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Busted’s ‘Britney’, Early-2000s Pop Chaos & That Madonna-Britney VMA Moment Ep 6 · Galaxy Crashers: The Busted and McFly Podcast

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Hello everyone, you're listening to Galaxy Crashes, the Busted
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and McFly podcast. The only podcast where the 2
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worlds of McFly and Busted come together.
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I'm sham. And I'm Tay.
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And in this week's episode, we are really diving deep into the
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nostalgia of the naughties as we discuss Busted hit song Britney.
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We're going to be talking all things busted as always, diving
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into the inspiration for this absolute banger, Miss Britney
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Spears. And this week I'm testing
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knowledge on McFly songs by playing the One Second Wonder
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quiz. Oh.
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My God, I'm I'm not scared of that.
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You'll. Be fine you'll.
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Be fine, I'm. You'll be fine.
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I mean, your track record isn't great, I'm not gonna lie, but
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oh. I know literally I'm like
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embarrassed to call myself a McFly fan at this point.
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The thing is. Maybe I am team busted.
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It's not it's definitely not all about the trivia, but you know,
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I, I have faith in you this week.
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I'm sure you're going to do better than the other two weeks.
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It's fine. I'm good.
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Thank you for asking. I'm doing OK.
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I have been back to school this week, which is Cray Cray.
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I haven't been in a school environment for about four years
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cause I've been like teaching online and stuff.
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So it was pretty scary going back That's.
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A really long time. Such a honestly I could like it.
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It feels like yesterday but obviously it has been so long
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and I didn't realise how nervous I was until I got to reception
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and they were like, oh you are supply for the day.
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And I was like, yeah, hello. And then I got into the
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classroom and the lady was like, oh, what, What was your name?
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And I was like, I went to say Miss Blake.
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And I was like, oh, it's Missus Lewis.
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And I was like, I nearly cried because I was like, I'm Missus
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Lewis now. I'm not Miss Blake anymore.
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So it was really weird to be my marriage name Which.
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Was the woman? I know.
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Tell me about it. It was absolute, pure chaos.
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I'm not going to lie. I had a lovely time, but and the
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kids were wonderful. But my gosh, it was, I was
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thrown completely in the deep end.
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Yeah. It was OK, though.
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I, you know, and The thing is, you've got to just get on with
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it. When you're a supplier, you
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don't, you don't have a choice. Just do what they tell you to
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do. And I took a small group off for
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for phonics and read, Write ink, which was a bit scary because I
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haven't taught that in four years.
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They were like, can you teach Read, Write ink?
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Yeah. Yeah, I can.
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Yeah. Of course.
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You always say yes, you just do it.
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You're a teacher, you just do what you do.
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But yeah, it was, it was loads of fun and it just made me
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realise how much I miss being in a school environment.
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So keeping my eyes peeled. And you know, I think I'd rather
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for a while just stick to being a TA, even though like being a
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teacher obviously is better money.
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I think like you, it's just better work like work life
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balance and holidays and things like that.
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So yeah, keeping my eyes peeled for like like property a jobs.
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But I'm just enjoying being a bit flexible at the moment and
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being able to go to different schools and things.
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But it is obviously a bit Willy nilly because you just sort of
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get a call at like 7:00 in the morning and they're like, can
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you go to this school today? And you're like, yeah, no
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problem. So you have to get up early and
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get ready and. I could not imagine I need
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structure. I could not do that.
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I'd wake up and be like, I'd end up going to school with like, I
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don't know, no underwear on or something because I just need a
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structure in my life. The the underwear being the
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structure, right? Yeah, yeah.
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The support that you need. The support I need, yeah, yeah.
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Well, yeah, there, there's definitely less structure, but
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it is more fun because obviously you get to go here, there and
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everywhere. And it does work out like
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slightly better money because you're getting paid daily.
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So it's, it's, you know, it's all good.
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Oh, that's good. Yeah, other than that, today
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it's been absolutely peeing down and it's been hailing.
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So I've been doing lots of colouring and stacking cups and
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silly things with my daughter. So that's been fun.
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Yeah. How are you?
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Have you been up to working your bum off I imagine?
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Well, do you know what? This week has actually felt a
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lot more busy than it actually has been.
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I feel like I've been shaking my chasing my own ass all week, but
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I've actually not really done much more than I usually do.
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Oh no. I feel like.
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I feel like I've just seen an extra half an hour in the day.
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Yeah. Just to like sit down and doom
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scroll on TikTok because I wake up in the morning.
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I wake up at 5:15, no, 5:45 in the morning every morning and
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from the second I get out of bed until I want to say about 7:00
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at night, I don't sit down. I don't like have time to just
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be me, do you know what I mean? Full time job and mum.
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Yeah, that literally I get home and then I'm like, right, I've
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got this, I've got this, I've got this and I've got this.
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And even though like I'm a one to one with two different people
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at my school and my one of them is in reception and he's in a
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pram, he's he's a disabled little boy.
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So I'm not really doing anything of hardship as per SE, but I am
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like. It's mental.
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Strenuous on your head. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I have to have, like, my eyes 24/7.
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I have to be on the ball. So I get home and I think I yawn
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about 100 times before I actually end up going to bed.
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Oh. God, you're preaching to the
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choir with that Hun. Yeah, literally.
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And I've. Yeah.
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So yeah, I've just been working a lot and the girls have joined
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some new clubs as well, which is fun for them.
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And for them, not you for. Them.
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Yeah, yeah, and I had my brother's birthday meal this
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weekend too, which was lovely. No, not from that.
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It's just been very same old. I don't really know why I'm
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complaining other than I just feel knackered for no reason.
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I don't think, I just feel, I really don't think you're alone.
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I feel like. No, but it's like every week is
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the same. So now I.
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Feel like the opening of our podcast every week is us just
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moaning about life. Sorry everyone.
