The Long Blondes, finally got some dorian action and some 'century' quotes and also got my hands on the album "couples", its not all as trancey as 'century' and three tracks in feels like an homage to somone to drive you home, ill keep going before i form an opinion.

Last year i made a band out of the 5 hottest male solo stars i coud find: this year things start getting a little closer to becoming a reality.

Calvin Goldspink's acting career took a hit after life is wild got cancelled, and now he's holding a guitar. His new album is out later this year, it is of course much more mature than his work with s club juniors, how could it not be hes holding a guitar.

Zac Efron continues to pretend he's an actor at heart when we all now he'd be a perfect lead in the band, he has three new movies in production and continues to look pretty. maybe we'll try to recruit the others first, then telephone in his vocals and make sure he's available for the first video shoot.

The same goes for Thomas Dekker, ive given up on his tv show, if only i could send a terminator back a year and encourage a record company to release his two albums. yes hes made two albums worth of material. we'll probably use his tracks as album fillers.

Jesse McCartney is about to drop departure his new album that popjustice tells us is amazing, he could do with going blonde again though

And lastly the most anticipated album release ever monsier Simon Curtis needs to get famous and relagate the need for this band by becoming a one man definition of pop.

The Long Blondes, with a better hype campaign than Madonna:








wheres dorian? oh to be his plus one

Janet Jackson, Discipline
If Blue Peter were making a Janet album, they'd put lots of good hooks glue it together with some sparkly bits, then cut away the excess, fold it in half and come up with a much better tracklist...

1. Feedback
2. LUV
3. Rollercoaster
4. Rock With U
5. 2Nite
6. So Much Betta
7. The One ft Missy Elliot

Alphabeat, are finally top ten, and the amount of times i play it at work must have the whole of the northwest humming along to its infectiousness. Alphabeat woke me up most days in japan, as i tend ot oversleep my alarm, and cycle hurriedly to work in the humidity, they kept me going with their bouncyness. The fact ive had the album a year and theyre only jut getting big makes me forget about them so consider this post a well deserved bump, and a preview of the singles of the summer.

Rihanna, for some reason, is about to 'Take A Bow' for the re-release of her album Good Girl Gone Bad. The song is quite subtle and not immediatly worthy of being a single, especially if this means pre-empting 'breakin' dishes' yet again, yet for all that i really think it works lyrically and vocally to produce yet another Neyo penned / Stargate mashed hit.

what ya waiting what ya waiting for...

Jesse Mccartney is looking hot and sounding cuter. I'd played this song about 5 times and i was beginngin to like it, but id instantly fallen for the hooks in the clips that popjustice played ten times better. This video guarentees the lead track will be played enough for the song to infect ur brain: jesse is on course to be this years hilary duff, a disney poppet with a surprisingly amazing album.

So while you enjoy that clip, take some time to think about all the good things coming soon, but which for now we shall all patiently wait for...

Dear imaginary giver of things pop, if im a good boy, in the future i would like you to deliver:

a new Long blondes album, single/video? 'Century' is a really cool song it definatly builds upon what has always been a part of the long blondes style but shoves upfront a new avant garde approach to conveying that message. its in sync and in fashion.

a high quality leak of '4minutes', a video and some airplay of Madonna's new material.

a copy of Annies catchy little album bridge track 'girlfriend'

a clip of Sophie Ellis Bextor singing 'yes sir i can boogie'

Frankmusik to make it onto the jukebox at work

Girls Aloud's 'hoxton heroes' b-side on my ipod now

a nice copy of Panic at the Disco attempting to be pretty. odd.

and for L.A Reid to have had the guts to tell Janet to just make a ten track dance album, consider that positive feedback, cos i love the best of it 'so much betta'.

Lemme tell you a fairytale....
Once there was a girl with a paino and she sung an amazingly catchy yet sad song...
the video started off a little something like this....

...But wait! this video then goes into some sort of 'fairytale of new york' (except it doesn't contain the word fa**ot and won't clog up the charts come xmas time)

...But wait some more, while that might well be the lead single 'Nolita Fairytale' from Vanessa Carlton's album Heroes and Thieves this next video is from the even more amazing song that i urge you to fall in love with.

Vanessa Carlton - Hands On Me
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MGMT: 'Time To Pretend'

Although im seemingly a pop boy through and through i think living in japan helped with that a lot, after all its much easier to think wow Mika's quite catchy and fun without having to see his media saturated face bouncing around at the Brits.
Returning to work with our mostly indie boy jukebox has reignited my indie boy leanings and this band stand out as my current favourite... i'd never heard of them before today but they have been tipped for big things by many people, the single is out march 3rd, the video below is utterly mesmerising and perhaps all too familar to any viewers of weekend televisions The Tribe, it all has a klaxons stylee pale naked boys playing dress up feel and the lyrics recount a similar tale as Nickelbacks Rockstar but this is all done in a much more laconic -and seemingly less irritating- manner.