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Defamer Australia Versus Ladyhawke

12:26PM Jess McGuire | Alright, ladies and gentlemen. There’s nothing I hate more than transcribing but there’s nothing I love more than you, so despite my extreme laziness, I have tapped out some of the Ladyhawke interview I did last week for your consumption. Happy? The show which will see the very lovely Ladyhawke (aka Pip Brown) programming the playlist will be airing in January at some point on RRR 102.7FM. I’ll be sure to give you a heads up. But in the meantime, you can check out the little chat we had before I let her wreak havoc with her pop-filled iPod, and her thoughts on Bruce Springsteen AND Icehouse’s Electric Blue. It should be noted that the latter selection, combined with her desire to spin the Baywatch theme on the radio (I AM ALWAYS DJING THAT SONG, IT IS EPIC!), means I am certain – certain – Ladyhawke is a future bestie. If Bassingthwaighte falls through, anyways. DEFAMER AUSTRALIA VERSUS LADYHAWKE DA: We’re very lucky to welcome our special guest Pip Brown aka Ladyhawke. How are you, Pip? LADYHAWKE: I’m good, thank you. DA: That’s good. Are you glad to be here? LADYHAWKE: Oh yeah, it’s amazing. DA: Thank you! LADYHAWKE: (humorously overenthusiastic) AMAZING! DA: The energy level coming from both of us, I think, is astounding. LADYHAWKE: I feel like my brain just collapsed or something inside my head. More »

Some Important News From Defamer Australia’s Euro Correspondent

8:40AM Jess McGuire | It’s been a while between bulletins for our Euro Correspondent Will, and I like to imagine he has been keeping himself busy throwing himself wholeheartedly into the world of Schlagerpop and investigating potential representatives for next year’s Eurovision competition. I have asked him for an opinion piece regarding Kylie’s stylist/gay husband Will Baker’s recent claims that Madonna needs to let go of her youth and stop embarrassing herself with daft outfits, but while we wait for that gripping report, here’s some poptastic news from our hero. I’m not sure if you’re already on board with this but do you know about Marit Larsen? She is a Norwegian singer/songwriter who was in M2M (remember “Don’t say you love me” - – from the Pokemon soundtrack? Important key change around 2:39) and she has just released her second album The Chase – recently a number one album in Norway but tragically ignored everywhere else. She sounds a little Chipmunk-y to me, Willy, but go on. Educate my ignorant self! More »

Let’s Discuss Lady GaGa’s Performance On Rove, Shall We?

1:36PM Jess McGuire | If you watched Rove on Sunday night – AND WHY WOULDN’T YOU, THE BOY NEXT DOOR HAS WON THE HEART OF THE NATION, GOOD ENOUGH FOR KEVIN RUDD, ETC! – you would have seen both unfunny comedian Dane Cook (seriously, nothing he said, nothing, made me even smile. And I wasn’t planning on being a hater! Also, there’s this which kinda cements him as a fool in my mind) and new pop sensation Lady GaGa. Now, I love pop. So does Bastow. If you haven’t picked up on that during your time on Defamer Australia, then let me hammer it home. Me and Pop used to fool around as kids. There was a brief period in high school where I didn’t want to be seen anywhere near Pop, and then once I stopped caring about what other people thought of me, I realised that what me and Pop had was something special, you know? And sometimes we see other people, and sometimes I look at some of the folks associated with Pop and think “What are you doing?! They don’t deserve to be linked to you! They’re bringing you down, ruining your rep!” but Pop has a mind of its own and I have to respect that. Nay, I have to love that. And I do. So I wanted to LOVE Lady GaGa’s appearance on Rove. I do like ‘Just Dance’ as a song, truly (although I prefer the sheer awesomeness and enthusiasm of Ladyhawke, or the shameless feel good hook-heavy Danish stylings of Alphabeat) but I was completely underwhelmed by her performance on Sunday night. Her pretentiousness during the interview before hitting the stage was almost adorable, but not quite. And then there was the performance itself… More »

Kylie Gets Pop Poll Nod; They Like Us, They Really Like Us!

9:25AM Clem Bastow | It’s hard to stifle the inevitable groans that rumble deep inside whenever a) an Australian is nominated for (and thus, doesn’t win) an award overseas, or b) in this case, gets a dubious honour in some sort of top fifty things since the beginning of stuff, usually organised by a telco or a bread company. In this case, congratulations to Kylie Minogue for “scraping in” the top ten of a poll of best pop singles ever, organised by… onepoll.com! You know, onepoll.com! Those guys! Kylie Minogue’s hit – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head – has been named in the top 10 pop songs of all time. In a survey of 10,000 people, Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody – which twice made number one in the UK singles chart – beat tracks from Bryan Adams, Robbie Williams and John Lennon to take the prestigious top spot. Kylie’s hit scraped in the list, coming in tenth place. Commenting on the results, survey organiser John Sewell from onepoll.com said: “We got a worthy winner.” Hahaha, this is entertainment news? (And before you lot up the back say something snide, it’s our “thing” to make news out of non-news, via the meta-ness of commenting on its inherent non-newsworthiness, so ner.) Let’s start an online poll at one of those “make a poll 4 ur MySpace!!” sites, and see if we can get it in the news.com.au entertainment section, shall we? Anyone got any ideas? More »

Sugababes Heading For Another Line-Up Change? Obligatory “Round, Round” Gag Goes Here

10:55AM Clem Bastow | Just when you thought they’d settled on the “ultimate” Sugababes line-up, it seems all is not well in ‘Babeland, with reports suggesting that the newest member, Amelle Berrabah, is not pulling her weight – and that the group’s “people” have been holding secret try-outs for possible replacement members as a result. Hold on, infighting within the Sugababes camp, have we all gone mad? Are the planets aligning or something? Those girls love each other! A source said: “Keisha and Heidi are the ultimate professionals when it comes to their career. They have worked hard for everything they have achieved. Amelle doesn’t seem to take it as seriously. When the girls were recording their latest album, Amelle kept arriving late to the studio. They had blazing rows over timekeeping.” If the whispers are true and Amelle does get the boot, that will bring about the fourth Sugababes line-up since the OG days of Siobhan Donaghy. We reckon they should become the UK’s female equivalent of Menudo and just keep that door revolving for eternity! More »