CORRECTION

On Sunday 29th March 2009, Straight To Video published a blog suggesting the bastardisation of AR Rahman's 'Jai Ho', from the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, was the work of the Pussycat Dolls. We accept this was misleading as the song is credited in the charts as 'The Pussycat Dolls feat. Nicole Scherzinger'.

Straight To Video apologises unreservedly to Nicole Schwarzenegger and her family for any upset which may have been caused as a result of this blog posting.

What Straight To Video fails to understand is why Nicole Schwarzenegger gets her own special mention when she is, and has always been, a member of the group?

Dear The Freelance Hellraiser,
We have a new name:
Straight To Video feat. The 20th Century Fox
Ok? Ok.

When Bad Things Happen To Good Soundtracks Pt III

Why would anyone allow this to happen?

It's No.3 in the iTunes Top Songs charts too :(

Apologies for not being able to post the proper video - YouTube and the PRS are still being petty twats. I believe the Pussycat Dolls perform a Bollywood routine similar to the one in Slumdog's closing credits (while bogling seductively into the camera, probably).

When Bad Things Happen To Good Soundtracks Pt II

Christ in a proton pack. Is there some kind of free for all with the Ghostbusters theme in advertising world at the moment?

When Bad Things Happen To Good Soundtracks Pt I

Oh Ray Parker Jr. We know there's a recession on and everything, but did you really have to reduce yourself to this?

Until now, the worst thing to happen to commercial television in recent years was the Diet Coke advert starring Duffy (whoever is responsible for that needs to take a long, hard look at themselves). But then the people at 118 118 said 'Do you know what? I think we can out-shit Duffy.'

So they pulled Ray Parker Jr, or 'Ray' as his friends call him, out of a cupboard, dusted him down, dressed him as a postman, bus conductor and waiter, and just when you think it couldn't get any worse, they told him to sing 'I ain't afraid of no goats'.

We hope Ray was:
a) paid a lot of money for this
b) able to apologise to his dignity before it disappeared into the ether

And don't even get us started on this:

'Somehow it ended up in Ray Parker Jr's hands.'
I think what he meant to say is:
'118 118's PR company told us to do this so we could get their shit advert on the news'.
Not exactly a mystery, is it.

It's a little known fact that Huey Lewis (and his News) were asked to write and record the Ghostbusters theme, but he refused. So they gave Ray a song which sounds a loooooot like Huey's. Huey concurred and took them to court (he won). Have a little listen to 'I Want A New Drug' and see if the judge in this court case was right to rule in Huey's favour:

We think you'll agree, he was.

But the question remains, would Huey have been afraid of goats?

Straight To Video is on holiday this week

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