Review:

on 2011-02-20 CharlesMartel Said:

Brilliant, amazing, the best thing to emerge from the British cultural scene since the General Strike. Everyone should go out and buy this immediately. Words cannot describe how enthralled I am by this album.

I am such a liar.

This is unmitigated shit. Three chavs whose only talent is to wiggle their arse (and they don't do that in a manner which is in any way sexy) does not constitute music. It constitutes a cynical money-making exercise for a handful of record executives and their shareholders. What is worse is that Andy McCluskey, the brains behind and one half of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is responsible for creating this shit and inflicting it upon us.

This is directed at the teenage girls who think that becoming pregnant at thirteen is clever; at chavs, ASBO's and wannabe Vicky Pollards for whom the mark of intelligence is the ability to smash up a phone box and terrorise the lone Pakistani family on their council estate. Karl Marx once said religion is the opium of the masses. He was wrong. Drivel like this is the opium of the masses. This is a filthy ruse intended to keep the lumpen-proletariat in their hopeless moral and social condition. The PC brigade need these people to stay in their wretched, alienated condition so that they can have something to wring their hands about. Atomic Kitten are a crumb thrown to the underclass to ensure that the disaffected provide the social workers and the do-gooders something to be patronising about and relieved that they are so much more fortunate.

Sadly, this is what dominates the charts in the UK. Creations such as this have been the staple fodder of the UK singles market since the seventies. The names and faces may have changed, but the underlying format of inoffensive twaddle sung by aesthetically appealing individuals, regardless of whether they have any talent, has been around for over 30 years and is anaesthetising another generation of children against the realities of their lives. Anyone over 13 years old and with an IQ greater than 50 will recognise this and give this album and the people responsible for it the widest possible berth.
Rating: 1/10