Taylor Swift (5) – Week Of February 28, 2015

Earlier this week, I was told that as of March 23, 2015, Blogger would no longer allow sexually explicit content on any blogs, not that that's a problem for this blog. But I think they just changed that and announced this change earlier this week instead March 23. I honestly don't know. But it doesn't really matter anyways because it doesn't apply to us. Before we get to this week’s Fresh 45, here are the songs we’re saying goodbye to this week.

• Alesso/Tove Lo – Heroes (We Could Be) (#27)
• Megan Nicole – Fun (#32)
• Maroon 5 – Animals (#37)
• 5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect (#40)

Last Week’s #1 Song: Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk

The Countdown

45. OneRepublic – Love Runs Out (#35)

44. Fifth Harmony – Sledgehammer (#44)

43. Ed Sheeran – Don’t (#45)

42. 5 Seconds Of Summer – What I Like About You (#26)

41. Ne-Yo – She Knows (#25)

40. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off (#43)

39. Flo Rida/Sage The Gemini – GDFR (Goin’ Down For Real) (DEBUT)

38. Priory – Weekend (#41)

37. Eden XO – The Weekend (DEBUT)
36. AronChupa – I’m An Albatraoz (#42)
35. MKTO – American Dream (#38)
34. Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance (DEBUT)
33. Life Of Dillon – Overload (#19)
32. Nick Jonas – Jealous (#30)
31. Nova Rockafeller – Made In Gold (#39)
30. Kelly Clarkson – Heartbeat Song (#28)
29. Pitbull/Ne-Yo – Time Of Our Lives (#21)
28. Sam Smith – I’m Not The Only One (#24)
27. Ariana Grande – One Last Time (DEBUT)
26. Charli XCX – Boom Clap (#29)
25. Tori Kelly – Nobody Love (#36)
24. Lilly Wood & The Prick/Robin Schulz – Prayer In C (#23)
23. R5 – Let’s Not Be Alone Tonight (#34)
22. LunchMoney Lewis – Bills (#31)
21. Olly Murs/Travie McCoy – Wrapped Up (#18)
20. Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman (#13)
19. The Vamps/Demi Lovato – Somebody To You (#7)
18. Ella Henderson – Ghost (#20)
17. Usher – I Don’t Mind (#14)
16. Sheppard – Geronimo (#17)
15. Rihanna/Kanye West/Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds (#33)
14. Vance Joy – Riptide (#22)
13. Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do (#11)
12. Meghan Trainor – Lips Are Movin’ (#9)
11. OneRepublic – I Lived (#8)
10. Taylor Swift – Style (#16)
  9. Imagine Dragons – I Bet My Life (#15)
  8. One Direction – Night Changes (#5)
  7. Hozier – Take Me To Church (#4)
  6. Andy Grammer – Honey I’m Good (#12)
  5. Maroon 5 – Sugar (#10)
  4. Fall Out Boy – Centuries (#6)
  3. Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk (#1)
  2. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud (#2)
  1. Taylor Swift – Blank Space (#3) [5th Week At #1]

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: Tie Between 5 Seconds Of Summer – What I Like About You and Ne-Yo – She Knows (–16)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Rihanna/Kanye West/Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds (+18)

New Entrants
~ Eden XO is back with the extremely unappealing song, The Weekend. Too Cool To Dance was pretty catchy and a fun song to jam out to. But this song right here is crap. Hopefully, it won't stay long.

~ Apparently, to Hits 1, one week without Ariana Grande is too long without Ariana Grande. She debuted once again this week with One Last Time. Not as good as Love Me Harder. This one is alright. I definitely there are better songs on that album of her's. For now though, this is really just another song.

~ Next we have returning artist, Flo Rida, who debuted with Goin' Down For Real, or GDFR. This song is pretty catchy. I'll give it that. But this is nothing compared to Right Round featuring Ke$ha and Wild Ones featuring Sia. Those two are the best I've ever heard from Flo Rida. And it's pretty hard for him to beat that. I wouldn't say GDFR is better than How I Feel either. That one was another really catchy one from late 2013. But GDFR is at least better than Good Feeling and Can't Believe It.

