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Pick at the pops: 12 February 2007

Our weekly round-up of the weird and wonderful world of pop music...

Finally, our US cousins are beginning to understand us. Or at least they’re beginning to understand a cartoon cockernee Lahndan side of us. Yes, Miss Lily Allen is doing what Robbie Williams has been flailing at these past few years – breaking the American market. Alright, Still is in the Billboard Chart at No.20 with a bullet this week. It makes us so proud. It’ll make us even prouder when Lil starts tearing a strip off Brad and Angelina, Condoleezza Rice etc. etc.

More hands are reaching across the ocean, this time offered by the Klaxons. The indie, not-at-all-New-Rave lads have expressed a wish to work with Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg. “We would very much like to make an R&B record. If we could afford it” they say. Not sure they’ve got this bling thing sussed.

Many will be looking to forge closer Anglo-American bonds with pint-sized diva Christina Aguilera, now it’s emerged that she indulges in “naked Sundays”. It’s something to do with keeping the spark alive in her marriage and swanning around the house in the buff, but if she can be persuaded to pop out to the supermarket one weekend, maybe everyone can enjoy it.

It’s the week of the BRIT Awards so those campaign bandwagons are rolling in to town, charm offensives at the ready. Oasis’ beaver-browed mastermind Noel Gallagher has been suggesting that U2’s world-saving super-gnome Bono should “play One, shut up about Africa” and that Radiohead’s maestro of mirth Thom Yorke should cork it about the state of the world and “play Creep. Get over it”. Not everyone peaked in 1994, Noel.

Matthew Horton

Picture: Empics

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