<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_1944000/1944376.stm">S Club Juniors</a> is a chart pop band made up of children aged 11-14. Their image, and the fact they're marketed as pin-up idols, brings back, for me at least, memories of a notorious 80s TV show called Minipops.
Me: What's that CD you've got?
Miss Senay: The S Club Juniors album. It's really good.
Me: I have a friend who fancies one of them, I'm afraid to say. (points to blonde girl on CD cover). That one, I think.
Senay: Ugh, that's really sick.
(pause)
Senay: If you HAD to, it'd be that one (points to black girl).
Some of my friends do have a sick sense of humour. Still, underage kids in pop bands are nothing new. The Jackson Five, for one. I hesitate to say the hits of S Club Juniors are as good as that, but apparently their album IS good 2002 pop music.
But what do I know? I haven't bought any actual new music in ages. The last CD I bought was Alan Bennett's "Poetry In Motion".
