We start out with the lead Doll having a soak in a bath, enclosed in a dreary, cold blue room. She is texting someone – presumably Lewis Hamilton – and the tone is sombre. My eyes moisten a little as I realise that she’s probably dumping the racing whizz again. I feel Britain take yet another blow to the goolies at the hands of an American mistress. When she eventually steps out of the bath (sneakily hiding her arse and boobs, the bastard) it’s as if she knows what’s coming…
Author Archives: Swineshead
JLS – Beat Again
193 CommentsJuly 10, 2009 – 9:11 am
JLS are lovely lads, I’m sure, but is this the best their team could come up with after their X Factor semi-success? You’d expect more marketing expertise from such a vigorously relentless machine than the release of one of the least remarkable singles of the year. It sounds so late 90s – a time when boybands were already starting to go out of fashion – that it gives me flashbacks to being 20 years old, drunk, incapable of getting up to turn off Top Of The Pops.
Red Light Company – Arts & Crafts
7 CommentsJune 14, 2009 – 6:10 pm
The song sounds like something from 1991. Not altogether terrible. It’s the video that plays havoc with the senses.
White Lies – Farewell to the Fairground
2 CommentsJune 14, 2009 – 5:49 pm
I know, I know.
It confused me too. At first you think it’s Joy Division – because it looks exactly like Joy Division – but then the music chimes in and knocks you for six. The Shed 7 style jangling juxtaposed with the sombre stylings of Ian Curtis (and an exact replica of his haircut) really jars, mentally. The messy coupling makes your spine jangle in its slot as you try to balance the two sides of your brain.
