- I had a nice email from the VFactory boys this week - they saw my review from earlier this week, and sent me a free legal mp3 of their mighty fine single She's Bad to host for you all. Download it here and expect to hear much much more from them in the future!
- And well, gosh darn it! I had a lovely email from Isabel Guzman too - it freaks me out that people read my site. I'm never big headed enough to email and say "oh I wrote about you!" - most of my interviews have come about through luck and even then I don't feel worthy enough to be in the presence/phone receiver of people!! Haha, anyway it's great to see Isabel taking off - and such influential sites as Popjustice and Arjanwrites. Where fizzypop humbly leads... :P
- Talking of leading, hurrah for The Script going top 15! I wrote about them way back in January offering a free mp3 - something that is now being offered here! I'm usually way way out in my predictions for success, so I'll take a few hits over my many misses any day!
- And talking of popjustice, they were absolutely right about the New Kids single, and finally caught up with what XO and DanUK have been telling me for weeks now - Daggers = Good.
- It's quite "trendy" for bloggers to not like the new Madonna album. Fortunately all the people who count (see the links list) tend to like at least most of it. I'm more addicted to 4 Minutes with each listen... Plus i've never been "trendy" anyway (evidence = Debbie Gibson love over my classmates adoration of Inspiral Carpets)
- TV is good again. And leading the way is SuhAlan's The Apprentice. Why oh why everyone has to address him as Sir Alan is beyond me. However, once again, the boardroom bits are the highlight of a show full of wankers. While Heat magazine may love Alex, it's all about Lee McQueen for me. Not only does he refer to himself by his name, but he gets very excited and says "fuck" to show that he is down with the kids. Check out from about 1m4s on the above clip and look at snooty Rafe's distaste for his naughty language...
WHAT THE BEST IN BLOG ARE UP TO THIS WEEK...
- DanUK is on leave from work and enjoying the weather, brilliant Buffy comics and not so brilliant Angel comics. I shall catch up on them this very weekend...
- D'Luv - as well as lots of brilliant stuff about Mariah and Rick Astley - reveals Coldplay to be scandalous plaigarisers! The shock of it all has me coming over with the vapours...
- ModFab has a list of many ace moments on Broadway - many that I agree with. No Wicked? Boo that whore :P
- ModFab was also one of several bloggers along with lovely Yuri who quite wisely realised that Jason Castro is indeed this season's Sanjaya on American Idol and deserved to be booted off.
- Talking of Yuri, he pointed me in the direction of the Blake Lewis remixes of How Many Words. The radio remix is pretty darn fine.
- Poppostergirl (Hero) and Troy (Bullet) were dancing round their apartments to Charlotte Perelli. And though, I probably won't post my album review of it now, it's a marvelously poptastic piece of work...
- DanUSA, the lucky dog, got a bro-mosexual crush on him and a Dolly Parton concert all in one week. Magnif.
- XO's mixtape posts continue to delight and fascinate me. Lots of cool linkage too, particularly the post about bloggers and merely copying press releases into their blogs. You can SO always tell :P
The top 21 fizzypoptastic songs of the week...
21 ~ Jason Mraz, I'm Yours
20 ~ Shayne Ward, Stand By Your Side
19 ~ Mariah Carey, Touch My Body
18 ~ Duffy, Warwick Avenue
17 ~ Blake Lewis, How Many Words
16 ~ Jesse McCartney, Leaving
15 ~ Sergey, Flyer
14 ~ Captain, Keep An Open Mind
13 ~ Ola, Love in Stereo
12 ~ Alphabeat, 10000 Nights of Thunder
11 ~ Caracola, Smiling in Love
10 ~ Jack McManus, Bang on Your Piano
09 ~ The Last Shadow Puppets, Age of Understatement
08 ~ Rongedal, Just A Minute
07 ~ Kylie, In Your Arms
06 ~ Madonna, 4 Minutes
05 ~ Jesse McCartney, Bleeding Love
04 ~ Maroon 5, If I Never See Your Face (featuring Rihanna)
03 ~ David Jordan, Move On
02 ~ The Feeling, Without You
01 ~ BWO, Lay Your Love on Me (2 weeks)
Coming this weekend: an album smackdown threeway (with free legal album download!!!); the #1 artist who will be a household name by Christmas; the delayed start of the fizzypop chronicles
Coming next week: More JM initialled artist album reviews; Madonna week; some other guff....
Paul = SUPA-STAR! How freakin' cool that you got an email from Isabel. She is a class act, that girl!
ReplyDeleteI think you'll be fairly surprised how at 34, things all start to fall into place if you let them. (Oooh, how cookie's fortune!)
ReplyDeleteMore V Factory! You are starting to become obsessed :P Never a bad thing in your case :) Thrilling to see other blogs pick up on these artists. I suspect we shall see some Simon Curtis musings for your number 1 artist household name thingy??
ReplyDeleteRaef may be snooty but he's a bloody legend as he apologised for Lee's mobile phone swearing in Morocco (what's with the weird way they have to hold the phones?) and stuck up for Sara the other week. And of course his Brideshead Revisited sartorial elegance!
ReplyDeleteOh, I didn't really see Jason Castro as this season's Sanjaya as all (though then again I didn't see Sanjaya as anything that much beyond the ordinary--there's usually been someone who makes it much farther than they should--but I know what people mean when they use him as a reference point, and it's more than that)--I mean, were any of Sanjaya's top 12 performances truly good? Jason definitely had some, and I do think this whole "the people voting for him were teenage girls" (gosh, is that one of my pet peeves--people who act as if everything wrong with popular culture is because of "teenies" [by which they always mean girls]) is way overplayed--from the people I know, that's not the case at all.
ReplyDeleteI can totally understand why some people wanted him to go now (and I hear his performances this past week were really off--so much so they seemed like he might have even been deliberately trying to get himself kicked off), and I think I stopped really caring who wins a while ago, but someone who made enough of an impression musically that several of the songs he performed soared to the top of the iTunes chart is way beyond just having the limited jokey appeal of a Sanjaya.
I do love ModFab (and Fizzy Pop, of course!), but I'll have to disagree with you two on this one--I don't think any of the top four is anywhere near Sanjaya level.
Poster Girl ~ how dare you not agree with me :P Haha, i'm all for diversity of opinion :) It's what makes life fun. Imagine if everyone liked the same thing? These competitions would be dull and predictable (uh, more so anyway!)I must confess i've only watched idol on youtube clips this year so i haven't really caught onto the hype of it all... and sometimes that totally affects how i feel about contestants. Judging on the songs only brings about a whole different perspective. Did that make any sense at all?!?! Jason's performances last week were horrific - but I agree that it seems like he wanted to leave the competition. He was grinning like a cheshire cat when he got voted off :) And to be fair he will probably do much much better leaving at this stage of the contest rather than later on.... Plus! you know me! I'll probably change my mind a million times about him on hearing a single proper :P
ReplyDeleteDan ~ I loved how he did that. It was rather cavalier i thought. He does dress well too (Alex was wearing yellow socks to match his shirt last week. WTF!) The phone thing is BIZARRE!
Ben ~ I suspect you may be correct :P
D'Luv ~ I think you may be right. I must say that is incredibly zen of you. You should write self help books!
Yuri ~ Yes Isabel is just too marvelous for words :)