Friday, October 01, 2004
Thoughts of the Pops
Hasn't it been a quiet week in Pop? Never mind, here's what we learnt from this week's Top of the Pops, anyway:-
- Groove Armada are back in the charts with I See You Baby. This means that there must either exist a large group of people who have only just realised that they like this song, despite it being released umpteen times before, or, and slightly more worryingly, people who think that three copies of said single just isn't enough.
- Brandy performed Afrodisiac with a look on her face that can only be described as abject fear. We think she might have been trying to do 'sexy', but it was hard to tell.
- Girls Aloud finally got the performance they were denied last week, albeit in a shortened repeat kinda way. Still, it gave us a chance to enjoy Nicola's eye-rolling "Who is this guy?" look at the waiter.
- For the video of Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliot's cover of Car Wash, the director managed to resist the obvious temptation of simply having Christina getting all soapy and wet. Instead he decided to have her portrayed as a computer generated jellyfish instead. Surely an old trout would have been more appropriate?
- Robbie Williams has a new single out. We'll be writing a full piece about it on Monday, assuming our usual laziness getting in the way, so we'll keep stuhm on our opinions of it for now. During his performance someone, presumably female, chucked their knickers on the stage. Robbie, being the gentleman that he is, promptly picked them up and sniffed them. Ladies, form an orderly queue.
- The Genesis revival - started by Alcazar - continues apace, with Robbie donning a Genesis t-shirt for his performance. Can we please ask for this to be stopped now before they decide to give Phil Collins a life time achievement award? Seriously, Su-Sudio isn't that good.
- Eric Prydz is still at number one. Oh, for fucks sake.
