Because my dissection of the Last FM charts last month just wasn’t depressed enough, I have decided to delve into the Myspace ‘Top Artists’ section. I picked out the artists who looked most interesting from their photos, so sere’s what I found:
These guys leaped out from the page for the simple fact that they are wearing colours other than black, although I can’t say I wasn’t intrigued by their very shiny-looking hair. Their motto is “Dance is the new mosh!” which again sounds quite promising, but turns out to be complete rubbish. The Backstreet Boys are more likely to be categorised as dance music than this young male 5-piece, who don’t even deserve to be called a boyband. Their songs aren’t completely unbearable (I live with My Chemical Romance’s biggest fan, I know what unbearable sounds like) but really, what is the point? Also, none of them are wearing plain white t-shirts which surely breaks the trade descriptions act AND worst of all, they put an apostrophe in their name (to make it Plain White T’s) which is grammatically incorrect! This band will not be appearing on my friends page any time soon.
After scrolling through 5 pages I come to the first female act I’ve not heard of. I had to click just to make sure the photo wasn’t just a lure to get boys to listen to another crap punk band, something Myspace is far from lacking in. Saving Jane is a band, though, and it has some boys in it, but the singer is a girl – presumably the one in the photo. The music’s pretty good poppy rock, but they don’t stand up against the Veronicas or even Kelly C.
I’m not entirely sure who this band is, since their only pictures are of a girl in a bikini and the above kitten, but their songs are actually pretty good! Perhaps this exercise wasn’t completely worthless after all? Give them a listen if you like nice girly music.