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Pay TV feat. Don King – Work Your Body
Finally. After over a year of waiting, the new single from the greatest popgroup ever (kind of) has released a new single in Sweden. And I for one can say that I’m not disappointed for one second – it’s frigging fantastic! Lyrically it’s everything you’d expect from Pay TV. The extreme irony about the rich and famous is still there, and this time they’re, like the title suggests, singing about getting the perfect body. Or, actually they’re singing about having the perfect body. Just listen to the following lines from the song; “Natural curves are not so hot”, “I got to stop eat, to complete, and be a piece of perfect meat” and “I build my muscles hard as steal, steroids make sex appeal”. Absolutely brilliant, eh!? With the production the girls have taken a step away from the electro-clash style they’ve had before to pure pop music. This is even radio friendly! While their previous singles has had as much of a chance of getting played on Swedish pop radio as 50 Cent (ie null), I could totally see Rix FM playing this. Though they probably won’t, but they should. Bring on the album now girls!! I don’t think I can wait anymore. It will be the album of the year. I know it. Ah, I love this group too much! (To the left are pictures of Pay TV looking fabulous at this year's Stockholm Pride.

Above is the sleeve for the new American Teddybears (STHLM) album “Soft Machine”. It’s quite brilliant, isn’t it? I hope it goes well for the Teddybears in the States. They’ve been quite hyped on different American MP3 blogs so if that’s anything to go by it will. The following songs are my favourites on the album (for some reason they decided not to include ‘Hey Boy’):

Teddybears feat. Neneh Cherry & Annie – Yours To Keep
A few months ago I posted the Iggy Pop version of Punkrocker, and another old song that has been reworked with new vocalists is “Yours To Keep”, previously sung by the amazing Paola. I can’t say I like the new version more than the original one, because Paola’s voice is one of the loveliest I’ve heard, but Neneh has an edgy voice which makes the song nice in a new way. The result would probably have been pop perfection if they’d let the acetastic Annie sing the entire song, though, don’t you think?

Teddybears – Little Stereo
This is one of the songs on “Soft Machine” that didn’t get much of a make over compared to the original version. I can’t believe they made this track back in 2000. The Teddybears were such ahead of their time. ‘Little Stereo’ still an amazing pop song which doesn’t sound dated for one second, despite being so old.

By the way, I found this on YouTube. Seems to be some kind of promotional video or something, featuring different tracks from the album. And click here for the new video for 'Cobra Style'.

posted by Chrille @ 9/02/2006