- where almost all my cult artists have released an album, often very good: Nits have released an album that rivals their finest peaks, Patrick Wolf has released its best album in five years, Pet Shop Boys have returned popular success, even if this album is a tad below the previous. As for Pierre Lapointe, even if it has not quite regained its previous level miraculous album, he proved that there were still a head above his pursuers direct Francophonie. Frankly I see how bad 2010 will compete, even if one expects good things from Lisa Gerrard, Brendan Perry and Elbow .
- where the pop world has rediscovered the love of synths, trance somewhere between the late 90's, electroclash of 2003 and the mid 80s. Lady Gaga, La Roux, Little Boots, Black-Eyed Peas and others were as much reason to be pleased with it (CD 1 of Now 73, for example, is the pure joy of disco).
- where David Guetta replaced the Neptunes and Timbaland as a producer ultimate. I'm not sure we won the exchange, even if I gotta feeling or his duet with Kelly Rowland are undeniably good songs.
- where I started to listen to French music, with a focus on large ancients of Jean Ferrat (which may well become a guilty pleasure) to Alain Souchon, Alain through Bashung .
- I accepted that my presence on the web (here or elsewhere) would be limited. I doubt that 2010 is better, unfortunately. I regret the time I found time each week to post reviews of my shows or my plays and make the rounds of blogs to extract the best nuggets.
Happy New Year to all.
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