Essentially they were pretty talentless but looked good, had a producer essentially build their tracks with studio musicians/singers, and they lip-synced their shows.
Remarkably like Frankie Goes to Hollywood though I'm not sure which guys in the band played their own instruments (edit: though they did write/sing their stuff AFAIK) - but Trevor Horn basically built the big hits up in the studio, and they didn't get in TOO much trouble over all this despite similar lip syncing concert controversies.
(I'd be curious if someone in the band or a studio ace did the bass part for their cover of "Born to Run" for example, I've never found this info but the line is sick - hell Horn was a bass player and may have done it himself for that matter, but I'm really getting in the weeds here).
I honestly don't hate them, and I like their street fashion (studio fashion was ok too).
If auto-tune was around, their normal voices probably would've been fine.
Essentially they were pretty talentless but looked good, had a producer essentially build their tracks with studio musicians/singers, and they lip-synced their shows.
Remarkably like Frankie Goes to Hollywood though I'm not sure which guys in the band played their own instruments (edit: though they did write/sing their stuff AFAIK) - but Trevor Horn basically built the big hits up in the studio, and they didn't get in TOO much trouble over all this despite similar lip syncing concert controversies.
(I'd be curious if someone in the band or a studio ace did the bass part for their cover of "Born to Run" for example, I've never found this info but the line is sick - hell Horn was a bass player and may have done it himself for that matter, but I'm really getting in the weeds here).
Well, the thing they couldn't overcome was their voices' similarity to Yoko Ono. It was rough.
Yoko would've been ok if she switched genres.
https://youtu.be/RNNIkThER8U
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Comments are pretty good.
ROFL