a skim through this mediocre guardian article and a quick poll amongst spizzazzz contributors (well, two of them) suggests spizzazzz is 70% in favour of this alleged nu drivetime phenomenon currently sweeping the nation's cars. i bet these songs do sound even better at 8 in the morning on fucking virgin radio (which is a point not touched on in this article - songs tailor-made to sound good on am radio) in a traffic jam as well, but i don't even know a single motherfucker who drives!

(the thing last week about music played in shops was really good though, and it reminded me how i once heard tlc's "unpretty" in a clothes shop, which magnified the terribly depressing body-image issues of the song and made me all upset! thanks a lot, tk maxx! [again])