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Eventually, they released their first single in 2004, which was this, a tribute to the character Suzanne 'Sooz' Lee from the comedy-drama As If, a rebellious punk who you guessed, wore multicoloured dreadlocks in her hair.
They also shoot various well known scenes as a tribute to their main influences including the Beatles and the Beach Boys.Maybe we should move to a Busted thread, but we'd only have to put up with 1000 times comments like the one just above this one. No other Channel 4 shows have, to my knowledge, directly influenced a single, let alone one that got to number one (although I am happy to be corrected.
Unlike pop-punk and emo’s more gleeful treatment of scorned women, there’s an itch of regret here, something more thoughtful lurking under the scruffy bonhomie, a vague nod towards personhood beyond freaky hair and naked cooking. In the past I’ve compared it, in effect, to “(Theme from) The Monkees” (though this is necessarily hindered by Busted having already been in our affections), but everything about “5 Colours in Her Hair” is precision-tuned for instant, maximum effect. Bratty pop-punk moves and sounds made Busted an unusual British proposition; McFly don’t entirely ditch them. The lyrics of the song were inspired by the characterization of actress Emily Corrie for the character Suzanne Lee, in the series As If, the character used colored dreadlocks.
I did, in an earlier thread, make the observation that McFly would see some “chart falls that would have appalled Iron Maiden”. was a tantalising glimpse into what Xenomania would have done with a boyband – like a slightly less aggressive Five. You can get quite far just on energy and not making huge mistakes: it worked for Lonny Donegan in 1957, and it works for McFly now.
And if they’d recorded it during season 4 of As If (it released during the 3-4 gap), they’d have been disappointed to learn that Sooz’s dreadlocks were now entirely red. I think it's a cute bit of bowerbirding, but (bear in mind I have not seen the video), it doesn't jump up and down and say "WE ARE HERE!
Favourite child syndrome, jealously, trash talking and mimicking in interviews, and resentment coming into play.