Well there is one thing you can give The Wanted a bit of credit for. No, it’s not their incredible musical ingenuity, and no, it’s not their unbelievable musical skills either, funnily enough. But for a boy band, that isn’t JLS or a nineties’ returning ‘wonder’, it’s very difficult to stay around for more than your five minutes. But The Wanted may just do it.
It is stereotypical boy band crap. Sung with the generic whiney male pop voice, it lumbers along with a computer-generated beat, the odd piano note and starts with the same guitar that the Backstreet Boys used on ‘I Want It That Way’. The lyrics are as dumb as they sound; it’s a song about a metaphorical hotel in a girls’ heart, with my favourite line – ‘If loneliness would move out/I’d fill that vacancy’.
The video is again exactly what you would expect; five airbrushed lads walking along a rustic-style street, jovially jostling each other with plently of heartfelt close-ups. The track is actually worse than debut release ‘All Time Low’ and that’s saying something. But this song isn’t really for me to judge.
Bands like The Wanted and JLS aren’t around to impress me; a nineteen year-old lad. They are purpose-built for the young teenage girl genre, and if the comments left on the YouTube/iTunes/Facebook pages are anything to go by, I’d say it was working. It is purely boy band pop music, and I’ll leave it for the twelve-year old girls to enjoy.
And here is the song 'Heart Vacancy', but you honestly don't have to listen to it unless you are a teenage girl - or just one at heart.
NWR
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