If you want to hear some of the most amusing lyrics in modern music and a more emotional Busted then this is the album for you!
"Air hostess" is reminiscent of the "What I go to school for" track from their debut album, so you're on familiar ground here.
"She wants to be me" is an insightful piece describing a girlfriend mimicking the boyfriend's style. The song emphasises the view that personalities merge during a relationship and individuality is lost. 'She's stealing my identity' is a repeated line. The points made here are serious, but made in a light-hearted way.
"3AM" stresses the difficulties of trying to move on after a relationship. The song has some lyrics portraying a careless attitude, others denial and desperation.
You may assume "Fake" is about pretending to be someone else. Once you listen carefully to the lyrics you realise it's a much more embarassing scenario. The subject matter isn't one that you'd expect people to sing about!
This album certainly stands up to repeated listening. "Meet you there" and "That thing you do" are great songs to sing along to. "Why" combines moving lyrics with a real rock sound and "Over now" has some particularly heartfelt lines.
Each member of the group has a distinctive voice and vocal style. The tracks are addictive and sung with genuine feeling. These boys are gifted.
'A Present For Everyone' certainly sheds Busted of the typical boyband image. This is because they are singing about how it feels...and doing it in their own way.
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Busted may look about as rock as Westlife, but A Present for Everyone confirms that under ... more
those chiselled cheek bones and polite smiles they're every inch the British Blink 182. For the most part, the clean-cut trio's second album is full of the same d...
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Advantages: The sound is quite bouncy and fun, the vocal lines are very well sung out. Disadvantages: The music is really quite generic and contrived; it's all been done before and better.
Apr 28th, 2004
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