London's Lily

Check out this nifty video (if you're reading this blog then you know that 'nifty' is a good thing) by London singer Lily Allen. If you love London (UK) then you'd ought to get a little misty-eyed. The song is is catchy as hell.

Lily has a Myspace site which I encourage you to check out. You can find some other tracks from her on the Internet or via Limewire nefarious means. She's fabulous and refreshing and has a song called 'Knock 'em Out' that contains the following lyrics:

"You can't knock 'em out, you can't walk away. Try desperately to think of the politest way to say: Just get out of my face, just leave me alone; and no, you can't have my number 'cause I lost my phone. Go away now. Let me go. Are you stupid or just a little slow (please bugger off)".

Ring! Ring! ABBA's on your phone!

RING RING: ABBA HITS GO MOBILE FOR FIRST TIME
Group's iconic masters are realtones through Universal Music Mobile

LONDON and STOCKHOLM, 17 April 2006 – The global hits of one of the most popular groups in recorded music history (360 million records sold) are going mobile for the first time.

From today, the original hits of ABBA are available as realtones for mobile phones.

Among the ABBA anthems cleared for mobile are "Ring Ring," "Mamma Mia," "SOS," "Dancing Queen" and "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)." A realtone is an excerpt of the actual master recording, rather than a synthesised ringtone, used to personalise a mobile phone.

ABBA's hits collection, Gold, stands as one of the most popular albums in music history, with global sales of more than 23 million copies. The group's extensive catalogue continues to sell as CDs, DVDs and digital downloads, helped by the worldwide success of "Mamma Mia!" Trade publication Billboard recently reported that revenues at Sweden's performing rights organisation were boosted by the popularity of the musical and the use of a sample from "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" in Madonna's worldwide hit, "Hung Up."

Best song lyric ...

Oh for crissake! I guess you have to be male, 30-something, white and hetero in order to vote in these kind of things. Where's 'I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want!'?

U2 song lyric the `one'
2006 April 17 01.00 AM
LONDON—The Irish band U2 has given Britain its favourite song lyric, according to a survey released today by music channel VH1. The line "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers" from the song "One" topped the poll.

Runner-up was the downbeat "So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die" from The Smiths' "How Soon is Now.''

A line from Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" — "I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us" — came third. Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" and Coldplay's "Yellow'' came fourth and fifth.

More than 13,000 people chose from 100 lyrics on the station's website, selected by music industry figures.

Oh, girl, Lance is gay, girl, be my angel girl ...

Yes, Lance Bass from N'Sync is gay. No shocker; but, he's dating sweater-gay Reichen from Amazing Race. Shocker! Well, it is most gay men’s dream to do a boy band member -- or be in a boy band; or be in a boy band member. They’ve been spotted out-and-about together being way-gay.

His statement:

"As for the rumours about me and Lance, please continue to remind people that things that I do not discuss anymore, such as the private and personal relationships that I have, are just that--private--unless I choose to open up with details to my family and close friends for reasons of support and love.

After the experience of my first relationship in the public eye, I swore to keep future relationships private. There would be no benefit in my disclosing that part of my life. I guess I learned that a couple years ago. I wish people could allow that part of me for, well, just me and who I choose to share my life with and love...and to leave it well enough alone.
Everything else is fair game to disclose and I love and appreciate that the public is that interested in me that they would talk about my life! It's all essential to the work that I strive to accomplish and perfect.

Having said that, know that I do appreciate how much everyone cares about my well being. I know that your curiosity comes from a good place, for most people, which is wanting me to be well. Please know that I am happy right now...happier than I can ever remember being. Smile: That's all that matters!

Thank you to all the regulars on the Forum of Reichen.org. Even though I hardly ever respond, I read EVERY post you all put on here, almost every day.

You're all the best for staying with me for this crazy ride I've been on since the Amazing Race.
All Love, Reichen"

You got to check out Reichen’s site. Cheap! Also, the members of the forum sign their instalments with ‘Smile! That’s all that matters’ (a Reichenism) and ‘LOVE ACTUALLY, IS...... ALL AROUND!’ JayzusKrist. You just know it’s filled with people who actually thought Brokeback Mountain was good.

New Britney material

Click here for a 50 second clip of some new Britney Spears material. Apparently Perezhilton.com 'fucking loves it'. I 'fucking hate it'. I want another Toxic! Don't be getting all acoustic on our asses, Brit!

How indeed!

It's already been proven that Mary Magdalene wasn't a prostitute; but, it makes for a fab Andrew Lloyd Weber song. Happy Easter!

Sad State of UK Charts

I've always preferred the UK music scene. It was fresh. It was fun. It had (good) grit. It had variety. It had 'spice'. Lately, however, it has been on the down-turn with sad-ass mediocre r&b-lite shite (pussycat trolls) and wanker-rock 'music'. It's starting to look like the US chart - which has sucked for the last 25 years. (Don't get me started on the Canadian charts). Check out this weeks UK top 10. Sad, sad, sad. Everyone's digging that Gnarles Barkley song called Crazy: I don't get it! It's horrible. It's some mediocre, midtempo, 70s disco-funk shite.

What the hell is going on?!

