Cast ne'er a clout till May is out, as old people are wont to say. We'll go one further and say, don't start thinking it's Spring just because the sun came out in February. We know this because it's always bollock shrinkingly cold on the red carpet at The Brits. We still remember 1994's awards bash, when the Take That fans slept outside Ally Pally and it snowed. St John's Ambulance were chipping them off the tarmac, frozen stiff in the morning.

Anyway, because it's grey and miserable out there, let's all spend a few minutes in our office/home/prison watching the brand new Shakira video, for her single Sale El Sol.

Ah Shakira. We admit we haven't played this new album as much as She Wolf. Possibly because it's not anywhere near as good. But her continued existence warms our heart.

And call us unfashionable but we like looking at this:

Lovely.

Much more than we like looking at this, the official sleeve picture for Lady Gaga's new single Born This Way:

Frightening.

She's got lumps!