingness. Sadly he is also responsible for keeping Akon in the spotlight with the intensely irritating Sexy Bitch. You can't, as they say, have it all.

On this effort, however, Guetta's undoubted talent at the producer's desk and his ability to capture the pop zeitgeist blend perfectly with Kelis' stunning vocal. The song starts off delicately enough, with everything kicking off in the best possible way at precisely 45 seconds. The backing track, which, frankly, could be the standardised international symbol for "put your hands up" is absolutely irresistible and the switch in Kelis' vocal from the delicate, sensitively delivered verses to the disinterested, authoritative delivery of "You can't back down, lost in a crowd" works perfectly. The song oscillates perfectly between the emotional and the "oh fuck it, let's just get something down that'll sound amazing in a club at 2 am."

Our favourite lyric? "Big city's got you on the ground/ Afraid to fight? Don't make a sound/ So let's get to it/ Now you'll prove it/ Push back/ Scream and shout." This is a perfectly-pitched contribution to the world of pop and, frankly, deserves to capture more imaginations than just ours.

So be prepared for this to probably completely miss the top 40 on that basis alone :-(.


Disclaimer: we have no journalistic basis for assuming that David Guetta uses Google Calendar. Other diary/calendar software packages, are of course, available. It's just that we look at him and think "that looks like a young fellow who uses Google Calendar and probably benefits from the many great features embedded within it". If this is not the case, then we do, of course, sincerely apologise.