'Stupid' Pet Shop Boys Video

My blog's namesake came from a song from The Pet Shop Boys. Their latest single is called 'I'm With Stupid' and it stars the UK comedy duo from Little Britain. 'Please talk to me. I love you.'

Yeah, that's right: Xanadu!

Oh who are you to judge me?!

French as Sonia

If you remember early-90s UK pop singer Sonia, and you know who French and Saunders are:

To this day I say 'sophisticated' and 'errrm' the same way.

Youngest Pointer Sister dies at 52

Sad day. The youngest member of the Pointer Sisters died of Cancer at age 52. Hits from the Pointer Sisters include 'I'm So Excited', 'Jump', 'He's So Shy' and 'Twist My Arm'.

rip

Girls Aloud with an Epilady

ER 4 Girls Aloud Special: Off The Record

This better be YouTubed soon!

Girls Aloud without the Epilady

Suck it in girls!

...the fuck?

Madge and Mr Madge on the rocks?

Rumour has it that Madonna's marriage to what's-his-name is on the rocks.

Am I the only one who missed this?
Brings new meaning to a line in her latest single 'Sorry': 'You're not half the man you think you are' ... Hmmmm ...

In case you've forgotten, this is Madonna:

Madge Mash MP3s

Here is a cool little site with some unofficial Madonna "Confessions" remixes. The Deeper and Deeper/Hung Up mash is fab.

In case you've forgotten, this is Madonna:

Man(diva)disa ain't pro 'mo!

Mandisa from American Idol recently made some 'anti-gay' satements and has been back- pedalling as fast as her huge legs will allow. Here is an excerpt from her interview with Advocate magazine:

Mandisa: I know my value system, based on that, that on the word [of the Bible], that it does speak of that. I do know I have no place to judge anybody. I know that at the end of time we all face the judge and his name is not going to be Mandisa, so I cannot place any judgement on anyone.
The Advocate: Would you be comfortable performing or singing at a gay event?
Mandisa: I would not, no.
The Advocate: Would it conflict with your religious beliefs?
Mandisa: Based on what I believe, I'm not an advocate for [being gay], so it's nothing I would take part in.

A) She really needs to understand who her audience is
B) How well would it go over if someone said they don't feel comfortable peforming infront of certain ethnic or racial groups? Not too well I would imagine.
C) She doesn't like gay people? Good luck in the entertainment industry, honey!

He was only 24 hours from Tulsa ...

LONDON (Reuters) - American singer Gene Pitney, who shot to fame in the 1960s with hits including "24 hours from Tulsa", has died while on tour in Britain, his agent said on Wednesday.
Jene Levy said Pitney, 65, died on Wednesday morning in the Welsh capital Cardiff where he had given a concert the day before.

This is weird because I only recently started listening to Gene Pitney songs (I've always been a fan of '24 Hours From Tulsa"). I think I'm a jinx.

R.I.P.

Scary Spice: Not Scary Anymore!

Now this is more like it! Melanie B doing just fine without the rest of the Spice rack. Unlike this photo.

Perfect.

Singles Chart : 03 04 06

Canada (highlight: Goldfrapp - 'No. 1')

UK (highlight: Girls Aloud - 'Whole Lotta History', Sugababes - 'Red Dress')

Australia (hightlight: Girls Aloud - 'Biology')

U.S. (hightlight: none)

Whining Wank and Rollers

Wa wa wa wa. I am tired of 'rock musicians' whining at their lack of success and blaming pop artists for it. Has it ever occurred to these people that the reason why they don't sell as many records or win as many awards (which they actually do -- I'll get to that later) is because their music sucks? Oh, no, of course not. It's because pop artists have supernatural powers that control the minds of to-day's youth and compel them to buy pop music instead of 'real' (don't make me puke) music. They continuously badmouth the pop music industry in a sad attempt to make a 'legit' name for themselves and get a little publicity.

The thing is these 'indie bands' and 'rock bands' do sell records and do win awards which makes me wonder: what the hell they are whining about? The answer is that in order to appeal 'cool' 'rock' needs to be 'anti-system' in order to survive. The minute it appears to be 'mainstream' or 'top 40' it looses all street cred (70s corporate rock anybody?). So when someone like Michael Bublé wins an award it's PR gold for rock musicians who feast on it as the perfect opportunity to play the 'woe is me the poor indie rocker who can't make it big because pop music is getting all the attention'.

Michael Bublé has mind-control powers. He's magic. In fact he never even released any music; it's all just a big marketing illusion.

Actually, no, I don't like Canadian Idol or Michael Bublé for that matter. But that's not the point.

Pamela Anderson; Juno Awards; Seal Hunt

Pamela Anderson hosted this year's Juno Awards (Canadian music awards). During her opening monologue she made sharp anti-seal slaughter remarks that got the crowd booing.

"One of my favourite artists could not be here to-night. Seal. He was afraid of being clubbed to death". Then she said something along the lines of 'I like it rough some times. I grew up watching Canuck games so I like a little blood on the ice: in hockey that is'.

The thing is, this year's Junos are in Halifax, Nova Scotia where many of the seal hunters are from.

She has balls I'll give her that.

For the record, I am against the seal-slaughter.