OK, so here's the plan. We'll launch you with a song loads of people will like but nobody will buy. Then we'll make sure you're inescapable with a fiddle-and-banjo Fleetwood Mac cover.
Sharon, Andreya, Caroline, you'll be the focal point of the band, everyone will love you. Jim, you'll be a punchline on SM:TV when they invent it later in the year.
Mr. Jean must have bumped into the All Saints in the dressing rooms, and somehow ended up wearing one of their camouflage jackets.
The radio edit was all melodic and dramatic, none of this rapping. Wyclef is a great live performer, but I wonder how many casual viewers this will have attracted.
Mr. G is on a massive disco floor, with a silver satin shirt draped around his body. Three couples gyrate on the dance floor behind him, and massive coloured lights pulse on the video screens.
Lene with the costume of *every* trans catgirl who keeps the internet running - long hair dyed black at the back, scarlet at the front, all over a barely-there and perfectly demure top-and-skirt combo.
Props to the tambourine player repping the Maple Leafs.
Another chance to enjoy the huge band, all squeezed onto the smallest corner stage.
Gawp at the brass quartet playing each other's instruments! Shriek as the bass is tuned by the drummer's stick! Chortle as the keyboardist is modulated by a guitarist.
Whatever happened to Imaani? Stayed in the music industry, including a top twenty cover of "Freak like me" - if only she'd set it to a Gary Numan song, eh.
Imaani later worked with the funk-jazz combo Incognito, and released a few soulful tunes.
She's happy to perform at Eurovision concerts, and quite rightly so.
From a Eurovision legend to Daz Sampson, who takes the riff from a classic tune, speeds it up, adds a banging beat, and tops the mix with a rap worthy of Wyclef Jean.
Carl Douglas, the original singer, is also on stage to mime the "whoa-oh-oh"s.
Imaani finished second in her Eurovision; Daz will barely make the top twenty in eight years' time.
"What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?" Changing Rooms was absolutely off their face that week!
Anyway, I promised an explanation of the samples. You'll probably know "Can you feel it" by The Jacksons, which does most of the heavy lifting - the chugging backbeat, the chorus's lift and flourishes.
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The lyric comes from "Wanna drop a house (on that bitch)" by Urban Discharge, a pumpy-thumpy hard house tune from 1995 which achieved reasonable success in clubs.
Original vocal was by "She", later known as Heather Leigh West; she remained active in the dance scene into the 2010s.
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I was going to make a crack about how this band had a lineup of Caramel, Dairy Milk, Twirl, Wispa, and The Eclair That's Always The Last One Left In The Box.
Except that the chocolate heroes won't be launched until next year. Bother.
Having lost their combat jackets to Wyclef Jean last week, the Saints are on a little podium in the middle of the crowd, which gives some unusual shots and clear sightlines.
Less convinced by the shot direction, at one point panning along the line so that we're looking at Saints waiting for their cue.
And, just when we're worried they'll stop, they play both sides of the song.
Jorinde is the singer, David and Frank on the keyboards. I have no clue who the goons dancing are.
"Insanity" was the apotheosis of happy house, uplifting music with a fast beat. Massive in the north, huge in Scotland, but derided in That London. If you wanted to hear this, you had to buy the single, radio would not play it.
We're into the section of stars who I might have had a crush on at the time... and I now don't recall why.
"Sunshine on a rainy day" had just missed the charts in summer 1990, eclipsed by such classics as "Turtle power" and Timmy F***in' Mallett. Where are those chancers now, eh?
Il colosso tech accusato di aver approfittato della sua posizione dominante nel mercato pubblicitario online. L'Ue: «Stop a pratiche di auto-preferenza»
I walked into the woods again today to escape everything and be with myself, surrounded by the quiet beauty of nature 🌲🍂.
There, without distractions, I simply breathed, moved slowly, and existed in a calm that made me feel vividly alive and free 🍃✨.
Hugging a tree as the golden sunset warmed the leaves, I felt grounded and at peace in that perfect moment of connection 🌿☀️.
Wishing you all a peaceful weekend, may you find moments to be kind to yourselves and others, and like me in the woods today, remember to pause and smile even when the world feels heavy 🌿😊💛.
Writers aren't getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI -- this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.
Nothing about this looks like a dinner with major companies. Just an emperor’s dinner party with his feudal lords that either kiss ass or worry speaking up hurts stock prices.
@pluralistic I follow very few people on flickr, and this French collector of old images is one. It reminds me of you! also check the seal it says tour of London collection. Please forgive typos I only have a left hand for the next few weeks... flickr.com/photos/taffeta/5474…
I've decided to take up writing again, mainly as a way to help me remember things better, but also because I do get some joy out of it. My first post goes live on the 7th, if anyone is interested. I suspect that it will mostly be #OpenStreetMap related but there might be some other #tech related things thrown in there as well.
Delegações estrangeiras relatam dificuldades com hospedagem em Belém e reclamam de preços acima do normal A apenas dois meses da COP30, marcada para novembro em Belém (PA), o número de delegações estrangeiras confirmadas permanece baixo.
