How the FUCK did this pass us by?

Have you noticed how they've tried to make Eoin Quugg look COOL and OF THE MOMENT by getting in a random load of kids who were clearly tricked into thinking they would be in the next series of Skins?

Also by interspersing various shots of very cool things like GUITAR AMPS and er... that's about it.

This isn't the most depressing audio-visual experience of all time (the honour of that would have to go to... well... we don't know... we'll get back to you on that one) but there is, as one would obviously expect, an enormously strong whiff of MANUFACTURING.

These days when people talk about manufactured pop they automatically think of people like Girls Aloud. But the fact is that Girls Aloud look like pigging Björk next to acts like Eougun Quorn. The most manufactured acts in the country these days are not the "pop" artists... they're the anoydyne, beige, easy listening fools who come out of the X Factor (and Duffy).

We cross our fingers, knees and toes and pray that Alexandra Burke's single is good (and uptempo).