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Chart-spotters, have you noticed a strange phenomenon occuring around a few high-profile single releases, particularly those of American R&B stars? No, it's not that they're starting to run out of convincing ways to talk about sex without using any graphic terms (although...) or that some of the romantic scenarios they sing about are actually probably more grubbily sordid than delightfully naughty (ALTHOUGH...).

No, the thing I'm talking about is when a singer puts a new song out, and everyone buys it for the remix version, leaving anyone who hasn't heard the remix mystified as to why the original song - which isn't all that, really - has been such a massive hit.

It happens a lot to former members of Destiny's Child, for some reason.

Well, here's the two blokes who are making this happen. Freemasons are duo-handedly improving the quality of modern pop music, making dull things shiny, and silk purses out of sow's ears. They're magicians, I tell you!

Here's me talking to James 'Mason about how they do it. I've left the bit at the beginning in just so you can experience the fun of two grown men trying to converse while failing to understand each other in any way, shape or form...