( pop videos )

The Little Boots album is average, despite the likes of Meddle and Stuck on Repeat. Bits sound like Lady Gaga or Britney, other bits sound very 1980s, but not at Empire of the Sun levels. One track features guest vocals from Phil Oakey, which is fitting. This is the hidden bonus track, except the album version is played on a real piano, and ( Read more... )

OMG! PopJustice has a report on gay German pop group The Village Boys. Best band ever. (I hope that I never ever hear any of their music.)

I've not done my traditional Popjustice £20 Music Prize post. The nominees ( Read more... )

Solange last night at Oran Mor. She covered Lovefool and It's Oh So Quiet and did a few of her own songs. She wandered through the audience towards the end and wore union jack leggings - she disappeared from stage a couple of times during the show but never managed a costume change. Also in discussing her influences she namechecked Fiona Apple ( Read more... )

Do you have the will to live? Would you like to lose it? Simply watch the new video from Tracy Beaker star Dani Harmer. It claims to be copyright 2009, which implies there is something in this song or video that did not exist in the year 2008. That does not include a cameraman who cannot get her face in a properly framed shot, shiny leggings, ( Read more... )

I'm watching Girls Aloud's 100 Perfect Pop Songs on 4music. This has included: Don't Leave Me This Way by the Communards (brilliant), Manic Monday by the Bangles, Pulp's Common People and one place higher Mylo's remix of Miami Sound Machine's Dr Beat (the best video of the 1980s and therefore arguably better than Common People). There's also been ( Read more... )

I'm trying to decide if I should go see Lily Allen in March. Her new stuff is seeming less novelty pop (despite lyrics like "I want to be rich and I want lots of money") although I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. Everything's Just Wonderful is about not being able to get a mortgage ( Read more... )

No! Amy and Blake are divorcing! Is there no love in the world!? She's quoted as saying she'd "forgotten" she was even married.

In truth, even I am a little tired with Ms Whinehovel-Civil-Engineer. Really, she waits till now? I guess it's understandable her wanting a man who's not in jail. And on the substance of tedious tales of substance ( Read more... )

No! I'm not really back at work. It's just an illusion. I'm actually asleep in my bed. People aren't really asking me questions about stuff. What's undeniably true is that I'm not doing any work. Everybody else seems to be back to work very quickly with surprisingly few conversations about drink/standing in the street till midnight. I guess ( Read more... )