Rules Of The Game #5: What's Wrong With Pretty Girls

[koganbot]

Latest column. Comments welcome here.

What's Wrong With Pretty Girls?

EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.

UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Totally - its interesting that I can name an endless stream of highly characterful non-UK ladies who have dominiated pop in the last five years (Bouncy/Nelly/Shakira/Xtina/Kelly/Amerie/Rihanna/Gwen/Avril/Britney etc etc PLUS they are established enough that I only need state their first names!) compared to lets see, Lily, Amy, Natasha, SEB, er..... Jamelia? EXACTLY. Our British solo lads haven't been particularly active either - for the last two years or so UK music has been far too reliant on guitar/indie bands and nameless producers. Plenty of worthy attempts but more often than not we end up with Beware Of The Dog instead of Since U Been Gone.