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PayTV tone it down a bit for their new look

  • June 19, 2008
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It's been a while since we wrote about self-styled 'Spice Girls from Hell' PayTV, the Swedish pop trio who ter­ror­ised the Swedish Eurovision heats a few years ago with 'Refrain, Refrain', a song whose main refrain was:

"Refrain, refrain, refrain, refrain 
And were repeating it again, again and again 
Refrain, refrain, refrain, refrain 
And were repeating it again, again and again"

Well, they're back again (they've sort of never been away, really) with a fairly brilliant new single called 'Fashion Report' and they've pulled out all the stops for the video, a super­styl­ised rush of images and posturing which ranges from the mind­lessly pro­voc­at­ive to the oppor­tun­ist­ic­ally con­tro­ver­sial. It also features one of the band's members doing the hoovering.

So, for all of you com­plain­ing that The Saturdays aren't edgy enough: is this what you want? IS THIS WHAT YOU REALLY WANT??? ("Yes" — everyone.)

The full PayTV video's here, if you'd like a look.

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