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don't get it. Wasn't inevitable, DiS gave her last record 9/10. Anyway, not sure how doing your job now constitutes 'drawing attention to yourself', this is a music website.

walking through Notting Hill a couple of years ago. Didn't recognise them at first, but they drew my attention anyway.

"What a pair of scenster dickheads", I thought. Then I noticed it was Bartwat and thought "Oh".

Exciting story. Even more exciting than their bland, unoriginal music. Oh no, sorry: nothing's as exciting as that.

because she was permanently pissed off, even though she didn't always look it in her pretentious videos. 'Ray of Light'was her last good album, and it was good because it was actually quite a serious reflection on the irrelevence of fame, getting older alone, and the like.

Since then, she's married some twat, settled down in the countryside, and started writing children's books.

When previously wound-up musicians settle down and find happiness they need to watch out they don't turn to shit. Madonna was fail long before this album.

...I'd say this sort of thing just used to be called 'overproduced'. And this album definitely is that.

But you're still right.

and no mention of 'Friend of Ours' yet?

Beautiful, awesome and horrible.

this band, and I find Jack White annoying. Is that OK?

that I'm not that easily derailed.

'Ah, I have these career ambitions but OH NO A CONTROVERSIAL INTERNATIONAL SITUATION has rendered me unable to do my job properly, so I've taken five years off and now I quit.'

The Iraq war isn't even in the top ten bad things happening in the world at the moment, just the one most relevant to a bunch of highly precious Canadians.

This is really pathetic. If you're not able to do your job because of the political situation in your country and the military situation in other countries, then you probably shouldn't be trying to be 'political' in the first place. Poor effort, boys.

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Pray this man never meets Snoop Dogg.

Laughable. Given the number of songs that have been reviewed as above a 5 out of 10, 2 is basically saying that it is a wipeout.

Wrong. Even if this song were bad, by your own criteria it would deserve no lower than a 5. And it's not bad. You embarrass yourselves.

.... just had a listen, now, five years on.

it's a shame how music disappeared. As in, it is actually sad how our music has been subverted by untold meaningless babble.

Oh well :(

...all this 'middle class' talk. What does that even mean? I'm middle class. Is that OK? So's about 60% of the country, apparently.

"Middleclass tea party" my arse. The unfair stereotype you are actually referring to is 'posh', and even then who cares?

And all this moaning about the conditions! Oh dear, it's too hot or too wet. Cry me a fucking river. Here's a tip: use your brain and remember you're at a festival, so prepare properly.

The only point this article makes that's actually fair, reasonable, and not saturated with reactionary prejudice is the one about the quality of the bands. That's not even Eavis' fault.

Who do you suggest he tries to get in? He's doing his job: he's signing up the biggest bands around - it's not his fault that's now people like Coldplay or the Killers: it's ours.

The problem with Lily Allen is that the mockney is even more transparent with her than with its numerous other exponents.

When she speaks, she sounds like Sophie Ellis Bextor. When she sings, she sounds like Lady Sovreign. Unacceptable.

HOWEVER I will happily concede that her regular teenybopper ska is less horrifying than her attempts to get in on this album.

I appreciate the crossover appeal of getting in Alex Turner for a singalong, but Lily Allen is just a little bit too close to a 'Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels' pastiche of Dizzee Rascal's own East End to bring anything to the album.

Actually, no, it detracts from it by making Dizzee sound like a massive try-hard.

Album bought, ripped to mp3 player minus Lily Allen. Woman, know your place.

This is a good album, and it's worth more than a 6 out of 10 - even if it's no 'Boy in da Corner'.

But the Lily Allen song is not "mercifully sweet", it is a mockney nightmare. Dizzee Rascal does not need the likes of her to prosper. He's an expert and he is capable of far greater things.

"So you wanna be a gangsta??" Please.