Day off work today, waiting in for a package, so let’s kill some time, eh?
4Music is the channel that’s replaced The Hits on Freeview. There’s not a raft of difference, except for the fact that videos at night are replaced by The Friday Night Project and it’s just generally worse. Still – videos in the daytime, eh? Meggeh.
We begin:
SUGABABES – No Can Do
Oh boy. So, the road ‘Girls’ started them down is being followed even further as they get rid of those troublesome reggae influences and go for a straight rip of ‘ABC’. It is very, very tepid. The video itself sees them using men as furniture or other inanimate objects and is a moderately interesting concept, but the song is so, so limp in concept and execution that it really doesn’t matter.
THE SCRIPT – The Man Who Can’t Be Moved
“BREAKING NEWS: MAN WAITING FOR GIRL WILL NOT MOVE”. Fictional news station graphics are one of those things about life that are so moderately rubbish that their very existence makes me feel slightly better about things, like individual fruit pies, Pascal Chimbonda, Steve Punt… that kind of thing. This song is still utter balls, incidentally.
AKON – Right Now (Na Na Na)
“Cos you were my homey, lover and friend” – of all the Omarion lyrics to nick, why this one? Also – “I miss you much”. Yep, the future of pop is shout-outs to “Big, Big World”. How many years ago was that, anyhow? Akon wishes you could dine with him. He demonstrates how he mimed the trumpet in the video for “The Sweet Escape”. He pushes the chorus to the edge of destruction, as is his wont. Still, that mid-80s, KURT RUSSELL DOES NOT PLAY BY THE RULES synth sound is easily the best bit about this whole run thus far, so, relatively speaking, well done.
SAM SPARRO – Black & Gold
So what’s on TMF then?
