There is something unashamedly transparent about The Yeah You’s. Shrink-wrapped, pre-packaged and radio ready, the duo have been vacuum-formed in pop’s hollow husk and filled with all the inoffensive commercial confidence that defiles today’s industry. It’s not that The Yeah You’s don’t have their place: they have nailed the four-minute pop song on the head with a garishly glee simper, contagious choruses and more key changes than you would care to see coruscating from a Take That key ring; but still, they are about as original as a wet bar of soap dissipating in The Hoosiers bathtub.
Thursday, 16 July 2009
New Musical Express - Live Review: The Yeah You’s. Proud Galleries, Camden, London. 14/7/09.
There is something unashamedly transparent about The Yeah You’s. Shrink-wrapped, pre-packaged and radio ready, the duo have been vacuum-formed in pop’s hollow husk and filled with all the inoffensive commercial confidence that defiles today’s industry. It’s not that The Yeah You’s don’t have their place: they have nailed the four-minute pop song on the head with a garishly glee simper, contagious choruses and more key changes than you would care to see coruscating from a Take That key ring; but still, they are about as original as a wet bar of soap dissipating in The Hoosiers bathtub.
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Totally disagree with your comments. I've heard a few of the Yeah You's songs and the lyrics are pretty clever and musically the songs are incredibly well crafted. Admitedly 15 Minutes is ultra commercial but you can't blame a band for launching themselves with a song that aims to simply get their name out there and not to establish themselves as a music power house. I'll reserve my judgement until I hear the full album but listen to their other stuff I reckon it'll be very strong.
Totally agree with Antony. Their music is fun, catchy and they do not take themselves seriosuly. The lyrics are interesting and have a solid narrative and I think they will go far!
Couldn't dissagree with you more. i wonder if you were at the same gig in Camden that all the others inc me were at. I have heard many tracks on sites and heard them live a number of times. They write clever well constructed songs which they can perform live as good as their recordings. Cant wait for the album. i hope that one day you will eat your words When they win an IVOR NOVELLO award for songwriting. As for bars of soap, Shtippurs in Loch!!! Ricki
I am totally bemused by your 'supposed review' of both the band and this gig. In fact how can you call this a review when you haven't once spoken about the show. I was there on Tuesday and thoroughly enjoyed the Yeah You's performance (as did 99% of the sold out crowd). The songs are as catchy as anything i have heard and the band are both entertaining and supremely talented! This is just typical journalistic criticism with the use of long words to make you look clever - were you even at the gig!?
Critics annoy me. Their very description means they are paid to find fault with the subject matter they are reviewing. That's fine. But I do not get people like this guy. He is paid to write for the NME. Thus, he will by default, hate The Yeah You's. He would have checked out their music online first, their website, background, image, their "thing" and ascertained from that that he would hate the band. Why would he trek across London and choose to spend 40 minutes in their company? He could have written the article anyway without being at the gig and we'd have been none the wiser. Perhaps he wasn't even at the gig - nothing in his review suggests he was. I suspect if he was, he would have prayed that the band couldn't play, or Nick couldn't sing, so he could write something specifically damning and less generic. It's like writing for the BNP Times and going to review a Jewish wedding band. Why bother? The readers of NME are lucky to have such misanthropic guidance.
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