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CD Review - Scouting For Girls - I Wish I Was James Bond [single] Scouting For Girls - I Wish I Was James Bond [single]


Scouting For Girls - I Wish I Was James Bond [single]

Epic Records

October 21, 2008, 07:49 PM

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Apparently Scouting For Girls are the second biggest selling British band of 2008. How this has happened I do not know. Scouting For Girls make music that is so sickeningly poppy you want to put your fingers in your ears and scream ‘la la la la la’ at the top of your lungs until it's over. Is ‘I Wish I Was James Bond’ an exception? Well the title of the song should be enough to tell you that no, it is certainly not by any means.

A funky little piece of piano kicks things off, but after just 11 seconds the cringe fest begins: “007”, says a quintessentially English voice, “Britain’s finest secret agent, license to kill, mixing business with girls and thrills”. Then in comes lead singer Roy Stride with his try-hard vocal delivery and irritatingly predictable lyrics. Scouting For Girls write songs like an 8-year-old would write a poem, actually that might even be an insult to an 8-year-old...

“I wish I was James Bond, just for the day. Kissing all the girls, blow the bad guys away.”, chirps cutesy Roy, emphasizing his oh-so-clever rhyming couplets. What is so ridiculously frustrating about 'I Wish I Was James Bond', and indeed Scouting For Girls' other cheese ridden delights, is it’s ability to worm its way into your head and refuse to budge for hours on end. And that is not a complement.

OK, so 'I Wish I Was James Bond' is catchy, I’ll give Scouting For Girls that but the single seems to borrow melodies from every other song Scouting For Girls have ever released. 'I Wish I Was James Bond' is samey, predictable, bland indie-pop and it sounds like something from a Disney film. I’m surprised the video doesn’t have sing-a-long lyrics running at the bottom of the screen; altogether now everyone “Roger and Shaun and Timmy and George and Daniel and Pierce and maybe one day me...”. Yes, that really is how it ends. Enough said I think.

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Last edited by altsounds : October 21, 2008 at 08:05 PM.









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23%

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided





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Oh my god what an amazing review. I couldn't have said this better myself. Even the band name is super gay. Every song sounds the same and catchy DOES NOT mean it's good. The Measles are also catchy but that makes you itch your skin until it bleeds, much like Scouting for Girls.
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Comment Posted on: October 21, 2008, 07:55 PM
 
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ahhh iv never understood the hype about scouting for girls either, im glad someone else aint a pop-sheep.
im particularly loving the pointless little boy shouting in the background in james bond's chorus!
music for the masses ey


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much as i agree with the review and well done it's very much on the button i do have one problem and it's a biggy here goes...

why oh why are their songs on here as well, it's the last thing i want to be hearing! the blood seeping from my ears is clearly a sign that this should not be happening so please no more Scouting For Girls to be heard ever... please
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haha this really made me laugh.
i know exactly what you mean about the lyrics, the chorus 'she's so luv-er-lay' is the most pathetic thing ever. none of my mates have ever refered to a girl as lovely - there are better words!


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I happened to catch them actually doing Elvis covers at V this year (it wasn't my fault - I was in line for beer). I have never seen anything so utterly cringe inducing in my entire life.

Second highest selling act of 2008?? Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-zuz!


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I dont understand how this band has so many plays. Are people deaf or just don't have any taste?!! LOl
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This is a great review. The only changes I would have made are to be more seethingly vengeful towards them. I think Scouting For Girls are the first band I've ever heard that actually insult me. I find the fact that they think that level of effort, musically and especially lyrically, is sufficient enough for me, the listening public, to enjoy.

Everyone that has been involved in putting them on the Radio should be shot or sacked.....For starters -------> Rant Over


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Scouting for girls and the feeling are the gayest bands on the planet. How are they so famous?


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Cause a lot of the British music buying public like A LOT of shit music
which is why so many boy and girl bands also thrive over here when they
should all burn! Hahaha. That is why I started this site 5 years ago to
inform the uninformed of what good music actually consists of and to
hopefully turn some of them around.

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> Scouting for girls and the feeling are the gayest bands on the planet. How
> are they so famous?
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