Ugly old quiche

So what's up lately? Definitely not the Sugababes' career, as Keisha Buchanan digs deeper into the grave of the Sugababes with an angrily bitchy comment on her Twitter.

"Oh we just wanted to give a BIG 2 fingers and a Kiss our Ass to the sad prat who made that YouTube video about Us against GA. Get the **** over it. We like what they do. We Love what we do. We are a completely different band. Who gives a **** if we've had 2 line up changes... Even more reason to show us support & respect because we are still surviving!!!

WE have had Nearly TEN yrs In this industry with with 7 albums 5 number ones HUGE sales across EUROPE not only in the UK. We write. Sing live. We have never Sold our selves out to the media. Who we thank for all their support so far but its never been about that. We're about the music.

Love and support to all the up and coming girl bands. BUT their will only ever be ONE sugababes and even though the last album wasnt A huge hit (lol) Who gives a sh!t. We are not giving up. And we STILL remain (According to OVER ALL SALES) THE BIGGEST GIRLBAND FROM THE UK! Thanks to all our real fans and supporters we love you xxxx "

I don't think any explaining needs to be done. It's just appalling how she reacted to a fanmade Youtube video. Just because you sell more doesn't mean you're not shit, honey. Perhaps it's time Keisha stepped aside, as she's done enough damage to the Suga's reputation, image and discography.

Perhaps it's time to reinstate Siobhan.

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Girl groups have gone into a frenzy the past fortnight or so.

It started with the Sugababes.



Well, actualy the Saturdays but they get stated second for no clear reason.



Up is amazing by the way, just that for no clear reason somebody somewhere decided to make it sluggish-sounding and tedious and shit, in an attempt to bog the album down.

And last but definitely and no way in hell the least we have Girls Aloud with their fifth studio album.



Compared to a similar time of the year in 2007...



Bloody amazing.

This should be a lesson to all the girls out there who still make mediocre albums despite being in the industry long enough to have seen 2372093 lineup changes, and newbies who just can't scratch it but might have the potential to do so in the future depending on whether they sell enough to avoid getting severed off in a bloody dispute with their labels.

The Promise is...

..jesus dancing at night in a field of flowers while rainbows explode in the sky and rain down colourful ice drops and snow and shine like gumdrops of pure sunshine.


© Fascination Records 2008

It makes the Boots ad song sound like "glitter".

More mishaps

Adorable Ayumi.

Mirrorcle World will be unleashed upon the hapless public in a few days but the Oricon prediction shows that it might be facing some competition from ZARD, a singer who died last year. How did a dead singer release a single? Ask Avex. God knows how they managed to get new material from ZARD.

Also Sugababes and another flop (by their standards when Mutya was around) that makes us think. Denial was a pretty good song too. The Amelle curse, perhaps? Already two singles failing to reach the Top 10, ghastly. And then there's Girls Aloud with their lowest-charting single, the amazing Can't Speak French. But how low is lowest when it's Girls Aloud? Well, a #9. But then again with all the radio support and promotion and Cheryl Cole drama, I expected a Top 5.

Times like these are tough.

Also Shayne Ward

I kind of pity him. He makes his comeback with a brand new manwhore image and some half-decent pop tracks and a lot of hope but ends up losing miserably. He charted at #2.

What's so bad about getting a #2 single?

By now you would have found out that the Sugababes defeated him. "How?! The physical copies of their single aren't even out in shops yet!" you say. Well, by downloads only. This means, if Amelle had called for About You Now to be a sad download-only release, it would still have beaten Shayne and grabbed the #1 spot like it is doing now.

About You Now has just been released today, by the way.

Has any other famous girl group tried a download-only release before? Yes, All Saints did that with Chick Fit. It charted at #187 or something similar if not worse.

Of course Amelle's win makes me very happy. First girl group to score a #1 solely on downloads, second ever british act to achieve this feat, overall the 4th time this phenomenon had ever happened.

Besides, About You Now is the best pop song of the year so far. If you haven't listened to it yet, I suggest you do. Also watch the video.

But what happens to Shayne now? Oh well, who really cares anyway.

Also SUGABAB BABES

Looking at the music videos for About You Now and rival Girls Aloud’s Sexy! No No No… it would be absolutely acceptable to think that their budgets got switched.

About You Now looks like the Babes’ cheapest video to date if you ignore the stuff they did with Siobhan Donaghy which is easy to do since no one knows about those anyway.

Of course, cheap does not equal crappy. It looked like they spent 80% of the budget on the classy yellow dresses which are nice to look at (bar Keisha’s). Also by the looks of it the video is made for repeated views as it does not become dull after being played for about 10 times consecutively.

However the single cover is terrible.

Also Amelle’s extra surprise verse is amazing. Plus the way she said “then” is hypnotic. But she sticks her butt out too much. Keisha’s flirtatious and sexual attitude is disgusting. It’s a break-up/make-up song not Buttons you moron. Also Heidi is gorgeous and easily the best looking one even though Amelle is gorgeous too. Why chuck Heidi in the bridge when you can put Keisha there is anybody’s guess.

Also by now you should be able to figure out I don’t like Keisha much.

Also Leaked Lately

Sugababes and their amazing new promo for About You Now is really very good (predictably). The Sticky Remix is superb although Keisha sounds quite distorted with her vocals sped up. It's almost on par with the single version. Also I would like to listen to the other remixes again but the first 10 seconds put me off. So, maybe later.

Also some more Britney tracks leaked (since Gimme More received favourable reception so it's probably intentional) but I haven't bothered to download them yet. Also Marty says they are comparable to Rihanna B-sides so maybe never.

Also a Kylie track leaked (!!!) which prompted an instant "Save As..." but unfortunately it is Not exciting at all. Hopefully it won't be on the album unless somebody alters the arrangements and tweaks parts of the chorus.

Also yesterday an LQ but clear preview of Ayumi's last chorus of Decision was floating around. Surprisingly it was very Very good indeed and just might be what some EX-fans need to start liking her Again. Yes, Ayumi has hacked off parts of her fanbase again and again with destructive songs of death such as BLUE BIRD and STARTIN' which are absolutely terrible but appealing nevertheless. Fated is plain crap though.