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Read my review of Darin’s album here.

This is who the nominations and awards should have gone to: Best PopGirls AloudWill YoungBodies Without Organs <- Win!RobynRachel Stevens Best urbanRobyn <- Win!DarinM.I.AConner ReevesFannypack Best RockThe VeronicasFefe DobsonKaiser ChiefsMelody Club <- Win!The Ark Best British SingleWill Young – Switch It OnRachel Stevens – I Said Never Again (But Here We Are) <- Win!Andy Bell… Continue reading The “real” Brits

1. Jack Johnson fainting on the ITV2 show2. James Blunt winning Best Pop despite the only similarity between him and a pop act is supposed cool people hating him3. Chris Evans (AKA Worst Presenter of All Time) announcing “here’s Prince”, Prince coming on to sing 4 songs (despite having no hits this year) and actually… Continue reading Top 10 Weirdest Moments of The Brit Awards 2006

Because my dissection of the Last FM charts last month just wasn’t depressed enough, I have decided to delve into the Myspace ‘Top Artists’ section. I picked out the artists who looked most interesting from their photos, so sere’s what I found: Plain White Ts These guys leaped out from the page for the simple… Continue reading You gotta slow it down baby, just get out of myspace!

I may have given up on reviewing the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix out of utter boredom (leave a comment if you want me to review the final) but I will not be giving up on Norwegian pop any time soon. It may be their Swedish neighbours who are known for their pop supremity, but increasingly… Continue reading Is Norway the new Sweden?

Ordinary Boys – Talk TalkStrangely enough, I had the idea for this post when this song popped up on my MP3 player approximately a week before the whole Big Brother debacle and it ocurred to me that their career was “completely over”, so I thought maybe I’d just give them a last little celebratory mention.… Continue reading Top 5 Great Singles By Rubbish Bands

Will Young has been abducted by aliens! It is the only way to explain his increasingly strange and un-Will-like behaviour. I have pin-pointed the exact time it happened as well. It was towards the beginning of 2004, during the promotion of Your Game. It was when Will went to Australia to film the YG video… Continue reading I’ve had an epiphany!

Looking at the German top 10 singles just now I was very surprised to see the song 1001 Arabian Nights by Ch!pz – a song I posted on Into The Groove in May last year and had on my mp3 player for quite a while before that. Surely it doesn’t take 15 months for a… Continue reading The Ch!pz Are Down

After Richard Ashcroft and Westlife, yet another terrible musical act are plagiarising the Backstreet Boys. It wasn’t even me who noticed it first this time. Edit: Having now bravely listened to the song, it doesn’t really sound like IWITW at all. Phew!

Because earlier today they broadcast a programme called Top 20 Bad Boybands, and they broke the trade descriptions act by including Phixx, Triple 8, V, Ultra, Point Break, O-Town, 911, O-Zone – in fact the only actually bad boybands included were Blazin’ Squad and the Noise Next Door. It was the best programme I’ve seen… Continue reading Smash Hits TV must be feeling the strain of their traumatic week