It's Friday! Given our somewhat lazy attitude with the concept of updates this week, you'd be forgiven for thinking that we might put an extra-special effort into today's
Top of the Pops review. If that's the case then we can only apologise in advance. Here's what we learnt:-
- When Therese, the Stonebridge frontwoman, gets her first royalty cheque in, she really needs to spend it on getting her teeth fixed.
- In the two years it's taken them to release Black and White Town, Doves have clearly been spending their time drinking numerous cups of tea and watching Countdown, judging by the complete lack of any musical progress whatsoever.
- The video for Galvanise shows a hitherto unnoticed Kiss influence in the work of the Chemical Brothers.
- We may well have mentioned this before, but Girls Aloud seriously are the best fucking pop group on the planet and the performance of Wake Me Up simply cemented this fact. There were silhouettes, there was a curtain drop, there were motorbikes, there were fireworks, there was smoke, there was dancing, there was hair flicking and, best of all, there was Nicola blowing a kiss and wearing a top which just about kept herself covered. Anything that followed them, no matter how good it was, would ultimately be a disappointment, so the producers wisely decided to put the worst act of the show on after them, Athlete.
- Athlete have done what all mediocre indie groups do when they have to try and get people to buy an incredibly dull single; stick some strings over the top and hope people get fooled into thinking it's 'epic'.
- Jennifer Lopez has clearly been getting style tips from Andre 3000. This is a little bit like getting healthy living advice from Pete Doherty.
- Elvis isn't number one! Hooray! Instead it's Sierra - spelt Ciara for reasons which are entirely unfathomable to us - who's talking about her goodies which will, if you take her word for it, be staying in the jar. With our knowledge of street lingo, we reckon that this roughly translates as "She won't drop her knickers for just anyone, you know".
