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Ding Dong/ Chewing Gum


I'm usually not one to listen to the same song over and over, there's always something else to move on and listen to. Right now, amazingly, there is two songs I'm addicted to and I just can't stop listening to them.

The first is Ding Dong by Nellie Mckay from her album Get Away From Me (clearly she's bizarro Norah Jones, she must be hiding the wee beard with make up). The album is a mess of styles but brilliantly so from show tunes, pop, jazz and even rap and they're all written by McKay. All over the map and with the kind of enthusiasm that only a show off 19 year old could have. On the cover in her red duffle coat throwing her arms in the air, she must be screaming 'Look at me!'.

Ding Dong is infectiously great though, loved it from the moment I heard it. From the sprightly piano, the ding dong bell of the title, the fact she appears to sing it as though she's Audrey Hepburn apart from one line when she turns into Greta Garbo, it's brilliant stuff. I could almost hear Parkinson jumping on some of this stuff and this song certainly if it wasn't for the stylistic jumping on the album and the liberal sprinkling of swearing throughout.

Chewing Gum in contrast is electro pop by a Norwegian called Annie and should be a huge hit except it won't be because it was number 27 in the midweek chart which is nonsense. It's produced by Richard X who was behind the Sugababes Freak Like Me and Rachel Stevens Some Girls and I can't stop singing the damn thing and in fact I went out and bought the single yesterday and I haven't bought one of those in years. Good lyrics too, likening the men in her life to chewing gum. She thinks they're just chewing gum, chew a while till the flavours gone and then chuck it away, while they seem to be under the misapprahension that they're chocolate.

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