This is how Janet's World Tour should sound

You might have missed (or simply not cared) that Janet Jackson announced her biggest ever world tour on November 18th.

The idea is that she'll hire smaller, theatre-sized venues, to "get closer to the fans" (Trans: "my last tour didn't sell out") and will only play songs from her extremely good Number Ones compilation.

If you head over to her website, she's even allowing fans choose which 35 cities she'll visit - which could result in her "hilariously" playing Pyongyang or Fallujah.

What I'd like to see, however, is Janet ditching her whole dance-troupe-vegas-production-number schitck and presenting the songs in a new light. This little video from YouTube shows how, for instance, That's The Way Love Goes could be freshened up for the 21st Century. As the author says "a few rough spots, but not bad for 4am".


That's The Way Love Goes (cover)

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We adore Adele

I'm off on holiday this week, but there's enough good music around at the moment to scatter some posts across the site while I'm Christmas shopping in Holland.

Coincidentally, the first video comes from Amsterdam, where Adele popped up last week for the first TV performance of her new single Rolling In The Deep. This song gets better and better every time I hear it.

Adele - Rolling In The Deep - live

Rolling In The Deep is from the Paul Epworth-produced section of Adele's forthcoming album, 21. The bombastic drums are clearly a hangover from his work on Florence's Lungs. But there's a gentler side to Adele's new material, too, as evidenced when she played the simple heartbreak ballad Someone Like You on Jools Holland a few weeks ago.

Adele - Someone Like You

21 is already shaping up to be one of my most-anticipated albums of 2011... And it's not even December yet.

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Weekend anthem: Ghandi

Le Corps De Mince Francoise are a band from Helsinki, Finland

Their name is French for "The Thin Body of Francoise"

Not, as I originally thought, "Dead French Meat"

Which is very poor, as I got an A in GCSE French

What is the education system coming to, etc

Anyway...

The all-female lineup is Emma Kemppianen, Mia Kemppianen and Malin Nyqvist

Their new single song is called Gandhi

Fans of The Tom Tom Club and CSS will find it comfortingly familiar

Here is the video

LCDMF- Ghandi

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Totally lovely Regina Spektor performance

Here's a cute-as-a-button Regina Spektor performing Dance Anthem Of The 80s with the legendary Roots crew and a tuba.

NB: Stick around for the build-up around 2m40s.

Regina Spektor - Dance Anthem Of The 80s


That live DVD Jimmy Fallon mentions at the top of the video? You can get it right now on Amazon (other retailers are available).

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Video: Cheryl Cole - The Flood

Cheryl Cole's perfectly acceptable ballad, The Flood, now has a perfectly acceptable video courtesy of Sophie Muller. Therein, our heroine mopes around Dover and lights so many candles you begin to wonder if she's been hired to cater Simon Cowell's next birthday party.

Cheryl Cole - The Flood

Now, it might just be me [it is definitely just you - ed] but the scenes where Cheryl is draped over a rock in some sort of subaquatic ballroom made me wonder

1) How did they hang up the chandelier?
2) Will she end the video with an underwater bar brawl, like in the film Top Secret?

Sadly, the answer to number 2 was "of course not, you freak". So here's that scene in full, for anyone who has never witnessed Val Kilmer's finest hour.

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Can someone erase this song from existence?

Last weekend, Mrsdiscopop described The Black Eyed Peas' new single, The Time (Dirty Bit), as "a waste of soundwaves".

I couldn't have put it better myself. It's as if will.i.am has deliberately shit in my ear.

The Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)


For those of you brave enough to watch the above clip, here is a song with similar lyrics that won't make you want to stick a drill through your eyes.

Patrick Wolf - The Time Of My Life

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