Listen, we as a society have done nothing this year to warrant both the Jonas Brothers and McFly making their comebacks but here they are. It was this time last week when McFly made a comeback to social media with one singular post, telling us to be on Instagram at 9:30am the next morning – I don’t like being told what to do, but anything for you boys.
Admittedly, I think I and almost everyone else assumed the same thing: another greatest hits album or tour – not that it would necessarily be possible since their last album was their greatest hits, but we’ve set ourselves up for disappointment by now and okay, that’s kind of what we’re getting. One 02 arena show with a number of ‘lost’ songs being released in the lead up. Anyone else getting flashbacks to when we all thought My Chemical Romance were making a comeback?
The thing is, Britain has done a lot of things wrong (look at the current political state, I don’t actually know what’s going on with it, I just know it isn’t good), but McFly isn’t one of those things – in fact, the most problematic thing they’ve probably ever done between them is that time Dougie dated Ellie Goulding.
There’s a generation of kids out there whose first introduction to Queen was McFly’s cover of ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’, which admittedly still goes hard, and who’s sense of humour revolves solely around ‘Star Girl’s infamous lyric: “There’s nothing on earth that could save us, when I fell in love with Uranus“.
You were either a McFly kid or a Busted kid in high school and God damn, I was a McFly kid: every preteen heartbreak was healed by ‘I’ll Be Okay’; my need to be the kind of girl ‘Five Colours In Her Hair’ was written about is why my hair no longer grows past my shoulders and my hairdresser hates me; I hadn’t known true teen angst till I heard ‘Lies’ for the first time (I was nine, but you get the idea) and when I got that free copy of ‘Radio:ACTIVE’ in the newspaper? I thought I’d hit the jackpot.
Sure, they all had their stints on reality TV, and they did have that one collaboration with Taio Cruz which confused us more than Year 4 maths homework, but they really are nothing short of a national treasure.
P.S. Does anyone else remember the movie they did for Above The Noise? With the vampires? Or was that some sort of weird fever dream?
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