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[shermarama]

I am seriously fed up of that song that goes 'Ain't gonna write you a love song, cause you asked for it,' etc., because it's been on the radio All The Time, and weirdly without explanation. I've yet to hear a DJ make any comment about the singer, who I've never heard of before, or about the song itself, either positive or negative, for all that it seems incongruously, I dunno, schmaltzy, for Radio 1. It reminds me that much as I've been frustrated by getting American Boy stuck in my head so often, it's got a lot more substance to it than trite ploddy singer-songwriter crud like Love Song. Seriously, I've spent lots of the day trying to dislodge it, inbetween everything else, getting out the big guns like Art Brut and Clutch and QuOTSA and even humming American Boy to myself, but as soon as I stop concentrating, the harmonic guitar line at the end and the Dido-esque chorus lyrics, surely offensive to anyone that's managed to make it past an emotional age of twelve, are back there again.

I see she's due to go on tour with Maroon 5 and Counting Crows next month. And her album's called Little Voice. Good grief. I sincerely hope she fucks right off to Radio 2, or ideally completely off the entire electromagnetic spectrum, as soon as possible.