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* Divorce - A list style
* Terry Gilliam gets philosophical
* Charts: Tinie Tempah to be number one again
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RIP Jade Goody – A year on

It was a year ago  that Jade Goody left this cruel world of cancer and tabloid exposure to rest peacefully somewhere that OK! magazine couldn’t print her death prematurely (again).

In Popbitch style, we paid tribute to Jade at our last quiz. There was a competition to who could make the best Jade out of potatoes and plasticine.  We’ll be posting all the tributes over the week but here are some of our favourites, including the winner.

To join us at the next quiz, at the Player, Soho, on 13th April go here: popbitchpopquiz.com

Grizzly Bear – Ready, Able

Some of Popbitch went to see Grizzly Bear at the Roundhouse last night, and loved it. Especially this song:

Idris “Driis” “Stringer Bell” Elba’s new single:

Hold On feat Shadow and it’s produced by 9th Wonder. Take a listen:

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Grandmother Russia

We’re in love.  With six Russian geriatrics.

Russia, if you’re reading, please reconsider your Eurovision entry.  Please.

Buranovskiye Babushki -- Kak zhit

For more Russian Eurovision news, click here

Shane MacGowan & Friends – I put a spell on you

‘Astro-squirrels’ use coconut shells as helmets

From the Telegraph:

“Miss Roberts, 46, leaves out two coconuts a week and suspends them on pieces of string from her washing line and watches her furry friends dig in.

She said: “The first time I saw them feeding I nearly died laughing, they looked like a pair of astronauts and even now I can not stop chuckling every time I see them.”

Smokey’s Choice – Latest issue now up!

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Let’s Go Round Again…

Pop music seems to be suffering from a strange bout of amnesia at the minute.

Gramaphonedzie is currently climbing the charts, far outselling the nation’s sweetheart Cheryl Cole and the Boyzone/Stephen Gateley single.  But surely everybody hated “Doop” the first time round – so how is it possible that there’s another Charleston-sounding club hit hitting the top five?

Gramaphonedzie – Why Don’t You?

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Doop – Doop

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Then Wiley (feat Emeli Sande) have sampled White Town’s “Your Woman” – a song that was already based around a sample itself – and have managed to outsell even Gramaphonedzie.

Wiley feat Emeli Sande – Never Be Your Woman

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White Town – Your Woman

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The worst offender we’ve heard in recent months though is Karmah. Taking two samples from two separate songs that had already been revived by being sampled to appalling effect in the 90s (“Just Be Good To Me” and “Every Breath You Take”) and obviously influenced more by Beats International and Puff Daddy than they were by The SOS Band and The Police, the resulting song is like the lumbering, tone-deaf monster of Frankenstein.

Karmah – Just Be Good To Me

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OK Go – This Too Shall Pass