The revolution will be Anglicised!

Did you know about this?

The mighty Roberts has turned to drink because of people calling her ugly. You can imagine she's getting zero support from Tweedy, Harding, Cole, and the other one are giving her zero support and probably even fuelling her insecurities. I'm feeling all protective now. She needs help. She HAS to get away from the evil clutches of Girls Aloud, not just so she can concentrate on becoming Stockhausen but because she needs to look after herself.

Something must be done. She needs to be among friends. She really does!

You deliberately left out Kimberley to rile me, didn't you? Prickery, I tells ye.

I'd rep you simply for using the word 'rile', but 'computer says "no"'.

Oh dear.

pffff, she should shift her attention to open reel tape slicing and not drinking, party when you're done with your ten hour sound collage based on the teachings of leeds beggars from the the 16th century.

plus, she can be ugly but she's also sexy; and sexy beats ugly.


*of course, i don't know the first thing about girls aloud but reading this thread, i am anticipating her solo career anxiously.

nice thread. this is what this board really needed.

redheads >>>>3 or whatever.

This is an absolutely shocking admission. I'm uploading some stuff for you now. They're easily the best pop group since Erasure, and I don't say that lightly (admitedly, some of the album tracks are a bit guff, but still).

Oh my God No!!!!

i have three things to say here today:

a) girls aloud rule.

b) i love this thread

c) nicola must spend her time learning to fingerpick and hunting antique 78rpm records to learn 19th century blues and spiritual songs from for her freak folk album backed by sunburned hand of the man.

I've heard she just bought an original Moog and that if you check her 'Thank You's bit in the booklet of Girls Aloud's last CD's booklet you'll find the names 'Wendy Carlos' and 'Delia Derbyshire'.

Spotted her in Selectadisc on Saturday too, flicking through the Neo Folk section. According to an interview on GMTV she thinks Sol Invictus are 'bangin' but that the new Current 93 DVD is 'over-rated to the max.'

Ah, you listened to that thing I sent you? Aren't they just the best? Their new one is ridiculously amazing as well.

I have a strong feeling that Nicola is going to be the one that gets more tappable as she gets older. Always the way of the ginge (pronounced 'jaange'), innit?

Not sure I like the idea of her working with SHOTM though, couldn't she work with someone good instead?

what the hell is Girls Aloud anyway?

They're not Girls Discreet, lets make that clear.

oh. something British, that's why I dont know it.

well whatever. Redheads rule.

Girls Aloud are the most consistently amazing proper pop group to be produced this century. Go, listen.

For real? If yr being serious, then I'm intrigued.

hahahaha

so then, it's a joke? I don't get British humor. Or humour or whatever.

It's not a joke. Seriously, the best group of their sort this century. Amazing, in fact, that anything non-shit came out of the horseshitmill of 'reality' pop shows.

But then again, Americans often have a hard time with pop music that is just pop music and doesn't purport to do anything else. Did the Pet Shop Boys ever do much business in the states? I doubt it.

yes, the english have an insatiable and unfathomable hunger for fruity music hall shit.

is it too obvious, too unrefined, to prefer harding & cole?

I dnt know if they did much business in the States, but they've done plenty of biznaz in my headphones!

Pet Shop Boys went to number 1 in America.

Duran Duran, a bunch of make up-wearing straight english dudes with a strong apetite for girls, were more famous in the states than in the uk.

I love 80's synthpop. And not in a stupid ironic way or anything. I think the genre was incredible.

Good. Then Girls Aloud are so far up your street they can see what you had for breakfast.

For the record, I maintain that Erasure were the best 'synthpop' group.

I am a fan Duran Duran up until they started having issues, pretended to be serious, and in the process created self-conscious indie pop with out of reach aspirations like Orlando, the very last nail in the coffin. Erasure are a good pop band exactly because all that crap never bothered them much.

You are kidding, right? There are millions of Americans who listen to certain artists simply because they are popular.

Case In Point: The Jonas Brothers. There is absolutely NOTHING special about them or their music. Their status comes from exposure, nothing more and nothing less.

Yes, but the Jonas Brothers a pop group that are doing everything in their powers to not come across as a pop group, which is clearly what they are. I agree that they're shit, but the fact that they're styled in such a way, and they have 'real' instruments and move like a 'rock' band is entirely the opposite of pop music just being pop music. You see?

Well...I don't think anyone HONESTLY thinks the Jonas Brothers are a real rock band...

I actually saw them earlier this year, and a lot of the audience didn't care. Admittedly, a lot of that audience was around half my age (I'm 26), but they seemed to enjoy it, so fair play to them.

An important thing to remember - the notion of authenticity in music is usually only important to lonely, single, male teenagers.

i only expect rob instigator at one point appearing on this thread to tell everyone that this shit doesn't rock. i think i have smelt the essence of this dump once more. it smells of piss, the piss you take out of these bunch of mentally retarded, narrow-minded music snobs.

I'm not afraid to admit that I like some of Maroon 5's stuff. If anyone refers to them as a boy band, I tell them that at least Maroon 5 can actually play instruments and write their own stuff, which is not something N'Sync or the Backstreet Boys could ever claim.

Actually, the Jonas Brothers (I keep nearly spelling it "Borthers"-what does that say) are just the latest in the teen pop cycle that repeats at the end of every decade:

End of the 80s- New Kids on the Block, Color Me Badd
End of the 90s- Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, 98 Degrees
End of the 00s- Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana

We had Take That over here, who were amazing. We also produced the Spice Girls, so... sorry about that. Backstreet Boys had some alright songs, N'Sync a few more. Britters and Justin produced some superlative stuff.

I can't abide Maroon 5 meself, but fair play to you.

LOL Apology accepted

I feel nothing for all this tedious pop music of which you speak.

And I feel nothing for it in a completely unironic way.