There is a certain comfort to be found in the adage that you should not attribute to malice what you can instead attribute to ignorance, but look at the world oh, my friend, please just look at the world and know that so much of what you see really should be attributed to malice.
BBC: South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
"...US immigration authorities have raided a massive Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, leading to the arrest of over 450 people, according to one of the agencies involved in the operation...."
"...The facility is part of what would be the biggest industrial investment in the state’s history and had been hailed as a huge boost for the economy by Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp...."
It's curious that ICE has better ways of detecting "illegal" workers than major corporations that presumably only hire people legally able to work here.
I suspect there's been a "don't ask, don't tell" policy with a lot of this, because US immigration policy has been so broken for so long. They probably have known of issues at many of these employers for a decade and only because of the politics today are they cracking down.
The article said most were grabbed for overstaying visas. I can picture the workers were brought in to do specialized work and could not renew their visas because of the broken immigration system. So now the work is shut down and every major corporation in the world is reconsidering making any investments here because of the uncertainty.
it doesn't even matter what the rest of the world thinks. Hyundai, SK Group, LG and Hanwa are huge companies and all have a stake in this plant. The SK president would take a call from any of these chaebol CEOs in a heartbeat. Any future SK investment in the US is going to need a nod of agreement from Hyundai, as no SK company will want Hyundai upset.
This issue should have been dealt with by a suggestion from a senior ICE official to a senior Hyundai executive at a meeting in South Korea that visas be regularised and that this would be checked on a date some months away.
As it is, the US clearly chose offence and disruption.
The timing couldn't be worse, the lead story in SK news today also being about Trump and poor choices by the US. South Korea is waiting to see what North Korea's response will be to the murder of its citizens by US troops.
I've been told ESA, the European Space Agency, spends 250 million euros a year on Amazon cloud services. Today, I received an administrative email from ESA, and it featured an embedded **1.6 megabyte** image as a footer celebrating their 50th birthday, in 4137x953 pixels resolution. Perhaps that's why their cloud bill is so tremendous. A scaled version:
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Those who only wanted a stooge to pander to their insecure needs for ever more money, power, less regulations, and freedom from the voters will (via gerrymandering and stacking the Supreme Court and judiciary) and the right to discriminate and be xenophobic and not have to obey the constitution especially that pesky part about the US not being a theocracy, have inadvertently made the US not great again but rather a joke. 1/2
TOKYO (AP) — Kokichi Akuzawa almost gave up during his trek to became the oldest person to summit Mount Fuji at age 102, an achievement recognized by Guinness World Records after he reached the top in early August.
Francesca Albanese non è soltanto una voce che denuncia: è un’energia che travolge pressenza.com/it/2025/09/franc… Francesca Albanese, relatrice speciale delle Nazioni Unite per i diritti umani nei Territori palestinesi occupati, già sanzionata dall’amministrazione Trump per aver denunciato il genocidio in corso, è stata ospite di Terra!, la festa nazionale di Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra. La… Redazione Roma
Restoring a mind state backup from three hours ago so you can watch the recording of what you did with her, that's entirely new to her. Seeing her face react as she watches her self get taken apart and fucked with her own limbs amongst dozens of other enjoyable ideas you had, and have absolutely no memory of any of it.
At least it will help her understand where she got the new scuffs on her chassis.
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Say you love me" - Simply Red
Could do, but I'd be lying.
#TOTP #SimplyRed
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"A little girl with a woman's voice", claims Jo Whiley. [checks calendar] Corks, we'll see Swindon's finest doctor at the start of next month.
Anyway, here's another chance to see "How do I live" performed by Leann Rimes.
#TOTP #LeannRimes
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Life ain't easy" - Cleopatra
That is superb close-harmony singing from the trio. And there's the shuffle-beat, and the slightly melancholic minor key to the song.
Sure, they're dressed for Tweens Like You (TM), and the sound felt dated as soon as the year didn't begin with "1", but this song is really very good.
#TOTP #Cleopatra
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Gone till november" - Wyclef Jean
Mr. Jean must have bumped into the All Saints in the dressing rooms, and somehow ended up wearing one of their camouflage jackets.
The radio edit was all melodic and dramatic, none of this rapping. Wyclef is a great live performer, but I wonder how many casual viewers this will have attracted.
#TOTP #WyclefJean
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Night fever" - Adam Garcia
From the latest West End performance of "Grease".
Mr. G is on a massive disco floor, with a silver satin shirt draped around his body. Three couples gyrate on the dance floor behind him, and massive coloured lights pulse on the video screens.
Flick Colby earned her crust this week.
#TOTP #AdamGarcia
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Turn back time" - Aqua
Lene with the costume of *every* trans catgirl who keeps the internet running - long hair dyed black at the back, scarlet at the front, all over a barely-there and perfectly demure top-and-skirt combo.
Props to the tambourine player repping the Maple Leafs.
