Oral Fixation

Of course they are. All Saints were well known in Canada and on adult radio in the USA too. They are kind of like Westlife. They're not break out in the USA, but on talent shows people sing their songs.

Number 2 after Take That. Ahead of the Sugababes.

Shakira is at Number 9 then. I'm guessing: 01 Scissor Sisters 02 The Killers 03 Lil' Chris 04 Evanescence 05 Justin Timberlake 06 Pussycat Dolls 07 Nelly Furtado 08 Lily Allen 09 Shakira 10 High School Musical

They should be called 4our then. But it's still good news.

I didn't hunt it out, it's in my favourite videos list on YT.

I think music is a repeated cycle. Manufactured pop will come back in a few years, and this whole anti-manufactured style (Lily Allen, Sandi Thom, James Blunt, James Morrisson, etc.) will disappear. Then it'll come back, and manufactured pop will fade away.

Take That have had a lot of success, haven't they? I think like All Saints, they have an audience. They just need to mature a bit, because their fanbase has as well. I actually wanted them to comeback, when I first heard All Saints had, But I still think the best comebacks would be from S-Club 7 and of course, the Spice Girls.

I thought he was a midget at first.

I'm guessing: 01 Scissor Sisters 02 The Killers 03 Justin Timberlake 04 Lil Chris 05 Evanescence 06 Paulo Nutini 07 Nelly Furtado 08 Pussycat Dolls 09 Shakira 10 Lily Allen

I find it amazing that Shakira is beating Lily Allen with the same song she beat her with before.

I bought Scissor Sister's album yesterday, it's okay so I won't call it the worst. I think my least favourite one is Christina Aguilera's or Justin Timberlake's. The biggest surprise of the year though is Paris Hilton's album, which is pretty good.

I prefer this to all the other girl band singles, but they're all pretty good. All Saints are the best British girl band ever, after the Spice Girls.

Your signature alone justifies my comment.

1) Shakira 2) Maneater 3) Gnarls Barkley My least favourite is the current one, which I previously labelled as "sickening."

I actually think my favourite debut single ever is "Leave (Get Out)" by any recording artist.

How embarrassing for you... [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ5cJgdqIAw.swf

I like Ryan Seacrest, he's funny when he attacks Simon Cowell.

http://www.fm1079.co.uk/ This is chart news, but I ask will this also be coming to other UK radio stations in other regions, or is it an Oxford only thing? And it's "chart chat" so don't bite me.

It's not fair to judge music like 50 Cent as "for blacks" music either, doesn't mean it's not got some truth in it.

Even Shakira has a gay fanbase, there are tonnes of gays on some of the forums I go to, so it doesn't mean jack $h!t. SS's audience is gays, preppy college kids and older women. I've yet to find anyone from the urbs dancing the night away to psychedelic electro-pop.

I'm only called "Oral Fixation" because on another board I had the same screen name, and some of the people on that board are on this one. It's just to keep it simple, and I chose the name "Oral Fixation" before the albums came out. And I think Oral Fixation Volumes 1 and 2 are average at best. But just to throw a spanner in the works, Shakira's had three Top 3 UK hits and four Top 10 UK hits, and was globally the biggest selling artist of 2001/2002, and is biggest selling artist of 2005/2006 (so far, in the UK and around the world). I'm not pissed off at anything. In actual fact, I don't think HDL deserves all the attention it's had, I thought it was "Meh" at first.

Her new song is really good, I think she'll be a superstar when she's older, if she keeps at it.

Well, it's not very pleasant. Lyrically it's about as creative as a Britney Spears song, and the entire style is beyond flamboyant and nauseating. And it's certainly not original at all, with the only reason it doing well being that it's the only song of its kind out. I'm sure if I released a bushman tribal anthem that would also be a hit, doesn't mean it's good. It's music for middle aged women, who think it's both "hip" and "cool" to boogie to retro-styled beats, and for all those GAP-wearing college preps who find it majestic (you know, the type that wear scarfs around their necks 24/7). The band look like something out of Cirque du Soleil (more like Cirque de la Merde) and the lead singer looks possessed with sinful thoughts. And before you jump the "homophobic" bandwagon, that's not the case at all, and I actually imagine many gays and lesbians find the Scissor Sisters are unrepresentative of their kind. I'll end my rant by thanking God that they're not British, so that the Brits 2007 don't get royally f**ked up the arse.

Personally I find this type of music sickening.

I don't want to complain, but that winning cover design for Fergie is exactly the same as the US cover, just different font and more gloss, but the same picture. Shouldn't there be a rule that you can't use exactly the same image?