It’s the best of this month’s new pop - in less than 20 mins

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Despite spending so much time glued to youtube, spotify and our email inbox listening to new music, that we hardly get to see our friends, there are still not enough minutes in the day to hear all the great pop that’s out there. So guess how pleased we were to see our new best friends over at popsessed (you can find them here and here) pulling together the best of this month’s pop into a bite-sized 1,115 second megamix. Answer? Very. Hit “see more” to hear them thrash through new music starring everyone from Annie and Britney to Whitney I-sung-my-clothes-off Houston.

Opening with the roar of Gaga’s Bad Romance (although criminally, just the rah rah rrrah rrrrah rrrah bit - which though deserving of accolades for inventiveness, does mean we miss quite a lot of the song Rach loves so much) and closing with a shake of the tambourine in Burke’s Bad Boys, it’s a musical journey through the highlights of mostly-unreleased new pop that stops at Blighty’s finest (think The Cole and The Saturdays), American megastars like Britters’ slutfest of a track 3 and Backstreet Boys, via everyone else in between (what exactly is Madonna now?)

During the megamix we found a bunch of recent releases that had gone off our radar (Sorry Keisha, we now LOVE About A Girl and can’t wait to get trollied tonight and bust out a few of our trademark dance moves to it), discovered a few obscure songs that even the pop obsessives at TT towers had missed (have you guys heard Queen Latifah’s Cue the Rain and Kate Ryan’s Les Divas Du Dancing?), and achieved the near impossible by making us love some of our favourite songs EVEN more.

Infact the whole thing packs more punch then a Leona Lewis fan at a book signing, has more sugary fizz than a box of sherbet, and enough toe-tapping power to earn you a loyalty card at your local cobblers (we’ve gone too far again, haven’t we). We’ll carry on regardless… with approximately 30 seconds of each song its the perfect soundtrack for the ADHD generation, lands more hits per minute than a prize boxer, and is great way to swot up for your pop exams in less than 20minutes (you can still study pop at school can’t you?).

Regular visitors to teentoday.co.uk will know that we’ve been a bit uninspired by the recent releases of some of our favourite acts (yes, we’re talking about the Sats), but this megamix proves one million per cent (if Simon can say it, we can) that though there might have been fewer EPIC pop moments of late, there seems to be more Very Good ones than ever.

The only downside? We wish we’d thought of it first.

Getting ready for a night out? Need a pick me up in the pre X Factor lull (GO Rachel, GO Stacey) or just want to celebrate the best of pop with 18 minutes of musical madness? Hit play below… and as always tell us what you think in the comments (oh and we know some of you are reading but not commenting, show yourself!).

Lastly, here’s a challenge for the guys at Popsessed, next month see if you can somehow segue Russian Roulette into the proceedings without killing the whole thing. BANG.