I love the Pussycat Dolls. I like to think of them as an elite troupe of lapdancers, who’ve escaped from the club and are trying unsuccessfully to fit in with society.
Let’s face it, there isn’t much pretence – the name Pussycat Dolls has lap dancing written all over it, as do the dance routines, as do the tunes. Hell, I’m not complaining!
A Moment Like This is the first single released by X Factor winner Leona Lewis, and the song she sang at the show’s finale.
If you’re a follower of Unreality TV (and I hope you are!), you’ll know we were rooting for Leona to win this year’s X Factor. We’re both very pleased to see Leona’s first single release, a cover of a Kelly Clarkson song (which she also sung at the American Idol final).
I finally caught the video for Eric Prydz’s version of Another Brick In The Wall on TMF this evening. Was never a big fan of the original song, but this remix injects some energy into it.
Proper Education is a bit shorter than I remember Another Brick In The Wall being, but it weaves in the original Pink Floyd vocal along with (I think) the original bassline and guitar tracks. Not normally my thing, but this update may actually be better than the original!
Good to see Chris Cornell returning with You Know My Name, from the soundtrack of the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale.
Cornell avoids all the usual Bond theme cliches and delivers a hard-edged rock song.
I suppose it’s in keeping with the new hard-ass Bond, Daniel Craig. Apparently Casino Royale is a much grittier movie than some of the slick Brosnan versions of the last decade. I believe Chris Cornell co-wrote the song with the long time Bond composer, David Arnold.
On the subject of Chris Cornell, check out his version of Billie Jean, which I discovered this evening….
Nelly Furtado’s been on a roll recently with singles like Maneater and Promiscuous, and now she slows the pace down a little bit with the atmospheric All Good Things (Come To An End).
Unlike the first two singles, All Good Things doesn’t rely on the ‘Loose’ theme of the album’s title! It’s actually got a very haunting Enya-type vibe, and a distinctly weird video featuring Nelly wandering about a beach and er…dealing with upside-down furniture in a forest!
Still, All Good Things is another excellent track from Nelly’s Loose album, and it’s all a world away from her earlier material. She really has come of age this year!
By the way, am I the only one who thinks she looks like a young Courtney Cox?
We all know Gwen Stefani fancies herself as a bit of a Hip-Hop star, but this shitty bit of sampling takes the biscuit!
There is not a singer, living or dead, who could pull off a line from The Sound Of Music in a pop track. You could say singing “High on a hill was a lonely goatherd” was ballsy, but even thinking about it makes me shudder. Stupid move…
And by the way, what’s with the pseudo-rap? I thought Gwen could sing. Apparently, it’s a case of “Screw singing, let’s make Hollaback Girls Part 2!” Sorry folks, but this is the sort of dirge that should have never seen the light of day. I’m even embarrassed to be reviewing it!
Let’s hope Gwen sobers up and pulls this crap from the shelves. Go and make another bloody No Doubt record!
