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Tuesday 3rd January, 2006
Star Track
with Ivan Alvis
R adio DJs r esor ting
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to PHONE SEX?
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TOTP Pop Shot Chart
Four new entries, and
a new No.1
This week, too, we find quite a lot of action in the Top of
the Pops Top Top 10 chart.
Four new entries have checked in, with a brand new No.
1.
Madonna, after an impressive stay at the top, is now on
the way down - sliding four places, to the No. 8. slot, with
“Hung Up.”
Eminem is a new entry at hit sound five with “When I’m
Gone”.
I checked out the lyrics - tough for printing purpose!
Ok, let’s take a look at the happenings this week...
1. That’s My Goal - Shayne Ward (new).
2. JCB Song - Zizlopi.
3. Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues (new).
4. When You Tell Me That You Love Me - Westlife, feat
Diana Ross.
5. When I’m Gone - Eminem (new).
6. Jingle Bells/U Can’t Touch This - Crazy Frog.
7. Stickwitu - Pussycat Dolls.
8. Hung Up - Madonna.
9. See the Day - Girls Aloud (new).
10. Talk - Coldplay (new).
Seen ‘n’ Heard
HEARD.... staleness is now setting in because of
their inability to move with the times.
The bygone era still make up the major share of
their repertoire.
Even the older folks are keen to experience something new and keep complaining.
The now generation, however, totally reject such
performers.
United World Chart
Eminem checks in at
hit sound 20
The most popular tracks according to global airplay, single - sales date, paid down-load, and votes.
1. Hung Up - Madonna
2. My Humps - Block Eyed Peas
3. Tripping - Robbie Williams
4. You’re Beautiful - James Blunt
5. Stickwitu - Pussycat Dolls
6. Don’t Bother - Shakira
7. Photograph - Nickelback
8. Push The Button - Sugababes
9. Don’t Forget About Us - Mariah Carey
10. Don’t Cha - Pussycat Dolls feat. Busta Rhymes
11. Because Of You - Kelly Clarkson
12. Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
13. Precious - Depeche Mode
14. Gold Digger - Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx
15. All About Us - T.A.T.U.
16. Run It! - Chris Brown feat. Juelz Santana
17. We Be Burnin’ - Sean Paul
18. Talk - Coldplay
19. Love Generation - Bob Sinclar feat. Gary Nesta Pine
20. When I’m Gone - Eminem
(Courtesy of Zara and Roy of M 4 U Studio,
Dehiwela)
EMINEM: Naughty
lyrics in “When I’m
Gone”
hame! Shame! Shame!
Believe me, it’s REALLY happening. And it’s
not something new to the
radio scene here.
We did highlight such
shameful acts some years
ago, but no remedial measures seem to have been
taken (or implemented) and
these ‘devils in disguise’
continue to harass listeners
(the young females, in particular) whenever they
phone in to make a request.
A very keen reader of
both “Star Track” and
“Show Vision” in the
‘Sunday Island”, buzzed us
last week to express total
dissatisfaction at the way
certain DJs behave while on
duty.
She was shocked, she
said, when she called a particular station late night to
make a request. She was
doing it for the very first
time, but what she experienced
was
shocking,
repelling and utterly disgusting.
Of course, the DJ concerned was extra nice and
obliged the caller with the
requested song — but not
before he pried into her private life. And he was only
concerned about the sexual
side of her life.
He inquired from her
whether she likes six and
went on to boast about his
sexual exploits.
He wanted her to
Innocent
young
girls
vulnerable
to their
filthy
talk
describe herself... and also
what she was wearing! And
the ‘let’s meet’ bait was ultimately put to her.
Obviously, the listener
concerned has vowed never
to phone in whenever this
particular DJ is on air.
In the past, too, there
mill year then...
What a year it
It was also the
was for silly
year when the
things in gosMercury Music
sip! Ashlee
Prize was won by
Simpson
a controversial
claimed that she
long-shot (Antony
could burp the
and the Johnsons).
whole alphabet.
