Teddybears' triptych

You may remember me giving a huge double thumbs up to Cho Cha , a duet between Cee-Lo Green and The B52s, masterminded by Robyn's songwriting team The Teddybears (here's the link). The song has now been given the video treatment - and what was a lighthearted ode to Cee-Lo's pet cat has suddenly become a macabre stalker's fantasy.

The video "stars" Jeff Turner, a 53-year-old Californian man with asperger's syndrome, who has been served multiple restraining orders for pestering 80s pop princess Tiffany with a samurai sword and breaking into the home of TV star Alyssa Milano.

Turner, who made a cult film about his obsession with Tiffany, is a good sport, playing up to his jolly-but-creepy image -- but you have to wonder what his victims would make of all this?

Teddybears ft Cee-Lo Green and The B52s - Cho Cha

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Cee-Lo and The B52's and a song about a cat

You've seen that headline. What more reason do you need to hit "play"?

Teddybears - Cho Cha feat. Cee-Lo Green & The B-52's

The track was masterminded by Swedish collective Teddybears, who started off as a grindcore act in 1991 and slowly mellowed into a sinister, ursine version of DeadMau5, parading around in bear helmets with flashing, angry eyes and razor sharp fangs.

Behind one of those masks, however, is Klas Åhlund - the pop genius who co-writes all of Robyn's best tracks (Hang With Me, Konichiwa Bitches, Indestructible) and has a credit on Britney's Piece Of Me.

The Cee-Lo track, Cho Cha*, isn't as good as any of those (and the B52's are woefully underused) but it's a nice entry into the Gnarls Barkley book of foreboding minor key pop.

There is more of this sort of thing on their official website.

* I am aware that this may be slang for an entirely different type of pussy cat to the one alluded to in the song words.

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Apropos of nothing

The B52's performing from inside Piet Mondrian's brain, circa 1982.

The B52's - Private Idaho


Truefact: At our wedding, mrsdiscopop and I walked up the aisle to Rock Lobster.

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B-52s visit the Funplex

Things we can learn from the new B-52s video:

:: Fred Schneider has traded his "car that seats about twenty" for, erm... a Segway.
:: Or is that a zimmer frame?
:: Kate Pierson is surprisingly good-looking for a 60-year-old
:: But she dances her age
:: The line "candelabra in a wonder bra" is inexplicably brilliant
:: More videos should have dancing policemen in them


B-52s - Funplex

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'Cause it's hot as an oven

The B52's Love Shack has burnt down! It will no longer shimmy round and around and around and around.



Pop fans shouldn't be too downhearted, however, as the BBC handily points out that the band will continue to be remembered for their "quirky wigs".

Cult band's 'Love Shack' gutted

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