HAPPY EASTER! And hooray for Scouting For Girls and their damn #1 UK single this week, "This Ain't A Love Song." But poor Alex Gardner—the 18-year-old Xenomania-produced crooner didn't even crack the Top 40 with his rather excellent single "I'm Not Mad." (It debuted at #44.)Once again, here's what you're missing out on, the UK!
And so "I'm Not Mad" will go down as another sadly lost gem that was touted in the blogosphere—and one that truly deserved the hype!—but overlooked by the general record-buying/music downloading public.
[Heavy sigh] Unless of course, Alex is somehow able to enact a miracle and pull a Let Loose, and get a re-release of "I'm Not Mad," much as LL did when "Crazy For You" failed to go Top 40 the first time around in 1994, and land that fucker at #2.
Yeah, never gonna happen. But I gotta dig that Let Loose album out now. Because let's face it—"Seventeen" = total jam!
The U.K. Top 10:
1. "This Ain't A Love Song" - Scouting For Girls *new* *1 week*
2. "Telephone" - Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce
3. "She Said" - Plan B *new*
4. "History Makers" - Delirious? *new*
5. "Pass Out" - Tinie Tempah
6. "Rude Boy" - Rihanna
7. "Baby" - Justin Bieber
8. "OMG" - Usher feat. Will.i.am
9. "Hot" - Inna
10. "Parachute" - Cheryl Cole