First track on this album, the first from Essen-based glam queen Näd Mika, is a knowing wink to the scourge of performing on-stage with only backing tracks to rely on. We've all seen some really cool people take to the stage, cue up their backing, breath deeply ready to launch into the first of their long list of classic tracks only to be reduced to a quivering, sweating, embarassed wreck as the laptop decides to suffer from a bout of Tourettes and skip and jump all over the place, giving some nice 2 second bursts of every song in the set. I'm sure Näd knows all about that from her begging pleas on Technical Problems, asking the audience to stay and not fuck off sniggering. The album then careers from one electro-punk track to the next. "Take me or leave me" she cries on Heart Despair, clearly not giving a fuck what people think of her. She lays it on the line and shoves her A-list credentials firmly up our noses on Celebrity while her legendary masterpiece, Too Intense, lays waste to the theory that wanking is an OK subsitute for sex as she informs the world, "I want to fuck, I want to fuck, enough of masturbation". Enough indeed. This album takes the panto glam of Ziggy Stardust with the aggressive punk of The Damned but mixes in a generous dose of Top of the Pops fun.
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