McFLY!

Well gang after revealing some disturbing news to kyle funk, it has been decided that this information should be passed along to the general public (how many people read this blog, three?). Anyway, I will once again attempt to construct the context for which makes this news so shocking.

Just My Luck (2006) is a romantic comedy starring Lindsey Lohan and Chris Pine. I can't remember how this movie entered into my life, but I assume I was skipping work during the summer and stumbled across HBO which just happened to be playing this wonderful gem. Brent Morgenson can vouch for this. Summarizing the movie's plot in one sentence: Lohan makes out with random dudes around manhattan in an attempt to get her luck back after losing it when she, not surprisingly, made out with a random guy at a party! Sounds awesome, right? If you get Lohan's good luck when she makes out with you, I can't imagine what would happen if she took you past first base. OK sorry, anyway this movie's brilliance lies between in it's carefully layered plot and stellar cast: that hot girl from the first season of The OC, random happy-go-LUCKY black producer, AND, a band called McFLY.

"They're like a mix between the beatles and blink-182!"

(Poster Rocks) "McFly? are they seriously referring to Marty McFly from Back to the Future?" I asked casually. I quietly grinned to myself realizing another brilliant element this movie delivered: ambiguity. McFly is just an all around sweet name; it could very well have nothing to do with BTTF. Perhaps it was satirical commentary about how the McDonalds corporation impacts globalization. Or if the viewer really wanted to believe it was a reference to the beloved trilogy, then so it be. Brilliant! I thought.

Fast forward to a few months later. I'm checking the beatles discography on wikipedia because I can never remember if A Hard Day's Night was released before or after Beatles For Sale. I'm still not sure, and it's because my brain completed exploded when I read this little fun fact about pop-culture:

"The Beatles were the youngest group to top the UK album charts with their debut album; however, McFly has since topped this record with their debut album in 2004." (wikipedia.org)

McFly was not some conceptional product of Lindsey Lohan's Just My Lucky, they were, and are, A REAL BAND. And not just that, but a band that broken a record set by THE BEATLES.

"They're like a mix between the beatles and blink-182!"

I can't get Chris Pine's comment out of my head. They really are, in fact, a combination of one of the greatest pop band's of all time and a band that represents, maybe at it's best, the absolute worst of what music has degenerated into.

But there is good news! When McFly first came into conception, an American band of this very name already existed. So the UK McFly bought out the American McFly, and subsequently changed their name to Biff Tannen. :)