The next Mike Skinner scoop: Bloke's still got it. "When You Wasn't Famous" sounds more "polished" just as promised, meaning it could tailgate "Beverly Hills" at Off the Wagon or your local gristle-market equivalent, but it's no shark-jump-- just talking to the kids, banging banger beats, and sing-songing his refrain in calypso.

The gist is, famous boys get girls easy, but pulling a famous girl like, say, Rachel Stevens feels just like...you know. It's not whining, it's irony and Mike's still quotidian like you, despite what the tabloids say. Too many good lines to quote, but even the initial unfunnies spit volumes: "You were so much fun/ I really got to like you more than you liked me." Skinner still chats better than he raps, but here he puts the lie to all your presumed post-masterpiece never-agains (hint!). A few alarms, a few surprises, nope she's not Pete Libertine, but a perfect ending? "I know."