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Pop Promos: Living Memes And Bad Haircuts

August 6th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

We go on the internet, sometimes, and this week we've been seeing lots of people ?Tweeting? about various musical videos which we intended to talk to you about, but we can't seem to find them. Instead we're hung up on the Hulk Hogan sex tape.

It does seem that lots of people have been doing things though and we're not entirely sure when any of them found the time; between joining dross festival line-ups and announcing two-bit world tours, who has the time?

The Arctic Monkey?s, who the hell do they think they are releasing a steady stream of music like its 2004 all over again. Shall we watch some videos?

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Pop Promos: Pretend Punk, Twee Pop And Dull Folk

August 7th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

Well it's been a hectic week in the business hasn't it what with the death and the outrage and the awards and the fainting and the relaxing and the? oh god it just never ends.

We were going to say something heavily witty and sarcastic like, ?Houston, we have a problem,? but then we thought it might a little insensitive so instead we decided to let Paula Abdul take all the heat with her whole, ?Get over it already, it's been like a week since your mom died, bitch,? statement.

In the midst of all this devastation someone had to keep the candle burning and that someone was obviously always going to be Will Young and his finely slicked hair. And so, to the newest pop promotional videos.

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Pop Promos: Bad Girls, Bad Boys, Bad Music

August 7th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

Well it's been a high profile week for music what will all the sports happening and that. If you didn't watch the kitten walk on the pitch in the football or MIA flip the proverbial bird in the Super Bowl then it really doesn't matter because The Metro covers just about all of it in a much more elaborate and unnecessary way than the above sentence makes you think it might be worth.

The kitten doesn't have a music video out, but we're positive you can watch it singing on YouTube or, you can see it in your mind’s eye on ketamine; whatever takes your fancy really.

MIA on the other hand does have a video response out in antithesis to the popular Alexandra Burke song ?Bad Boys?, which is nice for her. Shall we watch some new releases then?

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Pop Promos: It’s Like The Worst Bits Of The 90s All Over Again

August 7th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

Pop promos! More of them! There’s always new music being made. This is, of course, a good thing. It’s also a really, truly awful thing. Some records come out and you just think ‘why did you bother?’

Fame and fortune await the few, for the majority will forever be destined to be loved by the faithful dozen who, regrettably for the bands concerned, are not good looking enough to warrant regular sex.

And so, here’s the new releases.

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Trailer Park: Movie Previews And Rotten Popcorn

August 7th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

Films. Movies. Whatever you call them, they are still being released. They’re always being released. They’ll never stop being released. Surely, at some point, we’ll reach a time when we’ve got enough films. We only need so many, right?

Anyway, until then, we’ve got to look at the newest flicks that are coming out. You can almost smell the stale popcorn.

So, here?s what the week in film trailers looks like for those of you who are hearing and/or visually impaired we're doing the dirty work so you don't have to.

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Trailer Park: A Look At The New Film Releases

August 5th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

Plot holes! Popcorn! If you hadn’t guessed, hecklerspray is venturing into the world of film criticism and, as awards season rolls around again with all the depressing monotony of Madonna trying her best to make a movie, we couldn't have picked a better time to start.

We've already seen The Golden Globes pass by like a bus that couldn't be bothered to hit anyone and The London Critics Circle had an altogether more serious affair for the ?proper? films; they?ll be the ones you never saw while you were queuing for tickets to The Inbetweeners Movie.

Now though it's time for that decrepit golden man to bestow some acclaim on some people who really don't need anymore; enter Oscar. In other words – let us look at new trailers for new films.

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Pop Promos: Nevermind The SOPA, Here’s Some Music Videos

August 7th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

We?d love to tell you about the tragic things that have been happening this week, but we can't get on Wikipedia because of some protest for some dumb law the stupid Americans are trying to enforce. We?d love to tell you what that law is, but you know we aren't really all that knowledgeable about anything without the use of facts made up by people like you.

We do love it when the world wide web gets it's knickers in a twist though and it seems like everyone is so we're here to join in with our eloquently put words; FREE SPEECH IS WELL COOL.

In a tone more akin to what you're used to seeing here we will now proceed to inform you about the abysmal endorsement of capitalism by Alex ?absolute git hamper? James. You might recognise him as the bassist from Blur, or much more likely is that you've seen his name on a bag of pre-grated cheese in Asda. It all went downhill when they started slicing bread if you ask us. The once beacon of foppish country cool now hangs around with fellow swan-munchers Cameron and Clarkson sipping freshly juiced faecal matter from paper cups which they then use to muddy our big rotten society so it's no surprise then to learn that he writes for The Sun now, obviously. Today he announced that he bums McDonalds?of course he calls it Maccy D?s?and Greggs, and KFC, and factory farming, and animal incest, and free love. Okay well maybe not the last one; nobody?s that sick.

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Pop Promos: A Bunch Of Stupid New Pop Videos

August 7th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

Christ, we're starting this year as we mean to go on, which is by turning up very late, slightly drunk, and not really having anything to say. So it's a lot like last year really, except people might be taking things more seriously because we could all be about to die if the Mayans have anything to do with anything.

Frankly after all this hype we're pulling for them. You can't have an evolved civilisation and not be right about the end of the world, things just don't work like that.

Characteristically we're apologising for not doing anything for a whole 12 days, but you know we did spend ?6.50 on one whisky and we watched New Girl so the recovery period was catastrophic if we're actually over it yet (we're not). But don't worry your revitalised little hearts because nobody has done any music videos. Well some people did, but they're just rude. Clearly anyone who is anyone is sitting at home and tweeting their well wishes to Beyonc? for having a child and then calling it Blue Ivy not Ivy Blue?a controversial move by the woman who thought a man who picked the last letter of the alphabet for a name was daddy material.

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Pop Promos: It’s Stupid Christmas

August 7th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

The blaring sound of happiness triumphing is overpowering these days, suppose it must be some sort of seasonal holiday that once again we have failed to understand, yet attempt to embrace by eating chocolates out of crassly wrapped boxes.

What do you guys get from this? All we get is fat which in turn makes us drink more which in turn makes us slip ever more down the spiral and so on and so forth into a new year?don't even get us started on that ozone layer depleting holiday.

In a wildly ludicrous attempt to garner the attention and affection of you, the demanding public, we will be providing you with some sort of visual and audible spirit; we do also need to watch something fuzzy after having our insides bored out of breathing by the preciously twee trailer for The Hobbit. So here in all their glory are some music video delights showing us the true spirit of Christmas is a horrendous cover that won't do anything for falling sales or loss of fame.

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Pop Promos: Duran Duran Put Old Women On Film

August 7th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

As it gets closer and closer to the date of doom when we have to write either a boringly predictable end of year music video list or put together a collection of hideously glittery over the top festive themed videos that look like they were all filmed in the Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two studio the more often we start our day by exclaiming, ?Christ,? which is, if you think about it, actually rather fitting.

After a hecklerspray piss-up last week in the home of no cash-machines and topless fighting children, or Newcastle if you will, we forgot all about the wonderful world of the music video and so this is being brought to you from haggard hands.

Not just any haggard hands though, festive haggard hands which we can surely all appreciate as we scoff brandy soaked cakes in our gasping mouths?don't you just love Christmas?

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