With his debut solo single away from Blue, Simon Webbe quickly confounded all predictions and expectations by letting the music do the talking...
Pop Essays #60: Simon Webbe, ‘Lay Your Hands’
Month: May 2025
Alexis Strum: Britain’s best popstar you don’t yet know
Alexis Strum was one of my best kept music secrets for many years. Hopefully, with a new album on the way, she can be yours to discover too...
Pop Essays #59: Preston, ‘Dressed To Kill’
Whilst his post-Ordinary Boys solo career was marked dead on arrival before it'd even been given a fair hearing, it helped Preston rebirth into a prosperous new career behind the scenes - crafting absolute bangers like this one...
Pop Essays #58: Mini Viva, ‘Left My Heart In Tokyo’
The key cornerstone of Xenomania's branch out into an in-house record label, Mini Viva were positioned as the all new pop duo phenomenon to take them from their success in the 00s to the 2010s...
Pop Essays #57: Janet Jackson, ‘Someone To Call My Lover’
No one had due cause to think Janet Jackson was about to slip into the realm of only being as good as her last single. But for better or worse, that's what happened with the release of the third single from her All For You album...
Pop Essays #56: S Club, ‘Who Do You Think You Are’
Seeing Double, S Club's debut and only big screen jaunt, may have been marred in its execution, but one of its songs proved they were still at the top of their game musically prior to their split...
The Niche Reference 