"My lipgloss be cool"

Lots of people on the internet are wetting their knickers over this song by L'il Mama, called Lipgloss.

I fucking hate it, so what am I missing?



Look, you little hooligan, it's my lipgloss IS cool, my lipgloss IS popping. Got that? Good, now go out and mug some grannies for their tea money and stop bothering me.

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Badger news

UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area".

Find out what's going on at the Bee Bee Cee's news website

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Get your geography on

Here is an educationally instructive video for those of you who need something to memorise for the weekend.

The countries of the world, sung by Yakko Warner

PS: Do you think they mis-spelled Israel "Isreal" to make some kind of political point?
PPS: What happened to South Africa
PPPS: stands for "please press play soon"

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Natalie Imbruglia: Glorious

Natalie Imbruglia's Torn came out at the same time as I moved to London ten years ago, and soundtracked my first year in the big city. It remains one of my favourite pop songs of all time in the world ever in perpetuity ad infinitum. With or without the video (but preferably with - *sigh*).

I can't quite believe it's been an entire decade (or that Natalie is the same age as me - surely she's been around for donkey's years?) but it looks like Sony have noticed, and are trying to flog a few more copies of her biggest hit by sticking it on a "singles collection", due out next month.

Now, I'm a bit of an Imbruglia buff - with a B-sides playlist on my iPod and everything - but I think most other people would find it easier to remember what her character was called in Neighbours than to name one of her other hits (Shiver, Big Mistake and Wrong Impression are the biggest ones - fact fans).

That aside, I hope she gets a profile boost from the retrospective. Natalie's actually quite an interesting songwriter and she has a new album scheduled for next year. I'd hate to see it canned if the singles compilation stiffs.

The obligatory new single is called Glorious, and she premiered it - along with a new haircut - on the Graham Norton show last week. It has one of those shimmering monsters of a chorus that are Nat's stock in trade and will almost certainly be inescapable if you're the sort of person who listens to Radio 2. Here's the performance in all its badly-lip-synced, second-verse-omitted glory:

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The arrow of unmistakable truth returns

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Amerie: Gotta Work video

This is still my favourite song of the year so far. You can tell Amerie has been studying her classic soul - Gotta Work has echoes of the Isley Brothers, Aretha Franklin and the best bits of Motown. And, boy, can she sing.

The video is your bog-standard R&B affair - a woman in hotpants, some faintly aggressive dancing, slow-motion hair flicking - but it has a few excellent moments involving a chair and a man banging a dustbin. Nice sunglasses, too.

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