RHYDIAN - FROM RHYD TO LIB!

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RHYD

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FROM RHYDIAN TO RHY-IDIOT TO RHY-DICULOUS!

The Sunday papers were full of Rhydian stories portraying him as a "fame hungry oddball", apparently Rhydian wears a black balaclava when he goes running in order to protect his voice.

The Latest rhydiculous story to emerge is that Rhydian was cheated out of victory by dodgy phone lines - as if!

Ofcom is investigating complaints that some Rhydian fans have claimed that they tried and failed to vote up to 10 times. "NEWS FLASH" fans of Leon had difficulty getting through on the phone line as well!

An Ofcom spokesman said viewers had "expressed concerns about the operation of the voting and many said they were struggling to get through", and that subsequently the results could not be relied upon.

Some radio stations in Rhydian's native Wales said they would boycott the winner's single and demanded a recount.

GET A LIFE!

THERE'S NOTHING WORSE THAN A BAD LOSER!

THE BEST MAN WON!

Even Popjustice had a pop, shame on you Popjustice - Go to your room!

Mind you he does do a mean "Go West"

Rhydian - Go West


His Phantom of the Opera and Somewhere isn't bad either!

Someone get that man a candelabra . . .

KATIE MELUA & EVA CASSIDY!

Katie Melua's duet with the late Eva Cassidy has hit the number 1 spot in the UK charts. What A Wonderful World knocked Leona Lewis off the top spot.

Profits from the sale of the charity single will go to the British Red Cross.

What A Wonderful World - Eva Cassidy & Katie Melua


But don't forget it's Leon for the Christmas Number 1 . . .

SAME DIFFERENCE DO DISNEY!

Separated at birth!

Disney to sign X-Factor's "Same Difference".

Disney have asked Simon Cowell if they can sign up cheesy pop duo Same Difference for a ad campaign for the DVD release of High School Musical 2.

A Popplastic source said: "Disney have approached Simon about giving Sarah and Sean a contract to promote their DVD. They loved them on the show, especially when they sang a track from the film, and think they would be perfect to promote the sequel." The source added: "Same Difference have the energy and spirit which would be just right for Disney."


Same Difference - Breaking Free - Disney - High School Musical

LEON JACKSON - WHEN YOU BELIEVE!

Leon for Christmas Number 1!

Popplastic are proud to be supporting X-Factor 2007 winner Leon, and we're planning on buying Leon's debut single, "When You Believe", an amazing rendition of the Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston classic.

Watch Leon . . .

Leon Jackson - When You believe

Leon Jackson The X Factor When You Believe

Click here to listen to a clip of Leon's "When you believe", or activate the widget below!

Check out Leon's website and buy his debut single "When You Believe" online. Or download it from itunes.

Check out Leon's fansite and find out more about him on Wikipedia.

When you believe . . .

LEON WINS X-FACTOR!

Pop shock as Leon wins X-Factor 2007!




Leon Jackson was the surprise winner of The X Factor tonight.

The 19-year-old Scot became the youngest ever winner of the X-Factor, beating off bookies' favourite Rhydian Roberts.

For the final, Leon teamed up with Kylie Minogue for an amazing rendition of the pop legend's hit, Better The Devil You Know.

Leon will now release a cover of the Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston song, When You Believe - a sure fire Number 1!

Leon's audition


some of Leon's best bits . . .



See more Leon clips on X-Factor on YouTube.

We love Leon . . .

SAME DIFFERENCE OUT OF THE X-FACTOR!

OH MY GOD!

How can it be! Popplastic's "Same Difference" are voted off the the X-Factor final!

Flags are flying at half mast on the ramparts of Popplastic Towers . . .

even at the The White House . . .



The Popplastic X-Factor final highlight has to be the "Worst Auditioness" performing their version of Whitney's "One Moment in Time".

X Factor 4, The Final, Worst Auditioness


But the real highlight has to be Leon!

VOTE FOR LEON, 0901 16 16 1102 . . .

KYLIE -WOW!

"Wow" is the second single to be released from Kylie's album "X"

"Wow" isn't the first word that springs to mind after hearing Kylie's new offereing for the first time. It's pleasunt enough but it's no "Your Disco Needs You". The "wow wow wow wow" bits are fabulous but come on Kylie you can do better than that!

Kylie - Wow


Released on February 25 2008



Kylie's website.

