I really don't want this blog to degenerate into one of those grumpy-old-men whinges about how everything was better and more authentic when I was a kid and whatnot, but what's the deal with Rogue Traders? It's painful to watch; she's a soap opera actress who's playing a rock chick and it has this prefabricated quality to it. Wear these clothes, Natalie, pout like this, growl when you sing etc. It's like those ads where they get chimpanzees to pretend they're at a tea party, and just as dreadful. I was especially perturbed they were at the Mardi Gras party (Rogue Traders, not the tea-drinking chimps. Although that's possible too, you just never know).