Guilty pleasures: I'm looking for a new direction
Picture the scene: it's a friendly but past-it gay club called The Spiral in the eastend and there's a stick-thin gonk sniffing poppers and dancing to... eek! S Club Juniors! Yes, a thirty-something man on drugs is in rapture to a song by ten year olds. What's going on?
Well, these records couldn't be more fucking gay if they tried. If there was a definition of drug-fucked Disney, then S Club Juniors, sorry, 8, would be it - just try Rush. And New Directions sounds like their parents doing club-sexy; which makes the whole concept feel slightly weeeeird. Good job they're all grown-up now. Five years on though and with some distance, these songs are, actually, AMAY-ZING. Have a listen...
New Directions - S Club 8 (zShare)
Fool No More - S Club 8 (zShare)
Sundown - S Club 8 (zShare)
Rush - S Club 8 (zShare)
Turn the Lights On - S Club 8 (zShare)
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"Sundown" is one of my favourite pop songs of all time, and I distinctly remember dancing to Jnr's "One Step Closer" on the stage of an old nightclub haunt in my drinking days, where the DJ was playing the song every week by accident because he thought it was the new S Club 7 song.
Well, I feel less guilty now than I did when these songs were first out, Adem! But that poppers-sniffing gayer was really funny.
Have you seen current pictures of Calvin? Bit of a worry that he's not very easy on the eyes now that he's, um, of age.
He looks... odd now?
I haven't seen pics, no. Give us a link...
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http://www.calvingoldspink.com/exclusivephotos.php?gid=43
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