Dr. Dre didn’t
Britney
want his 40th birthSpears teetered
day celebrated on
between married
national radio as he
bliss and shabby
felt his age.
break-up, 80’s
Edwyn Collins sufchild star Debbie
fered a cerebral
Gibson posed
Ronan Keating
haemorfor
rhage, and
Playboy,
Kylie
and
Minogue was
Ronan
diagnosed with breast canKeating was harassed by a
cer.
bunch of German nudists
Thankfully there were a
on a beach in Thailand.
lot more light-heartedly
So another run of the
Silly things
Pen Pals
• Name: Champika
Udayangani.
* Age: 16.
* Sex: Female.
* Address: Mawatha Goda,
Welepanna.
* Hobbies/Interests: Music,
films, reading, playing computer games and chatting
with friends.
• Keen to make friends with
“Star Track” readers?
Send us your name, age, sex,
address and hobbies/interests. Write to: Ivan Alvis,
C/o., “Star Track”, ‘The
Island’, 223, Bloemendhal
Road, Colombo 13.
have been incidents reported to us about radio DJs
resorting to very crude and
vulgar talk with female listeners.
The usual talk-line for
openers is ‘Have you a
boyfriend?’ ‘Have you had
sex?” And ‘Can we meet?’
Then the explicits begin.
And what are those in
charge doing about this
very dangerous scene?
Aren’t they promoting
some kind of child abuse in
a subtle way ‘cos a good
many of the callers are
young teenagers?
These guys with sick
minds should never be
allowed to go on air where
the opportunity for them
exist to lure innocent young
girls with their filthy talk.
Remember, not all radio
DJs fall into this category.
The good guys are there, but
the bad ones should be
apprehended and punished
accordingly.
It’s a shame what these
guys do under the guise of
disc jockeys.
Emirates scene for Geldof
Humanitarian
campaigner, Bob Geldof —
undoubtedly, one of the
most well-known pop personalities of his era, was
in Dubai recently to speak
at the “In Honour of
Africa” benefit to raise
awareness among Arab
businesses on the global
fight against poverty.
Remember,
it
was
Geldof who did so much to
help those affected by the
dreadful famine that was
plaguing Ethiopia is 1984.
Shocked by the horrific
pictures that he saw on television, Geldof organised
the celebrated Band Aid
aggregation for the charity record which he wrote,
“Do They Know It’s
Christmas?”
The record inspired the
subsequent
mammoth
Live Aid extravaganza in which Geldof
herded together rock’s elite to play
before a worldwide television audience
of over 1,000,000,000. And last year he
did Live 8.
In Dubai, Geldof attended the Dubai
International Film Festival’s gala
evening, themed “Honouring Africa”.
Our picture shows Geldof on his
arrival with Emirates Cabin Crew mem-
bers Thanjua Abeyratne (left) and
Farida Ahozuani. Also seen is Festival
Director, Neil Stephenson.
Emirates is a Founder Sponsor of the
Dubai International Film Festival.
Geldof, by the way, started out as a
member of the group Nitelife Thugs,
which subsequently evolved into the
Boomtown Rats, one of the first groups
to emerge during the punk/New Wave
explosion of 1976/77.
UGLY
Sugababes
When I was
They said I was strange
I noticed that my eyes and hair weren’t the
same
I asked my parents if I was OK
They said you’re more beautiful
And that’s the way they show that they wish
They had your mile.
So may confidence was up for a while
I got real comfortable with my own style
I knew that they were only jealous ‘cos
People are all the same
And we only get judged by what we do
Personality reflects
And if I’m ugly then
So are you
So are you
There was a time when I felt Eke I
cared
That I was shorter than everyone
there
People made me feel like life was
unfair
And I did things that made me
ashamed
’Cos I didn’t know my body would
change
I grew taller than them in more ways
But there will always be the one who
will say
Something bad to make them feel
great
People are all the same
And we only get judged by what we
do
Personality reflects name
And if I’m ugly then
So are you
So are you
People are all the same
And we only get judged by what we
do
Personality reflects name
And if I’m ugly then
So are you
So are you
Everybody talks bad about somebody.
And never realises bow it affects somebody
And you bet it won’t be
Envy is the only thing it could be
‘Cos people are all the same
(The same, the same)
And we only get judged by what we do
(What we do, yeah, yeah)
Personality reflects name.
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And if I’m ugly then
(Yeah, you’)
So are you
So are you
People are all the same
(Oh, oh, oh)
And we only get judged by what we do
(What we do, yeah) Personality reflects name,
And if I’m ugly then