A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION

Elvis Presley

When I started doing the music reviews for this friendly 'paper, the King Of Rock And Roll had already left Gracelands without a permanent resident for over twenty years so I didn't really expect to be reviewing anything of his any time soon (especially not anything new). Funny old world, innit? One Nike advert later and all of a sudden he's the hottest thing in popular music since... well... put it this way, Chelsea and Hereford United were playing each other in the League the last time he was this big. Crikey. Rather unsurprisingly these days, somebody's had to remix this song before it's deemed worthy of a release and, to be fair, they've done a bang up job of it. Maybe it's because it's Elvis and not someone like Shania Twain (you know, had a few hits a couple of years ago, come on, surely you remember her… oh well), but the song's not been given a huge overhaul, just a general beefing-up. Considering I'm not a fan of Elvis, this is good stuff.

IT'S OK

Atomic Kitten

I'll make my own decision, thanks. So, midtempo guitar pop is the way forward, is it? The worst thing about all this is that it's not even remotely interesting.

DON'T LET ME GET ME

Pink

On the other hand, this is much better. None of that "Life's great, oh wow, look, a fluffy bunny rabbit" type tat here, just Pink going on about how great life isn't. The tune itself is best described as angry pop, but still radio-friendly enough to appear on your preferred station, however it's the words that make the difference - an example being "You'll be a pop star / All you have to change / Is everything you are". Quality.