THE GREATEST BOYBAND EVER

All this Abs talk made me get out 5ive's Invincible album, which started up the If Ya Gettin' Down video and a whole load of reminiscing. 5ive were, without doubt, The Best Boyband Ever. I will hear no argument on this.

WHY THEY WERE SO GREAT:

- Their best song was If Ya Gettin Down. It is also one of the greatest pop songs ever. There’s flames in the video. There’s a cricket reference. They wear awesome clothes. It just rocks the big one.
- J and Abs are the two best members of a boyband ever.
- Actually, they WERE 5ive. Without them, they would have been just another boyband. Sean, Scott and Rich all had Member Of Blue written all over them
- In the US version of When The Lights Go Out there was a different rap
- J managed to fit the word Funk into every song. How awesome.
- It’s ALWAYS great when group member say their own names, but 5ive did this The Best Way Ever in Slam Dunk Da Funk:
‘You wanna know what hits you like a forklfit truck? We got J, AB, Rich Sean and Scott”
- In Don’t You Want It Abs says ‘Yo Scott’ and it’s COOL.
- They don’t ruin the Human League classic Human, but improve it
- The video for Let’s Dance was excellent. Sean as a cardboard cut out was hilarious and indicative of his role in the group: useless
- They were managed by The Herberts, thus making them The Male Spice Girls
- Everybody Get Up sampled I Love Rock And Roll and in the video they disrupt a school exam. Which I always approve of.
- Nice Grease sample in Rock The Party too.
- They were Pop, and kept the ballads to a minimum. They were also effortlessly cool, without it being contrived
- They always had hidden tracks on their albums
- And very few band songs
- They are the definition of the word BONZA

It is a sad, sad, sad, sad world which we live in where Westlife are going to be remembered as being more successful than 5ive. I could almost cry about this. It’s just so so wrong.