News Surprising and Unsurprising

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Unsurprising: I did not bother to write to the Guardian.

Surprising: Popjustice sez, in an aside, that Gasolina is the single of the summer! Have we maligned them??

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was gonna say before my boss came back into the room, Common is a) not popular and b) more indie than urban! 'Conscious' hip hop doesn't count as 'young person's urban music', they imply very different things ('bad' vs 'good' for one of them).