Fall Out Boy are back to bother the charts again, and we’re hearing loads of America’s Suitehearts – their latest single – at the moment.
From their new album, Folie à Deux, the video’s very…er… like a horror version of a Beatles movie. Allie questions the fixation with carnival and circusfolk – which goes for them and Panic At The Disco if memory serves me right.
Is anyone else getting a little bit bored of Beyonce’s idea of feminism?
I mean, “if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it”??? What the hell? I’m not bashing marriage, but the notion that if you want to keep your woman, you have to buy her a big-ass ring is a bit of a fallacy.
Katy Perry’s domination of the pop charts is likely to continue with new single, Thinking Of You.
But for the third single from her One Of The Boys album, Katy’s slowing things down. That’s right – no craziness in this video – we’re going to get our first glimpse of serious Katy. The video I’ve chosen (there are two versions) is the one which isn’t going to be shown on TV!
She might not have made any “Sound of…” lists this year, but I’ve been hearing about Marina and the Diamonds quite a bit over the last few months. And on Valentine’s Day 2009 (14th Feb to fellow non-romantics), Marina will drop her debut single Obsessions on the world.
The word most people are using in connection with Marina is “eccentric”, and it’s hard to argue with that synopsis.
After my last post about 50 Cent, it looks like Dr. Dre and his associates are planning chart domination this year. Eminem’s the latest of Dre’s pals to resurface for 2009, and his supposed new single Crack A Bottle is already leaking all over the internet.
And Crack A Bottle features the unholy trinity of Eminem himself, with guest appearances by Dre and 50 Cent. (Remember when they used to invite Xibit along to this stuff? He’s too busy pimping rides these days :().
Let it be known, that with the release of the acoustic ballad Issues, new girlband The Saturdays may just have raised the game in their chart Jihad against the established skirt-acts like Girls Aloud and the Sugababes.
Relying on the time-honored technique of lounging around in the video and looking sultry, the girls also bring a fantastic sing-along tune to the party.
Back in the summer of 2008, Ida Maria told us she preferred to see us naked. After storming the charts with that tune, she’s re-releasing her debut single, Oh My God, another infectious jittery single.
"Oh My God," which is a solo track in the clip but appears in duet form on her MySpace-posted demo, soars because it’s simultaneously nervy and nervous, and the jittery video is almost as fist-clenching as the jumpy guitars. More like this, please!
I’m hearing the latest N-Dubz single a lot on the music channels lately. Dedicated to their late manager, Byron Contostavlos, Papa has an epic feel to it, lifting this posse beyond the realms of your regular urban fare.
The music video is totally random and surreal, with the various members of the group falling out of doorways in the sky, and floating in the ether.
Sugababes become ball-breakers in their latest video for the new single, No Can Do. Or is it just an excuse for a gratuitous display of man-flesh?
For this latest single, the girls are seen using various man-sculptures using a troupe of well-toned himbos, and making me feel even worse about my waistline. Grrr. It’s a novel concept for a pop video, however, but the bit with the guys with lampshades on their heads veers the video into freaky territory, doesn’t it?
Geraldine McQueen’s new video really has it all for Christmas. Santa, snow, bells, an easy dance routine and a Gary Barlow track, what more can anyone ask for?