Here is the video for that 'Cheat Again' JLS answer track we featured a few weeks ago - since we featured it JLX have become Jaime Jay featuring JLX, and Jaime Jay is (apparently) an ex-girlfriend of Marvin from JLS. She's also one of Marvin's old bandmates, from the sort-of-quite-good boy/girl pop troupe VS. 'Cheat Again' has been pickd up by 3Beat/All Around The World, while Jaime has been knocking around elsewhere in the dance charts during 2009 and is being managed by the ex-Virgin Records marketing man who used to do VS. It's a small world, isn't it. None of which excuses the fact that in its full-length glory 'Cheat Again' is actually a bit ropey and doesn't totally work as a standaone 'thing', but that's the way these things turn out sometimes. Perhaps 'Jaime Jay' has some more bits up her sleeve.
On one hand, you might see the next Mini Viva. On the other, you might just see the next One With The Hat From Vagabond. They should actually set up a
and a
in the audition room, and successful or unsuccessful auditionees would be instantly identified by the item of playground apparatus to which they are instincitvely drawn.
1. Alexandra Burke won The X Factor you know. Do you think that if Steve Brookstein releases an album tomorrow he is allowed to put 'The X Factor WINNER' on a sticker? Probably not the logo, but the words? After all once one has won The X Factor, one is always an X Factor winner, in the same way that even once one has served one's sentence and been rehabilitated into society, one is still a convicted arsonist.
2. We hope the next single isn't 'Good Night Good Morning' (deep breath) 'feat Ne-Yo' because it is, sadly, quite shit. It's no 'Broken Heels', that much is certain.
3.We went to www.alexandraburkeofficial.com/bonus for our 'bonus content'. As you know we simply can't get get enough of generic bonus content. Doesn't matter what it is, if it requires the press of a red button or isn't worth consuming in its own right, we love it. Tragically the Alexandra link seems to be more interested in data capture than providing us with shoddy behind the scenes footage nobody in their right mind would actually choose to watch, so we gave that one 'a wide berth'.
Sometimes, if you keep your eye on something for long enough, no matter how boring it is, things start to get interesting. It took 14 years of releasing singles for David Bowie to come up with 'Let's Dance', for example.
Anyway below you will see a 'widget' - this is what labels perceive to be the new face of rock journalism, viewers, get used to it - which at 4.23pm tomorrow (Tuesday) will apparently turn into the new Rihanna single. The single might be shit. We won't know until the widget changes. It might change into a picture of a dog being wanked off for all we know. Anything could happen.
There is an extremely convoluted reason for the precise timing of this which is all to do with the fact that Rihanna's new album is released on November 23, which is 23/11 which, if you're American and change the / for a : is 11:23, which is the time in the morning that the single will be launched in New York, and here in the UK we're five hours ahead so *literally falls asleep*
EDIT: There is another widget which actually includes some of the song, but it starts automatically and we're not having that racket blaring out of the front page every time someone passes by the website so click here to give it a little listen.
We know some of you don't watch The X Factor - you're bored of reality TV, you don't buy into the whole thing, you think it's crap or whatever. That's fine, but there are always one or two moments every year that become required viewing for everybody, everywhere, regardless of how much they enjoy or hate the show, just as it is important for every secondary school pupil to learn about the rise of Nazism.
Here's one of this year's moments: John & Edward performing Britney Spears' 'Oops!... I Did It Again'.
The talky bit is a brilliantly duff masterpiece of modern horror but our favourite part is probably at 1:28 when John and Edward both try to provide their own backing vocals: "oops, you OOPS YOU". The odd 'Zovirax bellboy' luggage trolley theme is worth a mention, too. And the fact that when it gets to the talky bit you actually hear the audience LAUGHING. And the key change! And the mis-timed jumping! And the total lack of chemistry or coherance in a performance by two identical twins! And *EXPLODES*
All the 'hoopla' surrounding the Leona Lewis Waterstones book signing has sidestepped the big issue: what was the signing like for those who standing before The Bellend in the queue? Popjustice reader David Wynn can help out, for he was there. "Before some man hit Leona, she signed a book for me," David writes in an email. "I like her butterfly. It shows that she takes a little extra time when signing an autograph for fans and doesn't just 'hash them out'."
There's definitely a lot of care and attention in Leona's message although the 'L's are slightly demented. Our advice is that you ever require an X Factor winner to handwrite an itinerary for a Welsh holiday, get Alexandra Burke to take care of it.
