Not really above the noise
Thu, 25/11/2010 - 13:59 by Mr. HM

So yesterday we reviewed McFly's latest self-funded album - Above The Noise. We didn't think it was very good so we said as much. Mcfly fans didn't really like that much, and even put down their cuddly unicorns and strawberry scented nail varish to unleash a whole heap of merry online hell on us, with hilarious consequences.

The review was admittedly quite harsh, but that's because we found it to be a particularly bad album. The torrent of emo-fuelled mardiness was a little surprising though - but 100% amazing. Here are just a few of the comments on popular social networking site Twitter:

 

 

 

From @Jemma121

I'd love to know who you think you are!! Your Above The Noise review was the worst thing I've ever read, & not just because I'm a McFly fan. You haven't taken into consideration the boys' versatility & that them & their fans have grown up since 'obviously' tbqh, I think you've skipped through the album, wrote a quick review that doesn't reflect the band at all & I have no idea how you've made it as a journalist!! Please reply as I'd love to hear you're comeback as to why you wrote this terrible review!!

 

From @pinklaydee_1983

your review is shit and that's my opinion

 

From @MissSarahJay

how can you criticise anyone? Your life is that sad you just fuss over other peoples. Get a life. McFly are awesome.

 

From @MissDofficial

You wouldnt no good muisc if it hit u in the face. #abovethenoise is a brillant album. @mcflymusic did a great job in writing it.

 

From @tommcfly

ah, reading your review rounded my day off nicely. Awesome.

 

From @felt752

you review for Above the Noise is complete and utter shit. end of.

 

From @HannM26

your an idiot with no good music taste. Leave McFly alone they are amazing!!!

 

From @GlitteryGirlie

who are you?? how many records have you sold?? Co I for one have never heard of you! Your review is bullshit! I've less crap come out of a cows arse!! Get some fucking music taste you complete and utter TIT!!!!!!!

 

From @gatadonick

you're stupid.

 

From @louully 

I think it's all okay for @holymoly. She gave her opinion and fuck that. @tommcfly says it bring him down. Oh please 'saying we dont care'

 

From @MissMakenzie2

Your @mcflymusic review is a pile of shit, just like your website. Apparently you are so narrow-minded that you think that you have to throw out the f-bomb in a song to be cool.

 

From @cazbarnsley

just a thought. I don't think anyone gives a dam wat ur apparent 'review' is of mcfly's music. They are amazing n u clearly suck.

 

From @sammimcfly

you're not a musician so what gives you the right to judge musicians work? you know jack shit and you're pathetic

Amazing. We'd just like to say that we love a mass debate as much as the next man, so welcome all you lovely McFly fans to Holy Moly. I think you will all like it here. We have sleepovers and watch Jennifer Aniston movies and brush each others hair and sellotape our own faces over Frankie from The Saturdays in Heat Magazine and then masturbate and stuff.

 

Here's some pictures of "the lads" in Spain being japesters on a gameshow. if you flick through the pics quick enough it's almost like they're in the room with you. For the record though, McFly are actually a really decent bunch of chaps who we've always got on with. We just don't like this album.

 

  • you know i love little sites like this one, its pathetic, not only do they post a bad review on a good album but they then feel the need to publish a blog on how they have apparently justified their reasons.
    i do not believe any one on here is a musician so you have no right to say what you did. McFly are a fantastic band and to see them live is not only an honour but a pleasure. i love many bands but these guys are so into their fans its untrue when you find another band more dedicated to their fans let me know because hell would freeze over before then.
    also for a group of young four guys they do better than bands such as JLS as McFly write their own songs, write their own music, perform it live everytime they are on stage, own their own record label and have more fans than you have visitors. they are also world known and have been going for nearly 8 years now.
    with many bands they simply pay someone else to write and produce their music McFly are self efficient.
    also to hear one of them (the blonde one as you call it HIS NAME IS TOM) actually cry when thanking his fans for sticking with them for so long makes it all worth while.
    then i come online to find you bastards have depressed one of them and given a bad report on another that is going through a though time really does make me sick. and you call yourselves a review site you guys are pathetic. i see evryone is allowed their own opinion but it seems you are the only site that thought it was awful so does that not tell you something.
    find a new strategy because quite frakly its shit!

