Blasting On Pop Boy's (New) Stereo This Week...

Panic! At The Disco - Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
Oh! yes. Pop Boy has drifted to the dark side and has delved into the damp, dingy world of emo. But really, when it sounds this good, can you blame me? I literally can not stop listening to their album, 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out', which is faultless, blurring the difference between Goldfrapp, Girls Aloud and Greenday (no really). It's electro-pop with falsetto vocals, uber-clever lyrics and smashing guitars and whatsmore, you can dance like a fucking loon to it. This particular song, with it's brilliant title is somewhat of a call to arms, a mission statement if you will ("Let's get these teen hearts beating, faster and faster") that is unforgiving. With screams of "Dance to this beat", you have to be made of strong stuff not to.

Sarka Vankova - Lasku Davej
The first mention of Czech Pop. In Prague, there were no music shops, well there were but it was all native folk music. Then, we stumbled into Bontonland on Wenceslas Square and were transported to an alternative universe. A bounty of euro-pop. I picked up this girl, Alcazar (!!!), tATu's first album in Russian, a compilation of local pop and Martina Balogova. Listening to the radio in taxis etc it seemed the Czechs like glam rock, but then, so do some British taxi drivers. Worringly, Hilary Duff seemed popular in Bontonland. Martina and Sarka were both on Czech Pop Idol and I'd researched it prior to going (geek). I might give Martina (who looks and sounds like a Czech Anastacia) a mention at some point, as she's got some good tunes.
All the Czech stuff is OK, what you'd expect from a backward former-communist Eastern European country. Then this gem, Sarka's first single, jumped out at me. I tried to translate it but all I got was that "Lasku" means "Hug" or "Carress", as for what Davej means, I'm clueless.
The song itself has a throbbing skit pop melody underneath it all, a beat that makes it very easy to dance to, a electro style synth build up and the traditional euro-pop accapella bit for the middle eight, not to mention vocals that sound like they've been pulled long ways through vocoders. I have no idea what it means, but boy is it easy to dance to.