Paul Morley: Showing Off

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Published Jan. 23, 2010 at 7:05 p.m.

All these tips for 2010 might leave you feeling jaded, but the point of pop is that it just keeps coming ... I ... don't know about you, and now, alas, I guess I never will, but at the same time that pop music is coming to a kind of end, it's also to some extent continually starting up again. Or at least, it appears to be always starting up again, so that each new year now brings the list of those about to break through, joining the ranks of those that have already broken through, either

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Girls Aloud: reality stars of the decade

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Published Nov. 28, 2009 at 7:05 p.m.

In 2002 they were derided as a mere creation of TV. Seven years and 20 hit singles later, Girls Aloud's Nicola Roberts explains why silver tinfoil clothes are bad and it's actually been a dog of a decade – dalmatian, since you're asking… ... When ITV launched its boyband v girlband show Popstars: The Rivals in September 2002, the stage seemed set for a briefly chart-bothering, less credible version of Atomic Kitten. The boyband, One True Voice, filled those boots while Girls Aloud struck

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Selling Cheryl Cole

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Published Nov. 5, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
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She scored the fastest-selling single of 2009 so far and sailed to the top of the charts last week with her debut solo album, 3 Words. The successful launch of her solo career marked the culmination of a phenomenal year for 26-year-old Cheryl Cole, cementing her status as national treasure. Having notched up seven million album sales in the UK, a massive 20 consecutive top 10 singles, two number one albums and four Brit Award nominations with the pop band Girls Aloud, Cole's debut solo

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N-Dubz and the second coming of Brit pop

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Published Oct. 31, 2009 at 7:07 p.m.

It has been a long, rocky road for homegrown urban music in the UK, but this year N-Dubz and a close-knit group of stars have stormed the charts. Ben Thompson hails the new Brit pop scene's key players ... It's just before 3am on a Friday in October. The paparazzi are still hunting for scraps on the street outside the glitzy May Fair hotel, like city foxes going through the bins. Supposedly there was an improbable summit meeting between Jordan and Cheryl Cole going on inside earlier. And Mel B

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Mika, 'The Boy Who Knew Too Much' (CasablancaUniversal Republic)

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Published Sept. 12, 2009 at 2:11 p.m.

Self-absorbed and awkwardly exhibitionistic, Mika would be the Brüno of platinum piano pop if he didn't ground his giddiness with old-fashioned chops. This Beirut-born Brit's songwriting craft and vocal dazzle may be flagrantly uncool, but they're also refreshingly unencumbered: Nixing the sappy bits that dampened his debut, he rewrites the hooks from your parents' favorite Bon Jovi/Belinda Carlisle hits into earnest proclamations of teenage eccentricity, then waves his jazz hands in naysayers'

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Cornershop, Judy Sucks Lemon for Breakfast

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Published Aug. 2, 2009 at 9:25 p.m.

Cornershop return with an alternative history of Brit Pop ...

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Simon Armitage meets Arctic Monkeys

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Published July 11, 2009 at 6:05 p.m.

Arctic Monkeys have changed their look and sound, but have they changed as people, too? Simon Armitage finds the band just as comfortable hobnobbing with the jet set as with visiting their mums back home in Sheffield ... I'm waiting in the lounge area of a swanky photography studio in north London. The walk here from the tube station wasn't too promising; light industry, mixed housing, sleeping policemen, a couple of goods yards with barbed wire coiled along the top of the gate, and a man in a

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Various Artists, Common People Brit Pop: The Story

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Published June 28, 2009 at 10:19 a.m.

This compilation feels too rushed and unloved ...

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Album: Lightning Seeds, Four Winds, (Universal)

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Published May 16, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.
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A first album in 10 years by the Good Egg of proto-Brit pop, and if Ian Broudie's themes have acquired a sense of melancholy and reflectiveness with the passage of life, then his breezy pop formalism remains as, well, breezy as ever ...

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Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications

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Published May 11, 2009 at 11:48 a.m.

Artist:Jarvis CockerReview:In Pulp, Jarvis Cocker was a Brit-pop rake who could dissect theEnglish class system and sound suave doing it. Fast-forward 10years, and he's a somewhat less suave, middle-aged beard jockey ona never-ending quest for twentysomething ass. Produced by SteveAlbini, Cocker's excellent second solo disc sets hilariouslyover-the-top come-ons to bruising garage rock and woozy soul— on "Leftovers" he tries to sex up a foxy paleontologist, on"Angela" he goes after a girl who's

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