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Scooch: 'Flying The Flag (For You)'
Released on Monday, May 7 2007
Published Tuesday, May 1 2007, 21:25 BST | By Nick Levine | 6 comments
Is this a dream? Or, more accurately, a nightmare? Scooch, the proud owners of one top ten hit from 2000 - it was 'More Than I Needed To Know', fact fans - have reformed to represent us at this month's Eurovision Song Contest. They've popped on some trolley dolly outfits, shot a video that makes 'Club Tropicana' look like an RAF recruitment ad and recorded what seems to be a leftover from a Steps session circa '5,6,7,8'.
'Flying The Flag (For You)' sounds as though it was recorded almost exclusively on a slightly temperamental casio keyboard: all joyless beats and tinny electro blips. Its lyrics offer a stream of double entendres as subtle as a chat-up line from an Amsterdam window-dancer - "Would you something to suck on for landing sir?" - and the chorus is mindnumbingly crass. Scooch might think that this single is kitsch, camp and just a bit of fun, but they're wrong. This sort of thing is harmful to the future of pop music.
'Flying The Flag (For You)' sounds as though it was recorded almost exclusively on a slightly temperamental casio keyboard: all joyless beats and tinny electro blips. Its lyrics offer a stream of double entendres as subtle as a chat-up line from an Amsterdam window-dancer - "Would you something to suck on for landing sir?" - and the chorus is mindnumbingly crass. Scooch might think that this single is kitsch, camp and just a bit of fun, but they're wrong. This sort of thing is harmful to the future of pop music.
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i love this song me and m8s love it 2 we r doing a dance 4 it in drana at school
it was ok and quite catchy but i think there were better songs than that and serbia this year like , finland, russia, and turkey was quite good.But i dont know how ukraine where favourite ,what has the world come too.
It's not that bad in fact it's pretty good yes its cheesy but some people like cheese and to be honest if the Eurovision Song Contest wasnt political we may have a good chance of winning.
Such class!
Nick Levine's comments are the kind of ridiculous statements I would expect from someone who writes for this portal - at the end of the day - this kind of "fun" melodic harmony is true pop and with a bit more music around like this - perhaps it would clear us of the kind of rubbish usually found in the shopping baskets of todays young! Here today gone tomorrow one hit wonders that are both noisy and offensive.
THIS SONG IS TOTAL UTTER GARBAGE, ANYONE WHO THINKS OTHERWISE IS AN A-HOLE