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I'm not particularly in the mood to blog today. But it will take my mind off the hideous amount of work and the fact that the abcess has once again appeared on poor dazpants spine. So he is in lots of pain and might have to have another operation. Poor lamb :( Now it's his turn for a pity party - slightly worse than tripping over a pigs head methinks. Still, we have Austria to look forward to!! And, the new Kylie video for The One has cheered us both up a bit, and got me thinking that probably pop stars around the country are preparing for their christmas marketing ploys as I speak/type (kylie - Cosmic backed with That's Why They Write The Love Songs will do nicely). So with that in mind, it's time for a little career advice...

So the rumour goes, pop is going to be proper back by Christmas. There are all sorts of debates about it on websites like BBC Entertainment and Digital Spy. The indie kids think pop has gone. The cool kids think pop is only Girls Aloud or the Ting Tings. The clubbers think it has to be different quirky and unusual or it's not pop. And really the pop kids just don't care - if they like the music then great. if not, then there are plenty of songs out there to entice them. Pooey to musical snobbery I say. I still haven't forgiven the Saturdays for forcefully pointing out there music wasn't cheesy pop! WHO CARES! If i like it i do if i don't i don't. That said, I think should these pop kiddies follow some sage advice from someone who really knows nothing about how these things work, they may be successful in securing the Christmas number two (seeing how XFactor has the number one slot sewn up!)

• McFly ~ if these boys are canny they will release one of the four tunes from their deluxe edition album as the second single, which should secure them at least a week in the top ten in September prior to the album's commercial release. But please please please go for the emotive Last Song as the Christmas single. It still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. Plus everyone will have Guitar Hero for Christmas so will be able to work their air guitar magic to it. Fabbo.
• Girls Aloud/Sugababes ~ two hard and fast rules that they never seem to learn. No ballads and don't rush release the Christmas song if your album lead off single has only come out in November. Rumour has it both enduring girl groups have singles out this autumn, and a decent foot tapping pop stomper of epic dancefloor proportions will probably tide them over nicely through the Christmas period, and increase their album sales better than a quickly released ballad during Christmas week that will peak at number 10.
• The Feeling - should you really bother? It's not because I don't adore you because I do. But the fickle british public seem to have abandoned you. I can't help but feel though that your fans would lap up Won't Go Away with a festive cover and a festive original on the flip sides. Probably remixed by the lovely mrs Jones. It will sell hundreds :(
• Westlife - rumour has it that you are having a year off from your tried and tested routine of releasing a single in late October and then one the week before Christmas before doing piss all the rest of the year. But if you do release something for your 10th anniversary in pop, could you do something strangely brillo like your duet with Donna Summer on No More Tears? ta boys.
• William of Young - oh you look so satorial on your Changes single cover. And it's a lovely laid back jazzy affair. But for Christmas, it is essential to give something funk ridden like Switch It On or Your Game. That is all.
• Vanessa Amorosi - ah Loch Nessa. As Adem calls her. She needs to get a move on if she is to ride the Christmas charts like seabiscuit. Fling out Kiss Your(i) Mama right now with a remix of Absolutely Everybody right now to remind the UK how shouty dance pop you are, then wow us all at Christmas with the lovely lovely and ideally titled Perfect. Perfect.
• Simon Curtis - sadly Simon's time to shine won't be til 2009! Ooo it rhymes. I'm practically a lyricist! Anyway if it was his time to shine during this festive season's starbucksed red cup pop revival it would be with Put Your Makeup On. What better way to usher in the renaissance of pop music (really, did it ever go away?!) with a song that is the theme to Popjustice AND has the brilliant line "as a kid I got a lot of shit for/liking my music "what is it for?"/"You should listen to this because it gives more"/Yeah but it sounds lousy on the dancefloor" Well put.
• Same Difference - they are number one in the PJ Almighty. It is rumoured that their debut album is very poptastic in the extreme. Perhaps a ballad would suit them this Christmas, just as long as they put their very adorable version of All I Want For Christmas is you and fly around like below. And sean must be on a tricycle in the video. That would make me very happy.

So, to conclude this rather fluff piece of nonsense, here are some festive faves/should've been festive chart faves from pop acts gone by. In no particular order...

1. Atomic Kitten - Last Goodbye
2. A*Teens - Shame Shame Shame
3. Liberty X - Holding On for You
4. Gareth Gates - Say It Isn't So
5. Steps - It's The Way You Make Me Feel
6. McFly - Ballad of Paul K
7. William Young - Love The One You're With
8. Blue - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
9. SClub7 - Perfect Christmas
10. Magnus Carlsson, Wrap Myself In Paper
11. Abba - Happy New Year

I'm proper ill (in the way that women scornfully say "oh. man flu" and make you want to cough your germs all over them). I was all shivery last night, with clammy pammy syndrome, which then turned into sweaty betty syndrome overnight. Today I am just beyond exhausted and my IBS (without going into gruesome details) is well playing up. boo that whore. Frankly, I totally blame Adem with An E who was ill in our MSN chat the other day, so clearly he has passed his ill gotten germs onto me :P I hate being ill because of someone else when there were no fluids involved. Here are some other reasons I may have "the lurgy"...

I tripped over a pig's head on the way to work, thus breaking my umbrella, looking like a goon and probably putting me in toxic shock (note: just looked up toxic shock. It's probably more likely to be shock, i feel!) Yes it looks like a chicken, but look closer people...

I then was very wet and arrived to work looking like this. Which frankly is not a great look unless you are in a pop video or a porn video, and the master's houseboy is beckoning you to "cum and dry by the roaring fire" in a stable.

Anyway, while I pity myself, here are some things I was going to blog about in depth, but now just get a bullet point. It's basically things making me happy while I am ill....

• Oh i'm a good six months behind with Vanessa Amorosi but her single Perfect is actually quite lovely. It reminds me of a Pink ballad...
• Talking of whom, XO and D'Luv have very accurate assessments of her new single. I really like it. It took me a while to appreciate I'm Not Dead, but i ultimately loved that album...
• Reruns of Ellen before she went all politically lesbian correct and Sunset Beach are just brillo daytime, laying on the couch, drinking lucozade, tv...
• And finally, I've been following Red Blooded Women for a while now so am looking forward to reading Bobbypop's review of their showcase the other night. They are spreading all over the web. Try and research their names though people! it's CANDY!! Still all publicity is good publicity :)