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HOLLA Y’ALL. What is up? I’ve been away for a few days with my moronic father and his satanic spawn. But enough about that. How are you? Really? Wow, that’s great. OK shut up now.

Last week, EMI announced that they lost £1billion last year and there can be no glossing over the reality; all of this is down to people like us downloading music for free. Thankfully, you learn by your mistakes, and if destroying the music industry has been our mistake, here are a few of the lessons we will have learnt along the way.

I was born in the 80s but when the decade ended I was still under 10 – so close, yet so far from having an incredible teenage existence. If I had been a teen in the 80s I could have been one of these girls, and then all the pieces of my life would have fallen right into place.

“On the way home Kerri suggests we raid the bins behind Subway for food. Now, I’m not going to lie and say I’ve never bin raided – I have, many times over – but the thought of doing it at 5 PM, sober and in clear view of flocks of judgmental strangers sends shivers down my spine.”

I grew up with some great male role models in my life. Unfortunately, I paid no attention to them because I’m a fucking brat. Instead I preferred trying to be like wise guy slackers in movies. Here are a few of my movie best friends that I wanted to be like.

On their second visit to the UK, Vivian Girls ended up befriending small children and being sick on themselves. Thank the good Lord we gave them a camera to capture their wild antics.

“You wouldn’t survive one minute on a New York Subway,” is a damning thing old school New Yorkers say to tourists to make them cry. The truth is you would survive a minute on our subway. Especially now that you have these 10 survival tips in your life.