We Love You

Here's what I love. I love bubblegum punk. It's not a very big genre. It seems to be entirely girl bands (boys just don't get the aesthetic). Ok, so I can only think of two bubblegum punk bands. One is The Rondelles. The other is Helen Love. She's from wales.

The song is "We Love You" and it's super awesome. It's from the album "Radio Hits Vol 2." You can hear it on her myspace

This song is all about the tude. It's about making your own music with your friends and it being awesome because you love music and you don't give a fuck. Incidentally, I discovered Helen Love while I was on a wiki search for the origin of the phrase 'girl power.' Helen Love coined it, before Shampoo even. Helen has a song about this boy who beats up on her friend and how her and all her friends are going to go kick the shit out of him. It's called "beat him up" because when you are punk, you don't have to be subtle (enjoy the link to the serge gainsbourg original).

On a only vaguely related note (girl power via the spice girls), I found out Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller are not the same person, despite both being British and associated with American idol and good at picking out generically-pretty-voiced-and-looking girls who will make lots of money selling mediocre albums. And they're both called Simon. I digress, and in a dramatically unpunk-rock way. I told you boys didn't get it.

Anyhow, We Love You. It's great, Julie has more fizz than a bottle of tizer, and it's my song of the week.