James Arden checks out the garage rockers latest album.
The Christian rock band from Brighton bring religion to the masses.
Recipe for modern R'n'B album: liberal helpings of guest rappers and an overdose of sexual euphemisms.
It seems like the Sugababes have taken inspiration from a certain 43 Hempland Lane house-party which occurred at the start of term for their new video to accompany the single 'Change'. Both involved big eyes, great music and lots and lots of glitter. The tremendous three-some have donned some fairly wacky yet wonderful false eyelashes for this vid, including Keisha's amazing pink fluffy eyelashes, Amelle's uber-lush black lashes and Heidi's super-long blonde ones, meant to illustrate the seasons. It will make girls all over York want to rush into Superdrug and buy some lovely lashes for their very own (in fact, they sell a cool pair of peacock-feather ones for around 3 quid... Sugababelicious!!).
The new Girls Aloud video, for the single 'Call the shots' is, as far as I can see, a great opportunity for the lasses to be seen in this season's hot colour: purple. The story line is not particularly strong, but I don't think that's the point of the video, which seems to be more aimed at putting across a message of girl power. Personally, I'm not a fan of the faux sky-at-night effect, and the girlie group have had much better videos, but in the end it still has a certain appeal: the knowledge that even hot girls have boy-trauma, a sudden desire to call your girlfriends and have a good natter, or the inspiration to go out and buy many items of purple clothing to go with your brand new bright pink false eyelashes.
On a girly theme, but one very different from the one portrayed by good old Girls Aloud, is 'Hustler', the video for Simian Mobile Disco. It is fairly obvious where this one is headed from the start, with some not-too-subtle lesbian undertones in a game of Chinese whispers. It quickly descends into some very bi-curious antics by the girls, and by the end of the video there is no doubt left in anyone's mind that the game started at the beginning of the video has now descended into a bit of a free-for-all. It seems to me that the video is tapping into what men have been wondering for years: what really goes on during girls' nights in? However, this is a bit much; let's leave them hanging with stories of pillow fights in our underwear, eh girls?
Estelle has portrayed to us all something which many of us experience during our university career... the walk of shame. The video flicks between how she met her one night stand in the club on Friday evening and the morning after the night before. Crucial difference between the experience of us regular student types and superstar Estelle: glamour. Her walk of shame is triumphantly carried out in killer heels, a gorgeous dress and perfectly applied make-up. The ones that we are familiar with usually include panda eyes and a stolen hoody to cover up the stupid army/fairy/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle costume we wore to Ziggy's the night before.
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