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First up today is a clip from (I presume) Belgian TV, showing Kate Ryan’s first rehearsal for Eurovision. I never expected to say this, but I’m totally on Belgium’s side this year because the song is fantastic and the new dance routine looks great too. And best of all, the notorious “knee-swing” is still present!
This week’s retro favourite is a song that I actually only heard for the first time last week, but it seems to be much loved by the readers of Into The Groove, where I recently posted it to download. It’s such a perfectly summery tune, a mix of Alexia and Aqua’s sounds with a sprinkle of Latino sunnyness. The video is great too – now I’m definitely counting down til the summer holidays!
Next we have one of the best award show performances I’ve ever seen, t.A.T.u singing All The Things She Said and Not Gonna Get Us at the MTV Movie Awards in 2003, joined by loads of high-pitched high-energy girls dressed in school uniforms. So much better than when Eminem pulled a similar trick a few years before, and Yulia and Lena look really excited to be up there. They might be singing about being afraid, but they look like they’re having the time of their lives!
The Jonas Brothers are a new boyband who have unsurprisingly, since they’re 3 young brothers, been called the new Hanson, but they claim to be more like Blink 182. They’re still the new Hanson, but maybe with a mix of Busted and Dream Street, making them even more cheesy than the long-haired lovers from Oklahoma. And they’re squeaky clean as well – this song isn’t even about a girl they fancy called Mandy, but a deaf girl who their mum taught to speak! They have so far made 3 videos for this song, each following on from the next, but not getting much airplay outside of TRL as far as I can tell. Listen out for the surprise reference to… S Club 7!?
I’m not the biggest fan of Bjork’s music but I have much love for the lady herself, who proves in this video of her discussing and taking apart her television, to be not only as loopy as her reputation suggests, but also really adorable. She even teaches us a lesson about not believing everything we see on TV, although I do believe what this clip is telling me – Icelandics are ace!
And last but not least, it’s time for the DP:UK top 5:
* 5. Pet Shop Boys – I’m With Stupid
v 4. BWO – Temple Of Love
* 3. Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean – Hips Don’t Lie
^ 2. Infernal – From Paris To Berlin
But once again the winner, beating Infernal by only one vote, is…
Rihanna – SOS!
So I’m leaving you with her performance of the song on American TV show Regis & Kelly, where she may not do the best singing you’ve ever heard but her high-heel-dancing ability is quite impressive.