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* A small Summer special
* Maps, moustaches and more
* Charts: Lazer v Snake for No 1
>> Summer somethings <<
Ring rang-a-dong it’s a holiday
Hello. We’re off on our summer holidays at the minute, but we didn’t want you going without your weekly Popbitch hit – so we’ve prepared a few stories for you. They’re a little longer, so they should keep you going in our absence.
We’ll be back soon, ready for our 800th issue this September.
In the meantime, enjoy the (semi-)sunshine!
pb x
Every time Lady Gaga tweets she gains
an average of 8,000 new followers.
Which is roughly the equivalent of
one Justin Lee Collins.
>> All Mapped Out <<
The secret history of pop
Beyonce’s latest single, Hold Up, is ‘impacting’ on radio this week. The song is based around a series of samples – among them Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Maps has got a very strange place in pop music history, as it has arguably been the single most influential song of the last 15 years. Almost every last bit of it has been sampled (or stolen) in pop songs that went on to be much, much bigger than the original ever was.
It’s an interesting story, but it’s tricky to do it justice in such a short space, so why not take a read of the full
thing here?
Ed Balls’ favourite song at karaoke
is Take That’s Back For Good.
>> Odds and oddities <<
The fatal flaw in Brexit bets
Political polling has taken a bit of a kicking in recent years – having failed to accurately forecast a number of fairly massive outcomes both here and abroad.
For a while people turned to bookmakers to see what their odds were showing, the consensus being that betting markets were a more accurate predictor of these sorts of outcomes than polls ever were.
Then came Brexit…
Now that Donald Trump is falling in the polls, and his odds are lengthening, every sign seems to show that he is fighting a losing battle.
But before Democrats start to get too complacent about this, there may be a lesson to learn from the whole Brexit betting debacle. One that would bode well for Trump.
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>> Wardrobe malfunction <<
Farage and the Brexit Spirit
Since Britain voted to leave the EU, there has been something ever so jaunty about Nigel Farage’s wardrobe choices.
In fact, we couldn’t help but notice that he’s begun to model himself almost exactly on the fictional hero of PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster books, Bertie Wooster.
The garish jackets, the bright socks, that gruesome moustache – all he needs now is an Alpine hat to top it all off.
Thank heavens Switzerland won’t be on his proposed tour of EU member states.
Farage was spotted queuing up at the German Embassy this week, looking extremely shifty.
>> 10,000 Lembit Opiks <<
Popbitch Magazine: Issue 27
If you’ve enjoyed any of these longer stories we’ve linked to in this little issue, then there are plenty more like them in Popbitch Magazine.
The latest issue is out now and also includes a review of webcam menace Leslie Grantham’s new kids’ book, a catch-up with the Danczuks, Robert Kilroy-Silk’s sexy nickname, plus a bunch of other silliness and filth.
And you’ll get to find out whose tweets are worth 10,000 Lembit Opiks.
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Thanks to: RD, LEW, CH, LP
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Old Olympics Jokes Home:
An Olympics pundit meets a man with an eight-foot metal stick and asks him, “Are you a pole vaulter?”
“Nein,” says the man, “I’m German. But how did you know my name was Walter?”
Still Bored?
This week’s Media Masters podcast has music mogul Chris Wright – on signing Blondie, Spandau Ballet, Billy Idol and a life of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Listen here:
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