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Oh my god...if that stooshe song ends up being a hit, I might emigrate. It makes me hate southerners.

I got Default because it was single of the week on iTunes and it has just burrowed it's way into my brain. I think I'm going to check out the album.

This won't be a hit. It has no appeal for UK audiences. Danza Kuduro and Gasolina are reggaeton which sounds great in clubs and both fit in with music that was released at the time. If Shakira couldn't get a hit with La Tortura and Juanes with La Camisa Negra, this won't go anywhere either. However...the thought just occurred that some Radio 1 DJ will start playing this and there will be endless hilarious (not hilarious) jokes with the DJ trying to sing along with lyrics they've made up.

The video has just increased my love of this song by about 376%. Man!!! The video is so good. I didn't think there'd be a video that could top Run The World but here it is!!!

I'll be a quite disappointed if Fringe is cancelled. It's very hit and miss, sometimes going from brilliant to terrible from one week to the next, but when it's on form, it's some of the best TV out there. I think this alternate timeline storyline was a bad idea and has kind of killed the show. If they'd addressed it early in season 4 it would've been better, but they just tried to turn things back into a weekly procedural when really, the only people watching now are people that have watched every season. This is kind of the main problem, Fringe is a procedural but it has a big over arching storyline and mythology, so it will never attract people thinking they'll jump in for one episode because the mythology is too complex, but it also puts fans off when you want to know what's going to happen next in the big story and instead they give you a crappy story about a husband time travelling to save his wife. Like I say, it's a shame, because the recent episodes since the break have been good. Ideally, they'll get something like a 12 episode season 5 to tie things up.

God, it looks amazing. Even though I've read the books, I can't wait to see it realised on TV. The scene with Sansa looks like they've not shied away from how nasty it is in the book and the burning of the seven looks suitably epic... The Stannis storyline is such a great new element to the narrative.

Does Teleport 2 Me sample that song from Drive? It's pretty good... Going to put this on my ipod.

I was going to say, the instruments sound so cheap and nasty... like they've got a casio keyboard on trumpet setting. This is how you do a 7 nation army cover: iQ4D273C7Ac

10 Born To Die 08 Off To The Races 10 Blue Jeans 10 Video Games 08 Diet Mtn Dew 07 National Anthem (demo would be 10) 07 Dark Paradise 08 Radio 07 Carmen 08 Million Dollar Man 09 Summertime Sadness 09 This is what makes us girls 08 Without You 06 Lolita 08 Lucky Ones This is my initial rating, although I can see some improving with time, like Radio. At first it was quite unassuming, but today it came on shuffle in my car and it just clicked as awesome. I think the reason people might be a bit underwhelmed by this album is because, like me, they are listening to it as half an album because they already had quite a few of the songs, and they happen to be the best ones. Now the songs are all getting their own identity after a few listens and I can see how good they are. My main criticism of this album is that it's all quite one note. The songs are all similar tempo, structure and mood. National Anthem and This Is What Makes Us Girls seem to have been brought in line with the other songs on the album, but I think the originals would have been better because they would've added some variation.

Apparently this album leaked already and it's not due out for another month.

Album is good although not as instant as I expected. Carmen, Without You and Summertime Sadness are sticking out at the moment. Going to stick to the demo of National Anthem I think. This Is What Makes Us Girls might grow, but I think I prefer the more upbeat demo.

The chorus is a mixture of Tragedy and Beautiful Stranger to me.

The chorus has been lobotomised. I'm going to stick to the demo...just like with Marina and Girls.

Yeah, this episode was great. Ridiculous. But great. I mean kissing in the pouring rain and bitchy face offs whilst the powers out is ridiculous. I love how camp this show is.

AHHHHHHH! Beats! Good to dance to...just hope there's some more melodic stuff on the album to sing to.

I want to kill the one with the blonde quiff. I don't think I could hate a southern accent more.

Love this. FGEYTOyP-WQ&ob=av2e

Blue Jeans is unwatchable. She should've performed it like this: F_W5EGMHdBE I don't think the full band helped with the TV nerves.

The billboard article is out. It's a good read and addresses (while not really answering) the whole "authenticity debate. http://www.billboard.com/#/features/lana-d...52.story?page=1

The Kiss The Stars video is so Rachel Stevens.

I don't think Thursday and Echoes are dull...I think they're just lacking a little bit on the hooky melodies that made House of Balloons so good. I'm not normally a fan of those meandering RnB numbers that go on forever with no hook and not much discernible melody (which is why I think 1+1 is the worst song on 4), but I can happily listen to everything on House of Balloons. I think you have to dig a little harder for something to latch onto on Thursday and Echoes, and it's not necessarily something in the melody, but something in the production, but they're both still pretty good. I'd rank them; House of Balloons > Echoes of Silence > Thursday I only really listen to The Birds, Life of the Party and Rolling Stone on Thursday.

Bill Lawrence is brilliant to follow on twitter through the whole Work It / Cougar Town saga.

Great episode this week after the little Christmas break, a lot better than episode 10. I'm also glad that (it looks like) Tyler is out of the show now, I was starting to lose track of who was black mailing who for what and what everyone knew.

Swim Good is a proper tune. Novacane, There Will Be Tears and American Wedding are all great as well. He also wrote my favourite song off 4; I Miss You. That song is stunning.

Same. I tuned into the advert about halfway through and saw lots of women singing "Always...always!" and just assumed it was for pads. It's so bizarre. Couldn't work out whether it was a micky take.