Post 224, Blog 27

Polish teens Tola Szlagowska and Alicja Boratyn took the internet by storm with their excellent, if largely unintelligible, cover of Teddybears' Hey Boy (Get Your Ass Up) last year, earning praise from the likes of Stylus and Billboard. It would be wrong to dismiss them as one-hit-wonders however - their position at the top of the domestic pop tree was cemented by four supplementary singles and an album. The LP in question, titled "LOL", is roughly as stupid as it sounds and about twice as much fun. The highlight is Turn You On To Music, perhaps Poland's first attempt at a teen-pop / reggaeton hybrid and one that works wonders. Their unusual take on the English language is in evidence again, although it's hard to tell whether lines like "no-one said it would be furr" and "if the people stop and sturr" are simply heavily accented Slavic pronunciation or an affectation picked up from Chingy. Tragically, Wikipedia announced that "Alicja and Tola had a misunderstanding in their friendship" leading to the former leaving the band. A new album, presumably called "ROFLMAO", is set for 2008 though.

Blog 27 - Turn You On to Music