The Prestigious 'SOS'/'LDN' Song Of The Month Award

To be honest, and I don't mean to sound like a broken record here, as I'm aware Indie Girl and I do complain a lot, but really, I think I'd pack it all in were it not for just one song...

Weirdly (this is a sentence I never EVER thought I'd say...) I absolutely adore the new Muse single, 'Super Massive Black Hole'. It's amazing, and of course, we all know I'm not prone to hyperbole (no no, not at all) but this could be 'IT'. This song eclipses every other Song of the Month of 2006, 'LDN', 'Niave', 'Maneater', 'Sorry', 'SOS', 'Everybody's Gone To War' and 'No Tomorrow' (yes five months and seven songs. And?) just when it didn't seem possible. It sounds like nothing else I've heard this year, except for, of course, Goldfrapp. Muse have basically made a male-Goldfrapp song and I'm plesantly surprised that a group with stuff drudgey tendencies have managed to pull such a glittery, fabulous, danceable song out of the bag. And whisperings over on PopJustice suggests that a lot of the new album follows int he sameNow let's all sit back and watch Goldfrapp get the knee-up to the meteoric success they've had coming for a while as they are portrayed as the pioneers of the new wave of electro-pop-glam-slut-rock sound. And of course, as Indie Girl and I have always been fans of the 'Frapp, we'll look even more cool than we already do. Or something.

I got to thinking, Rihanna was a huge success with 'SOS', a pop song, that was eaten up by your typical r&b fans. The Kooks new one could basically be a V song, and the band are beginning to sound increasingly like a boyband (expect a slow ballad 'acoustic' version of 'You Don't Love Me' with a video on a beach and waterfalls, in black and white, sometime soon). Now Muse are going pop too and it means only one thing: Pop IS going to take over the world this year. I did tell you. I'd give a link to the archives but quite honestly, I can't be bothered to find it and I doubt you're arsed enough to click it so let's just say I was right and leave it at that eh?

If you look underneath the depressing state of affairs regarding Gnarls Barkley's 'legendary' stint at number one and Sandi Thom's fake, "I-hate-technology-but-visit-my-website", messed up cultural references (Punk rockers never wore flowers in their hair, you cunt, they were a rebellion against that kind of namby-pamby stuff - or something. To be honest, I don't know I great deal about punks, or claim to be a great fan, as they were the sort of people who spear-headed the idea that music could be cool just because someone said they were rather than being cool for being good. And for everything they stood for, and against, punk-rockers (and their fashionista tendencies) have created a world full of commercialism and materialism. And it's the kind of people who were punks in the 70s that buy albums by Tunstall, Blunt and the like*. I digress...) if you look beneath all this, there's finally a bright burning sun on the horizon, a light at the end of the tunnel, we only have to wait a while and the age of pretentious indie drudgery will be over and pop will rise like a phoenix and burn all you motherfuckers down. I would like this usurping to reach it's climax as Jo Whiley and Edith Bowman are lynched, beaten and replaced by Lily Allen and Annie.

What was the point again? Oh yes, Muse! Muse! Rar! They are ace!

Also, I'm keeping an eye on Paolo Mutini. He's sounding pretty cool and vaguely summery at the moment but I'm getting Blunt-ish vibes from him. If he even dares try it, I'll break his legs. Or something.

*Feel free to comment and complain that I've got punks and what they stood/stand for totally wrong. Like I said, I don't know the details, and don't particularly care, what I wrote is just my little view in hindsight.