Popjustice
  • Home
    • Briefing archive
  • Features
  • Playlists
  • Get Popjustice emails
  • About Popjustice
    • About
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Contact
    • General contact details
    • Submit music
  • Forum
Recent Posts
  • New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
  • New Music Friday: Baby Queen takes the throne
Hello! In theory you should only be seeing this if you're using a mobile or tablet. How's the site looking? If anything's wonky click here and tell us so we can fix it. Thanks! x
Popjustice
  • Briefing
  • Features
  • Playlists
    • New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
    • Big Hit Energy
    • 21st Century Pop
    • 2018% Solid Pop Music
    • Full archive
  • About
    • About Popjustice
    • Contacting Popjustice
    • Send music
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Forum
  • The Briefing

McFly are back! And they've got quite good again…

  • June 2, 2008
  • Popjustice

McFly went into Radio One yesterday to meet 'Grimmy' (Jesus Christ is that the best he can do) and play their new single, 'One For The Radio'.

Does it have a chorus? Yes it does:

"So here's another song for the radio
And here's another line from the heart
So don't pretend you hate us as you sing along
Cos we all look the same in the dark"

It is, then, 'a song for the haterz'. Or maybe the "all look the same in the dark" bit means it's a song about one of McFly acci­dent­ally being blown off by a man.

Either way, one would imagine that the track's title started life with the band having a strop about their old label, Island, wanting radio-friendly hits from the band. It would come as no surprise: it's shocking sometimes how record labels expect main­stream bands to turn in main­stream hits.

As it turns out 'One For The Radio' is the band's best single in years with a fresh sound that should bring an end to a slightly unhappy period in the band's career — recently it seems that every McFly single release has somehow been totally indis­tin­guish­able from the last. Quick: name the band's last five singles. No? Three of them were bloody Number Ones!

'One For The Radio' is out next month, followed by the new album…

Listen to the song here.

  • McFly
Previous Article
  • The Briefing

All we hear is Lady GaGa

  • June 2, 2008
  • Popjustice
Have a read
Next Article
  • The Briefing

Darlings Of The Splitscreen: a band you may or may not like

  • June 2, 2008
  • Popjustice
Have a read
Pop as in popular
  • 1
    New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • 2
    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
Further listening
Greatest hits
  • Cheryl Cole interview
  • Sandi Thom's Real Tooting
  • Kloe interview: "I wanted the video to feel powerful — I don’t want to be a whiny victim"
Further reading
  • 1
    New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • 2
    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • 3
    New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • 4
    New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
  • 5
    New Music Friday: Baby Queen takes the throne
  • 6
    Twenty Quid 2020: Dua Lipa is the winner
Est 2000. Still going.
Socials

 Spotify
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Soundcloud

'Quick links'

About Popjustice
Contact Popjustice
Sign up for the news­let­ter
Submit music
Est 2000
Twenty Quid Music Prize

Playlists

21st Century Pop
New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
2018% Solid Pop Music
The Sound Of Popjustice
Playlist archive

© 2020 Popjustice Ltd. Scrolled to the bottom now you're here
  • Privacy, Ts & Cs, cookies etc
  • Corrections

Input your search keywords and press Enter.