Currently the best marketed girl band in the UK are The Saturdays. I remember when their first single came out and there was a massive buzz about it. Surprisingly I thought it was undeserved of the buzz; not because I'm one of those muppets who refuses to listen to pop just because it's pop, but because I didn't think it was very good.

So anyway, my question: The Saturdays are doing this years Comic Relief song. Comic Relief is like, this thing we do in the UK because it raises money or something and we wear these funny red noses. Anyway. The Comic Relief track is a cover of Depeche Modes "Just Can't Get Enough" -- read: a very good song.

In order to raise their public profile and raise money for Comic Relief The Saturdays have recorded a fleshed out, more distorted-club-synth-bass cover. Read: it's not very good.

Which comes to my question: is it ok to listen to (or buy) an awful cover in the name of charity?

I pondered the question for a while. On one hand I would be supporting an excellent cause. On the other hand I'd be saying "hey it's ok to ruin a good song with manufactured pop princesses".

Then I saw this performance.


And I realised the question is not "is it ok to listen to an awful cover in the name of charity" but more "is it ok to listen to an awful cover because the girls who dance to it are really, really hot?"

So I bought it. And the album. OOOPS.

Nothing sells things better than ladies bums.