Sunday, March 21, 2004
Thoughts of the Pops
It's Mothering Sunday today and, in a bid to divest us of our hard earned pennies, many stores have displays of suitable gifts for the female parent in your life. While in our local Virgin, we noticed that their display consisted of CD's by bands and artists such as Blue, Westlife, Jamie Cullum, Norah Jones and Katie Melua. As a result of this we can only aassume that whoever designed that display really hates their mother. Speaking of hate, here's what we learnt from Friday's Top of the Pops:-
- Instead of releasing Love is Only a Feeling as their new single, The Darkness should really have released Friday Night, either that or a cover of The Smiths' That Joke isn't Funny Any More.
- The Pet Shop Boys aren't as good as they used to be, but they still managed to piss all over everything else on the show.
- G-Unit want to get to know us. The feelings aren't reciprocated, and besides, can two people really be called a unit? We'd say they're more suited to being called a couple, and given Mr Cent's comments in Playboy recently, we'd like to annoy him by saying that they make a very cute couple indeed.
- According to no less an authority than Tim Kash, ahem, Breathe Easy by Blue is the highlight of their latest album. If that's true then we dread to think what the rest of it sounds like.
- Fountains of Wayne's new single isn't as good as Radiation Vibe, but is better than Denise, thus proving conclusively that songs about nuclear by-products are better than ones featuring girl's names.
- D12's new single, My Band, is a song about people only fancying Eminem because he's the lead rapper in D12. This is presumably as opposed to the reality of the situation which is that people fancy him because he's Eminem. Still, it's not too bad a tune. We do note that once again Eminem has taken hold of the opportunity to dress up like a lady in the video, not that this is something he's desperately fond of doing, oh no.
- We still haven't decided if we fancy Fergie from Black Eyed Peas yet or not. On the one hand she does have a great body, indulges in some fine booty shaking and wears a pleasingly short skirt in the latest video, but on the other she does have the cold dead eyes of a killer and we imagine that this would prove to be somewhat off putting in the long run.
- DJ Casper is at number one. Oh for fuck's sake.