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I think we do like why do they have kids and why do they work
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in schools? Because they clearly.
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Also this is. This.
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Is a Busted and McFly podcast. Shut up and get on with it.
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You're right. And on that note, it's time for
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Quote Corner. So this week I found a quote
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from our little Jamesy Borney boy.
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The. Reason Jamesy Borney about the
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reason why he left, like why Son of Dork is no more.
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Now I do know it's slightly off topic because it's a busted
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podcast, but I found the reason to be really interesting.
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So basically someone tweeted him, I think it was in 2020,
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saying what happened to Son of Doc, which is, you know, deep in
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everyone's hearts. And he replied saying in the
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background I was being heavily sued in the high.
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Court of Justice for the rights to all of the Busted songs.
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I left the band to give my undivided attention to fighting
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this case, which after four years I won.
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Then I started trying to bring my music career back to life.
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How much is that? What the hell?
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Yeah, right. Yeah.
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So that was 2020 and the band split in 22,000 and seven.
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So it was like 2011 that he actually.
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So from 2007 to 2011, he was fighting that.
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And then in answer to another tweet in 2024, so that was 2020.
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Lots of numbers here. That was 2020.
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And then in 2024, somebody said, you know, would you ever come
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back together? Whatever.
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And he said son of dog of no reunion planned, but he would
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consider it if enough people wanted it.
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Now, I do have to say on behalf of us, all of us losers, we
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wanted James. All of us dogs, we wanted James.
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Bring it back. Oh my God.
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Oh my God. I have unfinished business with
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Eddie. Please bring it back.
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Honestly, Eddie. I would.
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Do you know what I think I remember saying to you the other
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day that I put Son of Door Call in the car and I could not
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believe I knew every single word of every song.
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Yeah. And I would absolutely be 100%
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down for a Son of Talk Kick. Oh 100% but how funny is it that
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like he was being heaven? Like he didn't even say I was
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being sued for the right. He.
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Was like, I'm being, yeah, the quote is heavily sued in the
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High Courts of Justice for the rights to all the busted songs.
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That's all the busted. Songs, I wonder if that's
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something to do with, you know, like when Charlie left,
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obviously he went on to do Son of Dork and I remember because I
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listened to him on Nikki Burned from Westlife.
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He was on on that podcast and then he was on another podcast.
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I can't remember What's life. Yeah, shout out, big shout out
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the the OG, the OG boy band. I yeah, I found him on another
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podcast as well. And on one of them, or even both
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of them, he was talking about how the some of the songs that
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he'd written for Busted ended up being Muck Busted songs or Son
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of Dork songs because he'd written a lot of these songs
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himself. No, James, because because
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Charlie had left that. I wonder whether that's why he
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was being sued for the rights to them.
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Do you know what I mean? So because, yeah, so I read it
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as like a Taylor Swift situation.
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I read it like maybe Charlie left the record label and
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whoever the record label was owned the rights to the songs
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and he had to fight for them. I don't know because of after on
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again on one of these podcasts it did say that after busted
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break they were all offered separate recording contracts.
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Crazy. Oh yeah, because that Charlie.
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Crash, but they all they were all offered their own recording
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contracts. But they obviously there were a
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couple of songs written by James and Matt before Charlie arrived.
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And like, even when I go to school for was pretty much
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written when Charlie joined the band.
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And I think we read an interview with Charlie where he said,
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like, he did feel like a bit of an outsider because he came into
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the band. Or do you know, it might have
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even been James saying that in an interview that it could have
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come across that way. Don't quote me on that.
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It's one of them, I promise. But yeah.
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It's in next week's quote. That's crazy that that you know,
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imagine writing songs like I mean, we know about all of this
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with obviously Taylor Swift's and stuff, but imagine writing
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songs and then having to fight for them like to the right
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considering they are your softs. Yeah, when I, so when I started,
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this is like very off topic, but kind of the same thing.
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When I started at the primary school, we did like a
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safeguarding thing before I started like some training days.
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And one of the things we were had this like honestly, I think
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it was about two hours chat about ChatGPT and how you can't
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mark somebody else's work because that's copyright via
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ChatGPT. Sorry.
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So like, for example, she used the example if JK, if young JK
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Rowling handed in Harry Potter to you and you put it through
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ChatGPT, that's copyright because those are her own words.
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And then somebody else would own that.
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So it baffles me that those rights are there once you've
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written it down, but once you've put it out into a public
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platform or whatever, those don't belong to you anymore.
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Like it, it just completely doesn't belong to you.
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They're they're, they're not his anymore.
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It's such a. Crazy fight for them.
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Yeah, like a such a crazy load of jargon with it all as well,
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isn't there? Like actually understanding it.
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And gosh, Well, we're very, very glad that you did win that case,
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James. And as Shannon says, all of us
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losers would happily come to a Son of Dog Reunion.
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So let's give it a go. Obviously, when you're feeling
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better and you're back to normal, if we could do Busted
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versus McFly round two first and then you go on to Son of Dog
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Reunion, that would be great. You know, in your own time.
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Brilliant. This week, my quote, I've gone
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with our favourite set of eyebrows, Charlie Simpson, his
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quote. I really, I found this really
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interesting because I know me and you have talked a little bit
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about Charlie and, and his lots of different things that he's
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been doing. And I found this and I thought,
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oh, this is an opportunity to discuss it a little bit.
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So Charlie said I've got so many musical personalities, I could
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probably get treatment for it, which I thought was great
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because he's. Very He's not wrong.
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No, exactly. And I was just thinking about
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like all the different sides of Charlie Simpson that we've seen.
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Like we see him in Busted, we saw him, you know, 2002 Busted
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Charlie, we've seen him 2025 Busted Charlie and you know,
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with halfway there and all of that sort of stuff as well.
