Scissor Sisters — Laura

Yes, I know; it's been sitting on my hard drive for over a year now. But, while it may have first come out last year, there's no denying that 2004 was the year that the Scissor Sisters became Pop's Most Likely To. Who could possibly forget the performance at Glastonbury, with the follow-up interview where Jake left almost nothing to the imagination? Or T in The Park, where he conducted proceedings in nothing but a precarious-looking blanket? The session on Radio 1 where they took the harsh angular sound of Take Me Out and turned it into a lounge lizard classic? How about when they unleashed glitterdammerung upon Brighton? Or the moment, at 3:15am, where you realise that this song would sound fantastic when mixed in Justin Timberlake's Rock Your Body?

They are Fun, they are Sparkly, and hopefully, they will scare the pants off a bit section of Middle America when they appear on Saturday Night Live tomorrow. Even if most of their songs do seem to have a melancholy air about them; I haven't managed to work out just what Laura is going on about, but it seems to involve a hairdresser at some point. I don't really care, though. It's bouncy and brings back Michael Jackson's alternative take on "c'mon". Let a thousand rainbows bloom. Or something.