Ugly Pop Stars

from Bitter Lemon by The Chickpea Darlings

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While we sing like angels and can turn a phrase like the very Bard himself, none of the Darlings are exactly oil paintings - one of the key reasons, I firmly believe, that we haven't been asked to open for Little Mix, Miley Cyrus or the recently-reformed Spice Girls. It'll all bloody well change when the revolution comes, mind - just you see...

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In the great socialist state
For which I patiently wait
There will be many more ugly pop stars
And that glorious day
For which I ardently pray
Will bring forth legions of ugly pop stars
And when the cistern of humanity empties
There’ll be a tidal wave nothing can stop
And there’ll be many more ugly pop stars
But so much fragile, dangerous, wretched, infected, infectious, delicious, vicious and beautiful pop.

Nothing cute or sweet or cuddly
Just poor and sick and old and ugly
Strangely real and strangely lovely
To me

Well, we’ll all hear what we’ve missed
From the shamefully unkissed
Lips of those ugly pop stars
And we’ll all copy the moves
From the battered and bruised
Hips of those ugly pop stars
And they will have our hearts enslaved
The moment the needle is dropped
Those beaten and broken pop stars
And their agonised, tortured, limping, crippled, precious, pathetic, poetic and beautiful pop

unconstrained, dangerous, contaminated,

I’ll storm pop’s Winter Palace
With ugly Alan and fat Alice
They’ve seen life from the shadows
They’re bringing sticks and arrows
Guns and bombs and no tomorrows

And the masses will swarm
To the mangroves that spawned
This epidemic of ugly pop stars
And they will clog up the charts
With their unspeakable art
Those gorgeously ugly pop stars
And we’ll march in a hit parade
Of songs that will make your heart stop
From those pitifully ugly pop stars
And their deviant, demanding, tempting, terrified, terrifying, difficult, drop-dead-fuck-off-beautiful pop

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from Bitter Lemon, released October 2, 2020
Written by Huw Darling.

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The Chickpea Darlings Letchworth Garden City, UK

'Riot' has OFFICIALLY left the building. Thanks, Darrin.

The Darlings: Middle-aged bedroom miserablists with C86-ish tendencies, The Chickpea Darlings have seen the future and don't care for the cut of its jib. Their dry-as-a-biscuit pop vignettes provide the perfect soundtrack for speculating on the madness to come. Viva Donald Trump, global warming & the death of democracy. Viva the Darlings. ... more

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