Well, well, well... look who has crawled out from underneath the pop woodwork after a quiet period of post reality TV reflection...
Some may remember The Ordinary Boys (no? Ok.)from 2 or 3 years back when lead singer Preston (in a last ditch attempt to save the band from being dropped) somewhat ill-advisedly entered the Celebrity Big Brother of 2006, fell in love with love-able dimbat/Paris Hilton look-a-like Chantelle Houghton whom he soon married, and was suddenly thrown into a world of Heat magazine covers and OK! wedding photo deals before dumping the above mentioned dimbat in order to return to the fiance he left her for in the first place. The Ordinary Boys themselves did experience a brief re-heating of their chart success in the wake of CBB publicity and subsequent tabloid whore-dom of their outspoken and mis-guidedly cocky frontman. However, this success was short lived, particularly in the aftermath of the messy divorce that followed between Chantelle and Preston approxiamately 5 minutes after they married.
Now after a couple of years away from the media spotlight, Preston appears to have ditched the lame and anodyne "ska" band of old and is attempting to launch a solo career. Taking on a new image which seems to resemble what the love child of a young Morrissey and Frankmusik would look like, he is also venturing down the ol' electropop route which can only be a good thing in my opinion! His forthcoming debut single "Dressed To Kill" (which is out this month) takes the best part of Siouxie and the Banshees "Happy House" and weaves it into a dark but playful pop song about a ruthless maneater with plenty of cheesy vampire metaphors and such to boot. I think its damn catchy too! Pity about the unfortunate Lost Boys inspired video... I am still unclear as to whether it is SUPPOSED to look quite eighties and cheap just to add to the hammy-ness of it all. Although Preston's own views on the video would suggest otherwise in this extremely good interview on Popjustice.com. Here is the video...
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I thought what ultimately ruined Preston was his storming off Never Mind The Buzzcocks, threatening to sue everyone and being a right ass clown... but then I am not the pop goddess you two lay claim to being...
And man that video hurt my eyes
ah yes the buzzcocks incident... well, it certainly didn't help.
As for the video, try not to let it detract too much from the overall awesome-ness of the song, as hard as that may be...
The intro synth melody is a bit too reminiscent of the opening guitar melody in Chop Suey for my liking... Plus, this is nothing like the Ordinary Boys' stuff, which suggests that he's only doing this kind of stuff to keep himself in pocket. Which I don't really see a problem with, but it shows that the music industry is so fucked up. If you wanna make it (or even just have any money), you have to do pop, no questions asked. Not very fair on other genres (yes, I actually have sympathy for indie! :-P) And I like pretty much everything, including pop, so it's not an attack on pop, it's on the industry. I just don't get it...
...Oh, the song's alright, sounds familiar... (and we all know what I discovered when I said Paparazzi by Lady Gaga sounded familiar...)
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