Video: OMG it’s Jedward!

So, a weird thing happened to us yesterday. There we were, minding our own business (for a change), checking our email (for a change) and we come across one called ‘Message from Jedward’. Naturally we regarded it with a fairly hefty amount of suspicion since most emails we get purporting to be from 18-year-olds go straight into the spam folder but turns out there was nothing untoward about it…we really did get a message from Jedward. See? It might be one of those things you can actually describe as surreal, as opposed to most of the time when it’s common usage is mangled. Obviously we’re entirely aware that it’s a clever little ploy to promote their new album, but since the other hello videos they did were for the likes of Miriam O’Callaghan, Perez Hilton (who they described as the best website ever - sigh, they’re not even wrong) and Obama, … There’s more

Lisa Hannigan does good

I noticed this morning that perezhilton.com is giving Lisa Hannigan a shout out and apparently she was on the Colbert Report recently. It is pretty safe to say that getting any sort of mention on Perez is a good thing and in this case it’s all positive with a link to her video for ‘I Don’t know’. I’ve only heard whatever songs she has released on the radio but it’s always nice to see an Irish singer getting some recognition across the water. Also, I’m so bloody sick of U2, Moaner Rice and now The Script being our ambassadors. I really like ‘Lille’ and I was going to embed it here but it’s just not working for me.