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We've seen him as fight star Charlie and we've seen him as
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solo album Charlie. And now we've you know, only a
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couple of years ago we saw him as mask singer Charlie as Rhino
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and you know, the whole president is he is he not kind
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of question as well, obviously as but still his voice so
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phenomenal. You can literally like I was
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watching some videos of Rhino the mask singer earlier when I
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found this quote, I was like, I'm just going to remind myself
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of, you know, what that sort of was like and how did anybody get
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that wrong this. Is so this is what I'm thinking
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about president. This is like what I'm thinking
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about president because I saw so I don't watch Max Mass singer,
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but my mum was like, ah, so my mum watched it and she messaged
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me and she was like, I recognise his voice.
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I don't know where it's from. I feel like you'd know.
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It sent it to me and within 5 seconds I was like Charlie
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Simpson and he would have watched people guessing his
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voice within seconds online, like manically putting it on
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Twitter or Instagram or. I don't.
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Know Reddit or whatever, do you know what I mean?
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Putting it on straight away, he has a mask on and people are
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still recognising his voice. Why does he think we would not
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recognise him with a different mask?
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Because the size of your mask does not change your voice.
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Charlie Simpson. Yeah, the fact that you had a
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huge rhino head on makes no no difference to the sign.
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Yeah, he sounds his voice, voice is so obvious and so it's
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distinctive, unique. Yeah.
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And it's really funny because the video I watched was actually
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him singing. I just can't wait to be King
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from. Polite.
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Oh, love that, I love it. Was so good.
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I just thought it was great. He did all the little voices for
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Zazu and everything. It was just like, yes, Charlie,
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but I just thought that was a really cool quote because
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actually he's right. He does have so many musical
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personalities and actually his voice stays the same, you know,
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like, and although that his work with, you know, you've got like
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busted, which is nostalgic naughties pop rock, then you've
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got like fight style, which is a lot more heavy and a bit
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rockier. And then like, I mean, I don't
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listen. I haven't listened to president
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as much as you. I've heard a little bit of it
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here and there, but obviously it's very, very different to the
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sort of music that he did with Busted, yeah.
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And then how? Do you go from Britney to?
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To that. In the in the name of a father
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to like just can't wait to be king literally to paint your
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target fight star everything is so.
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Everything is different. And like I was reading up about
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his his solo work and actually had an old friend who he used to
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share a lot of his solo work all the time.
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And it's really funny because this is way before he got back
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with busted. And like back, you know, when at
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uni days and she used to share like Charlie Simpson, Charlie
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Simpson and it I swear down it never clicked who he was.
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Like it did not click for such a long time because she was
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sharing this music. It wasn't even like I don't
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think it was even his music. I think it was like like
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pictures or like, yeah, album artwork or something.
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And I just, I don't even remember going, Oh my God,
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that's Charlie from Busted. Like I remember thinking when I
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when I finally thought, Oh my God, that's Charlie from Busted.
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I thought I've seen this so many times by this person has posted
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this so many times and I didn't realise who it was.
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How did I not realise? Yeah.
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I know it's made lapsely mental because his music was a lot more
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like folksy and like, do you know, it was like very, very
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different to anything I've I'd ever heard from Charlie Simpson.
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So I think that was why my my brain didn't quite link with my
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ears at that moment in time. It didn't sort of, you know,
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connect the two dots. But yeah, I thought it was cool.
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And I think me and you are very similar.
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We also have very many musical personalities because you listen
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to you. You're you probably more than
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me, but you listen to things like Fight Star, but you also
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listen to things like, you know, Lion King soundtrack.
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Yes, I do. I'm, I said, who was I talking
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to the other day? Oh, somebody at school.
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Because obviously I'm new and I don't know all the people there.
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And I'm starting to get a little friendship group.
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And someone asked because I it was actually life of a showgirl
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day and I'd forgot my lanyard and I came in and I was like,
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I'm so sorry. Distracted my.
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Lanyard. Yeah.
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And then in the staff room at lunchtime, they were like, why
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have you got a fake lanyardo? Because we have to wear like a
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fair one just so people there we are.
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And I was like, I stayed up. No, I woke up so early to listen
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to Taylor Swift that I forgot. I was just so distracted that I
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just left the house. And then she was, she was like,
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Oh my God, I wouldn't be friends with you because if only you
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like Taylor Swift. I was like, hold on a second.
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I am also cool. I am also like, hang on, hang
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on, don't judge. Me by my.
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Not court. Don't like.
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I was like, I was like, tell me. What you like and I guarantee
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you, I like. Something the.
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Same genres you. Yeah.
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And she was like, oh, I like stuff a bit more Rocky.
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I was like, well, I'm your girl. I like everything.
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There's only. I would say I don't really like
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like hardcore rap and I don't really like like deep trancey
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dance music. Trancey dance, yeah, yeah.
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But I do like like nineties 80s classic dance music.
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R. And BI.
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Like a bit, yeah. R and BI, like a bit of
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everything. So I relate to Charlie Simpson
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and I think this means that we could be friends.
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So hit me up. I agree.
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So this week, after watching way too many episodes of The Hit
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List, I decided to put together a little quiz for you, Shannon,
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where I will play you one to two seconds of five McFly songs and
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see if you can guess them from just that 2 seconds.
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You chose 10, so I asked you to give me 10 that you think you
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know well. And out of those, I selected
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four and then I added one of my own.
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You can play along at this. You can play along with this at
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home if you haven't already. You can find the quiz on our
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Instagram highlights. I'm going to play the clip a
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total of three times for each song if you need me to.
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If you don't need me to, then obviously I won't.
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And after the third time, you will only have 10 seconds to to
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give me your final answer. OK, does that make sense?
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OK, I'm going to write down obviously what you say and then
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I'll give you the answers after. Are you ready?
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OK. You got this, you got this.
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OK, let's go. Ready for song #1?
