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The Bravery - An Honest Mistake

The 1980’s Brit Pop era was shit. You don’t need me to tell you that though, if you’re smart enough to visit this website you would already know that, if you don’t, listen carefully and you should be able to hear me laughing at you from my dark, hate filled room at the top of my tower.

Unfortunately there’s been a resurgence of brit pop music recently, fronted by the type of people who were too young to experience its dioreah inducing crapness the first time round and also probably spend more time and money in Toni & Guy than Tony Blair did on the resent firework display (the results don’t cripple all hope of humanity like the war did, but they are just as devastating, and even more hilarious. I always thought mullets were a bad thing?) These same people are probably creaming themselves right now over the ‘handbags at dawn’ cat fight between the Bravery and the Killers. I’m not sure who started it to be honest (i.e. I couldn’t careless about the whole thing, unless of course the lead singers of both bands were placed into a televised fight to the death situation somewhere with only their bare fists and a rusty fork to use as weapons. Also as further torture, the chorus to 'Somebody told me' must be played on repeat through out the duration. The sight of the Bravery’s front man collapsing in a pathetic heap as his make up starts to run and then snaps and realises that he IS the boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend would make for a joyous occasion). Basically the Killers think that the Bravery have stolen their sound and the Bravery have ‘retaliated’ by saying (I type ‘saying’ but all I could hear was a cat screaching) that they think the Killers are rubbish live and are scared of them. Personally, after much deliberation over who to side with, (rubbish and boring or boring and rubbish?) I decided that I agree with both bands. The Killers ARE rubbish live, but then they’re rubbish on CD too. The Killers are however right about the fact that the Bravery are an exact copy of them, but in all honesty, both should really just shut up and be thankful New Order didn’t sue their asses of the moment they crept out from which ever record company lab they came from.

Anyway, 'An Honest Mistake'. You’ve probably heard this song before already, possibly every hour on Radio 1, and even if you haven’t you will have heard one of the many keyboard stained guitar indie-pop songs about at some point so you don’t need me to tell you what its like. Instead I’m going to spend my time finalising my idea for that fight and sending it to the producers of MTV2, you can laugh now but it’ll be on your screen very soon, I promise you.

Ali Safavi.