    ThinkImGonnaLoseIt Mon, 06/06/2011 - 22:47
  • Hahaha Brilliant. Pure entertainment reading through these arguements. I'm a pretty big McFly fan, been to see them live 3 times, have all their albums etc, I do think your review on Above The Noise is pretty harsh even though it is their worst album to date, but come on your allowed your own opinion. Don't see why other McFly fans don't understand that. Yeah I didn't like the review but ahh well, keep em coming. :)

    joemccorriston Mon, 29/11/2010 - 17:33
  • "What gives you the right to judge people whom you have never met/seen, music you have never had the decency to listen to?!"
    I haven't met them personally, but I have accompanied by bratty 11-year-old cousin to see them live (they weren't very good, but she seemed to like them; then, she likes Miley Cyrus). I've also made the effort to listen to their music.
    So, what you're saying is that I'm not allowed to dislike them unless I take the time to build up a personal relationship with them? Don't be ridiculous. I'm sure there are plenty of artists that you don't like, but haven't sat down for a cuppa and a chat with.
    Let's be honest, you're acting like a spoiled brat because someone criticised a band you like. Get over it, and, soon, you too could start menstruating, you toe-sucking bumblefuck.

    retrovertigo Mon, 29/11/2010 - 02:46
  • "What gives you the right to judge people whom you have never met/seen, music you have never had the decency to listen to?!"

    The fact I'm living in Britain, have access to the Internet and enjoy posting shit on sociopathic websites.

    What's your excuse you pompous, precious, bumptious, painfully self-unaware, dopey little twerp?

    jiggerycock Fri, 26/11/2010 - 13:27
  • Do you know what, I've just read through this comment and it's well written, get's it's point across and conveys a sense of just how upset you are that someone has had a pop at your beloved McFly.

    I now have two points that I'd like make and I hope that you will take them on board.

    1.) This is not a McFly fans forum, the people who come on here to comment do so because they dislike groups like McFly and celebrities in general. However it is merely a pastime for those if us who work in front of a PC all day and feel the need to occaisonally waste a bit of time and have a laugh, we are not militant about it, we do not care if someone on here slates a person we like or even admire in fact we accept it for what it is - mindless fun akin to screaming profanities into the darkness.

    2.) Get over yourself you uptight pompous idiot, it's a pop band not Nelson Mandela.

    The Rev Jesse Custer Fri, 26/11/2010 - 11:58
  • Wow that is deep. *ponders, feels ashamed, cries*

    The Rev Jesse Custer Fri, 26/11/2010 - 11:20
  • Hey ladies when you take this mutual back slapping self congratulatory butt fucking to it's natural conclusion and get out the double penetrating dildo can you please take some pics and post them on here.

    The Rev Jesse Custer Fri, 26/11/2010 - 11:19
  • McFly????
    They're Ancient History, Surely???

    Now This is more like it:

    Miley Cyrus In Leather Bra Top And Skin-Tight Leather Pants.

    NotQuite 18 yet, So:

    ken tate Fri, 26/11/2010 - 06:22
  • Thank you! I loved your review the other day. Was looking for your twitter or something to talk to you, but couldn't find it. Mine is IneDanger :) hit me up if you wanna talk

    Ine Fri, 26/11/2010 - 01:44
  • Well said. Xx

    thissong12 Fri, 26/11/2010 - 00:57
  • Trying to make a fool out of McFLY fans doesn't make you smart. But I guess that's the only way were able to reply to us, since you had no arguments to our critiques to your review.

    And you try to make US look like the immaure ones?

    Ine Fri, 26/11/2010 - 00:45
  • "Here's to the liars who dream and conspire against the admired: we hope you drop dead".

    Ine Fri, 26/11/2010 - 00:41
  • Read the links as well as the article, yeah?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc1N1iythQE

    Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

    GretaBritain Thu, 25/11/2010 - 22:56
  • Reading this article confirms for me that this is the most ridiculous website on the internet, and that the people who run it have nothing better to do with their time than to slag off bands who have achieved more than you ever have or could.
    I'm a huge fan of McFly and have been since they formed all those years ago. Many of the tweets from McFly fans last night WERE immature and unnecessary, but your reaction to it, as well as some of the extremely offensive comments left on both this article and the review, are ten times worse. Falling for the stereotype that McFly have had pinned on them is one thing, but stereotyping the fans in such a crude manner is beyond unfair, not to mention very hurtful. What gives you the right to judge people whom you have never met/seen, music you have never had the decency to listen to?! You admit in the review, Mr HM, that you didn't even listen past the 5th track on Above the Noise..!
    It makes me very sad that there are people in this world who so easily find it in themselves to taunt and make fun of those who have a strong and firm love for a very decent, very real band. I wouldn't expect you to be able to relate to this, but this band has saved and made my life in more ways than I can express. McFly are my true inspiration and I am INCREDIBLY proud to call myself a fan.

    thissong12 Thu, 25/11/2010 - 22:39
  • Spank the backs of their legs and put them on 'the naughty step'

    jiggerycock Thu, 25/11/2010 - 17:18
  • I despair for the future of humanity, McFly weren't even fucking cool back when I was a kid, they where always a poor mans Busted.

    whereswaldo Thu, 25/11/2010 - 17:16
  • ahahahahhahahahahahaha - she said f-bomb, she said throw out the f-bomb. Please tell me this isn't a hoax cos that made water shoot down my nose!

