Key moments in Lady Gaga's Born This Way video, and when you can expect to see them...

Hello reader. Here at Discopop Directory, we know you're far too busy chopping potatoes and tweeting about The One Show to devote a whole seven minutes of your life to Lady Gaga and her video for Born This Way.

So, with you in mind, we have created a handy, timed guide to this audiovisual event. Now you can simply skip to the segment that piques your interest, without sitting through two demoralising minutes of sub-Scientology bollocks.

0:04 A unicorn.

0:33 A uterus.

0:24 Mmmm..... That pimple on your chin looks ripe for squeezing.

2:11 Amazing hair-toss moment. The first of many. Approval rating = 100%

2:37 After a ridiculous load of old drivel, the song finally starts.

3:03 Man on the far right pulls "serious dance face".

3:52 Now they're all at it.

4:07 Bugs Bunny.

4:38 There are easier ways to eat a Cadbury's Creme Egg.

5:34 No, Lady Gaga. How about you go fuck yourself? Huh? HUH!? I thought so.

6:05 A solitary moment of frivolity.

6:52 These gloves look suspiciously like they were added "in post".
What could they be covering up, conspiracy fans?

7:10 Copyright notice.

Great. Now that we've got that out of the way, here is the video for you to watch / scroll through at your leisure. You can thank us in chocolate.




Lady Gaga - Born This Way

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Incredibly good Noah And The Whale video

They may not have the profile of Mumford or Laura Marling - but Noah And The Whale are set to go fully mainstream with their genuinely excellent, Tom Petty-inspired new album, Last Night On Earth. It's the band's third record, it lasts thirty-three minutes, and the final track is 3'33" long. OCD, much?

I'm glad to report that both the obsession and compulsion stretch to their live performances, which are nigh-on flawless. Have a look at them playing current single L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. at the iconic RAK studios, and see if you can spot any variations from the recorded version.

L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. (Live from RAK Studios)


Fabulous, no?

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It's the you-know-Hoosiers

It's been seven months since we heard from them, but at last The Hoosiers are back with the follow-up to Choices.

It's called Bumpy Ride, a title which neatly sums up the band's recent fortunes. At the beginning of 2010, they scrapped an entire album and set off in search of a synth-pop sound, only to find that ship had basically sailed. Choices and it's parent album, The Illusion Of Safety, may have reached numbers 10 and 11 respectively, but someone clearly felt that wasn't good enough - hence the loooong gap between singles.

The album has now been reworked for a third time, and rechristened Bumpy Ride in honour of the new single. To be fair, the track is a great little radio song. Inessential, perhaps, but incredibly catchy.

The question: Will it find an audience?
The answer: Not if The Hoosiers have anything to do with it.

For no good reason, they've spunked their entire video budget up the wall making a Hangover-inspired Las Vegas mini movie. It chops the song into tiny unrecognisable pieces. It features a censor-baiting pole dancing sequence. It ends with a shot of a baby causing irreparable damage to a koala with a shoe (one of these statements is untrue).

Still, it looks like it was a blast to shoot.

The Hoosiers - Bumpy Ride


The single is out on 28th March, with the album due on 11th April.

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Those Britney clips "in full"

So, from Adele, who has the voice of an angel, to Britney Spears, who has the voice of a Speak And Spell.

Following the epic (ie irritating) two-week teaser campaign for her new video, she's now releasing daily snippets of tracks from her forthcoming album, Femme Fatale. The first three go like this...


How I Roll


Inside Out


I Wanna Go



There's plenty to get excited about here: The whistling, the dubstep collywobbles, the galvanizing cry of "COME ON", the general aceness of Bloodshy & Avant's production on How I Roll.

But let's not be too hasty. If the album lasts 45 minutes then these 30 seconds represent just 1% of the total. Femme Fatale could be a work of genius, but there's still plenty of time for an I Love Rock'n'Roll, or a duet with Justin Bieber.

Even the tracks we've heard could go disastrously wrong. Would I Wanna Go sound as epic if it suddenly gained an extended spoken word section pulled from the pages Britney's diary? Anyone who remembers the "personal messages" she used to post on her website would know that the answer is "not really".

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Adele vs Aretha

When you hear that Adele is going to cover Aretha Franklin's 1967 smash (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman, it instantly makes sense. And the performance, for VH1's Unplugged show, completely lives up to expectations.



I love the way she chirps "Oooh, I got frew it" like Barbara Windsor at the end... Stupendous.

The full show will be aired on online Thursday, March 3, at 7 p.m. at Unplugged.VH1.com. The TV premiere will be the day after on VH1, March 4 at 11 pm.

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Yasmin is back. Remember her?

You may remember we said "hello" to Yasmin last December. She has since been on the Radio One playlist and recorded a thing with Jamie xx while wearing a hat.

Yasmin put a preview clip of her new single, Finish Line, on the YouTube last week. It's two-and-a-half minutes long, which suggests either (a) the finished product lasts a quarter of an hour, or (b) she has fatally misunderstood the meaning of the words "preview" and "clip".

Anyway, the song is dressed with dramatic staccato strings and a honking great drum loop, giving it a feel not dissimilar to vintage SWV (Downtown rather than Right Here).

My personal highlight is the bit where she pilfers the "boy band... and another one... and another one... And A-No-Ther One" melody from Busted's Year 3000. Her next single is a cover of You Said No, apparently*.

Yasmin - Finish Line (preview)


* I made this up.

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