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0.2.2 - Who run the world?

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  Dashboard!  If you'd told me a month ago that one of the first things I would do when I embarked on this mission to crush Ian Wang beneath my feet and cast aside everything he holds dear would be to listen to the entirety of the Girls Aloud discography, I would have been surprised.  But life has a funny way of creeping up on you, and sometimes my brain takes me down a winding path towards a topic fully worthy of some kind of discussion, though a pretty one-sided one as I am doing all the talking and the eight people reading these blog posts can't respond.  So, let's talk about Girls Aloud, a band I am sure most residents outside of the UK have a passing-to-zero familiarity with. I'll talk more about how I ended up listening to Girls Aloud this week in the Sunday wrap up as its a set of sideways logical leaps that will take its own full article to go into - sufficed to say, I did so because I was thinking about the phenomenon of 'girl bands', and how it relates...