    GretaBritain Thu, 25/11/2010 - 16:52
  • Shit Sandwich

    fuckwit Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:38
  • They told me that I'm a horrible person :*(
    *blubs*

    Mr. HM Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:37
  • Oh I'm just teasing....

    *ruffles hair*

    Those nasty McFly fans have really got to you haven't they.

    The Rev Jesse Custer Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:27
  • I am sticking to my convictions though - I think they're an alright bunch of lads who know how to take the piss out of themselves - but don't like this album. Not sure what you're getting at.

    Mr. HM Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:26
  • Well said Jiggers ! For shame Mr HM....You've (rightly) panned the shit-fest that is the McFly album, now stick to your convictions and tell this morose band of tasteless, dark eyeliner and ripped fishnet wearing idiots where to stick their vehment support for these middle-class, musically retarded cunts.

    And as for the fans in question - come on you little cunts let's be having you.....

    The Rev Jesse Custer Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:22
  • ^^ McFly fan^^

    Mr. HM Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:21
  • You fucking pussies!

    'McFly are actually a really decent bunch of chaps who we've always got on with.'

    You're going to alienate us hardcore, nihilistic long-termers with crawling like that, in the face of a few cissy tweets from wimpy fucking Mc Fly droogs!

    Fuck me if this is how you react when they try to open a piss-weak can of whup-ass on you, what are you going to be like when the Lady Gaga minions get their teeth into you?!

    Get some spine you blancmanges!

    jiggerycock Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:11
  • You fucking pussies!

    'McFly are actually a really decent bunch of chaps who we've always got on with.'

    You're going to alienate us hardcore, nihilistic long-termers with crawling like that, in the face of a few cissy tweets from wimpy fucking Mc Fly droogs!

    Fuck me if this is how you react when they try to open a piss-weak can of whup-ass on you, what are you going to be like when the Lady Gaga minions get their teeth into you?!

    Get some spine you blancmanges!

    jiggerycock Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:11
  • ^^ McFly fan^^

    Mr. HM Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:21
  • Well said Jiggers ! For shame Mr HM....You've (rightly) panned the shit-fest that is the McFly album, now stick to your convictions and tell this morose band of tasteless, dark eyeliner and ripped fishnet wearing idiots where to stick their vehment support for these middle-class, musically retarded cunts.

    And as for the fans in question - come on you little cunts let's be having you.....

    The Rev Jesse Custer Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:22
  • I am sticking to my convictions though - I think they're an alright bunch of lads who know how to take the piss out of themselves - but don't like this album. Not sure what you're getting at.

    Mr. HM Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:26
  • Oh I'm just teasing....

    *ruffles hair*

    Those nasty McFly fans have really got to you haven't they.

    The Rev Jesse Custer Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:27
  • They told me that I'm a horrible person :*(
    *blubs*

    Mr. HM Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:37
  • Shit Sandwich

    fuckwit Thu, 25/11/2010 - 14:38
  • ahahahahhahahahahahaha - she said f-bomb, she said throw out the f-bomb. Please tell me this isn't a hoax cos that made water shoot down my nose!

    GretaBritain Thu, 25/11/2010 - 16:52
  • I despair for the future of humanity, McFly weren't even fucking cool back when I was a kid, they where always a poor mans Busted.

    whereswaldo Thu, 25/11/2010 - 17:16
  • Spank the backs of their legs and put them on 'the naughty step'

    jiggerycock Thu, 25/11/2010 - 17:18
  • Reading this article confirms for me that this is the most ridiculous website on the internet, and that the people who run it have nothing better to do with their time than to slag off bands who have achieved more than you ever have or could.
    I'm a huge fan of McFly and have been since they formed all those years ago. Many of the tweets from McFly fans last night WERE immature and unnecessary, but your reaction to it, as well as some of the extremely offensive comments left on both this article and the review, are ten times worse. Falling for the stereotype that McFly have had pinned on them is one thing, but stereotyping the fans in such a crude manner is beyond unfair, not to mention very hurtful. What gives you the right to judge people whom you have never met/seen, music you have never had the decency to listen to?! You admit in the review, Mr HM, that you didn't even listen past the 5th track on Above the Noise..!
    It makes me very sad that there are people in this world who so easily find it in themselves to taunt and make fun of those who have a strong and firm love for a very decent, very real band. I wouldn't expect you to be able to relate to this, but this band has saved and made my life in more ways than I can express. McFly are my true inspiration and I am INCREDIBLY proud to call myself a fan.

    thissong12 Thu, 25/11/2010 - 22:39
  • Read the links as well as the article, yeah?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc1N1iythQE

    Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

    GretaBritain Thu, 25/11/2010 - 22:56
  • "Here's to the liars who dream and conspire against the admired: we hope you drop dead".

