Oh how the mighty have fallen. We live in uncertain times but quite how uncertain has only become apparent in the last month. Forget the Euro crisis – you’d think that the new albums by Pixie Lott and The Saturdays were dead certs for charting within the Top 10. Apparently not. But as the year starts to count down faster than some homosexuals towards the eighteenth birthdays of the members of One Direction, ignore the doom and gloom and check out what’s on the horizon musically…
Bloody hell Charlene
Kylie Minogue will release a new album next year! Recorded at Abbey Road studios, it will contain reworkings of hits from throughout her career, celebrating 25 years since the release of her first single ‘Locomotion’. Asides from making us all feel very old that there’s been twenty five years of Kylie, this should be promising, especially as she’s been tweeting about the idea of doing an ‘Anti-Tour’, performing b-sides, rarities and her own personal favourites. Bring. It. On.
This isn’t just a scary lady… this is an M&S scary lady
Face of Marks & Spencer and arguably the most mentally unstable woman in pop (this is a lady known to talk to her hair-straighteners) V V Brown is back with a brand new single ‘Children’. As well as having a video with her loping around Los Angeles as though her medication is wearing off/kicking in, the song itself is her back to her shouty best. Although not yet out in the UK, it hopefully will be soon along with other material from her forthcoming album: the ridiculously titled Lollipops and Politics.
Impending sweet treats?
All three of the original Sugababes were spotted together at Sherry Davis’ gig in Camden recently. No pictures of all three together have emerged, but the important thing is that things are (supposedly) happening musically. Watch this space…
Swear it’s true
Holy Ellis-Bextor! Our Sophs, swearing?! Everyone’s favourite posh queen of disco isn’t the type one would expect to go all potty-mouthed on us, but guess again. Doing what she does best, i.e. teaming up with Euro DJs for a feature track, she’s lent her glacial vocals to Bob Sinclar for the does-what-it-says-on-the-tin banger ‘Fuck With You’. Once you get over hearing expletives from the lady who saved us all from Victoria Beckham’s music career ambitions it’s actually brilliant. Already out in Italy and rising steadily in the charts, all it needs is a video featuring the now-pregnant Sophie running a man over with a Waitrose trolley and we’ll have a sleeper hit on our hands.
A right bunch of Charlies:
A brilliant but doomed new girlband appears every minute it seems, but The Charlies are pop survivors! Hailing from Iceland, they used to be known as Nylon and had 3 UK singles in 2006 as well as 10 no. 1 singles back in their homeland. They inevitably split up but now three of them are back together and they’ve gone all electro on us.
“Monster (Eat Me!)” sounds like something Britney was probably originally aiming for with Femme Fatale. And the rest of their stuff on their free mixtape Start a Fire is just as good, so have a listen.
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