In mourning of Smash Hits I went rifling in my cupboard for SH related things and found the Smash Hist yearbook of 2002. The book was actually about 2001 and everything that happened in it. Only a few months later I stopped buying Smash Hits altogether, but not without good reason (it was around the time when Busted were getting popular). Reading this, though, I half wish I’d kept going a bit longer because it really was amazing, even in the early 00s, despite it being generally agreed that the late 80s was the magazine’s peak. Anyway, on the first page of the yearbook is a questionnaire which I filled in, so I’ve decided to do the same questions about 2005 and compare the answers:
My highlight of the year:
2001 – the Poll Winner’s Party
2005 – going to Sweden
My top song of the year:
2001 – All Rise by Blue (please bear in mind that this liking for Blue did not last!)
2005 – Hung Up by Madonna
My ear-achingly hideous song of the year:
2001 – Doo Wah Diddy (this was either by DJ Otzi or the Cartoons)
2005 – Crazy Frog
My favourite word:
2001 – Poptastic
2005 – Poptastic (this will NEVER change!)
My favourite band:
2001 – Backstreet Boys
2005 – BWO but BSBs are a close 2nd
My most delightful person:
2001 – Me! (I was such a modest 14 yr old)
2005 – Martin BWO
*N Sync or Backstreet?
2001 – Backstreet
2005 – Backstreet
Eminem or Fred Durst?
2001 – Neither
2005 – Neither
I’d love to meet:
2001 – Backstreet Boys
2005 – Alexander Bard (so we could discuss the philosophy of pop music!)
My worst hairdo ever:
2001 – I haven’t had a bad one
2005 – still the same, luckily
My favourite cheese:
2001 – I hate cheese!
2005 – I now love cheese, but I don’t have a favourite
So, a few changes, but none very significant (apart from my complete turn around on the issue of cheese) and most importantly I have stayed poptastic!