We'll start off the 2014 Free List with a nice pop single. Indeed, it's "The Perfect Christmas Single". I know it is, cause it says so.
Scott Mills, if you don't know (and, unless you reside in Great Britain, you probably don't) is a DJ on a morning zoo type program (in the afternoon) on BBC Radio 1. And the write up for this one says he's always wanted to make the perfect Christmas single.
So, obviously, you've got to start somewhere. Singing lessons? Nah, why bother? Start with a title. Hey, I know. Start with confidence. We'll call it..."The Perfect Christmas Single". Good start. Now what? I suppose we've got to write the bloody thing, don't we?
So they made it a bit of a double entendre--the Christmas single is single you, not a record--get it, mate? Oi Oi. Start with a pop culture reference--"status update", got it! Make it sad and happy at the same time, because all the classic Christmas songs are. Throw in a bit of that cheeky British humor. Reference other Christmas songs everybody already knows. And create a whole new original fantabulous word for the catchy chorus. What about fantabulous? Blast, it's not original--a bit hackneyed at this point I'd have to say. I've got it! FRANKINSENSATIONAL!
Scott Mills, if you don't know (and, unless you reside in Great Britain, you probably don't) is a DJ on a morning zoo type program (in the afternoon) on BBC Radio 1. And the write up for this one says he's always wanted to make the perfect Christmas single.
So, obviously, you've got to start somewhere. Singing lessons? Nah, why bother? Start with a title. Hey, I know. Start with confidence. We'll call it..."The Perfect Christmas Single". Good start. Now what? I suppose we've got to write the bloody thing, don't we?
So they made it a bit of a double entendre--the Christmas single is single you, not a record--get it, mate? Oi Oi. Start with a pop culture reference--"status update", got it! Make it sad and happy at the same time, because all the classic Christmas songs are. Throw in a bit of that cheeky British humor. Reference other Christmas songs everybody already knows. And create a whole new original fantabulous word for the catchy chorus. What about fantabulous? Blast, it's not original--a bit hackneyed at this point I'd have to say. I've got it! FRANKINSENSATIONAL!
So we're done, here, right? Bloody 'ell, we've got to record it? Well, how hard can that be? We need lots of bells and such, of course, and a kitchen sink I think. Oy, can anybody here sing?
So Scott and his radio team, Beccy Huxtable and Chris Stark, enlisted the aid of Frisky & Mannish, one of Britain's most renowned counterculture pop music comedy cabaret duos (it was actually they, technically, who did most of the writing, too). And, remarkably, its actually quite good. Lot's of fun.
Distribution? Oh, sod off, just make it a free download already. And so they did. It was downloaded some 170,000 times in the 2012 season which, but for the involvement of the BBC, would've made "The Perfect Christmas Single" a contender for that year's Christmas #1. Sorry we're a couple of years late to the party but, thankfully, you can still download the song free (at least with certain browsers). So march on over and grab it direct from BBC 1. It's FRANKINSENSATIONAL.
So Scott and his radio team, Beccy Huxtable and Chris Stark, enlisted the aid of Frisky & Mannish, one of Britain's most renowned counterculture pop music comedy cabaret duos (it was actually they, technically, who did most of the writing, too). And, remarkably, its actually quite good. Lot's of fun.
Distribution? Oh, sod off, just make it a free download already. And so they did. It was downloaded some 170,000 times in the 2012 season which, but for the involvement of the BBC, would've made "The Perfect Christmas Single" a contender for that year's Christmas #1. Sorry we're a couple of years late to the party but, thankfully, you can still download the song free (at least with certain browsers). So march on over and grab it direct from BBC 1. It's FRANKINSENSATIONAL.
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