"deeper shade of blue" - steps

"into each life some sun must shine - well someone else must be getting mine. the days are so empty, nights are so long, awaking to find again that you've gone"



i have a grudging sort of respect for steps. they're not good. i wouldn't endorse them, i wouldn't ever choose to listen to them but, the painful (and truly tragic) cover of tragedy aside, always enjoy it at least a little when i do. sure they were throwaway pop, but they had the redeeming value that they knew they were and didn't care. also, i think they had some pretty good people writing for them. lyrically at least, there are some well crafted pop songs, with more emotional lyrics than the bland child-friendly production would imply.

someone i know mentioned recently that he had had a thing for claire. i think i over-expressed my surprise and it came across as a criticism. i would never criticise anyone for finding another person attractive, however little i understood the reason for it. i was however surprised since i'd never met a claire-person before. i know of several faye-people, and i know i'm not alone in the lisa-people, and i've even met some h-people (though that's a very different thing), but no claire-people.

chaqu-un a son gout, je suppose

my wife asserts that steps were rubbish, and to an extent she has a point, but then she tries to claim that s-club were the far superior pop band. this is clearly an error of judgement since i have rarely heard an s-club song without wanting to hurt someone (this would preferably take the form of hannah-homicide, but has a range of options right down to scooping out my own inner ear with a screwdriver). the only faintly acceptable member of s-club was jo o, and she has now proven herself, through the medium of "celebrity" "reality" tv, to be a dull, slightly racist chav.


oh dear, how sad am i to even have an opinion about any of this rubbish?
(please note that this is rhetorical)