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Did you hear bubble wrap? Bubble wrap.
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Let's write it down, OK? Arguably arguably the best
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written McFly song of all time. Arguably #2 #2.
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Why did I have to think about that then all about you?
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Why did I have to think? I was like, whoa, what?
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What is this trickery? OK, next one.
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I got you. You know when like your child
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asks you how to spell something like table and you forget
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because you've written it the same so many times where your
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whole life she. Asked me how to spell orange.
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OK #4 Are you ready? I'm ready.
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Did you hear it, Ballad of Paul K?
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OK, OK. And finally, last one.
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Happiness. OK, OK, we'll go through your
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answers and I'll let you know if you were.
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Correct number one is wrong. I need to be sacked from this.
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I mean, I need to be I'd. Probably.
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I'd probably. Bring back Tash.
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Yeah I probably would try and find another Co host #1 yay
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bubble wrap. Woohoo, that's.
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So fun. Definitely, you were right on
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that one obviously #2 just a moment for this wonderful song.
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Get a little Red Nose. Out all about you our one of our
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favourites #3 was have you seen the drama have you seen I feel
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like we. I feel like we quote it every
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single. Why is that our favourite quote
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ever? It's just not OK.
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Is that #4 It was the ballad of 4K.
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Well done. Definitely.
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I can't wait. I cannot wait to rate that song.
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I can't wait to go some of these Motion in the Ocean songs as
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well. I can't wait for motion.
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I'm excited. And finally, the last one, it
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was happiness. Shannon, you got 5 out of five.
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I have redeemed myself, I hope. I'm so proud of you.
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Amazing. And of me too, even though I
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changed the song. Well, equally I did add, I added
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I got you in there And also if you'd if you'd have got any of
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those wrong, I genuinely don't think I'd have been able to be
22:54
your friend because very easy. There definitely were more.
22:58
I could have chosen a lot more conspicuous ones, but I didn't
23:02
because I wanted you to do well. I think we should turn this into
23:06
a biweekly segment and I think we should do the host or the the
23:15
the quizzer chooses. That's a great idea.
23:18
Yeah. Although we probably fail.
23:21
Oh, no, I probably fail. You're definitely better at this
23:25
than I am. I bear in mind.
23:27
Yeah. Taylor Swift, I tell you now, no
23:31
other than like the probably like maybe 10 songs on the
23:34
Tortured Poets, because Tortured Poets is 32 songs long.
23:37
I know every single song that woman has ever written.
23:40
And I would still get them wrong because I'm just terrible at
23:43
remembering the intros. So yeah, you definitely do
23:47
better. We could do like a we could do
23:48
like a Finish the lyric, Oh, my brains bubbling.
23:52
My brains bubbling. So many segments, so many
23:55
episodes to kind a good job. We've got like 10 albums to get
23:57
through. We're going to be doing this for
23:59
next 10 years. Yeah, 10 years.
24:02
We'll be 40 by the time this podcast ends.
24:05
That's fine. That's fine.
24:06
Oh dear. Anyway, if you played along at
24:09
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24:20
And hopefully you did just as well as Shannon, because she's
24:23
redeemed herself this week. So she's called herself.
24:26
She can call herself a. Fan again a Chuck.
24:30
I've got given some heroes at school today and I'm going to
24:32
treat myself to one in a minute. You go for.
24:34
A little prize you. Deserve it.
24:39
It's time for Song of the week this week.
24:42
Song Focus is the third song on Busted debut album Brittany.
24:49
And this song was released in 2002 along with their debut
24:53
album, which actually sold over 1.2 million copies and was
24:57
certified four times platinum in the UK.
25:00
That fact blew me away. And also, apparently Britney
25:03
Spears heard the song shortly after its release and thought it
25:06
was a nice gesture. I actually as a sorry I'm I'm
25:13
going completely off topic. Well, not really, but as a
25:16
Busted fan, I, it's not one of the, it's, it's like it's a song
25:22
for the real fans, but it's not a song for your, your general,
25:26
you know, child lover or whatever.
25:28
Yeah, I can't believe that was four times platinum in the UK.
25:32
Mental, literally mental. But actually, I think when I
25:37
look at like, because obviously they did the Britney Nerdy
25:41
medley on tour, which I loved. It was so nice to hear Brittany
25:45
Knife after all these years. But equally I needed the whole
25:47
song and it just wasn't enough. Yeah.
25:50
But so I mean it's. So deeply loved by real, like
25:52
real like strong fans, but I don't think but like your
25:55
average fan. Yeah, there was so much love for
25:58
it though. There was so much on tour and
26:01
like even like when he came out in his Britney T-shirt and
26:03
stuff, there was so much love for it.
26:05
I think it made me realise it was a little bit more popular
26:07
than perhaps I'd first perceived it to be.
26:09
And obviously when I saw this fact, I was like, Christ, 1.2
26:12
million copies, That's amazing. Yeah, that is amazing.
26:16
Yeah. Another interesting fact about
26:18
Busted and Brittany is that they actually went head to head to
26:22
head for number one in the charts with Crash the Wedding
26:26
and then Me Against the Music. That song she did with Madonna
26:28
where they like, didn't they like get off in the music video?
26:31
I think they kissed in that music.
26:32
Yeah, I think they did. Or like it ended just before
26:35
their lips touched. Maybe.
26:36
I'm not sure but I. Think they actually kissed?
26:39
I've got a, I've got a I've got a visual memory of them being
26:43
back-to-back on the wall. You've stored that.
26:46
Memory in your head. I have.
26:49
You know me too well. Definitely stalled that one.
26:55
I I had this vivid memory of her like putting her hand on the
26:59
wall and like leaning into her face.
27:00
Have you seen the wall? Discuss.
