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The story starts with Meghna Rai, a music manager in her late-thirties, who travels from New York to London to escape the embarrassment of a US recording artist, Ranelle Spear, having recorded an album of break-up songs about her. In London, Meg is haunted by the Ranelle hit, Rather Be Lonely Than Be Loved By You, which is being played everywhere. At her arrival at the record company offices, she is given the tasks by the label owner, Grainger Cocksmith, of managing a boy band, Five Together, and finding them a Christmas number one to bolster their flagging career… and save his record company. Meg alights upon a tender song called Christmas Morning on the internet, posted by an ailing thirteen-year-old girl, Nina. Nina is ill and may not make it through to Christmas. The song was written for her by her uncle, a music teacher named Blake Cutter. Meg tracks down Blake to seek his permission to have the song re-recorded by Five Together, expecting him to leap at the chance to reap the benefit of all the royalties that will come his way. But she discovers Blake is also the bass guitarist in a grindcore death metal band called Scurve. The last thing Blake wants is his song being sung by a bunch of corporate pop puppets. Meg finds herself falling for Blake, despite her strict new relationship policy, forged in the wake of her relationship with Ranelle: no musicians. Blake finds himself falling for Meg, despite her position in the music industry. Meg and Blake are reluctantly inching their way towards each other, when the potential relationship is pulled apart by the arrival in London of Ranelle Spear. Ranelle dupes Blake into think Meg is back with him; while Meg falls under the impression that Blake is sleeping with his lead guitarist, a spunky-punky German named Kandy. What follows is a romantic comedy about two worlds colliding (boy band pop and death metal music), with a young woman at the centre (Nina), who desperately wants her uncle Blake to find love and for
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