Music on TV

Normally at this time of year, we’d make a crack about dead parents, but given that the drama has been about the judges, with Dannii having a baby and Cheryl having malaria, I reckon the participants are going to have to up their game this year, and we might well see some dead spouse and [...]

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Fifteen years ago (can it really be that long?!) the charts were dominated by the sound of Britpop. The sumer of 1995 was one of the best summers for British music in recent memory, with the release of singles including ‘Alright’ by Supergrass, ‘Common People’ by Pulp, and ‘Wake up Boo’ by the Boo Radleys. [...]

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So, as we near the end of the first season, do we still love Glee? A quick look at the lowculture forum suggests that yes and no. We’re a bit fed up with the show’s lazy plotting, character inconsistency and tendency to preach, and a couple of recent episodes have been stinkers. But the music’s [...]

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one: There’s these celebrities, right, and they’re best-known for doing one thing, right, only they’re being asked to do a slightly different thing. Ah, who says variety’s dead? Anyway this one’s called Popstar to Operastar because operastar is totally a real word. The lineup includes Jimmy Osmond, that one [...]

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American Idol

Blogging about the American Idol finale by the time it comes onto British TV while maintaining an element of surprise always feels a bit of a futile endeavour – after all, surely most people with more than a passing interest will have been on the internet first thing this morning to find out the result. [...]

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