Why The Saturdays Should Get A Number One with Work.

I am sick and tired of seeing all The Saturdays' singles either falling short or completely missing number one on the UK singles charts because frankly, I think they're the best things to ever happen to British pop and vocal groups since The Sugababes released About You Now. Two of their four previous singles practically hollered UK NUMBER ONE but noooooo, Just Can't Get Enough just had to get to number two.

The video for Work was released on YouTube yesterday and it's already caused what I see as a frenzy among bloggers - good reviews from us and readers will most likely buy whatever it is we like. Trust me, I've had readers buying albums because of what I write - marketing teams are correct in approaching us to write stuff for them.

ANYWAY. The Saturdays should get a number one with Work because first and foremost, they deserve it. It's been over a year since If This Is Love first blew us away and in that year they haven't had a single number one - what does that say about how much people value Britain's hottest new girl group? Up was charting and it was still nowhere near number one - it took a Comic Relief single(CR singles usually go to number one..) to get them a spot below number one but that still isn't enough.

Work also happens to be the most brilliant song the girls have ever made so far. Anyone who wishes to disagree with me can do so but my beliefs are firm and I will not retract my statement. It not only shows that Mollie can actually hold a melody for more than one line(which is a welcome relief) but it's got the most fantastic middle 8 we've heard in a very long time. You can never go wrong with the perfect middle 8 and The Saturdays are no exception.

Have I mentioned that whoever thought of their new video is a genius?

A few things..

I have tons of things on my mind, as a lot of kids my age would have but for some strange reason I think my thoughts are a lot more serious and convoluted than most of them.

I'm thinking about that Palanca. Joining it got me really excited but at one point I almost gave up trying to re-write my entry to make it a 'personal essay'. I got really frustrated that even listening to music(which works like 99% of the time) didn't help me - I was really agitated but then I thought, why not write about the reason I'm joining? So I did and it worked. I got my concept, I wrote the essay in one day and sent it off last April.

Winning a Palanca Award will not only put me on the map as a writer, give my school some needed money and get me into college, it'll jump start my future - it will tell me whether or not I'm a good writer. I want other people to call me a good writer because all my life I've always been second or third, I've never been the best. No one has ever told me I'm the best or I'm good and I want that.

A few hours ago my cousin told me that she always thought I'd be the celebrity out of us five(I have four cousins who're really close to me since I don't have any siblings..) and I was shocked. I never thought about me being a famous writer - I just wanted to be really good but what she said kinda encouraged me.

I haven't had that much encouragement from the elders in my family so to know that my cousins actually care about what I want to do and think I actually have a shot at doing it really means a lot to me.

A lot of things mean a lot but for me support from my family - the people I want to impress the most is the most important. I joined the Palanca to show them I'm just as good as they are(two of my cousins are doctors, one is a molecular biologist and the other one works as an executive for Citibank. Go figure..) and that just because I don't want to go into science or math it doesn't mean that I'm not good.