I Love It

Hopefully these “young people” won’t start crashing their cars into bridges (I’m from the seventies too, but that makes me sound like I’m from the fifties).
Icona Pop are like a bit like Shampoo, yes, but with growling dub effects instead of session guitars and keys (this is, of course, a brilliant thing all round.)

Shampoo’s new to me, but listening to their ‘Trouble’ now I guess it is the same (weak) idea as the Icona Pop. ‘I Love It”s use on Girls this week was, however, the highlight of a poor episode; it definitely made the track sound better than it is.

#4 – Been thinking about this today, are you really going to lump all those groups together? The first two are maybe fair enough, but the only link I can see between Republica and Helen Love is that they were fronted by women. Isn’t this a bit “all female fronted bands are the same”?

Yes, not sure Republica belongs (to po-faced), the rest are pop groups who are happy to be silly…

I think of Republica as sonically closer to Transvision Vamp than Bikini Kill. The lovely Saffron had been the singer on N-Joi’s Anthem, and Johnny ‘Soul Family Sensation’ Male wrote their hits, so they were a rum lot all round. But they were certainly no Shampoo.