Monday, March 29, 2004
Automatic Hiatus
So, with the TiaPL Spleen coming to an end and the revelation that Thoughts of the Pops is pausing for a bit you'd almost be forgiven for thinking that perhaps we're winding down the site, and you'd be kinda right. Tomorrow morning we're getting on a flight to Vancouver and will be spending the next 3 months travelling around the USA and Canada, hopefully having a fun and exciting time, as a result of this the site isn't going to be updated as regularly as not only will we be slightly out of the loop pop-culture wise, but we also think that popping into a web cafe every evening to post up our thoughts on the music scene might be a little bit of a waste of the travelling opportunity.
However, this doesn't mean that the site will die completely. We've set up a second site called For'n in the USA which we're going to try and update weekly with our thoughts and experiences of the trip. Admittedly this probably won't end up being any more profound than "America, it's a bit different to the UK, isn't it?" but we'll try our best. Also, anything pop related we want to write about will still turn up here, albeit on a very irregular basis. We arrive back in the UK on July 7th, so normal service will likely resume shortly afterwards. For now, here's some snippets of pop news that we never got round to covering:-
However, this doesn't mean that the site will die completely. We've set up a second site called For'n in the USA which we're going to try and update weekly with our thoughts and experiences of the trip. Admittedly this probably won't end up being any more profound than "America, it's a bit different to the UK, isn't it?" but we'll try our best. Also, anything pop related we want to write about will still turn up here, albeit on a very irregular basis. We arrive back in the UK on July 7th, so normal service will likely resume shortly afterwards. For now, here's some snippets of pop news that we never got round to covering:-
- McFly finally get round to releasing their debut 5 Colours in her Hair this week. The band, who are in no way being cynically marketed because of their Busted connection, include as a B-Side a cover version of Lola recorded with, ummm, Busted. The song itself seems to be a combination of Electric Six's Gay Bar, The Lemonhead's version of Mrs Robinson and another song which we can't quite place right now, but if you know then, please, leave it in the comment box. Part of us really wants to like it, if only because they break out of the Freak/Fuck substitution straitjacket and instead use Phone in the line "I want to phone her cause she puts me in the mood", but then we see the band and all we can think of is that they're just a bunch of Busted-wannabe cocks, and we really do think that there are better pop bands than Busted to aspire to be.
- Michelle McManus, who won Opportunity Knocks last year, will soon be telling us the Meaning of Love in her new single. It transpires that love is a poor-quality mid-temp ballad. Whoda thunk it?
- Eamon releases Fuck It (Don't Want You Back) at some point in the near future. This song is incredibly dire and only seems to be getting airplay due to the fact it's got some swearing in it, so is therefore a bit controversial. This is nonsense, gratuitous swearing is neither big nor clever, and anyone that thinks it is is a cunt.
- Take Your Mama Out by the Scissor Sisters is released today. We reckon you should all rush out and buy it as it is, quite clearly, as ace as someone dressed as a bumblebee being chased by an actual bumblebee, intent on getting revenge on the mockery of beehood that's in front of him.
- The Sugababes have reached Number 8 with new single, In The Middle. Musically this is great, however the lyrics appear to have been written by a child who's just discovered the concept of rhyming as it happily rhymes Middle with Riddle, Trouble with Bubble, Eleven with Heaven, all before the end of the first verse. Good video, though.
