History YMMV / Busted

** The 2.0 Guest Features of their 2002-'03 hits features a ''lot'' of this. The Music/JonasBrothers, Music/SimplePlan, Music/JamesArthur, Music/AllTimeLow, Music/NeckDeep, Music/YouMeAtSix, Music/DashboardConfessional, Music/TheVamps, Music/DeafHavana, Music/{{Hanson}}, Charlotte Sands, Music[{{McFly}} (although, maybe not given they're friends & [=McBusted=] happened), Music/BowlingForSoup, and Music/{{Wheetus}}.

* UnexpectedCharacter: Ok, who in the hell saw them being invited by Music/TheJonasBrothers to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEERYu22tb8 this concert for Capital FM]] to perform 'Year 3000'?

** "What I Go To School For" is from the perspective of a student crushing on a teacher. The video displays Ms Mackenzie flirting with each of the boys, including spanking Matt with a ruler and running through the field with Charlie while they're both in their underwear. The song's lyrics also have the teacher falling in love with the student and them becoming a couple. While actually illegal in the UK, the 2000s still portrayed teacher-student romance as more scandalously risqué than essentially an adult taking advantage of a minor (when the teacher was [[DoubleStandard female]] anyway). The song also light-heartedly devotes the second verse to the boy waiting until Ms Mackenzie's boyfriend is "out of town" and sneaking over to her house to spy on her, then climbing a tree to get a glimpse of her in her underwear. The former would be classed as stalking, and the latter as sexual harassment.

** Harry Judd played the drummer in the video for 'Crashed the Wedding.' 10+ years later, he'd be drumming that and many other Busted songs for the [=McBusted=] tours.

* PeripheryDemographic: Those who discovered Charlie's ProgressiveMetal band Fightstar first. This is more common outside of the UK and Europe, where Busted wasn't as popular.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Busted enjoyed a lot of popularity with children and tweens, getting featured on the Disney Channel and recording a remake of Cruella De Vil from WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians for Disneymania 2. However, lyrics involved ogling a teacher's ass and spying on her in her underwear ("What I Go to School For") or having ADateWithRosiePalms ("Air Hostess").

*** Even further lampshaded with ''Half Way There''. In James' own words from Twitter, "Night Driver is 3, halfway through 4 gets you to 3.5 (hence the 10 song tracklist) 3.5 X 2 = 7".
*** "Year 3000" also brags that the song itself "had gone multi-platinum". As of 2022, it's still regular Platinum.

** Music/{{McFly}} were considered to be Busted's successors (and were even nicknamed in the British Press as "Baby Busted" when they first hit the big time). Considering that Tom Fletcher was briefly in Busted, it makes sense.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
** "Beautiful Mess" uses the exact same rhythm and melody as James Bourne's demo song, "Gone".
** "Shipwrecked in Atlantis" clearly took a lot of cues from Music/Blink182's "The Rock Show".

** [=McBusted=], the supergroup formed when Willis and Bourne collaborated with the members of Music/{{McFly}}. Notably, the supergroup came to amend once Simpson reunited with the rest of Busted.

** "Shipwrecked in Atlantis" also clearly took a lot of cues from Music/Blink182's "The Rock Show".

* AmericansHateTingle: Busted tried to break the American market in 2003, and it was successful. Club Libby Lu sold Busted merchandise including talking plushies of the band members. When Hollywood Records and Buena Vista Records in America signed the band and Club Libby Lu earlier that year to sell their merch, the Disney Channel added the video for "Year 3000" into their rotation, airing it after shows movies and during commercial breaks. Compare Busted's success to catch on America to the relative success of [=BBMak=], another British boy band who played their own instruments and wrote their own songs, and yet managed to have a couple stateside hits.

* CoveredUp: Music/TheJonasBrothers versions of "Year 3000" and "What I Go to School For" are more well-known in America than the Busted versions.

* BrokenBase: Which is better, the [=McBusted=] version of "What Happened to Your Band?", or the rerecorded version these guys did for their 4th album?

* HarsherInHindsight: Listening to the first few songs on ''A Present For Everyone'', you can tell there was an effort on their part to mature their sound, as well as try to take off in places other than the UK. 'Air Hostess' was clearly meant to be a song they could perform once breaking through into mainstream US music, and 'Who's David' uses the term "high school," an American term, rather than "secondary school," the nearest British equivalent.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: 'One of a Kind' was originally written by James for a solo release under his Future Boy moniker, but was never included (the original version can be listened to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU0Aa4tV9xI here]]). The band re-arranged it for ''Night Driver'' during the album's writing process.
** Also, since their reunion in 2015, they've been performing lesser-known, or otherwise unexpected, songs from their first 2 albums live, such as 'Dawson's Geek.'

