Christmas should be a time for presents, sledging and bad pop music. And by bad pop music, I mean well-made, sing-along bad music. Which is why this year's Christmas number one race is already sounding like the most boring in years. The current favourite is a dire meeting of minds - Ronan Keating and Cat Stevens, with a "new" version of Boyzone's first hit Father and Son. Not only a shameless advert for Ronan's greatest hits package, but a disturbing threat to Cliff Richards' title of Old People's Christmas Fave.
To make matters worse, Bob Geldof has announced a double a-side version of Band Aid - featuring both the original and the PWL poppier version. I know it's for charity, but it is the most horrible, patronising, obvious Christmas number one ever. What's more, he's considering doing another one with the latest batch of publicity starved popsters, pretending to have an interest in doing good. Please, just write a new song, Bob. I really hope Cliff pulls something amazing out of the bag (perhaps a Crimbo reworking of Just Don't Have the Heart?), or one of the Busted bands have do a top Christmas cover to beat this two objectionable records to the top of the charts...
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