McFly- 5 colours in her hair.

(Kidding..)

^video still.

http://www.mcflyofficial.com/uploads/1068744444tom.jpg

^Tom, by all accounts the ambitious mastermind of the band who nearly got into busted, writes the songs and is a Beach boys fanatic.

mcfly just doesnt seem to have captured ppl's attention the same way busted has. quite surprising.

From what I've heard so far of them... eh. They'll not be as big as Busted, put it that way. Bigger than Stamford Amp, though.

I'd say its gives them a leg up

The song is catchy rockist bubblegum, but a shame about the lyrics, eh? Plus, the whole TV-tie-in thing just makes me slightly suspicious, it's just a bit too Saturday morning.

That said, their guitarist is fantastic. (If indeed it is the guitarist with the fringe playing the licks, but they didn't appear have a session guitarist lurking in the background the way that Busted did...) Ring, ring! It's George Harrison, he wants his licks back!

I'm waiting for the day that James and Fletch leave their respective bands and just go all out to form the ultimate homoerotic bubblepunk songwriting team, you know, like Boyce and Hart meets the Pet Shop Boys... I'm waiting for their cover of 53rd and 3rd!

and when did james become so attractive? is it all down to his fringe?

http://www.jellyflaps.com/busted/james.jpg

"I'd like to phone her 'cos she puts me in the mood."

"The rumours spreading that she cooks in the nude."

Excellent.

The surf guitar isn't as good as "No Good Advice", but it's better than "Gay Bar". And the lyric "I'm not into fashion but I like the clothes she wears" makes me giggle.

I dunno, I like the bubblepunk stylings of Busted. They're like a cross between The Archies and The Ramones, which gives them that sort of sweet/bitter edge. (I love them when they're bubblepunk, but when they do that emo/grunge/indie/Charlie wank I just want to beat them about the heads with a Buzzcocks single.) McFly are just pure Archies. Which is good, but not perfect for me.

I remember when I first came on ILM, I used to spend all day discussing Spacemen3 vs. Loop and experimental dronerock and the like, and now I'm actually getting involved in a Taking Sides: Busted vs. McFly thread.

Curse you, Tom E! ::shakes fist::

HEY! What is wrong with doing theme songs for kids TV? Kids TV Themesongs PAID MY FUCKING RENT for most of 2002. Naught wrong with this! (It would have been better if they'd actually called it The McFly TV Theme Song, but we can't all be as cool as the Dandy Warhols, can we?)

I would like the song better if I didn't know it was a real television show, you know?

BRING BACK AUTHENTIC PUNK!!! THE SEX PISTOLS WERE A PREFAB BUBBLEGUM BOYBAND!!!

Though I just listened to the song again and that piano mini-glissando just before the final chorus is SO GOOD!

Pay no attention to me, I think every band should get their own TV show. I want to remake Rock N Roll High School starring Busted.

Nowt wrong with kid's TV Themes, the song just makes me think of bad kid's TV shows - the kind where they run businesses and get into scrapes and wearing bright clothes. It's the do do dah bits, which would be accompanied by fast motion Benny Hill style running about.

If pop stars all had their own TV programmes I might actually watch TV sometimes!

yah, james did get a good haircut. he also looks incredibly young and cute for a 20 year old. and hot. (im glad im only a coupla years older than him so i dont need to feel too bad about perving on him)

(God, how do I get a job in the marketing department of Prestige Management?)

That reminds me they were the one group I forgot to talk about here.

If we're talking McFly here, not Busted... well, let's just say that I am VERY IMPRESSED that they got their shirts off in their FIRST video. Well done management people!

If we're going to perv on Busted, Charlie definitely needs to be mentioned. The eyebrows slightly scare me, but otherwise... well, I'm a sucker for that public school head boy look! But I think McFly are better looking... their management thought to airbrush the acne out BEFORE the photoshoots.

