Pointless Witterings

So, the first three months of 2017 are over. And that means we've already had a quarter of the year's charts so far. 2017 has been an odd year: there hasn't been any set template. There have been really poor weeks, really great weeks, really middling weeks, we've had the lot. So, with 2017 proving utterly unreadable, I'm going to try and look at where the high points and low points have been for these three months, which genres have done the best, and which songs have played the most important roles in defining the sound of 2017. The most immediate thing I've noticed about 2017 is that this will be the year that EDM finally bites the bullet. EDM has been struggling since the middle of 2016: once, it was the genre that hit-makers loved to plunder. Now, however, a lack of creative input and new, strong figures have critically weakened the genre to the point where it's once original beats and imaginative composition has been lost in favour of just repeating t...

Ok, so... the Brits has shook the charts up completely. There has been some massive changes in the chart: some positive, some less so. There's no time like the present, so I'm just diving straight in this week: 10. Big For Your Boots - Stormzy (Chart Position - 3) Oh s***... EDM finally did it, didn't it? Call On Me really was it's last gasp, wasn't it? Now, I just want to say that this isn't the worst song from this year, because unlike Black Beatles (remember that? Barely? Good), this at least feels like someone actually wanted to try and make it interesting. However, I have to be honest... I HATE Grime. I'm sorry, but that's just my opinion. I don't like it, I just find it obnoxious, and I can never understand what it's actually about. I also hate the overuse of certain swear words, and I also find it really aggressive. In this song's defence, this is probably on the better end of Grime, but it's still full of issues: the beat is al...