#TOTP #Aqua
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Dance the night away" - The Mavericks
Another chance to enjoy the huge band, all squeezed onto the smallest corner stage.
Gawp at the brass quartet playing each other's instruments! Shriek as the bass is tuned by the drummer's stick! Chortle as the keyboardist is modulated by a guitarist.
And tap your foot to the gentle sunny song!
#TOTP #TheMavericks
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Last thing on my mind" - Steps
Ah, this performance I remember, the one where they're all in white and get a nice big stage to prance about on.
See, they let five-piece Steps use a stage the size of Wembley Stadium, and cram The Mavericks into the Broom Cupboard. What gives?
#TOTP #Steps
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Where are you" - Imaani
Whatever happened to Imaani? Stayed in the music industry, including a top twenty cover of "Freak like me" - if only she'd set it to a Gary Numan song, eh.
Imaani later worked with the funk-jazz combo Incognito, and released a few soulful tunes.
She's happy to perform at Eurovision concerts, and quite rightly so.
#TOTP #Imaani
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Kung fu fighting" - Bus Stop ft Carl Douglas
From a Eurovision legend to Daz Sampson, who takes the riff from a classic tune, speeds it up, adds a banging beat, and tops the mix with a rap worthy of Wyclef Jean.
Carl Douglas, the original singer, is also on stage to mime the "whoa-oh-oh"s.
Imaani finished second in her Eurovision; Daz will barely make the top twenty in eight years' time.
#TOTP #BusStop
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Stranded" - Lutricia McNeal
You may remember how a subtle video effect made Five Star pop out of the screen twelve years ago.
Here, a gratuitous video effect - removing most of the red from the picture - is completely unconvincing, and makes the visuals look entirely naff.
Which is a shame, because Lutricia has some of the greatest soul pipes we've heard tonight. This song deserved better.
#TOTP #LutriciaMcNeil
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Feel it" - The Tamperer ft Maya
"What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?" Changing Rooms was absolutely off their face that week!
Anyway, I promised an explanation of the samples. You'll probably know "Can you feel it" by The Jacksons, which does most of the heavy lifting - the chugging backbeat, the chorus's lift and flourishes.
youtu.be/lrKZNqIR2U0
#TOTP #TheTamperer #Maya
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in reply to Weaver • • •"Feel it" - The Tamperer ft Maya
The lyric comes from "Wanna drop a house (on that bitch)" by Urban Discharge, a pumpy-thumpy hard house tune from 1995 which achieved reasonable success in clubs.
Original vocal was by "She", later known as Heather Leigh West; she remained active in the dance scene into the 2010s.
youtu.be/n2Zc6RJTJoE
#TOTP #TheTamperer #Maya
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youtu.beWeaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"The heroes" - Shed Seven
I was going to make a crack about how this band had a lineup of Caramel, Dairy Milk, Twirl, Wispa, and The Eclair That's Always The Last One Left In The Box.
Except that the chocolate heroes won't be launched until next year. Bother.
Still more interesting than this indie landfill.
#TOTP #ShedSeven #Cadburys
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Under the bridge", "Lady mamalade" - All Saints
Having lost their combat jackets to Wyclef Jean last week, the Saints are on a little podium in the middle of the crowd, which gives some unusual shots and clear sightlines.
Less convinced by the shot direction, at one point panning along the line so that we're looking at Saints waiting for their cue.
And, just when we're worried they'll stop, they play both sides of the song.
More #TOTP at 9.50 with Dame Jakki Brambles.
#AllSaints
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Insanity" - Oceanic
Jorinde is the singer, David and Frank on the keyboards. I have no clue who the goons dancing are.
"Insanity" was the apotheosis of happy house, uplifting music with a fast beat. Massive in the north, huge in Scotland, but derided in That London. If you wanted to hear this, you had to buy the single, radio would not play it.
#TOTP #Oceanic
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Charly" - The Prodigy
Last year, we saw the show from two weeks earlier, so quite a few songs might ring a few bells.
This one was huge in the South, so Radio 1 played it to death. Of course.
#TOTP #TheProdigy
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Be young, be foolish, be happy" - Sonia
The Sensational Epics is the answer to "who wrote this"; The Tams "who had the hit".
The song's been used in many adverts - bus passes, holidays and Persil washing powder. Which explains why Sonia's in (er) all black.
#TOTP #Sonia
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Let's talk about sex" - Salt & Pepa
Here's the video.
Few rappers have one signature hit, something remembered through the ages. This group have *two*, we can all recognise "Push it".
#TOTP #SaltNPepa
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Sunshine on a rainy day" - Zoë
We're into the section of stars who I might have had a crush on at the time... and I now don't recall why.
"Sunshine on a rainy day" had just missed the charts in summer 1990, eclipsed by such classics as "Turtle power" and Timmy F***in' Mallett. Where are those chancers now, eh?
#TOTP #Zoe
Weaver
in reply to Weaver • • •"Love, thy will be done" - Martika
The section of crushes concludes with Martika, who was effortlessly cool and glamorous and sultry.
[sighs]#TOTP #Martika