I didn't think you did at all! Just my inability to explain.

Also, forgot to add, Untouchable is probs my favourite Girls Aloud song. It has robots, love and existential horror. And the video has hamster balls and outfits.

We can definitely be best friends! Pop music, specifically girls singing pop music, is my lyfe. <3 <3 <3

I love Black Heart! I've just been a bit disappointed by them ever since. Not a huge fan of Slip. Any songs that you'd recommend?

I'm sad to hear they didn't break the U.S. I remember them being signed late on in their career, prob after Mutya left, to Jay Z's label but I guess nothing came of it (and they were prob pretty terrible by then without Mutya.) About You Now went straight to No. 1 here, what a tune. But yeah, totes agree on Push the…

That one isn't actually the video where she's (visibly) pregnant. I couldn't actually find the video where she is, I just remember that she had a fairly big bump showing and it was awesome.

No probs! I am Queen of the esoteric mundane. Like, nothing useful that would get you a job or win a pub quiz.

Thank you. I really have to dedicate this one to my all consuming desire to procrastinate and avoid doing any work for as long as possible.

Yes! I said elsewhere, so apologies if I'm just repeating myself, I remember being a kid and seeing her perform on Top of the Pops (it was a UK top 40 tv show back in the day, R.I.P.) heavily pregnant and my mother was disgusted because internalised misogyny and I thought it was awesome! :)

He was a good looking man!

Sorry!

YES! Penned by Charlie Brooker. It also has another episode about a reality show that's one of the most bleak things I've ever seen on television (I think it would be a spoiler to say which episode though.) Incredible, depressing stuff.

Yes, I think Sugababes came out around the same time too. They also had a bigger emphasis on vocals (over choreography) and were more R&B. I actually think they shared a producer with All Saints initially.

Ikr? I was much happier with her being a relatively obscure pop star rather than an international asshole. I do love her songs enough to keep listening to them though.

What kind of terrible situation occurs in a bakery that gets so out of hand that you need to call someone, specifically someone female, a cunt? I read elsewhere that he did this too with some kind of car/traffic incident to another woman. Unless it's the same altercation that spilled over from the bakery to the cars…

*So* much cooler.

Apparently she won some BBC Radio 1 Battle (I have no idea what kind of prestige that has in actual MC-ing terms.) Radio 1 can be pretty hit and miss. That's really interesting, makes sense from the X Factor shit show. I never realised she was an actress, her wiki bio is pretty interesting and successfully distracting…

Thank you for bringing this into my life! Amazing. Apparently according to her wiki bio she was a good MC as a teenager... you would never get that from this.

I would really try to compartmentalise, it could be so much worse. You could be a Roman Polanski or a Woody Allen fan. So many artists, authors, directors, actors are real dicks. Though I do know what you mean, Thurston Moore speaking his mind on the internet has ruined my enjoyment of any Sonic Youth song with his…

Sooo many things I love about this story (spoiler: none of them is that some poor dude got bullied):