Scoring the Comic Relief single this year is a major coup for The Saturdays. Their choice of Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough particularly inspired, reminiscent of when Girls Aloud recycled Jump for the Love Actually soundtrack.

The Sun lauded this for being the sexiest video yet for The Saturdays, but as a red-blooded expert on all things sexy, I disagree. It’s about as sexy as Christina Aguilera back in that Lady Marmalade video – i.e. not at all. Gawd, give me Dawn French dressed up as Mel B any day!

And are we still having trouble getting the public to know (or care) what the girls’ names are?

Anyway, I can virtually hear you screaming at me to stop bellyaching. So, what of the single? Not nearly as good as Up or Issues, but you’ve got to release a cover version for Comic Relief so that all the geriatrics from the 80’s will go out and buy it in a fit of charity-based nostalgia.

Therefore, I declare it a hit. Although musically a bit of a backward step for The Saturdays if you ask me (which, by visiting this blog, you did).

Now, basque (geddit?) in the 50’s pin-up style video…

It’s going to be a cover of Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough, which will fit in well with the 80’s revival and synth-heaviness of the contemporary charts. The PJ crew confidently predict this will be the group’s first ever #1 single, which will be an act of charity in more ways that one.

While I love this band, I’m baffled on a daily basis as to why they haven’t broken through yet. It baffles me at breakfast, lunch and dinner. But hopefully the Comic Relief single will expose them to a wider audience. It seems like we’ve been waiting forever for The Saturdays to gain mainstream approval.

The news is spoiled somewhat by the revelation that there’s a second Comic Relief single:

(We are pretending there is only one Comic Relief record when in fact there are two – the second is Rob Brydon and Ruth Jones performing ‘Islands In The Stream’ although that will almost certainly be utter shit.)

Ah well. It was nice to think the BBC Gods were smiling on The Saturdays, even if just for a minute.

On their own, Girls Aloud and Sugababes are class acts and have both managed to pull off fantastic cover versions in the past.

So, what’s going on here? The singing is lacklustre, and that droning “walk this way you wanna talk this way” is terrible. The backing track is hard to distinguish, and that signature Walk This Way riff sounds mechanical.

I have a long-standing respect for Aerosmith, and seeing one of their best-known tunes butchered is more important than the eye candy element! And by the way – does anyone else think Nadine Coyle’s eyelid fluttering is getting more ridiculous with each video?

If it wasn’t for the charity element, it’d be a complete write-off.