* HarsherInHindsight: Listening to the first few songs on ''A Present For Everyone'', you can tell there was an effort on their part to mature their sound, as well as try to take off in places other than the UK. 'Air Hostess' was clearly meant to be a song they could perform once breaking through into mainstream US music, and 'Who's David' uses the term "high school," an American term, rather than "secondary school," the nearest British equivalent. Ironically, had they still be making music rather than disband, they might've been able to break into the scene by riding the wave of Pop Punk bands that sprouted up in the mid-2000s to some extent.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Music/{{McFly}} were considered to be Busted's successors (and were even nicknamed in the British Press as "Baby Busted" when they first hit the big time). Considering that Tom Fletcher was briefly in Busted, it makes sense.
** Also, Son Of Dork, a short-lived band founded by Bourne, whose music was very similar to Busted.
** [=McBusted=] also, since Matt and James joined [=McFly=] as a supergroup. The even recorded an album which sounds like Busted 2.5 mixed with [=McFly=] and 5 Seconds of Summer.
** Music/AllTimeLow can be seen as this crossed with (albeit delayed) TransatlanticEquivalent, though they're more influenced by Music/Blink182 and probably never heard a Busted song outside of maybe the Jonas Brothers' covers of a few of their songs like most Americans, though Alex Gaskarth ''is'' British-American, since he was born in the UK, but moved to America when he was 7. It's safe to assume that if Busted's third album came out a few years after their second, they'd likely have evolved their sound in a similar way to All Time Low, since they produced high-energy Pop Punk music and All Time Low could cover any pre-2016 Busted song without crediting them and most people probably wouldn't bat an eye because of how similarly both bands wrote their lyrics and produced their music up until that point.

** "What I Go To School For" is from the perspective of a student crushing on a teacher. The video displays Ms Mackenzie flirting with each of the boys, including spanking Matt with a ruler and running through the field with Charlie while they're both in their underwear. The song's lyrics also have the teacher falling in love with the student and them becoming a couple. While actually illegal in the UK, the 2000s still portrayed teacher-student romance as more scandalously risqué than essentially an adult taking advantage of a minor (when the teacher was [[DoubleStandard female]] anyway). For obvious reasons, the Jonas Brothers cover changed it to be about a crush on a student. One could attempt to hand wave it by suggesting it's merely the indulgent fantasy of a horny teenager with no chance of actually happening.
** The same song also light-heartedly devotes the second verse to the boy waiting until Ms Mackenzie's boyfriend is "out of town" and sneaking over to her house to spy on her, then climbing a tree to get a glimpse of her in her underwear. The former would be classed as stalking, and the latter as sexual harassment.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclbaDc_Kdc The music video for]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwq_XmSz-I 'Crashed the Wedding']] has some pretty impressive green screen and multiple angle camera work for a mid-2000s British music video. It's all presented as one shot with a roaming camera, the guys all play at least 5-6 characters each, they interact with some of them each, and there's no obvious chroma keying, or anything. There's some obvious places where they clearly change camera shots, or cover up where two characters played by one of the band members interact, but it's all done really well. One might wonder how long it took to shoot and edit and how they accomplished it.

* InvadedStatesOfAmerica: Busted tried to break the American market in 2003, and it was successful. Club Libby Lu sold Busted merchandise including talking plushies of the band members. When Hollywood Records and Buena Vista Records in America signed the band and Club Libby Lu earlier that year to sell their merch, the Disney Channel added the Year 3000 video into their rotation, airing it after shows movies and during commercial breaks and their own TV show aired right after The Even Stevens Movie. Compare Busted's success to catch on America to the relative success of [=BBMak=], another British boy band who played their own instruments and wrote their own songs, and yet managed to have a couple stateside hits.

** The music video for 'Nineties' premiered on [=YouTube=] on the same day Creator/StanLee died.

* TheMakeover: Charlie and Matt get James a makeover in the sixth episode of the first season of their TV show which was aired on the Disney Channel. The montage was set to Sean Paul’s Get Busy.

* TheBritishInvasion: Busted tried to break the American market in 2003, and it was successful. Club Libby Lu sold Busted merchandise including talking plushies of the band members. When Hollywood Records and Buena Vista Records in America signed the band and Club Libby Lu earlier that year to sell their merch, the Disney Channel added the Year 3000 video into their rotation, airing it after shows movies and during commercial breaks and their own TV show aired right after The Even Stevens Movie. Compare Busted's success to catch on America to the relative success of [=BBMak=], another British boy band who played their own instruments and wrote their own songs, and yet managed to have a couple stateside hits.

* InvadedStatesOfAmerica: Busted tried to break the American market in 2003, and it was successful. Club Libby Lu sold Busted merchandise including talking plushies of the band members. When Hollywood Records and Buena Vista Records in America signed the band and Club Libby Lu earlier that year to sell their merch, the Disney Channel added the Year 3000 video into their rotation, airing it after shows movies and during commercial breaks and their own TV show aired right after The Even Stevens Movie. Compare Busted's success to catch on America to the relative success of [=BBMak=], another British boy band who played their own instruments and wrote their own songs, and yet managed to have a couple stateside hits.

* TheMakeover: Charlie and Matt get James a makeover in the sixth episode of the first season of their TV show which was aired on the Disney Channel. The montage is set to Sean Paul’s Get Busy.

* MakeoverMontage: Charlie and Matt get James a makeover in the sixth episode of the first season of their TV show which was aired on the Disney Channel. The montage is set to Sean Paul’s Get Busy.

* TheMakeover: Charlie and Matt get James a makeover in the sixth episode of the first season of their TV show which was aired on the Disney Channel.