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Well crafted pop is a joy, and people can be too sniffy about it.
Toxic is written by Cathy Dennis, who is a supremely talented songwriter, and not a bad singer either - she did most of the vocals on the Spears track!
Girls Aloud songs are almost all written by the secretive Xenomania partnership, who are like a creative agency for writing hit pop songs. You wouldn't believe the number of top ten hits they have written.
and I don't care if it's not cool to like it on this forum, the new Muse album is one of the best records I have heard this year. I've checked out some of the earlier suggestions in this thread, and most of them have been fucking awful. That Guardian list was shite.
So apart from Muse, I particularly liked
Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
The Shins - Port of Morrow
and of course
New Cassettes - Winterhead