^{Tuesday January 12th 2010}  

And there it is: yet another album to add to our list of highly anticipated 2010 releases:
Lucky Soul are back with a new single and their second album will be released later this year.

To those of you who’ve never heard of this British band:
They make rather cute and extremely catchy ’50s influenced pop music, think ‘The Pipettes meets The Cardigans in their early days’.

Their new single White Russian Doll isn’t a major departure in sound from their debut: it’s catchy, it’s sweet, and it’s everything that made us fall in love with them first time around.
As is the video:

If you liked what you heard make sure to also check out their old single Lips Are Unhappy, which might have even been a little better than their new one, and visit their website for more info on them!

White Russian Doll is now available on Itunes and other online retailers.

^{Monday January 11th 2010}  

You might have noticed our daily classics have become anything but daily lately.
Apart from the fact it was actually pretty hard to think of a random classic every single day, this also has to do with our ’00s flashbacks: there doesn’t seem too much of a point to just posting links to old songs, when we’re already listing 1000 of our favourite oldies anyway.

So a new year, a new approach: from now on we’ll pick two classics each week, and it’s up to you to decide which one will become our Weekly Classic.

Kicking it off this week are two songs full of praise:

Got two songs you’d like to see battle next week? Let us now!

^{Saturday January 9th 2010}  

Gabriella Cilmi’s back. And if there’s any justice she’s back bigtime.
While we were anticipating the returns of Britney, Christina Aguilera & Lucky Soul later this year, we hardly paid notice to the Sweet About Me girl.. until we saw the video for her new single.

We might be wrong, but isn’t january usually the least exciting month of the year in pop?
If that’s true, with Ke$ha’s album and this amazing song and video the bar has been raised to epic heights for 2010, and we dare anyone to beat this:

We love every single second of it. The song’s huge, sexed up Gaby makes for a proper pop princess, there’s so much going on in the video, and every single bit of it scream effort and budget.

If this doesn’t end up top 20 in our annual top 100 next year, 2010 will have been an extraordinary year in pop indeed.

^{Saturday January 9th 2010}  

She’s been around since 2002, we’ve known her since 2004, and this february, after years of success in Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland and her homecountry Norway, the 23-year old Maria Mena is finally gonna give it a shot in the UK.

In order to conquer yet another country, her 2008 single All This Time has gotten a little makeover, turning a beautiful inspiring ballad into a still beautiful, but slightly more uptempo, poprock song.



At the age of 23, Maria has released 4 albums & 13 singles, the majority of them written by herself. And the girl knows how to write great songs! Of course it’s all a matter of taste, cause she doesn’t make all out poptunes, but if you like pretty ‘small’ songs with some very strong pure lyrics, we strongly suggest you to also check out some of previous singles:

^{Saturday January 9th 2010}  

*This number is an estimation, we didn’t really count them.

We might have gotten a bit ahead of ourselves announcing we’d have the full video today, but here’s a big part of ‘Babes 4.0 first proper video.

We like the backgrounds, we love the clones and we really like Jade in it (discussions aside if we consider her a Sugababe), its only too bad the use of greenscreen is really obvious (and far from flawless) and the shots in the hangar look a bit empty (someone add some Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer stripes please!!).

Here you go, as soon as the real thing’s there we’ll let you know!



We wonder how Amelle would have reacted if the hangar opened and there would have been 700 raging Keishas in front of her instead?