Boyzone: The thieving bastards

Have you paid any attention to the ‘fuss’ over Boyzone putting a bit of boy-on-boy action in their new video? We doubt it very much. The idea of Stephen Gately lightly groping some male model hasn’t exactly set the world on fire and neither will their terrible new single ‘Better’.

It’s not so much that Take That remain steps ahead of their boyband rival, but more that Take That have finished the race, changed out of their running shorts, showered, got dressed and gone out for dinner to celebrate their triumph - but not before going home to watch a bit of telly first. And all the while Boyzone are still plodding around the track.

If the Boyzone ‘comeback’ wasn’t crap enough and their last rubbish single proof that there’s no dead horse left to flog, ‘Better’ sinks to new lows. Despite the big musical power of Mr Ronan Keating, this is a cover version of an old Tom Baxter single – and not a good one at that.

Worse still, the original Tom Baxter video not only used the same couples theme as the Boyzone video, but it even had some token gay couples in it as well.

Boyzone could only have jumped in the grave of Tom Baxter’s career and made themselves more comfortable if they’d all changed their first names to Tom and their surnames to Baxter.

Tom Baxter 'Better'


Big gay Boyzone 'Better'


AND WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT...

That bloody James Morrison and Nelly Furtado is a bit familiar. Oh yes, that’s because it’s exactly the same as the Snow Patrol and Martha Wainwright video but with a hotel room instead of a police cell.

Still - credit crunch, economic crisis and all that, there is clearly a shortage of good ideas to go around.