Welcome back to the world of pop, Stine Bramsen
How do you look back on the mid-to-late-2000s? With a sense of warmth? An overwhelming feeling of regret? How about despair? Confusion? We look back on this period with a…
The Briefing
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The 2014 Brits: who should win what
As is semi-traditional here is a list of this year's Brits nominations with our chosen winners clearly indicated. British Male Solo Artist David Bowie << WINNER PLEASE Jake Bugg James Blake John…
The Popjustice Pop Entity Of 2013
Who or what was the best pop thing in 2013? Was it Beyoncé for faffing around, almost losing the plot then storming back with the best album of her career?…
Bad news, popstars: Shane Filan has used up all the metaphors
As Luminumford & Sheerans-type pop songs go, Shane Filan's new single is great. Also, it's got a video which is both prescient (he assumes the role of a wedding singer)…
Can we agree to boycott all future series of The X Factor…
…until Syco agree IN WRITING that they will stop trying to make 'Skyscraper' work and that the song given to any future winner or winners will be this? Seriously ladies and gentlemen,…
Beyoncé — 'BEYONCÉ': album review
We make that a considered, authoritative and concrete 7/10. Also: Looks like our work here is done. Time to go to the pub!
300,000,000ish Miley Cyrus fans can't be wrong
While we were looking for YouTube embed codes to accompany MNEK'S songs of the year blog, we noticed that Miley Cyrus' 'We Can't Stop' video was sitting at 299,596,375 views.…
My seven favourite songs of 2013
1. Miley Cyrus — 'We Can't Stop' I love that Miley likes to twerk and she has no ass. There's something quite gratifying about her sense of humour. Great song. A…
It's alright, HotPantz are here, Christmas can officially start now
December just wasn't really working for us until this morning. Something was wrong. The reason, we realised at 11.45am, was that we were yet to watch the video for HotPantz' 2004…