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By 2002, when this came out, Helen Love had moved on from name-checking Joey Ramone to referencing Atari Teenage Riot, but the idea remains the same. "So in Love with You" addresses the wonderful fickleness of pop fandom ("She reads a teen mag everyday/ Stuck to the Problem Page/ But now she's ripped it up and thrown it away"), while "Long Live the U.K. Music Scene" mocks Britpop also-rans like Shed Seven and Ocean Colour Scene, "Jump Up and Down" is an ace aping of fast-and-ridiculous Eurotechno and the self-explanatory "Yeah Yeah We're Helen Love" amplifies its own joke by incorporating an interview with a U.S. radio jock and going on for an un-Helen Love-like five minutes (including a two-minute MOR joke coda). Robert Christgau once called the Magnetic Fields 'Holiday "more songs about songs and songs." That goes for Radio Hits 3 as well.