A SINGLE THING WE WOULD CHANGE, IF WE HAD TO DO IT ALL AGAIN

There are so many moments in our pop lives where we don't take things as seriously as we should, on account of nothing more than garden variety embarrassment. A dreadful example of this is the fact that despite knowing that we should have it in our lives, we never purchased a CD single of what we think is probably Nikki Webster's best effort, all things considered. We saw the video for "24/7 (Crazy 'Bout Your Smile)" on Video Hits early one Saturday morning and quite frankly we nearly spat out our coffee. This was absolute fucking insanity for Australian pop, in the best available way. From memory we viewed, in one spangly three minute and thirty:

* shameless ripping off of the "...Baby One More Time" clip!
* precocious schoolkids acting out some sort of challenge!
* a big fat danceoff!
* Nikki being generally wondrous!

Crystal has the goods on the clip itself here. Reading her analysis triggered various emotions in us - mainly unmitigated fury that we never got that single at HMV despite going there specifically to do so, because we were accompanied there by our indie friend who was buying something very impressive, and we ended up being shy and not buying the Nikki. We now believe the impressive purchase to be this:



You know that? Someboy's Múm. That album is really bloody dull. It certainly doesn't involve anything remotely like this:



We obviously can't change things now. But don't be shamed out of a CD single purchase* by someone buying a creepy Múm album, viewers! Because you will regret it, almost certainly.


* unless, of course, it's a single it's by that headband-wearing, Bush-inauguration-performing FREAK, JoJo