27:03
Yeah, There's like a viral TikTok going around of like,
27:05
like boys in books or something. And it's like somebody leaning
27:08
on a wall. Yeah, it was that kind of kind
27:10
of thing. And then there was that weird
27:12
thing. On book talk I've seen.
27:14
Yeah, I'm sure you have. There's also that performance
27:17
that Madonna did with Britney and Christina.
27:20
Do you remember? And she kissed both of them.
27:22
Yes, this. Came up not that long ago and it
27:26
was because I was looking at Britney's pissed off ready for
27:28
this. We're looking at different
27:30
women, Britney Spears kissed. Yes.
27:32
Yeah. Well, obviously that's what I
27:33
googled. But yeah, so busted one the top
27:37
spot. That's crazy.
27:39
Crash the wedding. Crash the Wedding beat me
27:41
against the music with 6000 more copies, which I think is
27:45
actually that bizarre to me because of that kiss because I
27:48
remember it being very. Massive.
27:51
It was, it was like very taboo and I remember.
27:54
But it was the video. Talking about it.
27:56
Yeah, it was the video, isn't it?
27:58
It was the video I think that didn't the single song come out
28:01
before the video or was it released at the same time back
28:03
then? I can't remember.
28:05
But equally I think back then was like when we bought CDs.
28:09
Do you know what I mean? Like actual CD.
28:10
There was no like there was no like logging into Spotify and
28:14
downloading it like pre saving a song.
28:17
Like it was genuinely go to HMV and buy the disc.
28:21
So a little bit a little bit more mad.
28:24
So the we've actually we've actually made the rest of this
28:27
episode a little bit shorter because there's so much to talk
28:30
about with this song and we've already waffled absolute Well,
28:33
we've already talked absolute waffle, I suppose.
28:35
So already in this like waffle first, waffle first bit of this
28:40
section. So do you want to tell people
28:42
what we're going to talk about mainly?
28:44
Oh yeah. So we're going to mainly talk
28:45
about the inspiration of the song, obviously, and the lyrics.
28:49
Yes, and let's not forget that we also chat for England, so
28:52
we'll probably get carried away at some point too.
28:54
So we could be here all night, who knows?
28:56
Do you want to give me your ratings out of 10 and talk about
29:00
what you like about this song? OK, my rating out of 10 for this
29:03
week is you're all going to be absolutely shook, bamboozled,
29:08
because my live rating is the same as my like, streaming
29:13
rating. Yeah, exactly the same. 10 out
29:17
of 10. Yeah.
29:19
She finally found a song that. She likes. 10 out of 10, I have
29:25
no notes for this song. Like genuinely, I think it is a
29:30
Stella song. I remember, I don't know if I've
29:32
mentioned it on the podcast before.
29:35
I might have mentioned it to you.
29:36
And we were talking about like our favourite songs and stuff in
29:38
passing. But I like this song so much
29:42
that me and my mum, there was, there was this, there was this
29:45
Pepsi competition where you collected.
29:48
Oh yes, you know the you know the what's what?
29:51
They called like the little cap of a cap.
29:54
Tabs like the little ring ring tabs you.
29:56
Collected enough of them and then you sent it off to Pepsi
30:00
and then they sent you the CD and it was like a side Britney B
30:04
side Dawson's Geek, which also like spoiler 10 out 10.
30:09
But yeah, I absolutely love. I have no notes.
30:13
It's just so good and it's doing exactly what they do best.
30:18
It is fun music, brilliant storytelling and like secret
30:23
messages within. Like the thing with Bust, yeah,
30:26
they're so the thing with Busted is they make music for when I
30:30
was younger, so I'm going to say kids.
30:31
They make music for kids because I was listening to it then, but
30:35
as an adult listening to it now, I'm like, Oh my God, how was I
30:38
ever allowed to listen to that? Because they're so clever with
30:42
how they write music. It doesn't sound like it's going
30:44
to be a bit naughty. It doesn't sound like it's going
30:46
to be a bit risque. Doesn't sound secret meanings,
30:49
but there are definitely and there is.
30:51
Yeah, so many. 10 out 10. Brilliant song.
30:54
I love that for you. I'm so happy.
30:56
After six episodes, we finally got past the sort of 56 mark.
31:00
Yeah, it's been, it's been a big gap.
31:02
So well done. I'm just going to touch on
31:04
something you just said actually about how, you know, that we
31:08
listened to this as kids. I told somebody earlier, it was
31:12
somebody on my, my Instagram like business page and I was
31:16
talking to her about just generic stuff and what I've been
31:18
up to and whatnot and told her that I've been doing a podcast
31:21
and she's like, oh, that sounds fun.
31:22
Like what's it about? And I said, oh, it's, it's about
31:24
Busted and McFly. I do it with my best friend and,
31:27
you know, it's a lot of fun. And she, she sent me oh, and a
31:31
laughing face. Not really my food.
31:35
Used to listen to them as a kid though.
31:38
Like rude. Oh block delete report as report
31:44
as spam. I hope she never listens to
31:46
this. I'm not taking the miss out of
31:47
her at all. Like fair blade.
31:49
I didn't. I did feel did that.
31:53
That hit me hard, hit me in the heart.
31:56
I felt, well, personally attacked.
31:59
Yeah, To be fair, when I went to, when we, I went to the best,
32:02
best McFly tour, I sent my partner a little photo because
32:07
we got to the stadium really early because I just wanted to
32:10
be nowhere. I sat, sat down, took a picture
32:14
and most of the seats were empty because everyone was, you know,
32:16
not there an hour and a half. And he was like, they're never
32:22
going to sell that out. And then I was like, are you
32:25
joking? And then when I got home, he was
32:27
like, I can't believe people still listen to them.
32:29
And I was like, are you how, how am I with you?
32:33
Breathe. Breathe.
32:34
We have children. Do children with this man?
32:38
Jack just doesn't say anything. I know he's secretive judges,
32:41
but. He doesn't say anything.
