People Watching is quite good, I like it anyway, but you're right, it's no SGU.
BTW It feels familiar, to the point that, every time I hear it, I think it's a much older song. But I can't put my finger on which song or artist it is, that it reminds me of. It's been driving me nuts, trying to work it out. (Still like it though.)
This album is important, when people cite things like "But Billie only had 2 albums" they aren't painting the full picture. His albums had 11 and 12 new songs each, on the main albums at least, (I think there was some bonus material / lives too) and he's only actually had 3 top 40 hits at this point, 2 of them this year. Her albums had 14 and 16 songs on them if I remember correctly, and she'd already had something like 11 or 12 UK top 40 hits by the time she headlined. Again, not the be all and end all, but it's worth mentioning.
I still think he'll pull massive numbers and put on a great show if he headlined, without a doubt, and I'd be there. But it wouldn't hurt to wait a couple more years.
People do seem to relish in accusing Israel of genocide or calling it a holocaust or they're as bad as the nazis etc., but this does not mean Israel should be immune of accusations of carrying out genocide of the people of Gaza if they meet the definition...which is:
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
So Israel will fight this in the courts, saying they did not intend to harm civilians, collateral damage, fault of Hamas etc., and will possibly use the exception of Jewish history of persecution and the reason behind Israel existing and the atrocities of Oct 7th...but I don't think any of that will be enough, there is just too much evidence against them.
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