Music:
Utopia-Sounds like what pop in 2007 should sound like.
V.I.P-The male PAY-TV? Petros channels his GLAM-Bitch side and produces a poptrash classic.
Petros is hot. Deeply connected to trashy electo and pure pop, his music flies far above much of the usual stuff that drenches myspace these days. If you felt Fisherpooner were too up themselves but loved the mix they did of Come Into My World you'll like Petros. The key-note track V.I.P collapses the sound The Flirts and Pay-TV into one monster pop song. We ain't taking about the singer-songwriter territory of Mika or James Blunt as Petros declares "we don't need your rock & roll" but instead "sex, drugs, techno". Fuck yes! A popboy that is finally ticking all my boxes.
Petros has eyed-up the best of scandipop and the long-lost dance-pop scene of America and produced something quite unique. Brilliant, quirky and timeless poptastic anthems. Another American lad tried to this last year and his name was one Simon Curtis. However Petros chews up Simon and spits him out. Indeed, the best Simon Curtis song Put Your Make Up On sounds very much like the average Petros productions. Petros lyrics arn't rushed yet spew out thick and fast, the music takes centre stage and the produced is overflowing with utter-catchiness. The line "the heir to the throne of the microphone" makes me giggle like a giggle-monster riding the giggle-ride at Giggleand. It seems Simon has a rival who has raised the bar, the glam and the music which means a competition might be on! (A bit of competition is always good in my books!)
So where to place Petros musically? I've already mentioned Fisherspooner but he's more catchy than that. I've mentioned Simon Curtis but to me his vocals seem more balanced and less falsetto. Personally I feel he's releasing music that J.C Chasez would cream his pants for. Theres also a little bit of Darren Hayes inside Petros.
Remember the Britney songs Breathe On Me and Before The Goodbye? Although they were criminally overlooked by Jive Records Petros recognises the Spears gems in his stunning song Utopia. This pop music but not as we know it people! Just as you think Utopia is a typical soft-core electro ballad Petros throws in heavy slabs of dancepop of the type I haven't heard since er like Evah!
Petros: a star thats well worth watching. Ladies, gentlemen, girls, boys, queers and dogs, this is pop but not as we know it!
Credit: huge thank you Petros for getting in touch and sending the album! Much appreciated!
Petros Myspace
DONTSTOPTHEPOP DISCOVERS PETROS.......
MARTA SANCHEZ Superstar
DontStopthePop loves its European pop divas and it doesn't get more fab than the new single by Miss.Sanchez. Don't know of Marta? She comes from great stock for her father is the great Antonio Sánchez Camporro! After a number of very popular albums of the ballad sort she's gone and pulled out a dance record for us her adoring fans. Just don't mention Monica Naranjo!
Many have mentioned Madonna but I don't believe I see any sort of similarity. I seriously don't. One samples ABBA and destroys the classic Swedish anthem about men after midnight and the other improves on the original by Depeche Mode and perhaps pays tribute to it.
Superstar is yet another slice of brilliant Spanish pop music that the U.K desperately needs. If there two countries in Europe that I would move to it would be Spain or Sweden on music alone. The two countries just do pop like no other. Perhaps I'd also do Spring in Greece and parts of winter(their summer) in Australia.
Buy Marta at El Corte Ingles
Lene Alexandra Øien My Boobs Are Okay
What do you do if you mashed up Victoria Silverstedt, Dannii Minogue, Gwen Stefani, Pay-TV and Margaret Berger? The Norwegan poptrash princess Lene Alexandra Øien! In "My Boobs Are Okay" Lene deconstructs, seduces and satirizes to such a hyper-extremity I am rather breathless. The video is just as sublime as the song....
DANNIIS BOX EXPLODES!!!
This picture found itself on the now legendary popblog PopTrash. It bolted out at me like Edvard Munch's Scream. It made me wet. It made me cry. It made me want to swim to Australia and lick Mr.Poptrash all over. Then I decided it might be quicker to fly there. I was on Qantas.cum when suddenly the above image of Dannii straddled my thalamus and I've been speaking in tongues since. Which is why Qantas refused me to fly me. However don't refuse Poptrash and pay your respects to the god now. The above image might have actually occurred if Dannii handn't agreed to be the first victim of the Kylie curse.....
In other news...read about Pinkie's odd dream here. Watch Masters at Work dance to Slippydiscos strange pussies. Or, get really jealous over the new Zapping.