32:42
Smart man. He's a very smart man.
32:45
But like, you know, equally, like we were saying earlier,
32:47
we've, we've got many different music tastes.
32:50
And I I listen to Jack's music. I mean, Jack's music has changed
32:54
a lot over the years. But I'm not sure he'd be down
32:57
with down with it if I got into the car and put McFly on, to be
33:00
completely honest. But, you know, it happens every
33:03
now and again. It's all good.
33:05
Oh, dear. So I love this song.
33:09
Obviously. Yeah.
33:10
Yeah, I've told you before, I absolutely love this song.
33:14
I'm sorry, my phone is dinging in the background.
33:15
I didn't even realise it wasn't in Silent.
33:17
Apologies everybody. I think that in terms of
33:21
ratings, I'd probably have to rate it a nine, because I know,
33:28
I know. But I think for me, there's one
33:32
more song that I would rate higher as there's a few songs
33:36
that I would also rate 9 that are are due to come up.
33:39
But there's another song that I, I know I would rate A10 and is
33:43
my all time favourite Busted song.
33:45
So I'm saving my 10 for that one.
33:52
But yeah, I think it's a definitely a strong nine.
33:55
I think for me, I think when I was younger, I think I, I jumped
34:01
on that hype of like the Britney thing.
34:05
Like I loved Brittany back when I was like young and I like the
34:08
schoolgirl outfit. And like, you know, I think when
34:10
I had, I might have, I think I had a couple of like outfit.
34:14
Like if I went to a party or a fancy dress party or something,
34:17
I would definitely go as like Brittany with the plaits and the
34:19
schoolgirl outfit. Like I, I loved all of that.
34:23
And not like, I think because, because it was so big, because
34:28
all the girls. And this is the the thing I was
34:31
like thinking about earlier was like all the girls wanted to be
34:33
her and all the boys wanted her. Like they all fancied Brittany,
34:37
wanted to be the girls, or wanted to be.
34:40
Well, I put it slightly nicer than you, but, you know, if
34:43
we're crossing that door, we might as well open it, swing it
34:47
open wide. But yeah, I think, I think that
34:49
was it. I think we all wanted to be, you
34:51
know, as she was cool. She was a bit sassy and sexy and
34:55
every. She was cool.
34:56
Yeah, like I. Loved Britney, I was a proper
34:59
Britney girl I liked. My favourite was crazy.
35:02
Loved that song. Yeah, great song.
35:05
I yeah, there's, there's so many good Britney songs.
35:09
But I think for me, I think, yeah, definitely 9 out of 10.
35:12
Again, I think it's the storytelling aspect, but I think
35:14
it's definitely pure nostalgia because not only you getting
35:18
that this is a busted song, so it's taking you back anyway to
35:21
the naughties. But it's about Britney, who was
35:24
very, very popular back then. And like the first lyric is
35:27
literally your face is everywhere I go.
35:29
You're on every television show. And it was like that.
35:32
She was everywhere, like every magazine, everything on and TV.
35:36
Like you'd literally go to the go to the supermarket and see
35:39
Smash Hits and all the other mags and she was just on
35:42
everything. She was in adverts.
35:44
She was like the face of Pepsi, wasn't she?
35:46
Literally, yeah. She was everywhere.
35:48
Absolutely everywhere. And I think it's crazy that like
35:51
somebody can take over like that.
35:53
I mean, look at Taylor Swift bringing her up again.
35:55
Sorry listeners. What's this?
35:58
Hey, Taylor. Swift Well, no, unfortunately
36:01
there was already a Taylor Swift podcast.
36:05
We couldn't do one of those. But yeah, I think, you know,
36:08
it's the same with her when when the era store was happening, she
36:11
was everywhere, everything all over the place.
36:14
There's no avoiding it. And and she is like the Britney
36:17
of today, isn't she, when you think about it.
36:19
So I definitely like it for the nostalgic aspect, but equally
36:23
it's the storytelling. It's it's all of that, isn't it?
36:25
But the inspiration? Really clever songwriting, I.
36:28
Think Yeah, exactly. And like the inspiration being
36:32
that they based it all around their love for her and how they
36:35
were like completely obsessed with her.
36:37
And I think not only did we relate to it, like because we
36:40
were living at the same time as them, as the same sort of age as
36:44
them, they were only sort of like 5 years older than us or
36:46
whatever. And we, I think we, we almost
36:48
looked at them like, I don't know about you, but when I was
36:51
15, all I wanted was like an older boyfriend who had a car.
36:54
Like I wanted, you know, like we wanted.
36:56
There's like, cool boys. With my head and done in the
37:01
back seat, I was all. Right, enough of the Taylor
37:03
Swift preferences. But you know, I think we wanted
37:07
that. But equally, and I'm not saying
37:08
that loads of boys listened to Busted back in the day, but then
37:11
some of them did because actually I bet a lot of them
37:14
could could relate to this song because I bet a lot of them were
37:17
obsessed with Britney, like Busted Fur.
37:19
You know, there's so many subtle and not so subtle hints to
37:25
Britney in this song. Do you know what we pick out?
37:28
A. Few of it reminds me of a, you
37:32
know, on the board. You know the I think it's a
37:35
Facebook page and an Instagram page.
37:36
It's a board in London where they, if somebody's playing in
37:40
London, I know they did it with Lucy Parley.
37:42
I think they did it with Buster Frust McFly.
37:43
Actually, they write a whole passage that fit the song titles
37:48
in it. On the tube, underground white,
37:51
white boards. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:52
Yeah, I think the the page is called on the board, on the
37:55
board. This this song is the song
37:59
version of those boards. I love that that's such a good
38:03
idea, actually makes. A lot like, that's literally
38:05
what it, yeah, that's what it feels like to me because there's
38:08
so many references. So many and we have picked out a
38:12
few to share with you guys, hence why this episode has been
38:15
chopped in other places because we're already at 40 minutes and
38:18
there's so many, so many to share.
