Song Of The Day: David Guetta feat. Usher- "Without You"

And I promise this is the LAST David Guetta song I'll feature for a good while.  But after I featured two or three other songs from his latest album, Nothing But The Beat, and this one turns out to be the one to chart the highest, I felt obligated to feature it as well.

I always feel like there's something missing from David Guetta's songs.  He does a consistently better job than just about anyone of building up the beat-drop, and of making songs stick in your head.  And he has access to the most top-level talent of any DJ on the planet.  But when that beat actually drops, when it actually reaches its biggest point, it tends to be a letdown.  His beats almost never hit as hard as I'd like them to.  For instance, this song.  "Without You" is easily one of the better songs out there right now, but it could be better if the beat came in harder, had more elements, and lasted longer.  But I'll cut Guetta some slack.  Not everyone can be Eric Prydz.

PS- Anyone else think David Guetta looks a tiny bit like Jay from "The Inbetweeners?"

Song Of The Day: David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj- "Turn Me On"

Welcome back- I hope everyone had a good Labor Day weekend.  Don't forget to throw out all your white tees, preferably in favor of more seasonally appropriate attire.  Today's featured song is the highest-charting non-promotional track off David Guetta's brand-new Nothing But the Beat album.  I don't seriously believe this song will make a lasting impression on the charts, but it's certainly the most interesting song I could find for today, mostly because of what it contains: an Auto-Tuned, singing Nicki Minaj. 

Minaj has, to this point, spent her career mostly just rapping, and doing it quite well.  But she has found her greatest chart success to this point on songs like "Moment 4 Life" and "Super Bass" where she sings at times, especially on the chorus.  So naturally, a song like this raises the question of whether this is a true change in approach for Nicki, or just a one-time aberration.  Her true fans will definitely hope that's not the case, but people who like hearing songs like this probably won't care too much.  Either way, it's a pretty sonically pleasing switch-up.

Song Of The Day (Brand New): David Guetta feat. Jennifer Hudson- "Night Of Your Life"

This song was released TODAY.  Rarely do I turn around give you a song released that recently, but this time I decided to for two reasons.  First, I had to give Guetta some props for releasing basically one new track a week all summer.  Although it's relatively easy to fiddle with a computer program and come up with some new beats every couple days, his ability to make most of these songs listenable deserves some recognition. 

Secondly, and more importantly, this new track sounds eerily similar to my favorite song of 2010, Rihanna's "Only Girl (In The World)."  Many people would consider such a blatant ripoff to be a bad thing.  But I fail to see how ripping off something awesome and making your own version that's 80% as good is a bad thing.  It just means more jams.  If every song ripped off "Only Girl," there'd be a ton of great music out there!  Seriously, this is a fantastic song- Jennifer Hudson's soaring vocals are perfect with the beat, and it repeatedly crescendos into a melodic and hard-hitting chorus.  This is probably the best of all the singles Guetta has released this summer, and I see it being a big-time dance jam in the coming weeks and months.