Listening Post

Pixie Lott is not a porn star -- well, not exactly. She's a British pop star who seems like she was created in a lab somewhere for the express purpose of burning through whatever music chart you put in front of her.

Yeah, her stuff is basically pabulum, and the makeover she recently got -- seemingly in an effort to endear her to U.S. audiences, who never met a strutting, sexually suggestive blonde they didn't like -- feels unbelievably cynical and tawdry. But this really is a catchy-as-hell song. And yes, she's obscenely hot.

Here's Boys and Girls.