A Year In Pop: 38

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

JEBUS Poptimists has been quiet this week - this is what happens when Kat's away and I'm ill. But now it's back back etc with a Year In Pop which livens up a little towards the back end with the electro-rock new Sugababes single and the debut of Feist, who seems to be a regular on the Poptimists last.fm lists but who I have never heard, until shortly... after.... posting.... this....

As for Elvis, he said it, not me.

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Comments

Billiam

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is alright. I can't be the only person who is aware of BILLIAM from endless spam links at the top of my gmail though. The sense of slight desperation that engenders carries over to the cheapo production and lame sleb-referencing lyrics.

It sounds like the kind of thing Popjustice would make a minor, slightly distracted fuss over if he was having a very quiet day. Or a Scooch follow-up single.

A tick just for workrate and for being the kind of thing you don't see in the charts much anymore.

Re: Billiam

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Billiam = Phixx but less porny and with a REALLY bad name. And tbh the only redeeming factor about Phixx was the porniness. As much as we wring our hands about the death of a certain type of pop I think it's a REALLY GOOD THING that this kind of cheap by-the-E-numbers desperation has died a death...

Re: Billiam

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think it only works at all for me because it sounds more like Erasure than Phixx.

Re: Billiam

[datura800.livejournal.com]

Billiam less porny?! Did you not see the promo pics? I think they're on their myspace. They're all naked posing in a barn or something. It looks like the cover of a bad porno.

Re: Billiam

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

omg I had not seen that pic it is very porny indeed! it is a pity that none of them are very good-looking.

Re: Billiam

[datura800.livejournal.com]

yeah they are in fact quite vile

Re: Billiam

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The one called Stephen is particularly bad, The weak chin! The thin lips!

Re: Billiam

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

It is so bizarre to me that the first I heard of a new boyband is when they're in the charts. I guess this is what happens when I leave the country. But still, they are so awful I can't see why anyone would buy their songs, or why anyone would think that people were going to buy their songs. The market for this sort of thing is long gone. I love boybands and few things annoy me as much as terrible ones giving their superior peers a bad name.