38:21
So we're going to have a go at sharing some of the lyrics and
38:24
some of the things that relate to those lyrics.
38:27
Do you want to go first, Chan? Yeah.
38:30
OK. What about let's say it because
38:33
I've just mentioned it, but the lyric Pepsi, let me taste you.
38:37
Yes, that's like a direct limit lyric to Britney because she was
38:42
the face of Pepsi for a really long time.
38:45
Yeah, in it was 2001 actually, and it was the biggest ever
38:48
promotional deal with Pepsi. She signed a contract with them
38:52
and she was like their spokesperson for a really long
38:55
time. So it was like a well known
38:58
thing that that Britney was the face of Pepsi.
39:01
So a great little lyric in there.
39:03
I love all of the ***NSYNC and things like like the bits,
39:09
honestly, when I, I started reading about them and obviously
39:12
you know, they're in there, but like to actually put like link
39:15
them in. So they do the I need you here
39:20
with May. May.
39:24
And obviously that is a direct, direct reference to NSYNC's
39:29
number one hit. It's gonna be May, which
39:33
obviously they don't say me, they say May.
39:37
It's gonna be May. And obviously the reason they
39:40
did this is because even though it's not a Britney Spears song,
39:43
it is because Britney was in a very high profile relationship
39:47
with Justin Timberlake, who was N syncs probably most famous
39:51
member at the time and. Still is I would say.
39:55
Yeah, very. Any other members actually like
39:59
their full name? Well, probably not.
40:02
And it's there's they also say because one day it's going to be
40:08
me. That's obviously the song is
40:12
called It's going to Be Me. So another direct reference
40:16
there as well. Have you got any more you want
40:18
to share? How about what about I'll become
40:25
a slave for you? Brilliant or you drive me crazy.
40:30
You drive me crazy. Literally her song his the song
40:34
is literally called Brackets. You drive me word crazy.
40:38
Yeah, exactly. I love the I'll become a slave
40:42
for you lyric. I do you want to know something
40:45
really funny? I'm going to write this down to
40:48
say and I didn't write it down. And then I was like, I'll
40:50
probably mention it anyway, But that lyric when he says I'll
40:54
become a slave for you, that bit I'd swear down never knew what
40:59
he was saying. And I used to just chat.
41:01
I literally used to say I'll become a slave for you.
41:04
I actually know what they were saying.
41:08
And I swear down. It took me years to actually
41:12
realise that what the lyrics are, I have a lot.
41:14
More respect from you for you now.
41:16
I really do. That's brilliant.
41:20
I can't believe it. I think we need to do a section
41:22
of misheard lyrics because there's definitely some McFly
41:24
ones as well. They're terrible.
41:27
Obviously. I'm a Slave For You was massive
41:30
because it was a really edgy music video and it was showing
41:35
like that she's moved. She was moving away from that
41:37
like Girl Next Door era where she was really, you know, like
41:42
soft. Sorry to interrupt you.
41:43
Sorry to interrupt you, but if you can hear anything in the
41:45
background, my cat is meowing like crazy.
41:47
OK, this is he just really likes.
41:51
His song, obviously he loves it. He wants to be your slave.
41:55
Or he's singing in his head about you because you're
41:57
probably more his slave. I am his slave.
42:00
That's all we are to. Come, he's meowing because he
42:03
just wants a little stroke. That's so funny, sorry.
42:06
Carry. On no problem, say she was
42:08
moving away from the girl next door image, which was her being
42:10
very sweet and innocent to being, you know, a little bit
42:12
more bad bad girl. Do you remember this scene where
42:16
she had that massive snake around her?
42:19
She. Literally had like an Anaconda
42:21
or something, and she was like dancing with this.
42:22
And she was, yeah. Wasn't she in like green and the
42:25
Anaconda is like a yellowy? Colour.
42:27
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The background's all golden.
42:30
I think, sorry, just knocked my microphone over.
42:32
I think she did it live as well. I had like a live snake brought
42:37
out on stage at one point as well, which is mad because
42:39
probably wouldn't be able to do that anymore.
42:41
But yeah, that was like a massive thing.
42:43
Obviously a huge change for her. So adding that in was pretty
42:46
cool. And you mentioned You Drive Me
42:50
Crazy. The song obviously came from,
42:54
there was a movie called Drive Me Crazy.
42:56
I don't know whether you you know it had.
42:59
I don't know that. Melissa Joan Hart, if you watch
43:02
the video, she's like the blonde girl.
43:04
Yeah, yeah, I love Melissa Joan Hart so much.
43:07
She's a music video. Yeah, yeah.
43:09
So that the music video, it was literally promoting the film and
43:12
the film was originally called Next to You.
43:14
But when they added the song to the soundtrack, they changed the
43:18
name of the film to Drive Me Crazy because that was the name
43:21
of the song she wrote for it. Crazy that.
43:23
Is crazy, so crazy. Absolutely Chrissy.
43:28
I love this Joan Hart, a little known for this little bit of
43:31
Shannon trivia. My first ever e-mail address
43:34
wasshannontheteenagewitch@aol.com because I was obsessed.
43:41
I was deeply obsessed with Sabrina Tayndridge.
43:44
I'm quite a like witchy, like I like fantasy stuff like that.
43:48
Anyway, I love all that kind of like 90s nostalgia witchy vibes.
43:53
Sabrina the Teenage Witch just won me over.
43:55
I've actually started watching it with my eldest daughter.
43:58
That makes me so happy, Oh my God.
44:01
I can remember. So I can remember watching it
44:04
after school. Yeah, when I.
44:06
When she like changes her clothes in the mirror, she like
44:09
points. Yeah, and they had the cat,
44:11
didn't they? Yeah.
