Pop-Eye 1/9/02

wossee on abaht ehhhhh?

Next on was "Automatic High" by the S Club Juniors and that sounded much better to me. Oddly controlled.

Pot, meet kettle.

(OK sorry I will stop this joke now.)

It is a cover yeah, with garage MCing in the verses.

what annoys me about the current covers crop is that it feels like they are just admitting 'OK we know this is actually quite an insult to the original song and we cant do anything to better it or even match it but on the plus side we do get another number one hit so dont take it so seriously please" esp. with Blazin Squad and the new Liberty X (its so similar to the Mantronix original so a total waste of time)...Atomic Kitten's covers are merely 'stylised' by Stargate's slinky hiphop beats but strip out whatever spark the originals had in the process - shame...but the kids seem happy. is it time for a new thread on GOOD cover versions already?

Re Truth Hurts lyrics: She definitely says "returns my pages". I can't believe in this hi-tech mobile phone world that people have forgotten that the pager is still going strong in the low-cash demographic. (If you don't buy that explanation, I have a second one; a lot of people have pager service on their cell phones.)

As an aside, I think that the Mo Thugs Family (Felecia feat Krayzie Bone)'s "All Good", is not just one of the great songs of the 90's, but also a missing link between UK Garage and US Rap. Blazin' Squad would have been much more convincing covering this rather than a song about meeting your dead homies in the afterlife. I just realized I was waiting for Dr Evil to come out during their performance to tip a 40.

This is because Bone, Thugs 'n' Harmony are, like, the US blueprint for archetypal gararge-kru mc-ing.

No one has answered why there are eight thousand of them! Was this an afterschool program that got out of control?

Strength in numbers obv. = surely you must like one of that eight thousand at least.

(this sort of thing was also why Pay As U Go's "Champagne Dance" video was so cool - bored with this member? here's another!)

pop meets kettle...
too much coffee and swedish berries.

My favorite was the thirteenth from the left.

It's obvious to me that all those members are needed to protect the one who wears the jacket emblazoned (emBLAZINed hehe) with "HARLEM".

That lyric is definitely "returns my pages", though I admit it doesn't make much sense. Maybe she's doing it with the R in deference to Rakim.

"He keeps [her] guessing" because he is "spontaneous".

Special Pop-Eye Supplement now up!

That's odd, archives not updating - anyway here's a link to the main site.

Is this the only time we will ever see Tom doing star ratings for things?

It's the fact that they're meant to be garage andsuchandsuch, yet they do appear to be in possession of a Token Black Member.