Things that hurt our ears...

Seriously, no, seriously. Click above at your peril. On the left we have Mika and RedOne (a pairing devised in hell) with a song that puts Pat Benatar's "Love Is A Battlefield" through a filter of Little Boots' "Remedy". It's not necessarily a bad song, but Mika's literally screeching falsetto is quease-inducing and his enunciation is so 'over-zealous-stage-school-brat' it brings the vom to your throat.

On the right we have Justin Beaver, who we were going to completely ignore up until this point. His past releases have been banal, predictable and contrived, but then what would you expect from this generation's answer to Aaron Carter (!?). But this, THIS. This is a new low. It features THAT chord sequence (you'll know the one) and a chorus composed almost entirely of the word 'baby'. We try never to be snobbish about pop (well obviously) but this really is unquestionably dire.

Sorry to ruin your day but we needed to 'take a stand'.

A messy Mika video...

This is basically just a big flamboyant mess, isn't it? Not anything necessarily wrong with that, mind, but in this case...

The Return of Gay Mika

Did we call him gay? Ooops! PLEASE DON'T SLAP A LAWSUIT ON US. Anyway... Mika, who may or may not be gay is releasing his 'sophomore' album in the very near future, and as a precursor to all that he's releasing a book and an EP or something and having a soirée or something. We don't really understand. The poster up there advertises the acoustic performance thing and the book-EP combo that for some reason you can buy at both Paul Smith and Lanvin.

Anygays, despite being completement BLEH about Mika the first time around, after having listened to his music again in the cold harsh light of 2008 and experienced some of his new material on youtube (he uses the gospel choir from "Like a Prayer") we can exclusively say that we're mildly intrigued to hear this new 'opus'.