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But the tour has already been announced with the dates and the promo video. I don’t understand what the announcement at 08:30am is if there is no new music? Doesn’t make any sense. I am hoping the no new music thing is a double bluff.

Not us being happy for someone who has been saying nothing but antisemitic calls for violence for the last year...

Why is Kanye "I love Hitler" climbing on Spotify with multiple songs? Can we not.

No real upsets so far. I would have personally put 'Rock With U' higher but apart from that, all makes sense.

Yes, this is a decent effort sold by the video but nowhere near the earworm of 'Greedy'. Can see it maybe being a low top 10/high top 15 hit.

'Houdini' isn't doing nearly as well as I thought it might...

Week 8: 1. Ginger Johnson (04-04-05-03-03-01-01) 2. Michael Marouli (03-02-04-05-04-04-02) 3. Kate Butch (02-01-03-02-02-03-03) 4. Tomara Thomas (05-03-01-01-01-02-04) 5. Dede Licious (10-09-07-08-07-06-05)

I don't think it is helpful to anyone to claim that only one side had bad apples. It is true that most of the violent disorder came from the far-right EDL types who used this situation for their own racist agenda. The police are right to arrest and deal with them thoroughly. It is also not helpful for our fearful London Jewish community to say there were no problems at the Palestine march. Of course the majority of people were peaceful but 150 protesters had to held by police for attacking them with fireworks. There are pictures all over the internet of antisemitic posters, with the Star of David turned into a swastika, Jews and Western leaders depicted as devils with horns and chants from the crowd to destroy Israel. Also some protesters going outside a synagogue and letting off flairs and Jewish people being subjected to "Death to all the Jews" shouted at them in the middle of Waterloo station. To deny these things happened, just because they were in the minority, is not helpful. You downplay real antisemitism. If your protest is really about human rights and doing the right thing, you should be calling out antisemitism and not standing alongside these kind of things without challenging it. Even if you are not holding these signs yourselves, if you are fine with walking beside them without saying a single thing, you are part of the problem.

Week 7: 1. Ginger Johnson (04-04-05-03-03-01) 2. Tomara Thomas (05-03-01-01-01-02) 3. Kate Butch (02-01-03-02-02-03) 4. Michael Marouli (03-02-04-05-04-04) 5. Cara Melle (01-06-08-07-05-05) 6. Dede Licious (10-09-07-08-07-06)

I’m freaking the f*** out!!!! It’s really happening people.

Week 6 Ranking: 1. Tomara Thomas (05-03-01-01-01) 2. Kate Butch (02-01-03-02-02) 3. Ginger Johnson (04-04-05-03-03) 4. Michael Marouli (03-02-04-05-04) 5. Cara Melle (01-06-08-07-05) 6. Vicki Vivacious (06-05-06-06-06) 7. Dede Licious (10-09-07-08-07)

Week 5 Ranking: 1. Tomara Thomas (05-03-01-01) 2. Kate Butch (02-01-03-02) 3. Ginger Johnson (04-04-05-03) 4. Banksie (07-07-02-04) 5. Michael Marouli (03-02-04-05) 6. Vicki Vivacious (06-05-06-06) 7. Cara Melle (01-06-08-07) 8. Dede Licious (10-09-07-08)

That seems like a rather sudden drop for Troye given it's steady performance so far. Maybe taken off some autoplay for some?

04.5 Young Love 05.0 Come Give Your Love to Me 03.5 Say You Do 04.0 Don't Stand Another Chance 01.0 Two to the Power of Love (ft Cliff Richard) 03.0 Fast Girls 08.5 What Have You Done For Me Lately 09.0 Nasty 08.5 When I Think of You 08.0 Control 07.0 Let's Wait Awhile 10.0 The Pleasure Principle 07.0 Funny How Times Flies (When You're Having Fun) 09.0 Miss You Much 10.0 Rhythm Nation 10.0 Escapade 08.5 Alright 06.0 Come Back to Me 08.0 Black Cat 09.0 Love Will Never Do (Without You) 08.0 State of the World 06.0 The Best Things In Life Are Free (ft Luther Vandross) 11.0 That's The Way Love Goes 10.0 If 06.0 Again 07.5 Because of Love 10.0 Any Time, Any Place 11.0 Throb 06.0 You Want This (ft MC Lyte) 07.0 Whoops Now 07.5 What'll I'll Do 07.0 Scream (ft Michael Jackson) 07.5 Runaway 06.0 Twenty Foreplay 09.0 Got 'til It's Gone (ft Q-Tip & Joni Mitchell) 10.0 Together Again 11.0 I Get Lonely (ft Blackstreet) 10.0 Go Deep 08.0 You 07.5 Every Time 04.0 Luv Me Luv Me (ft Shaggy) 06.0 What's It Gonna Be (ft Busta Rhymes) 05.0 Girlfriend/Boyfriend (ft Blackstreet) 08.0 Doesn't Really Matter 09.0 All For You 07.0 Someone To Call My Lover 06.5 Son of a Gun (ft Carly Simon & Missy Elliot) 04.0 Feel It Boy (ft Beenie Man) 04.0 Just A Little While 05.0 I Want You 07.0 All Nite (Don't Stop) 02.5 Call On Me (ft Nelly) 04.0 So Excited (ft Khia) 08.0 Feedback 09.0 Rock With U 07.5 Make Me 02.0 Nothing 07.5 No Sleeep 07.0 Unbreakable 08.0 BURNITUP (ft Missy Elliot) 08.5 Dammn Baby 05.0 Made For Now (ft Daddy Yankee)