~ Last, but definitely not least, we have the first song I've ever enjoyed from Walk The Moon. It's called Shut Up and Dance. This song was really popular on Alt Nation as it was a five-time #1 song on the Alt-18 countdown. It's super catchy. It just makes you wanna get and move, or really Shut Up and Dance! I expect some success from this song.

Let's Not Blurb Alone Tonight
~ Priory – Weekend aired so little that I thought it would leave this week. But no, it actually moved up!

~ The success Life Of Dillon – Overload clearly didn't last very long, unfortunately.

~ Lilly Wood & The Prick/Robin Schulz – Prayer In C clearly isn't getting anywhere on this countdown, even though it's in the Top 10 on the American Top 40.

~ I've had enough of Fall Out Boy – Centuries. It needs to leave the Top 5 NOW!!!

~ LunchMoney Lewis – Bills and Charli XCX – Boom Clap were neck-and-neck for which song is worse. Even though the latter has been marked as the worst, that could change some time in the near future.

~ David Guetta/Nicki Minaj/Afrojack – Hey Mama and Zedd/Selena Gomez – I Want You To Know has aired quite a few times this week. Yet it has not entered Hit-Bound. And there are a bunch of other songs currently in that situation. Maybe if we get rid of songs like AJR – Infinity, we can solve some of these problems.

~ Ryan Cabrera – House On Fire and Sam Smith – Lay Me Down are two songs that do not air at all over the course of the week. They just sit there at the University of Hit-Bound, doing nothing to try and graduate.

~ Here's a mini review of Tori Kelly – Nobody Love:
Chorus: 10/10
Verses: 4/10
Bridge: 9/10
Overall: 7.6/10
Percentage: 76% 
Overall Grade: C

And that is my opinion about Tori Kelly – Nobody Love.

~ Interesting Fact: Nova Rockafeller – Made In Gold is featured on the soundtrack for the movie, The Duff. Same with The Vamps/Demi Lovato – Somebody To You.

~ Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud needs to drop already so I can stop sweating it out every week thinking it will hit #1.

~ So on Thursday, someone posted a picture of a dress saying that them and their friends couldn't agree on what color it was. It was either blue and black or white and gold. Here is a picture of the dress.

~ Those of you saying white and gold, I don't know where you're seeing white. It's obviously blue and black. Perhaps it's the light in the backround that makes it look lighter, so people think it's white. I honestly don't know. Even celebrities have been taking it to Twitter. Here's a tweet from our #1 artist, Taylor Swift:

~ Here's a tweet from Justin Bieber:

~ Here's a tweet from Anna Kendrick:

~ Here's one from Demi Lovato:

~ Finally, here's one from Kim Kardashian:

As you can probably tell (not by these tweets), it's evenly cut in half between people saying blue and black and people saying white and gold. I personally see blue and black. But one of my friends said she saw white and gold at first, but then a little while later she looked at the same picture and saw blue and black. She then insisted that the picture changed. But I had to explain that pictures don't just magically change color and that it doesn't work like that and something must've happened to her eyes.

I'm not gonna lie, I got into a few arguments yesterday about this topic, which is really stupid by the way. But here is the answer everyone has been awaiting: The dress is blue and black!!!

Here's a New York Times article that says it's blue and black: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/business/a-simple-question-about-a-dress-and-the-world-weighs-in.html

Here's a WGN article saying it's blue and black: http://wgntv.com/2015/02/26/what-color-is-this-dress-the-latest-viral-sensation-frustration/

Basically, this dress can be found on amazon.com and it is listed as "royal blue". I hope this can end this huge debate and make people realize that it is blue and black so World War III doesn't begin. But here's a pic of the original dress:

My Top 5 Picks
1. Andy Grammer – Honey I'm Good
2. Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance
3. Rihanna/Kanye West/Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds
4. Life Of Dillon – Overload
5. Hozier – Take Me To Church