McFly get ‘frustrated’ by ‘boyband’ branding | Music | Entertainment

McFly just announced a slew of exciting new projects kicking off this year, beginning with a new album, Power To Play, hitting streaming services and store shelves on June 9.

After that, they’re going on an extensive tour throughout the UK, which includes a visit to Alexandra Palace, one of the biggest venues in the country.

But, despite regularly selling out their tours and shifting more than 10 million albums worldwide, they are still plagued by the loosely derogatory term “boyband”.

Speaking with iNews, singer and guitarist Tom Fletcher explained they formed with the “same tropes” as such icons as The Beatles, Blink-182, Green Day, Weezer, etc. “But if you were to say the word ‘boy band’,” he went on. “I don’t think McFly would necessarily be the first band that pops into your head.”

With that said, Fletcher added: “But we were never frustrated with looking at the crowd and seeing teenage girls. That was never something that was an issue for us.”

However, Fletcher’s sunny outlook on the topic was not the band’s only outlook on the topic.

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Danny Jones announced his opinion on being called a boyband: “I just get frustrated by it.”

As McFly’s other singer and guitarist, he came from a different background to Fletcher. While the now-children’s author hailed from theatre school, Jones was your everyday kid with a guitar fetish being drip-fed “Oasis and Bruce Springsteen”.

“So to come from where I come from,” Jones said. “And to care about my guitar sounds, only to be compared to a boy band? Some dude who went to an audition and can hardly sing and is as successful as I am? That’s when it hurts.”

McFly received their fair share of criticism from the music press back in the day, as well.

The band reportedly recalled NME publishing a photo of them with the caption: “C**t, t**t, d**khead, w****r.”

Drummer Harry Judd went on to note: “And now they give us five star reviews!”

Judd went on to muse that McFly has the perception of: “Are they still around?”

Fletcher noted this isn’t always a bad thing, however. “It allows you to play with that and have fun, and maybe say the things that other people would say about you rather than shy away from them.”

Tickets for McFly’s enormous UK tour are on sale now and this week is your last chance to get involved.

McFly – Power To Play is due out on June 9.