ARTIST: Now United SONG: Crazy Stupid Silly Love SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? It's been just over a year since we first wrote about Now United, the fourteen membered(!) mixed gender pop combo that are the latest brainchild of one Simon Fuller (and if you don't know who that is … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Now United – ‘Crazy Stupid Silly Love’
ARTIST: McFly SONG: Touch the Rain SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Well well well. Just where do you start with this last couple of weeks? All in the space of less than fourteen days, McFly have suddenly gone from MIA to everywhere, with a sold out show at The O2 … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: McFly – ‘Touch the Rain’
ARTIST: Capulets SONG: Community Centre SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Now, usually how it works in pop is this: person joins band, band release a few records, maybe they play live a bit, do some other amazing stuff and become fairly brilliant, band ends or takes a break, person from … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Capulets – ‘Community Centre’
Right now, the currency for all things girl power has never been at its highest. Well, since May 1997, anyhow. And in a year which has bought us a Spice Girls comeback stadium tour they said wouldn't happen again after the last one in 2007, the generation that grew up around all things Ginger, Baby, … Continue reading #CrazyStupidBook: Lauren Bravo (@LaurenBravo) – ‘What Would the Spice Girls Do?’
ARTIST: Jimmy Balito SONG: Perfume SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? It's been about four months since Jimmy Balito was last in the public eye. The last time we saw him, he was going hell for leather on a duet of 70s rockers Free's 'All Right Now' with his coach on … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Jimmy Balito – ‘Perfume’
ARTIST: Louis York SONG: Don't You Forget SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? It's been a while since we last heard from Louis York - in fact when we last wrote about new stuff from them it was Christmas last year. Praise be though, as Claude Kelly and Chuck Harmony are … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Louis York – ‘Don’t You Forget’
ARTIST: Léon SONG: Falling SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? One of the beautiful things about how the music industry works these days is that there's been a return to the time when you released a song, sometimes a couple of times over, it grew in popularity steadily and you had … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Léon – ‘Falling’
ARTIST: Friendly Fires SONG: Silhouettes SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Firstly, we want you to count the number of indie bands that were launched about ten years ago. Now count how many of them are actually still worth a collective damn. That'd be about three, maybe four at a push, … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Friendly Fires – ‘Silhouettes’
ARTIST: Call Me Loop SONG: Self Love SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? You know it's funny really. Xenomania have reactivated themselves this year with both Unperfect and Paige Cavell - both of whom we've had on this series. And yet the song that sounds closest to Brian Higgins and co's … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Call Me Loop – ‘Self Love’
The Story of Pop: 1999. It's the story of the UK charts, the hits that were in them and the artists that made them hits two whole decades ago. This week - another turn of the millennium R&B classic from the girl group that gave the world one of its biggest female solo superstars.... It's … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 29)
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