Ever had the feeling where you just want to hate a song - and a band for that matter - without ever actually having to hear it?
Well I Say Marvin are this week's contenders. I mean that name: what do you say, Marvin? Why do you say Marvin? Can I say Marvin's a ****?
Briefly glancing through the band's origins and rather sharp rise to prominence before a record’s even been released sets alarm bells ringing. Should we really be encouraging people like this to make music, let alone advising you, the record-buying public, to invest your hard-earned pennies on this piece of plastic?
If 'Powerdown' is anything to go by, then the answer is a resounding yes. While the bleeps are in the right places to give I Say Marvin some kind of kudos with the scenester rave crowd, this two-minute gem bounces around like a four-year-old enjoying its first venture into the world of bouncy castles and has a distinct message for any of the haters out there attached to its chorus: "I don't care about anybody else but me!"
I guess that must mean yours truly then. Time for some egg removal from one's cheeks...
Oh, I love guessing games
"Can I say Marvin's a ****?"
Mmm, ok, "ant" only has three letters. Um, phony has five. Damnit.
Perhaps if you could point us to an mp3 of these guys and we could listen to it and then have a better idea what "****" might be.
RstJ
www.myspace.com/isaymarvin has four tracks on it
I love this song, and all their others, and the ISM boys are lovely local chaps. For a little trivia, they used to be called Marvin and the Gayes, but they were told that if they released anything, they'd either be sued by Marvin Gaye's estate, or have to give them a substantial amount of the profits.
Not sure what you're saying about their 'sharp rise to prominence'
They haven't been around for ever, but I remember hearing buzz about 'Marvin and the Gayes' in Cornwall a long time ago. It sounds to be like they built up enough of a following down there to attract the attentions of some people in a position to help them get gigs outside the county. They also featured in a Music Week exposé on South West bands a while back, which must have garnered some more industry support. I don't have much to say about the music (nothing special), but I don't believe that they're in any way manufactured or an overnight sensation, which is what I inferred from your comment, Dom.
They definitely haven't been manufactured
They played their first gig in March 2006, and just got bigger and bigger as they played more gigs. They got management, who are based down here, and then began to receive label interest based on their management's work, thus getting some small festival slots, the Panic at the Disco gig, and the Myspace tour. They definitely aren't manufactured (although the drummer's hair has become very Topshop since becoming a "known" band. That's the only change though).
No that's cool
, but there does seem to be a slightly over-the-top marketing emphasis placed on them at present...
What do you mean?
The Myspace tour and things?
Yeah.
I mean, there are a lot of other bands who've used MySpace to gain an advantage that were possibly more deserving of a place on that bill than several of the artists who got the gig in my opinion.
i think it's funny
how it essentially sounds like an emo song, but played on synthesizers.
Not offensively bad, but still, bad.