Hasn't it been a quiet week in pop? And by "Quiet week in pop", we mean "lazy-arsed week at TiaPL". Still, it's Friday night. If we were Sarah Blackwood from vastly underrated dreamy synth-pop masters
Dubstar we'd be walking past your house and we'd think about your face and we'd wonder what you'd think and we'd know we missed the time we tried, we'd go racing down the road and we'd face the truth again and we'd wonder where you are cause we know it's you who changed the tide. But we're not, so all that introspection was left for another day and instead we watched Top of the Pops. Here's what we learnt:-
- We prefer Natasha Bedingfield in her floaty skirts, rather than her jeans, but still, sigh.
- In their new single, the lead singer and chief bad dancer of Rooster informs us that he's staring at the sun. Unfortunately this failed to translate on the television screen and instead we found ourselves staring at shit for the three minutes they were on stage.
- The new Stonebridge video was shown, we lost interest in the track roughly 10 seconds in, which is 5 seconds longer than the person that wrote it.
- In the sort of move that makes you wonder exactly how much it cost for them to hire a battleship, given their eagerness to get there moneys worth out of it, we were treated once again to Eminem's performance of Like Toy Soldiers from 2 weeks ago. We miss Martika.
- Not only did he actually turn up, but Pete Doherty, lead singer of Babyshambles managed to get through the entire performance without forgetting most of the words, having a fight with his bandmates, falling over or selling the stage monitors for crack. Well done Pete!
- Band Aid 20 is number one. This means that despite the fact it's quite clearly the worst song ever released, some deluded people are actually going out and buying the sodding thing. Well, tonight thank God it's them instead of you.
