poptimists | A few videos for yr sunday

Have we talked about Brick & Lace yet? I don't know how this one's doing in the UK, but it's BLOWING UP (with good reason!) up here in the frozen north. Nothing like a belated summer jam to make the arrival of winter a little less bleak!

N-Dubz came up in the Year in Pop poll about a month back; this is an older offering of theirs, from last year, and absolutely hooktastic. (I like it rather better without the visuals, mind, which makes it a good thing I first heard it over webcast!)

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And in closing, confession time: I've been tempted to start some sort of Guide to Finnish Pop post series over here almost since I joined (read: way back in the comm's diaper days), but have consistently been too much of a wuss/too lazy. I'm finally getting to the point where I may actually get off my ass about it, though, so here's a taster:

Say hello to Ninja Sarasalo, model-turned-popstar. She doesn't sing all that well, and her album is pretty poor, but it's got a few real gems on it -- particularly in cases where the production makes her weaknesses work in her favour. Her debut single was one of those; it also had a video that ended up nominated for the official Finnish music video awards going for it.

More of this sort of thing wanted, Y/N?

[Edit: and I know what day of the week it is honestly! Appearances in spite.]