Monday, September 20, 2004
A Pun About Ikea or Something Like That
Last week we encouraged you all to rush out and buy Girls Aloud and Annie, while leaving Call On me languishing on the shelf. As always with our advice, you lot studiously ignored it and we've ended up with a chart this week that manages to redefine the very fundamentals of mathematics, such is the wrongness of the numbering. Fair enough, Nicola and her Backing Singers got the number two slot, which was probably as good as could be expected given the over-powering tidal wave of sewage that was Eric Prydz, but poor Annie was left languishing in the number 25 slot. Come on, people! Even Status Quo managed to do better than that, we don't want to live in a world like that, the world we do want to live in, however, is, in a quite clever bit of linkage, one in which the new Alcazar single, World We Live In, is hitting the top spot and, as it's out this week, you can help.
Now, given that, as with all fantastic songs it seems, radio play for this track has been somewhat thin on the ground, you might be wondering exactly why you should rush out and buy it, especially when we point out that it's based around Land of Confusion by Genesis but stop! Don't immediately dismiss it out of hand because of the Phil Collins connection, though it would be quite understandable. Remember that this is Alcazar and they could make even a Creed song sound listenable, probably by simply playing an entirely different song, and this is a slice of pop fabulousness that is unlikely to be bettered until hell freezes over, Jojo ceases to be an entirely wrong concept or we hear something else that we quite like and get all unnecessary over. If you do need a reason, then we'd like to point out the fact that they follow the "And these are the hands we're given" line with handclaps, which is clearly one of the 117 Acest Things in the World... Ever (and you thought we'd forgotten about that), so surely that is enough to send you rushing to your local HMV faster than the chubby, blonde one from McFly on his way to a pie shop.
Unfortunately though, despite it's clear genius and the fact that the number one slot is it's rightful home, we know for a fact that it's going to be heading for number 17 with a bullet. And by 'fact' we mean number that we thought of entirely at random and which is probably being a bit optimistic. Ah well.
Now, given that, as with all fantastic songs it seems, radio play for this track has been somewhat thin on the ground, you might be wondering exactly why you should rush out and buy it, especially when we point out that it's based around Land of Confusion by Genesis but stop! Don't immediately dismiss it out of hand because of the Phil Collins connection, though it would be quite understandable. Remember that this is Alcazar and they could make even a Creed song sound listenable, probably by simply playing an entirely different song, and this is a slice of pop fabulousness that is unlikely to be bettered until hell freezes over, Jojo ceases to be an entirely wrong concept or we hear something else that we quite like and get all unnecessary over. If you do need a reason, then we'd like to point out the fact that they follow the "And these are the hands we're given" line with handclaps, which is clearly one of the 117 Acest Things in the World... Ever (and you thought we'd forgotten about that), so surely that is enough to send you rushing to your local HMV faster than the chubby, blonde one from McFly on his way to a pie shop.
Unfortunately though, despite it's clear genius and the fact that the number one slot is it's rightful home, we know for a fact that it's going to be heading for number 17 with a bullet. And by 'fact' we mean number that we thought of entirely at random and which is probably being a bit optimistic. Ah well.