    Ine Fri, 26/11/2010 - 00:41
  • Trying to make a fool out of McFLY fans doesn't make you smart. But I guess that's the only way were able to reply to us, since you had no arguments to our critiques to your review.

    And you try to make US look like the immaure ones?

    Ine Fri, 26/11/2010 - 00:45
  • Well said. Xx

    thissong12 Fri, 26/11/2010 - 00:57
  • Thank you! I loved your review the other day. Was looking for your twitter or something to talk to you, but couldn't find it. Mine is IneDanger :) hit me up if you wanna talk

    Ine Fri, 26/11/2010 - 01:44
  • McFly????
    They're Ancient History, Surely???

    Now This is more like it:

    Miley Cyrus In Leather Bra Top And Skin-Tight Leather Pants.

    NotQuite 18 yet, So:

    ken tate Fri, 26/11/2010 - 06:22
  • Hey ladies when you take this mutual back slapping self congratulatory butt fucking to it's natural conclusion and get out the double penetrating dildo can you please take some pics and post them on here.

    The Rev Jesse Custer Fri, 26/11/2010 - 11:19
  • Wow that is deep. *ponders, feels ashamed, cries*

    The Rev Jesse Custer Fri, 26/11/2010 - 11:20
  • Do you know what, I've just read through this comment and it's well written, get's it's point across and conveys a sense of just how upset you are that someone has had a pop at your beloved McFly.

    I now have two points that I'd like make and I hope that you will take them on board.

    1.) This is not a McFly fans forum, the people who come on here to comment do so because they dislike groups like McFly and celebrities in general. However it is merely a pastime for those if us who work in front of a PC all day and feel the need to occaisonally waste a bit of time and have a laugh, we are not militant about it, we do not care if someone on here slates a person we like or even admire in fact we accept it for what it is - mindless fun akin to screaming profanities into the darkness.

    2.) Get over yourself you uptight pompous idiot, it's a pop band not Nelson Mandela.

    The Rev Jesse Custer Fri, 26/11/2010 - 11:58
  • "What gives you the right to judge people whom you have never met/seen, music you have never had the decency to listen to?!"

    The fact I'm living in Britain, have access to the Internet and enjoy posting shit on sociopathic websites.

    What's your excuse you pompous, precious, bumptious, painfully self-unaware, dopey little twerp?

    jiggerycock Fri, 26/11/2010 - 13:27
  • "What gives you the right to judge people whom you have never met/seen, music you have never had the decency to listen to?!"
    I haven't met them personally, but I have accompanied by bratty 11-year-old cousin to see them live (they weren't very good, but she seemed to like them; then, she likes Miley Cyrus). I've also made the effort to listen to their music.
    So, what you're saying is that I'm not allowed to dislike them unless I take the time to build up a personal relationship with them? Don't be ridiculous. I'm sure there are plenty of artists that you don't like, but haven't sat down for a cuppa and a chat with.
    Let's be honest, you're acting like a spoiled brat because someone criticised a band you like. Get over it, and, soon, you too could start menstruating, you toe-sucking bumblefuck.

    retrovertigo Mon, 29/11/2010 - 02:46
  • Hahaha Brilliant. Pure entertainment reading through these arguements. I'm a pretty big McFly fan, been to see them live 3 times, have all their albums etc, I do think your review on Above The Noise is pretty harsh even though it is their worst album to date, but come on your allowed your own opinion. Don't see why other McFly fans don't understand that. Yeah I didn't like the review but ahh well, keep em coming. :)

    joemccorriston Mon, 29/11/2010 - 17:33
  • you know i love little sites like this one, its pathetic, not only do they post a bad review on a good album but they then feel the need to publish a blog on how they have apparently justified their reasons.
    i do not believe any one on here is a musician so you have no right to say what you did. McFly are a fantastic band and to see them live is not only an honour but a pleasure. i love many bands but these guys are so into their fans its untrue when you find another band more dedicated to their fans let me know because hell would freeze over before then.
    also for a group of young four guys they do better than bands such as JLS as McFly write their own songs, write their own music, perform it live everytime they are on stage, own their own record label and have more fans than you have visitors. they are also world known and have been going for nearly 8 years now.
    with many bands they simply pay someone else to write and produce their music McFly are self efficient.
    also to hear one of them (the blonde one as you call it HIS NAME IS TOM) actually cry when thanking his fans for sticking with them for so long makes it all worth while.
    then i come online to find you bastards have depressed one of them and given a bad report on another that is going through a though time really does make me sick. and you call yourselves a review site you guys are pathetic. i see evryone is allowed their own opinion but it seems you are the only site that thought it was awful so does that not tell you something.
    find a new strategy because quite frakly its shit!

    ThinkImGonnaLoseIt Mon, 06/06/2011 - 22:47

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