I never want to play the games that people play
Continuing my trip back through the 2003 album charts.
09/11/03 : Guilty - Blue
In a stereotypical gender swap, we've gone from P!nk to Blue - they've done some decent enough tracks in their time (which was about now, wasn't it?) but I feel that fifteen tracks lasting nearly an hour is going to be a bit too much for me.
Well, I'm not sure it quite gets to be too much because every single track has absolute no content of any worth - and fifteen loads of nothing is still just one big load of nothing. Even though it has "Signed Sealed Delivered" which somebody somehow managed to get Stevie Wonder involved in - I can't begin to imagine what he thought about it all. Everything's just all so earnest and "oooh girl" - seriously, who used to like this?
We're at #1 with a new entry in the charts this week on the start of a twelve week run, which I think is the shortest we've seen so far this year, but it did get another nine week run in early '04. The rest of the top five were the R.E.M. best-of, Dido, Bon Jovi (a new entry) and Rod Stewart (the second of five Great American Songbook albums he's recorded over the years) and the next highest new entry was Liberty X (#12 - and I remember this being surprisingly bearable).
Wikipedia tells us this is their third album and lists the singles and that's about it. The critics were mixed on it with The Telegraph liking it - but that's boring, so let's amuse ourselves with the views of AllMusic ("straying perilously close to Westlife territory and to many Blue fans, the most important thing about them was that they were not as bland as Westlife") and BBC Music ("vapid, bland, hopelessly derivative, unimaginative and, occasionally, downright offensive"). Despite such comments, it did well commercially in Europe and also, somewhat surprisingly, in South-East Asia, getting to #1 in Singapore and #4 in South Korea and Japan.
"Customers also listened to" Lee Ryan, Simon Webbe, Duncan James and, amusingly, Ryan Lee, which gives you an idea as to the intelligence of the average Blue fan. My suspicion is that all of their solo efforts (apart from Ryan's obviously) are somehow worse than this, but at the minute I'm struggling to imagine how they'd manage such a thing - this was pretty awful.
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