Altsounds - KOF - Famous [Single]

With a chorus based on the Bros single from 1988, KOF is already riding the tide of cool that is British Hip-hop. Except that is sounds much worse on the KOF single than it was on the original Bros song.

We start off with a flat singing voice of KOF requesting us to tell him when he will be famous, but based on first impressions, you'll be waiting a long long time. The chorus makes me cringe, it just sounds really awful. It sounds off key, which surely someone would have listened to before it was released and realised that it just sounds horrible. It's not as though the chorus is infrequent, it comes around five times during the song and each one of them seems to go on for ages.

The verses are fast past and filled with words, mainly about the fantastic things that happen to you when you are famous and that KOF is only setting out to create music so that he can take advantage of these perks. Free things, people being interested in you, feeling important, etc. KOF seems to have forgotten that he's working in the UK and the huge amount of disdain we show for the celebrities in this country, along with the loneliness, having people envy and resent you, having all kinds of people coming out of the woodwork to get money from you, etc. That is what comes from being famous when you live in the UK. The fame he desires is so extremely superficial and he knows it, saying that he doesn't care if his entourage are Yes Men, as long as they respect his moves. How can this be a real opinion of someone trying to get in to the business? Is he being ironic? Is the joke really on me? Probably not, he probably does think like that.

The style of the rapping sounds like something Dizzy Rascal or Lethal Bizzle would have produced while they were ill and just wanted to get out of the studio as soon as possible. It's nothing special, nothing impressive and none of it is worth putting up with that awful, tone deaf chorus.

The CD that I got came with two versions of the song on it, one radio edit and one album. Obviously the radio edit has the naughty words taken out, and in their place there's just a reversed version of the word that was taken out. This is incase you want to play the song to your Grandmother and she doesn't like swearing, but would very much appreciate the song. Then I got a snippets track of bits from the album, which ends in a snippet of "Famous," which seems a bit redundant.

There is a Single Launch Party, tomorrow 2nd October 2009 in Liverpool at the O2 Academy, although the single came out last Monday.

"To launch and celebrate my new single FAMOUS I am putting on a mad launch show @ O2 in Liverpool. Featuring the best artists in Liverpool and hosted by the legend DJ Olabean. This will be bananas..."

02/10/2009
20:00
FAMOUS Single Launch
02 Academy, Liverpool, Northwest L1
Cost: £5

So there you go...