Top picks from Eurovision 2018 Lithuania – Ieva Zasimauskaitė – When We’re Old The best of the evening’s ballads, with elegant staging only ruined by completely unnecessary black and white video footage of families. Ieva delivered this perfectly, although she did look as though she was going to burst into tears multiple times. If you’ve been …
Elyar Fox emerged around a similar time to Conor Maynard, both of them seeming like viable options for decent male UK popstars. Whilst 2017 has seen Maynard settle for becoming a “Youtuber” and singing pleasant-enough but untroubling cover versions, Elyar Fox disappeared into the ether. This despite a very decent run of tunes in anyone’s book; …
Mura Masa feat. Charli XCX – 1 Night Both of these artists can do no wrong right now, Charli adding some stardust to this song via her amazing “popstar in a gymnasium” look and bringing her distinctive energetic vocals. We can not wait for Mura’s album ‘To Fall Out Of Love To’ to drop, due …
… If you haven’t already, you simply must listen to the Carly Rae Jepsen album ‘EMOTION’. Do it. Do it NOW! * Carly Rae is a curious beast indeed. Whilst many uninformed outside observers may be tempted to take her sugary, ‘butter wouldn’t melt’, fairy princess popstar persona at face value, I believe there is …
In a blatantly ill-fated attempt to blog a little bit more during 2017, but with recognition that AIN’T NOBODY GOT TIME TO BLOG, I’m going to start doing a “Song of the Month”. The SOTM will most likely not be current, and may not even be pop (!!), but is simply going to be a …
I feel such a mix of emotions about Brexit that I turned to music, and popfools, as a way to try and share some of these thoughts. I know you may disagree with me, and that;s fine, the views expressed henceforth are mine and mine only. There is no hint (or otherwise) that any of … Continue reading
You simply must buy the 3 track ‘Waterfalls’ EP by Bag Raiders. The Ozzie electropop duo first appeared on our radar with 2009’s absolutely epic ‘Shooting Stars‘, a song we have drunkenly declared on more that one occasion is perhaps one of our very favourite songs in the world. Ever. Sounding at once nostalgically familiar but also tinged … Continue reading
Eurovision 2016 was here, and has already happened by now. Here we review each song in a brief way in order to save you as much time as possible whilst also giving you all the essential information (just in case you “accidentally” missed the contest). Some of these comments come from members of our family. … Continue reading
Serial girlband botherer Sean “Sean De Paul” Paul is back on it again, this time with Britain’s favourite girlband and occasional Tulisa fraternisers Little Mix. But let’s not kid ourselves, the brilliance of ‘Hair’ comes despite, rather than because of, Sean’s dubious contributions. Although it seems like just yesterday we watched ‘The Female Boss’ try … Continue reading
An offhand post we made to our Facebook made us realise that the world was crying out for a Popfools analysis of the best of Eurovision 2015. We appreciate Eurovision is not everyone’s cup of tea, but like it or loathe it, there’s no denying the impact of the biggest televised singing event in the … Continue reading
The UK’s Eurovision entry this year, ‘Still In Love With You’ by put-together-especially-for-Eurovision duo and poorly-named Electro Velvet, has been widely derided across the nation for being shit. In the annual sport that is Eurovision-bashing, it’s somehow seen as “cool” or “popular” to immediately write off anything that we put forward for Eurovision as trash. … Continue reading
Just yesterday in the bath we were rocking out to Kelly Clarkson anthems ‘My Life Would Suck Without You‘, which turned exactly 5 years old today, and ‘(What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You) Stronger‘. It was at this point that we realised that Kelly Clarkson had been missing for too long. But as she returns, is … Continue reading
2014 has been an interesting year for pop, despite the relative lack of the usual big hitters. Instead, the UK charts have been overrun by deep house by random producers. But the only chart that matters must surely be Pop Fool’s top singles of the year. In case you missed it, check out numbers 30 … Continue reading
2014 has been an interesting year for pop, despite the relative lack of the usual big hitters. Instead, the UK charts have been overrun by deep house by random producers. But the only chart that matters must surely be Pop Fool’s top singles of the year. In case you missed it, check out numbers 30 … Continue reading
2014 has been an interesting year for pop, despite the relative lack of the usual big hitters. Instead, the UK charts have been overrun by deep house by random producers. But the only chart that matters must surely be Pop Fool’s top singles of the year. Here we count down from number 29 – number … Continue reading
