Fightstar
Im sick of all these people who hate fightstar just because one of them was in busted. It doesnt make a difference, fightstar do some pretty alright emo songs.
Im not really keen on emo to much but i like their new song. People say they dont deserve to be on Mtv2 or Kerrang just because of who's in it, forget about that and just listen to the music.
it was always going to be a double edged sword for fightstar...on the one hand they get the publicity they need from having a former member of a well known(if somewhat shite) band...but on the other hand because thay band was essentially a manufactured pop band aimed at kids...then they were always struggle to get any respect from the "serious" music establishment as well as the public
i havent even heard any of their stuff so i'll reserve my judgement until i do
Hahahahahahahaha.
Fightstar.
What a joke. I don't dislike them coz one of em was in Busted. I dislike them coz they're shit. Just another prototype mould.
Kerrang dissed the hell out of them. Charlie is a hypocrite.
First he says "People shouldn't diss Busted. We're not Pop, we play our own instruments." Now that he decides he wants to be an Emo kid, he says "Nah Busted were Pop really."
The music is just bland, nothing.
He's gone from one shit band to another shit band.
-AC
theyre absolutely nothing special, and i hate the face that people are calling 'Phalinuik's laughter' a decent song, when its blatently not..its bland and uninspired... pretty much the problem with 90% of emo atm 😬
Busted were manufactured pop....
Emo is becoming more and more pop-ular atm, so Charlie manufactured an emo band
God, im not a big fan of Fightstar but im willing to give them a chance, you closed minded gits should re-think your musical status cos soe day your going to be all criticesed out and you'll realise youve bad mouthed nearly every band on the planet.
Oh and by the way Charlie said busted werent a boy band because they dont dance and they play their own instruments, theyve always admitted they were pop.
"God, im not a big fan of Fightstar but im willing to give them a chance, you closed minded gits should re-think your musical status cos soe day your going to be all criticesed out and you'll realise youve bad mouthed nearly every band on the planet."
I'm closed minded to hypocritical, shit musicians. Sue me. I haven't bad mouthed every band on the planet, b-bit of a stretch there me ol' darlin'.
"Oh and by the way Charlie said busted werent a boy band because they dont dance and they play their own instruments, theyve always admitted they were pop."
Charlie: I don't want us to be taken as a boyband. We're not. We're not Pop, because we're not manufactured. That stuff's crap.
Then it became...
Charlie: I don't really wanna say it but why is it so bad to be Pop? Pop just means Popular music.
No I'm not stopping there. After blurting out that Pop definition, "We're about to sell out" line, he said this...
Charlie: Our record label turned us into a boyband (thought he said they weren't?). Like they were telling us what to say and we went along coz we thought "Oh alright" (Huh?). I don't want kids to buy shit music, I want them to buy good music. I'd never deny Busted were anything but Pop (funny coz he did), I used to laugh when we got mentioned in Kerrang! coz we don't deserve to be in there.
Ironic that he doesn't want kids to buy shit music, yet put two albums worth of it out there.
Funny that as soon as he realised "Wait, we really are talentless nobodies", he tried to switch it up.
Even funnier is that he thought "Waiiiiit. We'll wear black, writhe around in water like some Emo version of Blazin Squad and write a song about nothing. They'll buy it".
Oh wait....he was right.
Fightstar = Busted without the make up.
Anything else you wanna add while we're hitting this band at the height of their phenomena? Coz you know, I'm here.
-AC
Ok so if you were in a band and people were calling it all sorts of crap, wouldnt you stick for it as much as you can, im sure i would. Please dont take my opinions as being an old busted fan cos im not, i hated them with a passoin, but im willing to give fightstar a chance. Granted they play emo, which im not to keen on, but they have totally exceeded my expectations, and as an emo band goes they arent that bad.
OK, this is honestly the truth.
I didn't know who Fightstar were. I didn't know who was in the band and didn't know anything about them background-wise. I simply saw this new emo-like band playing on MTV 2.
I still thought it was pointless crap. This is mainly due to the fact I hate whiny emo crap anyway (well, most of it). Everytime me and my brother see some sort of new whiny, cookie cutter, emo-ish band, we sarcastically say "Oh the angst!".
Seriously, this emo sh*t is simply pop for idiots. At least people who like pop music know that its pop music, whereas people who like emo (Im thinking of this particular kind of emo - the whiny, boring, crap) think it's NOT pop music. It is.
The icing on the cake was when I found out Charlie from Busted was in this band. I knew even before then they were as manufactured as Busted.
And seriously, without Busted, there would be no Fightstar, period. They aren't good enough to compete on their own merits, I don't think.
My two cents.
"Ok so if you were in a band and people were calling it all sorts of crap, wouldnt you stick for it as much as you can, im sure i would. Please dont take my opinions as being an old busted fan cos im not, i hated them with a passoin, but im willing to give fightstar a chance. Granted they play emo, which im not to keen on, but they have totally exceeded my expectations, and as an emo band goes they arent that bad."
Well exceeding YOUR expectations or not, doesn't remove from the fact that they're a shit band.
I wouldn't give a shit what people called my band, I'd be playing music because I want to. Not to be famous. Therefore people opinion of my band wouldn't really be of any consequence. If you liked it, cool. If not, cool.
What makes Fightstar so awful is what preceeded them....Busted, and all the contradictions and hypocrisies with it.
-AC
they look like they've opened and thoroughly studied the 'how to be emo' manual and worked themselves around it.
1. pick a long 'meaningful' name for the song
2. change appearance to accentuate ur new found emo status
3. write overly emotional whingey lyrics and layer them over a basic song structure
4. film a seemingly angsty yet subtely emotional video
5. have 1 screaming vocalist and 1 singing vocalist
i love emo, but sadly the music isnt going anywhere, 99% of emo is tripe, but when its done well... i love it!...fighstar don't do it well, theyve taken everything thats wrong with emo and meshed it together
I don't like Emo, I think it's also a bit of a fake label.
To be honest, even in genres I think are crap, I think "Well there must be bands who originated it".
There is always real, shit music. As opposed to fake, shit music.
People cite Minor Threat as an original Emo band. If you're gonna like Emo, at least like real Emo.
-AC
but i never really thought that initiative and and pioneering a music genre automatically made u the superior band 'musically' - obviously it makes them very talented to be able to pioneer a whole new musical genre... but it doesnt make them the best at it, imo opinion obviously
like, England invented football, but we're far from the best at it haha
i dont think people like bands because of the genre they put themselves is and whether or not its deemed "cool" to like bands of that genre...at least among your peers....that kind of attitude is about as shallow and pathetic is could possibly be...
like music because you have a connection to the song...you can take something from it that is personal to you...dont like or dislike stuff just because your mates say that "x" is cool but "y" is shit
make up your own mind
people also easily forget musical backgrounds to band members anyway...
lots of people i know like new order without having the slightest clue that they were once joy division...i like minuteman...didnt know until recently that the guy from ultravox is in them...i also like doves....but i didnt know until after i got their stuff that they were once 808 state...
so personally i dont really care if charlie from busted is in fightstar...i'll judge them on their music...which i still haven't heard