The Like – June Gloom (Video)
I loved their last single, What I Say and What I Mean, a fabulous fusion of pop and rock, but this new one is as gloomy as it’s title suggests. If What I Say… had been their one off rocky single, they’d be an amazing band, yet it seems it was actually their token pop single instead. Maybe they have other good songs but I was so bored listening to this one I really don’t think I can be botherd to find out. If you know of any other good songs by The Like, please let me know!
53% Poptasic!
Westlife – Amazing (video)
Do you know this is only their second original single since 2002? If you excluded Obvious (which didn’t do very well anyway, they would have released 7 covers in a row! Having successfully ruined the career of my childhood idol Diana Ross, the ‘Loife turn their attention to my all-favourite boyband, the Backstreet Boys. Luckily the boys of Backstreet weren’t insane enough to agree to duet with their Irish inferiors, but they haven’t yet sued them for the rip-off of I Want It That Way. It’s a good move for Westlife to head back towards the sound of their first album, as that was when they were at their most bearable, and Shane gets full marks for his ‘fist of pure emotion’ (an all important piece of boyband choreography, after all), but I just can’t like it, not after the terror and repulsion Louis Walsh caused me last year, something that can never be forgiven.
32% Poptastic!
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