Line #11 YMMV/Mcfly


1	* BrokenBase: "Above The Noise". One half of the fanbase loved their electro-pop sound, the other half [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks just wanted them to return to their old guitar-pop music ASAP]]. ''The Lost Songs'' showed they were going for a mix of their old and new sounds, so the band seemed to only make their 5th album as a one-off experiment.
2	* CoveredUp: Their cover of "Baby's Coming Back" by Jellyfish is more recognised in the UK than the original. In America, neither are that well-known.
3	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: These guys are ''huge'' in Brazil.
4	* HarsherInHindsight:
5	** "5 Colours in Her Hair" climaxes with the song's subject deciding she can't handle all the attention she's been getting and shaving her hair off. Three years later, Music/BritneySpears shaving her hair off would be the defining moment of her fame-induced mental breakdown.
6	** The video for 'That's the Truth', showing Dougie behaving in a depressed manner following a breakup becomes a bit cringeworthy to watch following reports that Dougie has gone into rehab after struggling to cope with his rather public breakup with long-term girlfriend Frankie Sandford, of girlband The Saturdays.
7	* HilariousInHindsight: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oe-VXqkp8s This video (Probably NSFW)]] in which Danny, Dougie and Harry mime/sing badly to Il Divo's Opera version of 'Without You' becomes all the more hilarious knowing that Danny would eventually appear as a celebrity contestant on reality show ''Popstar to Operastar''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Danny, among other pop musicians, is trained to be an opera singer]], and then has to compete with the other singers every week to be the best opera star. He didn't win.
8	** In the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mUFbdW0XwY All About You]], the security guard (played by [[Series/HarryHillsTVBurp Harry Hill]]) wears a badge saying "I'm a Music/{{Busted}} fan". (Coincidentally the video was filmed on the same day Busted announced their split.) This becomes ''hysterical'' in light of the two bands teaming up for a [[http://news.sky.com/story/1166959/mcbusted-boybands-merge-for-uk-tour tour.]]
9	** Another [=McBusted=] example, around 2004, when both Busted and [=McFly=] were hugely popular at the same time, tabloids often called [=McFly=] "[=McBusted=]" due to their similarity and SpiritualSuccessor status to the former.
10	** Best example. Harry played the drummer in Busted's video for 'Crashed the Wedding.' 10+ years later, he'd be drumming that and many other Busted songs for the [=McBusted=] tours.
11	* HollywoodPudgy: In the early years, Tom was often mocked for being fat. He may have been slightly bigger than the other members, but [[http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b382/Victoria2345/mcfly/39.jpg certainly not a fatass]]. He's lost weight since then, but Tom openly refers to his early-[=McFly=] appearance as "Fat Tom".
12	* HoYay: Dougie and Harry are often quite physically affectionate with each other. They might play this up as Fanservice. Any conceivable pairing between the four of them has its moments, though, due to the HeterosexualLifePartners nature of their relationships.
13	* ItsPopularNowItSucks
14	* JustHereForGodzilla: Arguably the only reason ''Film/JustMyLuck'' got any success in the UK was because the fangirls were flooding in to see [=McFly=].
15	** If you look on online stores like iTunes, a lot of the reviews just say that the only thing they liked in the movie was them as well, one person even saying that, even though they haven't seen the whole movie, they always just watch their scenes because of their music.
16	* MisattributedSong: Busted's cover of the Beach Boys' song 'Fun Fun Fun' is often miscredited as featuring these guys, even though they didn't have anything to do with it.
17	* {{Narm}}: 'Nowhere Left To Run' (TheMovie) is said to be full of this.
18	** Of course, many fans find the band's poor acting to be [[SoBadItsGood both hilarious and adorable]].
19	* NightmareFuel: The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlecfxv17PA "The Ballad of Paul K".]] Even the band themselves have admitted to being scared by it.
20	* OlderThanTheyThink: The song 'IF U C Kate' was originally written and recorded by Music/JCChasez for his unreleased 2007 second album, ''The Story of Kate.'' Taio Cruz introduced them to the song when working with them on their 5th album, ''Above the Noise'', as he'd co-written it, and the band liked the song so much during production of the album that they recorded a version of it themselves. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZwzPvHNsns JC's version can be found in low-quality YouTube uploads]], as some songs were leaked on to file sharing sites after the album was shelved.
21	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Songs that they recorded between 2011 and 2013 that were left on the back burner when they formed [=McBusted=] got dug out to be released in 2019 on The Lost Songs.
22	* SignatureSong: '5 Colours in her Hair' and 'All About You'.
23	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Their song 'Just My Luck' sounds a bit ''too'' close to 'Accidentally in Love' by Counting Crows.
24	** 'Home is Where the Heart Is' was also clearly influenced by 'Wanted Dead or Alive' by Music/BonJovi.
25	* TearJerker: 'She Falls Asleep', 'The Last Song' and 'The Ballad Of Paul K'. 'She Falls Asleep' is about a girl who is DrivenToSuicide, 'The Last Song', wanting to [[DyingMomentOfAwesome live the final moments of your life to the fullest]] and 'The Ballad Of Paul K' about a man suffering a mid-life crisis. The latter can be especially heartbreaking to those who have ever witnessed their own fathers going through the same thing.
26	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
27	** The majority of the songs from ''The Lost Songs'' feature only Danny or Tom on vocals rather than their signature trade-off vocals. More than one person complained as they were coming out about this.
28	** ''Above the Noise'' had this reaction from the fanbase, due to a radical shift in style from 60s-influenced Pop Punk and Pop Rock to a similar electronic-infused style to Taio Cruz, who'd had a big hit the previous year. Cruz co-produced the album, so this makes sense.
29	* UnexpectedCharacter: Doubt ''anyone'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23JGwATJ1U4 saw them showing up at a Jonas Brothers concert in 2009 to sing 'Star Girl' with them.]]
30	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Though they've always been pretty kid-friendly, there are several examples.
31	** 'Star Girl' is pretty clearly about having a booty call with an alien.
32	** 'Please, Please' is about hooking up with Lindsay Lohan.
33	** 'I Wanna Hold You' involves the main protagonist of the song doing anything to please his woman, including ''destroying the world'' if she asks him to, flooding the earth through global warming, leading an army through the streets to cause chaos, and burning cities to the ground, which results in a worldwide evacuation. This resulted in a quick rewrite and rerecording the song for its single release to remove some of these references after criticism of them came out at the time, as their second album was supposed to be more "adult" in tone compared to their first album.
34	** 'The Ballad of Paul K.' tells the story of a man going through a midlife crisis.
35	* TheWoobie: The protagonist of 'The Ballad Of Paul K'.
36	** Dougie, following reports that he went into rehab to get over his difficult break-up.

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