How best to describe Booty Luv? They’re a disco-pop juggernaut, I suppose. I’ve lapped up everything they’ve released to date, and I might – wait for it – throw down some dough and buy the album. (Yes, you’d think they’d send it to me for free. They might after this review!)

Some Kinda Rush is… wow. Just awesome. And guess what, it’s their own work. While they’ve worked their magic on covers up until now, Some Kinda Rush is ORIGINAL MATERIAL. And it may just be the best thing Cherise and Nadia have released to date.

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Toothpaste Kisses is our first encounter with The Maccabees here on Unreality Music.

It’s a very old-sounding, stripped down song. Apparently the normal Maccabees sound is a much more lively punk noise. Instead, Toothpaste Kisses is a simple track mostly focusing on singer Orlando Weeks’ vocals and an understated mostly acoustic backing.

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Poor old Jamie, he took a battering from musicOMH in their review of Standing In The Rain. To add insult to injury, they likened the poor guy to my all-time most loathed artist – James Blunt.

Nobody is that bad. And we loved their impromptu cover of Bleeding Love back in November.

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After two very tongue in cheek singles, The Hoosiers give us a taste of their serious side with Worst Case Scenario, their new single.

Gone are the padded superhero suits of Goodbye Mr A or the monster mayhem of Worried About Ray. In their place, a darker band and a darker video than they’ve previously released. I don’t think frontman Irwin Sparkes pulls a face once!

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I’d hate to be Christina Aguilera’s mother right now. I mean, domestic abuse isn’t something people want to broadcast at the best of times. Would you want your daughter telling the world about it?

Perhaps it’s a poignant song, since Christina’s on the brink of popping out her own sprog. You know, reflecting on her own childhood and all that.

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Really? Was Kanye West involved in this musical disaster, surely a shoe-in for the worst song of 2007?

Not only was Billie Jean both dated and overplayed already, but some genius decided to slow the whole thing down to the point where it feels like your mental capacity is diminishing at an alarming rate (quick, somebody speak to me at normal speed!).

Have you ever been in that stage of drunkenness where everything sounds slightly muffled and slowed down? That’s how listening to this feels. What comes next when you’re drunk is spewing the contents of your stomach into the nearest toilet bowl.

Shockingly, that’s how I felt by the time this ‘remix’ of Billie Jean had limped to the finish. So desperate for a reality check was I that I searched for the original video to compare.

I know Michael Jackson is in need of a few extra quid at the moment, but shame on Kanye for lending his name to such a dire remix. Just awful.

Getting oodles of radio play this week is Bloc Party’s latest single, Flux. It’s a radical departure for the band, which led to them speaking out to reassure fans that their forthcoming album wouldn’t be an all-disco effort. Phew!

I hesitate to use the word ‘nu-rave’ which has been dropped by other reviewers. But how to describe Flux to you? It’s kind of a crossover of Indie sensibilities and disco.

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Here it is folks, Leon Jackson’s debut single and X Factor winner’s song for 2007.

It’s an inspiring song, reflecting that tradition of uplifting champions songs like That’s My Goal and A Moment Like This. Except that Mr Jackson isn’t remotely believable. I can’t in all good conscience call this a triumph for either Jackson or the British public’s ability to choose a new pop star.

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Conquest is a weird one. A flamenco style song played with fuzzily distorted guitars, trumpets and a gutsy matador mentality.

But did you know that the song was released in 1952 by an artist called Patti Page. That’s right, Jack and Meg are tipping their weird matador hats to a bygone era in this song.

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It’s about time. I’ve been waiting all year for Mika to release Lollipop, which could easily have been the immediate successor to Grace Kelly.

Lollipop is yet another sugary helping of Mika’s delicious brand of upbeat pop music. This time though, it’s part of a double A side package that includes his other camp as a row of tents tune, Relax (Take It Easy).

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