The Is That Your Ad? I Don't Know Post.

At least Lily Allen hasn't got a perfume yet.



Musically nice, visually... well, Mariah Carey baring flesh has never been a problem for me personally. I'm sure Amelie Gillette at The Onion will slate it, but screw her.

And it demonstrates that Britney can in fact bounce back (remember when everyone was writing off Mariah after the breakdown and Glitter and so on?). Too bad Mariah still has yet to have a chart-topper in the UK that isn't a cover version...

Scandalous Saskia, the Sequel

What she had to say about it.

What another blogger had to say about it.

And the it in question.

Suffice to say that as Bajegirl noted, had this happened in America (or in the UK) it would have most likely launched Saskia on a modelling career. She's certainly foxier than some glamour models...

Girls, yes. Booze, no.

Even Barbadian beer companies aren't immune to the lure of sex, eh? The Nation reports today that this year's Miss Banks/calendar girl, a 20-year-old bartender called Saskia Griffith (that's her up there), got stripped of her honour after being at a sponsored event and being lathered with chocolate in a tub at said event. Details here, with Saskia's picture from the calendar as well - sadly pulled from Banks' site now - and while it's hardly in the same league as Danielle Lloyd's misdeeds (look her up) or anything done by Paris Hilton, it's still not the kind of thing I heard about when I was younger. Then again, I was a very sheltered child.

Easter Presents?

A bus hoarding had a poster for Now That's What I Call Music 66 calling it a perfect present for Easter.

This is wrong.

Not only because of the item itself, but because of the whole idea of presents for Easter.

Easter has traditionally managed to escape the trappings of Christmas and been comparatively more of a sombre occasion than December 25, both commercially and emotionally. Which is how it should be - it's the weekend when Christ was crucified, after all. Does that spell "parties" to you? Okay, He did come back to life on the Sunday following, but that doesn't change the fact that it doesn't lend itself to the kind of hoopla we get later in the year. At least, it never used to (Easter Eggs and the Easter Bunny notwithstanding). But now this looks like the start of a slippery slope.

Or maybe not. Maybe I'm just exaggerating and years in the future Easter will still be more of a restrained time than Christmas - less commercial, more relaxing, not something to be dreaded more and more with each passing year. I hope so.

In the meantime, anyone buying that compilation should have their ears lopped off, the presence of Gwen Stefani and Jojo notwithstanding. They clearly don't use them.