The only thing I can say in Murray Gold's favor: at least he's not as bad as Keff McCulloch was.

"You wouldn’t assume there’s a connection to be made between Donald Trump and Hulk Hogan’s penis. " I can see you haven't read my slash fiction, Sean.

We have always been at war with PWR BTTM.

Yeah, about half of Harry's songs remind me of Mark Owen B-sides. "Sign of the Times" just sounds like a limp imitation of "Child."

I totally agree. I'm a college prof who's taught a lot of cultural studies courses over the years. Most of the sociological pop culture criticism I read these days seems like it's written by my B students, the ones who've memorized a few critical buzzwords, but have absolutely nothing original to say.

"Edmonds wanted to mimic the sugar-smacks pop-punk exuberance that was then ruling the rock charts in the form of Green Day, Blink 182, Lit, and especially Avril Lavigne, who was proving that dressing up generic ballads and classic rock riffs in frenetic rhythms and dyed hair could be enormously lucrative."