My editor is a fan of pop - I mean, of the pop charts. The Hit Parade, the top five. He makes some degree of common cause with those who proclaim in public that we are living through - hold on to your trilbies - a Golden Age Of Pop. I'll let that last clause sink in a while. Anyway, I occasionally ask him about his love of contemporary pop, and sensibly he insists, - I don't like *all* of it. It's *some* of it that's good. Destiny's Child. The Sugababes. - Who? - The Sugababes. You'd like them. You've probably heard them. If you worked in a place where the radio played without ceasing, you'd hear them. You'll like them. It's just great pop music. Tonight I saw Top of the Pops. Really! A trio appeared, singing to a record I'd heard before on the radio. I figured that it might be Destiny's Child. At last, a glimpse of the vaunted Destiny's Child. My goodness, I've finally seen Destiny's Child. No. It was the Sugababes themselves. They were - I don't know, I don't know if I can find the choice word. Can you? We could spread many words, like muck, but they might not hit home, not convey what this trio really are, how their record really sounds. Still, I've heard and seen them now. Now we know what we're talking. There are no hiding places. Enough. Silence is silver. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+