Sam's vocal delivery on this is a huge jumpscare.

1. Tomara Thomas (05-03-01) 2. Banksie (07-07-02) 3. Kate Butch (02-01-03) 4. Michael Marouli (03-02-04) 5. Ginger Johnson (04-04-05) 6. Vicki Vivacious (06-05-06) 7. Dede Licious (10-09-07) 8. Cara Melle (01-06-08) 9. Naomi Carter (09-08-09)

Yeah, this definitely wasn’t the highs of last episode. I never love challenges like this where they have to somehow make serious topics funny. I hate that “mix of vulnerability and make me laugh” challenges. Give me a straight up stand up challenge over this any day. Banksie is fast becoming one of my faves. What a star. This episode really put me off both Cara and Vicki. Also Tomara’s star just KEEPS on rising!

Did 'Rush' ever reach this high on Spotify? I never remember it being top 20.

This is the kind of framing which is looking for a justification of terrorism. Hamas, who clearly state that on their charter their main aim is religious warfare and a day of "final judgement" where they "kill all Jews", if you think this kind of rhetoric is just based on bad and divisive Isreali policies then we definitely have a massive blind spot here. It based in deep routed antisemitism. This is not just calling for Isreal to give up more fair settlements, it is not calling even just for the end of Israel, it is killing for the massacre of every Jew in the world (all 7 million in Israel and 7.5 million outside Israel). The fact is that sadly the extremists connected to the Muslim Brotherhood have had a massive problem with antisemitism for a VERY long time, very much outdating the 1948 state of Israel. It is well known that the leader of the Palestianian movement Amin Al-Husayni actually advised the Nazi's back in 1933 before Israel was created. This obviously does not mean that all of the Arab civilian population around Israel is antisemitic, I am not suggesting that. But with the current Iranian regime chanting 'death to Israel' in their actual parliament. To suggest Hamas is alone as a terrorist organisation fighting for "resistance" is to both ignore the conjoined efforts of multiple extreme Jihadi regimes in the Middle East to rid Isreal from the map, whilst also ignoring that sadly antisemitism massively outdates any of the debates about land settlements in the area.

The current climate in the world maybe tells you why...

Whilst I absolutely agree that the death toll for the Palestinians is horrendously high when compared with Isreal, I do feel like these numbers are often branded about without the context they exist within. They are used without understanding why this is so. 1. Isreal only ever includes number of civilians killed in conflict. Gaza famously reports their own numbers including Hamas terrorists who have been killed in strikes against their terrorist infrastructure. Many of these numbers will include thousands of direct deaths of Hamas extremists. 2. Hamas is known for keeping it's own people as human shields. As well as building underground tunnels, they hide their weapons in schools, hospitals and civilian homes deliberately so that the death toll is as high as possible on their side. They have even been known to keep Gazan family's hostages in their own home so they cannot escape bombfire from Israelis. 3. The death toll has been historically low in Israel due to the Iron Dome defence system. Over 3,000 rockets were aimed DIRECTLY at Isreali civilian homes last weekend alone. Could you imagine if the Iron Dome was not there to intercept them? There would be tens of thousands of Israeli citizens dead in one single day. I do not condone all the Isreali strikes against Gaza in any way, but they have never in their history tried to aim as many rockets at that aimlessly at Gaza, without at least trying to aim for terrorist bases. The Iron Dome is the ONLY reason there has been so few Isreali deaths before last Saturday. It does not indicate restraint from the other side in the slightest. Anything but.

Good luck with that antisemitic album you speak of.

This is great! Very light and definitely less moody than I would expect from a Loreen song but still has everything we love about her… this is going to be a lovely earworm I’m sure.

Week 3: 1. Kate Butch (02-01) 2. Michael Marouli (03-02) 3. Tomara Thomas (05-03) 4. Ginger Johnson (04-04) 5. Vicki Vivacious (06-05) 6. Cara Melle (01-06) 7. Banksie (07-07) 8. Naomi Carter (09-08) 9. Dede Licious (10-09)

My favourite episode in a long time. Everyone killed it and the runways were spectacular. Kate Butch and Ginger Johnson need more recognition imo. Both ate that challenge. Michael and Vicki also stay as consulate professionals delivering every week.