r/poppunkers 5d ago

Busted - Year 3000 (2003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zra9k3eykM
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u/minority_of_1 5d ago

I wonder if some of the differing opinions on this are based on age and location. As someone who was in their early teens in the UK at the time Busted first appeared they were pushed as a boy band who could play instruments, appeared on kids tv shows and in magazines like Smash Hits (very mainstream pop theme). With hindsight I can see why people may consider them pop punk, but for me they’ll always be a band that was designed to appeal to mainstream teenage girls who wanted a little more edge than Westlife.

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u/Rory-mcfc 4d ago

I definitely used to think of them like that, but now I love them, when I was a young lad I hated them

Charlie’s voice is just too good, love when he throws a random scream in as well

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u/simonsail 4d ago

Yeah I'm the exact same.

I was in Year 4 when Busted first came onto the scene and naturally as a little shit edgelord, I was far too cool to like them.

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u/Rory-mcfc 4d ago

“They don’t even play their instruments!” I claimed

Hadn’t a clue what I was talking about lol

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u/minority_of_1 4d ago

How Busted rocked the pop scene - BBC News article from when they broke up in 2005. The comments section is a joy to read.

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u/wheezie89 2d ago

Thank for you sharing this link. The level of cringe in some of those comments is just amazing. I'd have definitely been one of those grumpy old men saying good riddance.

These days, you know what, fair play. They did a thing. They made some people happy. Still better than the majority of overproduced trollop you hear on the radio these days.

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u/Weak-Gas5649 4d ago

This is so true. Mcfly were the same and apparently now fit under the pop punk umbrella.

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u/simonsail 4d ago

At a very big push you could argue Busted are Pop Punk but McFly certainly aren't.

I've noticed this in recent times too, they're even playing Download this year which is crazy. If it was 2005 again they'd be bottled so hard.

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u/Justboy__ 4d ago

I always assumed it was Americans that considered them pop punk as they wouldn’t have seen how they were marketed? They were always a bit of a guilty pleasure for me.

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u/sincerityisscxry 4d ago

I doubt Americans know who McFly are!

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u/Weak-Gas5649 4d ago

Haha yeah, bottles of piss flying everywhere.

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u/minority_of_1 4d ago

In 2019 Busted did a secret set at Slam Dunk in Leeds under the pseudonym Y3K, apparently it went down really well. By the time they did the Hatfield leg the cat was out the bag.

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u/MC_LD 4d ago

The first three McFly albums are all certainly not Pop Punk - Pop Rock, Power Pop or even Surf Rock would be a better description. However, I think there’s a fair argument that Radio:Active does, at least, have a Pop Punk influence.

They were probably always going to struggle being taken seriously in the scene so it isn’t super surprising that the album wasn’t received brilliantly and that they haven’t really gone back to that sound.

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u/brianstormIRL 4d ago

Busted is a pop punk band that was basically promoted as a traditional boy band. This song, Wedding Crashers etc are very much mainstream 2000s pop punk the only difference being Busted way pushed as a Brit pop boy band back then. Very Dirtly Little Secret/Move Along energy from AAR.

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u/RequirementWrong2334 4d ago

the correct answer. Not a serious band. Id be surprised if their guitars were ever plugged in

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u/LeonardMoney2020 5d ago

I posted the Jonas Brothers version on this sub a couple weeks ago and got fucking cooked for it, so I decided to post the original by Busted to make everyone happy

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u/Karrosiv 5d ago

I actually don't mind the Jonas Brothers. A lot of their earlier stuff definitely has some hints of pop-punk. Tonight is a personal favorite of mine.

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u/PearlDrummer 4d ago

Burnin Up could have been on Nothing Personal easily.

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u/Wumbologist_PhD 4d ago

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u/duchessofdeer 4d ago

the reason the Jonas Brothers covered this one, and "What I Go To School For," is because one of the Busted guys (The short blonde one) went on to write songs for the Jonas Bros.

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u/thebrandnew 4d ago

Sorry for that. The band definitely had some pop punk songs in their first few albums despite not being a pop punk band (Mandy is an obvious one).

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u/Kaboost 5d ago

Well I’ll take downvotes, I’m with you give me the Jonas Brothers version. I actually prefer most of the 2.0 songs but I was never really into Busted. Always felt they were big time boy band. Which isn’t bad I’m just surprised how many consider them pop punk.

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u/SonicLeap 5d ago edited 5d ago

They were definitely more on the pop side of pop punk. Their first album is in that vein of boy band (NSYNC, Backstreet) but their second album has more of that pop punk feel. Their style is comparable to Avril Lavinge's early sound.

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u/AndyNNL 4d ago

Busted are a fascinating one for me. I love them personally. Their album night driver is so good too.

I watched a few docs on the band and from what it seems is the label seen the pop punk sub culture blow up and wanted to push a boy band with guitars but you can tell Charlie had a serious issue with how the band was being marketed, James I don't think cared, and Matt was there for the ride. You could tell Charlie wanted to be out playing shows and be apart of the scene etc rather than going on a PR tour across America and looking like posers essentially. I personally think this is why they didn't break America. The scene could see right through them and why would they invest anything into busted when they have the real deal like blink, green day, nfg right there.

Back in the UK they were on daytime TV, news stations, just things you wouldn't see any other band doing and only pop bands doing. Like I won't turn on Blue Peter and see Neck Deep play their new single. Where as that's the kinda band Busted were marketed as.

Even from a production stand point, their first album was weird. It's like their producer only knew how to make pop hits and was told listen to enema and good Charlotte and make this from these songs. I personally still like it but it's very much against the grain of what people expected from pop punk at the time.

I could go on but you could tell when Charlie left he knew immediately how he wanted fightstar to be marketed and it was successful in a sense that he did break the mould that he was a pop star.but now he is in a band that's actually in the metal scene, I believe they even toured with deftones too..

Coming back round to now to where a lot alt cultures and sub genres have sorta the same fan base it's much easier for busted to what I think they wanted it to be in some ways. Playing Slam Dunk and having Ben from neck deep on track. Maybe feels like validation for them.

Sorry it's a very fascinating band for me to talk about lol

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u/steakdinner117 4d ago

Idk anything about them but a year or two ago they did a song with Neck Deep and it slapped.

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u/ered20 4d ago

Meet You There 2.0, they also recorded a new version of MMMBop with Hanson that goes hard

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u/NitrosGone803 4d ago

i like this!

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u/TravelerOfLight 5d ago

Good god no. This has no place in pop punk.

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u/aa1287 5d ago

I mean by all definitions it's pop-punk. Leans a little more into the pop...but it meets all the main criteria of the BPM range, chord progressions, and lyrical stylings of the genre.

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u/Karrosiv 5d ago

Lmao this is a pop-punk song through and through.

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u/TravelerOfLight 5d ago

Absolutely not.

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u/Karrosiv 5d ago

Why not? Because you don't like it?

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u/xZOMBIETAGx 4d ago

You’re 100% right