The English formation Blue consists of the four handsome boys Antony, Duncan, Lee and Simon, who all come from (near) London. In England, their first three singles All Rise, Too Close and If You Come Back immediately reached the top five of the charts. The debut album All Rise (2001) was therefore a mega success and Blue became the most popular boy band in England. With the successor One Love they
… also want to break through in the rest of Europe, but I fear it will not work for them. Blue's music is a boring, invented and exchangeable mixture of softpop, softrap, disco and R&B. Typical boy band music, but if you compare Blue with an American act like N-Sync, it is striking how old-fashioned and dated Blue sounds. The Backstreet Boys and 5ive might get away with this kind of tunes in 1996, but in 2002 a boy band should really sound a lot cooler and more exciting. The absolute low point on One Love is the remake of Elton Johns Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word. (MvP)more