Kylie's myspace

Wow, wow, wow, wow . . .

BRITNEY - PIECE OF ME!

"Piece of Me" is the second single sheduled for release from Britneys's Blackout album. The song is said to be one of the most personal from Blackout, despite the fact that lyrically Spears made no reported contribution to it. The lyrics reflect events in Spears' life in recent months, as she is trailed by paparazzi nearly everywhere she goes.

Britney Spears - Piece of Me Video


UK Release Date - 7th January 2008

Check out Britney's myspace

Another day, another drama . . .

X-FACTOR - THE FINAL!

Who will it be?

SAME DIFFERENCE! - Who else!

Popplastic are campaigning for a "Same Difference" victory on Saturday nights X-Factor final! We've been supporting the brother and sister duo throughout the series and can sense victory in the air! We'd be quite happy with a win for Leon just so long as R-idiot doesn't win.

All the contestants are singing one Christmas-themed song, one normal song and a duet. The songs for their duets are being kept as a surprise, here's the song choices . . .

Leon

White Christmas
You Don’t Know Me
Duet with Kylie Minogue

Rhydian

O Holy Night
Somewhere
Duet with Katherine Jenkins

Same Difference

All I Want For Christmas Is You
Breaking Free
Duet with Jason Donovan


Vote "Same Difference" - 0901 61 61 102 . . .

FREEMASONS!

We never thought we'd be fans of the Freemasons!

Sometimes you accidentally find yourself listening to the Top 40 on Radio 1 and you hear a song that you've just got to have!

Sunday night's show featured The Freemasons and Uninvited at Number 18!

The Freemasons "Uninvited" is actually a cover of the Alanis Morissette track. The Freemasons are a Brighton dance duo known for their stomping house tracks - hardly very popplastic! "Uninvited" features the vocals of Bailey Tzuke and is taken from their "Unmixed" album.

Freemasons - Uninvited (ft Bailey Tzuke)


Check out the rest of the album . . .

and The Freemasons on myspace

Avdi Vide Tace. . .

POPPLASTIC FM!

PopPlastic FM has arrived!

Forget Radio Skonto! Forget Svenska Favoriter!

Popplastic's official radio station is now "PopPlastic FM"

All the best music, from cheese to Eurovision (is there a difference there!)

Just activate the PopPlasticFM box in the top left hand corner and prepare for a musical masterclass!

We just need a jingle now. . .

GIRLS ALOUD - THEME TO ST. TRINIAN'S!

Those "Girls Aloud" singles just keep on coming!

Monday sees the release of yet another G'aloud single, not that we're complaining,"keep them coming" - Set the G'Aloud single machine to rapid fire! The latest offering is the "Theme St. Trinian's" (from the movies).

The soundtrack includes two exclusive tracks by Girls Aloud, who have a cameo in the film. "Theme To St Trinian’s" is described as "a romping anthem for school girls (and certain others!) up and down the country" while "On My Way To Satisfaction" is more typical Girls Aloud pure pop. The soundtrack also includes "Three Spoons Of Suga" by the Sugababes - can't wait!

Girls Aloud - Theme to St Trinians


Released December 10

Girls Aloud/St. Trinians on Popjustice

Girls Aloud on myspace

Check out St. Trinians the movie!

We can't fake the way we feel. We were born to keep it real. Hockey sticks and balls of steel. We are St Trinian's. . .

X-FACTOR - NIKI!

More bad X-Factor news!

Birmingham school dinner lady and Popplastic favourite Niki makes shock exit.

Here's Niki at her best . . .

Niki - Power of Love


At least the official Popplastic contestants, Same Difference made it through along with the amazing (cause he's Scottish) Leon. How on earth is Ryidiot still there, (Rhydian and idiot) did you see what we've done there, oh we're too good!

Chips and peas . . .

JUNIOR EUROVISION 2007

Loving those orange boots!

It's the night you've all been waiting for. . .

The X-Factor semi finals!

No, no, erm. . . Junior Eurovision!

Here's a few of our favourites . . .

Trust - Anders (Belgium Junior Eurovision Songcontest 2007)


That was actually really good, especially the piano bit!

