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  • Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
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August 2008

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The Way You Cake Me Feel

Love from Popjustice xxx
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Say hello to Mr Cabbagehead

This is Mr Cabbagehead. Mr Cabbagehead was invented by a band, and is currently watching the band get to grips with their live show in a London rehearsal room. Can…
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2008's best photograph featuring precisely twelve balloons

This, believe it or not, is a pho­to­graph of Saint Saviour. You might not want to be standing behind her when she's trying to get on a bus but, on…
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How do you improve on 'Call The Shots'?

Easy: put a donk on it. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhixH_XuDQY Of course when we say 'improve on' what we sort of mean is 'make ten times worse', but this Alex K version (which has…
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Cinnamon feat Alisha King — 'Viva La Vida'

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A Ladyhawke-related time saving device

The problem with the Ladyhawke album is that we're finding ourselves spending a lot of time telling people how good it is. This is time we could otherwise be spending…
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About that Keane song yesterday

When we said that we could quite put our finger on what the intro sounded like we were using the popular literary device of 'irony'. Please note two ref­er­ences to…
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Parralox — 'Electricity'

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A very big pop thing is coming.

And we can't tell you about it. We have been told not to tell you. If we tell you we will be in a lot of trouble. Sorry. :(
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We don't know what this is but it's probably worth a look

Xenomania, the hit factory respons­ible for the best single of Abs' career as well as a handful of other fairly decent pop ditties, are clearly 'up to something'.  "Xenomania Records…
Welcome to Popjustice, a glorified pop blog celebrating 21st Century Pop, the people who make it, and the people who make the people who make it. More
9 years, 3 months, 13 days since the last Rihanna album
Outlook for May 9: Sunny spells with a chance of Billie Eilish
Burning Bridges by Sigrid is the biggest song right now
The best popstar is currently Charli XCX and that's that
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Greatest hits
  • Zavvi, 2007–2008
  • Madeon interview: "I say one funny weird thing and that becomes the headline."
  • Calvin Harris interview: "I don’t work on anyone else’s songs any more. I’ve had enough of all that"
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  • 1
    Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • 2
    The 2024 Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
  • 3
    The 2023 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
  • 4
    Fine, let's do a Substack then.
  • 5
    The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
  • 6
    2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Laura Mvula wins
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