Alphabeat have been dropped. Thank fuck for that. Hopefully we'll never have to hear the phrase 'wonky pop' ever again. I'm sorry Peter Robinson, I love you, but I hate Wanky Pap. Alphabeat - a band only liked by apologetic freelance music journalists who use phrases like: "Perfect pop song", can't give any hip-hop record under 8/10 and think Gwen Steffani isn't a total fucking douche.No-one actually liked the band, but thanks to a rigorous campaign of bullshit PR, somehow they became seen as alternative rather than as the Scandinavian Steps. White broadsheet journalists afraid of being tarred with the tedious landfill-indie tag (boooring) and worried by reverse-snobbery queued up to suck off Alphabeat while student indie fans involved in their first wave of irony went to their gigs in an attempt to confuse their non-indie house-mates.It was annoying, but fuck, it's nothing compared to what we've got next year. I'm talking about Lady GaGa, I'm talking about Millionaires. I'm talking about the corporate electro-blog-house-AA-Cobrasnake-fuck-party scene. The one where everyone shouts "pussy" at each other and all bands look and sound like Peaches bumming Justice in a Vice shoot from 1985 - only funded by the same dismal fuck-heads who made millions from Adele and lost it again on Alphabeat. These bands appeal to the kind of industry people who got excited about Those Dancing Days when they heard that they were underage Sweedish girls, but quickly got over them once they realised that they weren't fit - secret pedophiles who haven't realised that synths have been around for many decades.Alex Miller