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Brit Awards 2013
This year really should have been all about One Direction’s hair. It should have been a camera-trained tribute to the five gleaming superstar pompadours sitting on their polished heads like official pop-star halos. They should have opened the show, should have exploded from beneath the stage in a humid…
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Pop Life: Loving Laverne
Heroes seem to come in colossal form. Giant-size tornadoes of drama like Bowie, Dylan, Morrissey that whisked into your tiny life in the nick of time to save you from dingy normality and focus you on to the path to secret brilliance that no-one had yet recognised. They were…
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The Trouble With Girls….
In between the cries of ‘kill the whore!’ which flooded the Guardian comments section on a recent piece about Kim Kardashian, sounding uncomfortably like an internal monologue by Peter Sutcliffe, there was a sliver of more digestible indignation about the woman the masses love to hate. A lone troll threw out the…
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Singles Review: Beyoncé – End of Time
Is Beyoncé having a massive swear at the start of this track? Does Blue Ivy need to cover her tender ears? That’s but one of the mysteries of this banger, the other being could this have been the last great Michael Jackson song? It has all the hallmarks of Jackson…
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Singles Review: Beyonce – Runs The World (Girls)
What in the name of Jay-Z(us) is going on? Yes, that’s Beyoncé singing over Major Lazer’s Pon De Floor like she’s gone into one of those make-your-own-record booths in the Ilac Centre to amuse herself of a wet Wednesday. B has taken a trip to Wonder Woman island on this…
