It's true, when the clock strikes 12 I change...

Yeah, I'm still being imprisoned by The Fame Monster. I could totally do a prescient lyrical quote from Monster, but quite frankly quoting the thing has just become hackneyed :( I'll just continue to worship it with repeated plays, although hopefully not to the point where I destroy it a la Loose (SOZNELLY, IT'S MY FAULT I CAN'T APPRECIATE YOUR POP MASTERPIECE ANYMORE, IT'S ME NOT YOU etc.). So...with those other eight albums I have on my plate, and me still stuck on the greatest starter of all time (I'M HAPPY FOR YOU LEONA, N IMMA LETCHU FINISH, BUT LADY GAGA...), I think I might skip to the dinner mints a bit early just to tame your hunger pangs, you demanding beasts you. Here's some shit you've probably already heard:

Fabio Lendrum - Don't Wait For Me


Yes, let's be grown up and move past the fact that Fabio Lendrum is QUITE FIT. After all, if we were to judge on that basis then we'd end up with Lloyd as X Factor winner and wouldn't THAT be just a slap in the face of our grand meritocracy? (To all those about to point out that things could be worse, I would like to remind you that Jedward are offensive on an aural AND visual level. Key difference, different point.)

Anyway, enough of tiring 'reality' commentary. Fabio here is following up on the whole Frankmusik/Calvin Harris brigade and proving that men can do electro/dance music without automatically being eligible for the title of CAMPEST THING EVER TO EXIST. Key track, Don't Wait For Me, which has been knocking around for a couple of months now, is a key example of this, and it's certainly spectacular enough (in that I don't think either Frank or Calvin have done anything this good yet) that I certainly hope that Warner get around to releasing it soon enough in 2010 before the Great British public's lust for poppers o'clock (oh! the irony!) anthems dies off and they move back on to worshipping shit dad-rock or grunge or wherever the god-awful circular nature of pop music culture takes us next year. Well, in the past six years, in order, we've revived the 70s, 60s and the 80s...oh dear god, we're due for a reappraisal of Britpop. Fucking great.

No chance of keeping the 80s revival going for another year or two? None at all?


Rating: 9.5/10
Fabio Lendrum on MySpace

Adam Lambert - Whataya Want From Me?





















For the record, Adam Lambert totally scares me. This is the least terrifying picture I could find of him (that album cover gives me NIGHTMARES).

HOWEVER, biatch is capable of coming out with a good tune. Well, when I say biatch, I am actually referring entirely to P!nk, who penned this rather, erm, P!nk-esque track. The backstory goes that WWFM? was going to go on Funhouse but relationship changes with Corey made it somewhat inappropriate, so it got dropped...and made its way to Adam here, who's currently GaGa/Mercury-ing it up with lead single For Your Entertainment (which is QUITE GOOD). However, Whataya Want From Me is far superior (to the extent that every time I try to review the album, I go a minute into Strut and then skip back to it. Then I skip back to The Fame Monster...), and sounds like the sort of thing that could do WONDERS for the boy if released. Here's hoping Ms. Moore lets him, because I can totally see radio lapping this song up - hell, it could even get him places over here in Britain!


(APOLS FOR THE VIDEO FEATURING THAT ALBUM COVER)
Rating: 10/10
Adam Lambert on MySpace

And that's me tapped out for the night. What else? Oh, episode 10 of Glee was AMAZING. I'm now sadly back to junkie status after my 40 minute high of Glee, and so will have to return to The Fame Monster for the next week as the methadone to my Glee heroin.

I swear these artistic geniuses are trying to kill me.