GRAPHIC NOVELTY- Danity Kane's "Bad Girls" *Updated w/ more POW!*

The ladytrannys of Danity Kane have their new vid out and it's all comics!

It's set in Gotham City. Though from the looks of it they take more cues from Alba & Co. in SIN CITY.








The girls can't have their stellar track interrupted so they make good use of graphic sound effects. Though I half expected to see SHELLACK! somewhere in the vid as a means of explaining their makeup application process. I'm sure re-painting the Golden Gate takes less time.





There's more than a fair share of latex catsuits.






And it does have a bit of a Paulina Rubio (or Toxic Brit or Get you Good Shania if you prefer) reimagining of AKIRA.








Last but not least some archetypal bondage scenes worthy of a Golden Age Wonder Woman issue.










Even the "DK" opening logo is a straight ripoff of the flickering panels Marvel Studios logo. Glad to see Diddy copying off the best.

See if Joel Schumacher were still doing the Batman flicks this song would have totally made it onto the soundtrack. I mean who can seriously resist the poor-man's version of Girl Aloud? I will give the song a thumbs up though simply because it managed to pull off a sort of urban BOND sound thanks to Danja (Whose "Break the Ice" for Brit also spawned a manga inspired vid)

Graphic Novelty: When comics hit mainstream. Hilarity ensues.

Can't Speak Norwegian-Annie & Girls Aloud to Collaborate?

Supposedly Girls Aloud are going to make an appearance on Annie's new album
coming out some time this year (hopefully).
This makes me very happy.
That is all.

The Chorus to this song is deliriously infectious. I seriously cannot stop humming it.



I better be hearing this at a club soon. A lot. Damn that Richard X gets me every time.

Fancy a Rave?: Lessons from the UK Charts

I've been listening to BBC Radio 1 on Live Stream for the the past couple of nights and I have concluded the following:

1) Greg James is the cutest thing ever. Seriously. Last night (Tues AM UK) he defended playing "My Humps" and bashed Heather Mills all in the same show. Talk about covering all your bases. I do have to google about 3/4ths of what he talks about but it's well worth it. Plus thanks to the time difference his super early morning show is on at 9pm Vancouver time.
[Comics Note: And if there is ever a Runaways movie he most definitely has to play Chase.]

2) Rave music will never go out of style in the UK. Well it may go out of style, per se, but it will always get people on the dancefloor and high spots of the chart.

3)The Chris Moyles show theme/jingle is the most annoying thing ever. Though I'll give him some points back for playing Madonna every 30 min.

4) British people are not ashamed of their love of pop music. And that Ladies and Gents is why they rock.

#9 on this week's UK Chart- Utah Saints "Something Good 08"

Let me just get this out of the way first: Rave will never die.
Why?

Because people never get tired of looped beats. Back in the day we had our Casio keyboards that could do a mean hip-hop beat on loop till the batteries died out. Thanks to technological progress you can now have the same effect with a ringtone that plays the hook from your fave jam on loop until you answer the call from your mom (which will probably take a while).

Accepting the permanence of rave in the Brits' hearts and ears will make understanding the UK charts much easier. So it should be of no surprise to anyone that the #9 song on the charts this week is a rave hit. Actually it's a remix of a rave hit hence the year in the title. Like a prized bottle of vintage wine this track just seems to get more and more popular. Do I understand why ? Well since I haven't won a Nobel Prize the answer is most definitely 'no'. But as a Colonial I'm guessing that the fact that it's a meta-mix of Kate Bush's brilliant 'Cloudbusting' couldn't have hurt its chances of topping the pops.

It's ANIME Britney, Bitches!

Toxic definitely had the whole Aeon Flux thing going but without the suckage. So it seems only natural that Britney would say 'eff it' to the whole live-action bit and just do an Anime vid. Thank god Brit Anime doesn't require me to hide in shame behind my copy of ELLE.

FYI: I'm definitely going to do some Britney Cosplay this convention season.
I call dibs on futuristic flight attendant Brit from 'Toxic'.