Yiorgos Ioannides - I mousiki dinei ftera (Cyprus Junior Eurovision 2007)


That wasn't that bad either. We also thought Malta, Sweden, Belarus and The Former Yougoslavain Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)and country with the longest name in history did alright with their entries. (In a Juniour Eurovision kind of a way)

If that still wasn't enough for you click here to listen to preview clips of all 34709 songs, or was there just 17 of them, it seemed there was more. . .

The musical highlight of the night has to go to Katie Melua's interval act and her beautiful song, "If You Were a Sailboat" . . . .

Katie Melua - If You Were A Sailboat


If you were chocolate I'd eat you. . . . If you were IKEA flatpack furniture I'd build you! (Thanks to Bollinger Bolshevik for the lyrics!)

And the winner is . . .

Same Difference! Yah . . . oh no wrong competition, it's . . .

Belarus, by one point . . .

It was the orange coat what won it. . .

BILLIAM!

Billiam have been described as Britain's newest Boyband, their debut single "Beautiful Ones" charted at number 32!

Billiam, are made up of Jordan, Jazz, Gee and Stephen. Their website says they're looking to change the face of pop! On the site the boys say, "For so long now there hasn't been a boyband with great vocal ability, tight dance routines and the looks to go alongside!" The boys go on to say, "Now there is!"

Billiam - Beautiful Ones


Much as we like "Beautiful Ones" our top Billiam track has to be "Boyz text Girlz", never mind poptastic it's chavtastic. It's a song dedicated to SMS love, the words are awesome, "your ringtone says one message received, so open up your mail and see that it's from me", it's a classic.
Listen to the Boyz Text Girls clip on the widgit below.

Check out Billiam's website and their myspace.

Wat a gr8 trk . . .

ALBUMS, ALBUMS, ALBUMS!

With so many hot new albums out for Christmas, how do you know which one's to buy?

All of them!

So here's some clips to get you in the mood

Girls Aloud - Tangled up

Sugababes - Change

Britney Spears - Blackout

Leona Lewis - Spirit

Or there's, Shayne Ward's Breathless, Westlife's Back Home, Joanna's This Crazy Life, Marsheaux's Peek-a-boo, The Spice Girls Greatest Hits, or Kylie's X!

Or there's GMTV's Connie Talbot . . .

ING - LUCKY STAR!

I should be so lucky, lucky.

I'm so lucky, lucky.

Lucky star. . .

We're big fans of all things lucky here at Popplastic, and we're loving "ING's" cover of "Karma Club's"Lucky Star! It's a high energy, bouncy pop song with an awesome dance routine.

I.N.G are a Taiwanese girlband consisting of Ida, Nara and Gillian, hence the ING!

ING - LUCKY STAR


Check out ING

外太空到地心　你就是 . . .

SUGABABES USB STICK!

OMG! How exciting, the Sugababes are releasing their next single "Change" as a USB stick!

"Change", it could almost be autobiographical, the Sugababes have seen more change than most groups, not much is left of the original group apart from the name! The song itself is a bit boring and doesn't really go anywhere (are we aloud to say that), so the USB format should at least help it go somewhere in the charts!

Sugababes - Change


Time for a change . . .

ALY & AJ!

Sometimes when you're not giving the charts your fullest attention a song just passes you by. You didn't know it was released, you've never heard of it, then suddenly you hear and it's already old news (what you might call an, A1 - "Caught in the Middle" moment).

Aly and Aj's "Potential Breakup Song" is a case in point, never heard of them, never heard of the song, then suddenly it pops up on "The Hits"!

"Potential Breakup Song" was written by American teen pop duo Aly & AJ. It was the first single from their third studio album (THIRD!), Insomniatic. Apparently it was massively successful in the summer 2007, and was Aly & AJ's most successful single to date. How come it passed us by at PP Towers, there's always one! Shame on Popplastic . . .

Aly and Aj's - Potential Breakup Song


Visit potentialbreakup.com

Want your stuff back . . .

JOANNA PACITTI

Don't know who she is, but what a beautiful song!

We don't know who she is and we've never heard of her, but Joanna Pacitti's, "Out From Under" featured on the recent Bratz movie is a truly beautiful song.

If you want to find out more there's some links and further information on Joanna on Wikipedia.

Joanna Pacitti - Out From Under


here's a few others she's done . . .

Joanna Pacitti - Watch Me Shine


Joanna Pacitti - Let It Slide



Check out Joanna at her official website or her myspace.

Bratz, the only girls with a passion for fashion . . .