44:12
Salem. Little cat.
44:13
Salem. Yeah.
44:14
Yeah, I love that. Love him.
44:16
Yeah, 100%. I, I, there's so many more.
44:20
I like the that there's one line that God must have spent a
44:25
little more time on you. God must have spent a little
44:28
more time on you. That's an M sync song, which is
44:31
literally called bracket. God must have spent bracket a
44:34
little more time on you. That was actually the name of
44:37
their song. So very, very direct reference.
44:40
And then the next line is in school uniform.
44:43
You look so good, obviously. What does this relate to
44:46
Shannon? Do you want to tell everybody?
44:47
Because obviously. Everybody.
44:49
Knows but. Is it hit me baby, one more
44:52
time? It it might have been it.
44:55
Might be when I think of that music video, I don't think of
44:59
her in her uniform. I think of, you know, the little
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this is Sonish, this is Sonish. I think I'm the only one that
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thinks of this. But you know the little pink pom
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pom hair bubble? She has.
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Oh, she's like a flat with a little pink.
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They have like little balls on them or something.
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Yeah, they're like little pink, pink pom pom balls.
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I when I tell you I wanted those hair bubbles so much, I used to
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go to Claire's accessories looking specifically for those
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hair bubbles. I love that so much.
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I used to aggressively chew gum because I wanted to look as cool
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as she does in that video. Aggressively chewing gum.
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Yeah. Such a lever not good.
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And then there's another one that I really like, which is the
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you say that you're not a girl, I'll make you a woman.
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So good, which is good. Obviously another direct
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reference from her song I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman, which
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was my third album and it was in, it was in Crossroads.
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Did you know? I found this fact out, found
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this fact out that this song won the Golden Raspberry Award for
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worst original song. Worst.
46:14
I'm not even joking. To the point where I literally
46:16
spent about 15 minutes earlier looking up what the Golden
46:19
Raspberry Award was. So apparently there's an actual
46:23
like, you know, you have like, the Grammys and the Baftas and
46:27
all of that. Yeah, this is like, the opposite
46:31
of that. And it's for, is it like worst?
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Yeah, like a Raspberry, like if something's rubbish and see they
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rate the worst songs in in music so it won worst original song.
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But apparently it's because the movie was bad.
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Not the song was bad. Movie got a really bad rap.
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I couldn't believe it. I've literally put love to the
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movie. What the fuck?
46:53
Next to my note. This movie was so good.
46:57
So I think, Oh my God, I think I used to watch it like once a
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month. Like I loved it.
47:04
I genuinely it was like a a feel good movie for me.
47:07
Oh my God, I've just, I've just remembered they sing and sing in
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that movie. Of course they do.
47:12
In the car, they sing. Do they sing?
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Bye, bye, bye. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to love that film and it
47:18
was very much like a dream of one day escaping the lonely
47:23
roads of Cornwall in a convertible with my best girl
47:25
pals. Yeah, which obviously, obviously
47:28
happened. All the time, every day.
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I I also really like the lyric. Don't judge me because it's a
47:37
bit saucy, but I think it's very smart.
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I like the lyric. You can, you can run, you can
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hide. I'll make you feel good inside.
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Oh. Very saucy, but very smart.
47:53
Like I was saying Elliot's the lyrics are so smart because the
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song sometimes, sometimes. Sometimes they're high.
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Yeah. Sometimes I'm scared of scared
48:04
of you. What's a tune such?
48:07
A good song, but yeah, like, unless you know Britney's busy
48:10
songs, and unless you know that this song is direct reference to
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Britney, you wouldn't know that that is.
48:15
Yeah, that is like a reference. In for her.
48:18
Yeah, exactly. It's so clever.
48:20
I mean look at that. That's like what, 9 points, 8-9
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points that we've made at least on this, just on the lyrics.
48:26
And you know, obviously like the way they sing and stuff as well
48:29
is quite like they reference like a bit of the, the me and
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the May thing. And they say baby as well at one
48:36
point. And he says like, you know, like
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Britney Spears is like iconic hit me baby one more time.
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And she goes, oh, baby, baby at the beginning.
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I'm not sure I can. Oh baby, baby.
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Thank you. You're welcome.
48:56
That's good. I was going to say, you're going
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to clip that and play at my 40th birthday, aren't you?
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Yes I am. I'm just scary child.
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Scary. Close.
49:06
Scarily not that far away. Well, hopefully you guys enjoyed
49:11
hearing a little bit of the information about why this song
49:15
is so good in our eyes, but also all those amazing references to
49:20
the one the only Britney Spears. Britney also, if you haven't
49:24
heard the song, if you are one of those like casual fans that I
49:27
was listening to and you've just like stumbled across this
49:29
podcast, please do yourself a favour and listen to that song
49:32
because I promise you, it's my first.
49:35
It's my first 10 out of 10 for a reason.
49:37
My first high rated song. Also a little like I have quite
49:41
a few 10 out of 10s for Bastard. They just haven't come up OK.
49:44
I'm not just like a little hater giving them all four stars.
49:46
No, we're only three down for Bastard and three down for OK,
49:50
so you've got time. I've got time to redeem myself
49:53
in that instance as well, like I did with the quiz.
49:55
I'll redeem it with songs. Yeah, it's brilliant.
49:59
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50:01
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50:05
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Well done. We did good.
50:26
Well done. Of nostalgia and Naughty's
50:30
magic. Catch us again next week for the
50:31
next song on Mcfly's album That Girl, which I'm so excited
50:35
about. And we have another extra
50:39
special guest coming along. A huge McFly fan and expert on
50:42
all things at Danny Jones, Nazy from Mush Lover as well as all
50:47
the usual segments and gossip. Amazing.
50:50
So for now, just now, just for now, keep your playlist loud.
50:55
And happiness in your heart. Bye bye.