Er, token music comment - I can't actually imagine what any other McFly song might sound like. "5 Colours In Her Hair" has this novelty, one-off feel to it, rather like "Alright" by Supergrass... which may as well have been a one-off itself.

McFly are more kind of "conventionally" attractive, but in a more pre-packaged boyband sort of way. What was appealing about Busted was that they *weren't*. HSA used to like that about them, he would say "apart from the Hollywood looking one with the eyebrows, they're so ordinary looking." (Heh heh, he said this before I developped the, erm, sexual obsession.)

Er, yeah, musical comment. I've been trying to figure out exactly what Monkees riff 5 Colours is based on, and the closest I've come to is "Pleasant Valley Sunday." Would have to hear the song again to work it out.

I'm still hoping that Bourne/Fletcher will be the Barry/Greenwich of the Naughties. But they'd have to get married first...

Yes! At first I definitely got the impression that Busted were being marketed primarily at the BOYS, as a slightly less offensive Brit version of Blink 182, Sum 41 et al, and that their GIRL audience was never taken into account until they suddenly turned up at concerts holding banners and screaming. Whereupon someone somewhere appears to have gone "damn, but Busted aren't even that good looking, imagine if we had a Busted who WERE" and created McFly... thus missing the point entirely.

Charlie's eyebrows don't look so bad in the new video... he has a big fringe wich nearly hides them. But James! You're right upthread, he is suddenly attractive for no reason at all. Matt still looks like a 12-year-old though.

Er, music... yeah the new Busted song is a bit rubbish. It just doesn't have the zing of McFly, and I still hate their voices.

Yeah, McFly have conventionally better voices, as well (apart from James) but that's the same as the looks thing. The unconventionality was what made Busted so appealing.

I would have just loved to be a fly on the wall when McFly were created. (notice that we all just assume they were grown in a lab by image consultants, rather than actually answering NME ads or anything.) Cause I really can see the kind of scenario you describe, Lex. Heh heh.

Am I mistaken, cause I thought Busted were marketed at gurlz from the beginning. I mean, the first album has the whole "interactive video bit" with colour glossy pictures and everything. I am just *fascinated* by the marketing process behind this, it's sick.

(And no, sorry, even with a fringe covering the Eyebrows, heck no. Not if he were the last boyband on earth!)

But only as it gives me a chance to post this image:

http://www.busted.com/images/news_uploads/4159D63C5633.jpg

Is it Busted? Or is it Sloan? I can no longer tell the difference! Wouldn't it be great if Busted turned into the British Sloan? OK, they're missing the annoying guy with the glasses, but still. We could do without that!

All marketing processes are fascinating. I totally want to be a pop svengali soon, though I'm thinking more along the lines of a male tATu than anything to do with Busted.

One (sadly negative) factor we have not yet taken into account: once you've heard Wes Butters cream himself over 'Boosted' on a Sunday afternoon during the top 40 rundown, there is very little chance of ever genuinely loving them again :(

...and living next door to Busted.

okay, in the same building. But still. My neighbours? Busted.

We moved out before Girls Aloud and V moved in, though. You know, before the neighbourhood went downhill.

whooops. < / marketing to thirtysomething women >

More good news for McFly fans – having ‘McFly in his blood’ is not a real illness, so don’t worry.

http://www.mtv.co.uk/mtvuk/news/article.jhtml?articleId=45132605

One knows how to improve their target market, one does not:

Multiplatinum-selling pop group McFly are to become the latest music act to give their new album away for free after signing a deal with the Mail on Sunday.

Readers of the mid-market Sunday newspaper will get a free CD of McFly's new album Radio:ACTIVE when they buy a copy of the Mail on Sunday on July 20.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/24/mailonsunday.pressandpublishing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7472226.stm

'If U C Kate'

dgi.

The Poster Children had a song called 'If You See Kaye' already.

Ah, so this way they get to play it on the National Lottery without complaint, right?

whitehouse already had a song called 'just like a cunt'