5 Colours in Her Hair

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The weirdo who went insane and couldn’t take the fame, had enough and shaved five colours off… Emily Corrie had one more meaningful TV role after As If, supporting in the transatlantic romance NY-LON (I watched most of it but it was largely pish), before becoming disillusioned with acting and joining the Navy. It's definitely a song that has more going on than a lot of the previous commenters are giving credit.

was, but it’s far from kind to its subject, quickly sketching her journey from – in the singer’s eyes – fuckable eccentric to nameless cast-off, broken by the attention she got for the things that made her unique (and maybe for getting involved with the narrator). I was way too old to be tuning in, and indeed I didn’t make a regular habit of it, but everyone who has ever been a teenager from the 80s onwards had a Sooz somewhere in or close to their social circle; all dour toughness, hair dye, piercings and public tears, getting sympathy, friendships and relationships at first and then ultimately alienating those closest to them with their moods. That could be considered timely, given that the year afterwards a review of the film Elizabethtown will coin the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”. They're like a cross between The Archies and The Ramones, which gives them that sort of sweet/bitter edge. Suddenly, pop fans are only interested in watching a bunch of guys, jumping around with guitars, singing meaningless pop songs, instead.But it’s clever, too: written to be full of dials and knobs that can be adjusted for various markets.

It still questioned the ability of their audience to fairly judge without the hyberbole from the biggest pop act at the time, Busted. Of their three top 10 singles, the second, “Hip To Hip”, which was a top 5 in August that year as a double-A-side with a cover of The Jacksons’ “Can You Feel It? Today’s Sun stated that Danny is unhappy with life in the band and has asked to leave McFly and go solo.was a number 3 hit back in 1998, while the show’s mood was set by a whole stream of trip-hop and obscure album tracks (did I really hear James’ Alaskan Pipeline at the end of one episode? It all came from the heart – Matt Helders of Bunctic Bunnies actually memorably said as such in an interview one time. As for "She couldn't take the fame, she said I was to blame" and "I threw a house party and she came" I think that was a referance to him introducing her to his mates, and they were the ones pressuring her. While the verses are silly fun, it really takes off in the chorus when the boys harmonise and do their '-aaaame' rhymes.

This has a lot more energy than that, and as a carefully staged introduction to what McFly were all about, you can’t argue with it. Colours isn’t particularly widely-loved, as I appreciate the sound of teenage boys who, to be honest, can’t sing with the most endearing pitching, about a girl with “sexy attit-tude”, certainly isn’t for everyone. I think he's singing about a girl who was totally different to everyone else, and he loved her for that.If they were going to do a TV Theme, a la the Banana Splits or something, they should have gone all out. Some of it we even get to see on Popular (and I’ll have to figure out what I’ll say about it, as I’ve written about it three times before).