girl bands are thicker

I thought they were good on the show too, although not funny.

I think they picked the two most relaxed, easy-going, friendly types from Hear'Say to do Buzzcocks. They couldn't have picked Myleene coz she's the quiet, slightly mysterious one. The blonde one would have died the death coz she's a humourless little bitch and the East End bloke would have arsed his way through it OK, but Noel's nicer. And Kim's a bubbly Northerner who only lets personal fat attacks from "Nasty" Nigel get to her. Great.

I've watched every episode of Popstars except for two, I have. Oh yes.

Incidentally, Unruly Butler, why must people be thick if they're relaxed on Buzzcocks? It's not as if the guest panelists really have to compete in the comedy stakes with anyone, is it?

Yeah, but you know... Bryan from Westlife.
"I t'ink you look like a duck."

>Incidentally, Unruly Butler, why must people be thick if they're relaxed on Buzzcocks? It's not as if the guest panelists really have to compete in the comedy stakes with anyone, is it?

Er, I think you misunderstand the unruly one. The other members of girl/boy bands are shown to be "stupid" by the apparent relaxedness of the popstars, who, according to the Butler, hadn't been prepared for this. Which is rubbish because they had been prepared for that kind of show, in a very public way. I think.

But the usual training for a boy band / girl band is (as that "Raw Spice" documentary proved) up to a year of development (I mean, they even gave Gay Dad two years of grooming, and they weren't destined for Smash Hitsdom).

The Popstars bunch, by comparison, had an astonishingly short run to stardom, weeks not months, and yet they outshone all the Stage School trained moppets from the fast lane of pop.

I might be developing a grudging respect for their innate ability at doing the pop job.

Girl Thing had a fucking fortune spent on them, 2 years preparation... and have just been dropped.

All Saints were delayed for a year because of the success of the Spice Girls. The original idea was that they would have a "real" band playing behind them (like Sugababes do now) but they got redesigned in the wake of SG.

Talking of design, that Sugababes album is an atrocious bit of graphic work.
My hand drawn ripped-from-Napster version is far superior and I shall be planting it in the display racks at V Shop as part of my guerilla design war.