Posted November 25, 200618 yr New releases Fergie | Nelly Furtado | The Fratellis | The Killers | The Zutons Eva Wiseman Saturday November 25, 2006 The Guardian Pick of the week Fergie Fergalicious (Polydor) Fergie keeps good people around her, the kind of people (including the eight [!] songwriters credited in this single's liner notes) who know how to layer her voice over an MIA/Peaches mash-up and turn it into joyous and fabulous pop music, the kind of people who mop up silently when she wets herself on stage. Fergalicious hiccups, it crashes, in the video it rolls around in cake. It even inspires blasphemy in critics. "Singing is a gift from God. And when people say I can't sing," Fergie chirped to Vibe magazine last week, "it's kind of like insulting God." Amen! Nelly Furtado All Good Things (Polydor) Scented toilet paper has paved the way for scented tampons, which neutralise the reek of femininity, evident here, in a Chris Martin-penned song for the lonely and obsessively hygienic. This is the soundtrack to be dumped in a building society to: a sterile ballad which, while some love songs conjure up imagery of rainy nights and heartbreak, instead evokes the very real picture of a woman in a recording studio, with a cup of weak green tea on the go. The Fratellis Whistle For The Choir (Fallout) After two criminally catchy singles, Glaswegian Herman's Hermits-alikes The Fratellis have reined in their skills and released a gentle spurt of Dick Van Dyke skiffle. Where Chelsea Dagger burrowed under your skin like a sharp-headed weevil, tickling your pop receptors from the inside, Whistle For The Choir soaks in like a retro-scented moisturiser. Where Henrietta inspired fans to pogo around their bedrooms, this is more of a lovable office-chair rocker. It does have whistling in it, though, which is set to overtake hand-clapping as the audience participation gimmick of 2007, so that's good. The Killers Bones (Mercury) Tim Burton directed the video for Bones, taking The Killers' emo-friendly lyrics literally, and casting Devon Aoki as a lover who strips off her skin at the drive-in. Imagine, though, what a wonderful world it could have been if other eminent cult directors had taken charge of hit promos and offered their greasy instruction where a band needed it most. If John Waters had overseen the video for Emma Bunton's new rendering of Downtown, the allusions to cunnilingus would have been significantly less opaque. Even Pedro Almodóvar, however, couldn't improve Lil' Chris's new video, which, incidentally, is brilliant. The Zutons It's The Little Things We Do (Deltasonic) As a rule, songs about excess, cigarettes and alcohol and the pain of partying are a bit rubbish, summoning (as they often do) vomitty sofas and competitive beer-bonging rather than the misty-eyed memories intended. But The Zutons can do no wrong, and this, the weakest single so far from their sophomore album, is good, in a Billy Joel's Piano Man kind of way. It's made great though by Abi Harding's toot-toot sax and the admirable rhyming of 'language' with 'sandwich'in the third verse. agree with these reviews or not?
November 26, 200618 yr Author i agree so much with the Nelly review its like so drippy, only be a hit because its following on the back of the last two hits and radio/tv are playing it a lot. always seems to be on the hits in the week
November 26, 200618 yr i agree so much with the Nelly review its like so drippy, only be a hit because its following on the back of the last two hits and radio/tv are playing it a lot. always seems to be on the hits in the week Oh p*** off, the songs written by one of the 21st Century's greatest writers, plus it $h!ts on Promiscuous and Maneater :P
November 26, 200618 yr Author Oh p*** off, the songs written by one of the 21st Century's greatest writers, plus it $h!ts on Promiscuous and Maneater :P really????, so it's not just Chris Martin and Nelly Furtado on the credits then.
November 26, 200618 yr i agree so much with the Nelly review its like so drippy, only be a hit because its following on the back of the last two hits and radio/tv are playing it a lot. always seems to be on the hits in the week Hardly, its an excellent song in its own right!
November 26, 200618 yr really????, so it's not just Chris Martin and Nelly Furtado on the credits then. Hilarious -_-
November 26, 200618 yr Author Good write up tigerboy, all good songs, but for now Fergie is my favourite. it is isnt it, i posted it this week as for once the single of the week is a record that people on buzzjack will actually have heard of (last week it was 1990s)
November 26, 200618 yr New releases Fergie | Nelly Furtado | The Fratellis | The Killers | The Zutons Eva Wiseman Saturday November 25, 2006 The Guardian Pick of the week Nelly Furtado All Good Things (Polydor) Scented toilet paper has paved the way for scented tampons, which neutralise the reek of femininity, evident here, in a Chris Martin-penned song for the lonely and obsessively hygienic. This is the soundtrack to be dumped in a building society to: a sterile ballad which, while some love songs conjure up imagery of rainy nights and heartbreak, instead evokes the very real picture of a woman in a recording studio, with a cup of weak green tea on the go.
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