A Present for Everyone (UK CD album booklet). Busted. Universal Records, Island Records. 2003. MCD60090, 9865875. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Their largest commercial selling market outside the UK/Ireland was Japan (one Gold album) and nations of most popularity were: Iceland and Denmark (two top 10 singles, and one top 10 album in Denmark; their only top 10 long form placing outside the UK/IRL) Oliver, Mark (13 August 2004). "Cliff hit voted worst ever number one". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 August 2016.

It’s a moment where the internal contradictions of Busted stop holding together – they’ve set themselves a bad goal and what’s more they’re not even up to hitting it. Quoting the lyrics actually makes the song read more enraged than it sounds – the reality is “Who’s David?” just sounds like a Busted record, only a particularly petty and unimaginative one. The band might think they’re making a shit-talking Blink-182 style song in “Who’s David?” but they end up looking like phonies, laundering casual misogyny for a kids’ TV audience. Answer: The song explores the complexity of romantic relationships and the difficulties faced when torn between two loves. It highlights the internal struggles, emotional turmoil, and self-discovery that arise in such situations. 5. How do the lyrics capture the burstiness of emotions?Bourne is best known as the co-founder, vocalist, guitarist and songwriter of the multi-million selling band Busted, but he has also recorded a wide range of solo work and written for other artists ranging from the Jonas Brothers to The Saturdays.

Arhiva romanian top 100 – Editia 14, saptamina 5.04 – 11.04, 2004" (in Romanian). Romanian Top 100. Archived from the original on 21 February 2005 . Retrieved 16 May 2020. James Bourne said: “I’m beyond excited to begin a new chapter with Warner Chappell! My songwriting over the last 20 years has taken me on the most amazing journey. I still feel like I have a lot more to offer as a songwriter and an artist. Onwards!” Busted – Who's David". 16 November 2015. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 . Retrieved 4 January 2016– via YouTube.Who’s David?” is a song about a cheating girlfriend. There are great kiss-off songs in pop, but as cathartic payoffs go, “I’m over you / Ooo ooo ooo / I don’t like you” isn’t exactly top tier. There are also plenty of average jealous-guy records, with varying levels of rage and contempt, entitlement and pain. Lines like “I know your pretty face / Gets far with guys / But your make up ain’t enough to hide the lies” read like they could be from some Nuggets-era compilation makeweight or Mod Revival also-ran.

Gibsone, Harriet (24 November 2016). "Busted on reforming: 'People don't get why we are here again … they know how it ended' ". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 21 April 2023. I had no particular relationship to this song, besides appreciating that it was at least a little different from the previous singles, and thinking Who’s David? was quite an intriguing title for a mainstream Pop song. I agree their worst No. 1 is yet to come, Air Hostess I have a soft-spot as a seeming act of grotesque self-parody. “Messed my pants” indeed. Who’s David, you ask? This David was actually at a “high school” at this point, except it wasn’t called that, it was simply The Thomas Hardye School. The feeder schools below that (one of which was literally next door) were and are called “middle schools” though. Hits of the World – Eurochart Hot 100". Billboard. Vol.116, no.10. 30 August 2003. p.53 . Retrieved 21 July 2012.

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But “Who’s David?” can’t even muster that kind of energy, which is a problem – you need it to make the listener feel your spite and venom, not just pity it. For Busted the desire to make an angry, slut-shaming punk-pop record and the desire to make a hooky, singalong Busted record turn out to clash horribly. You can hear it in the chorus – which starts in a typical Busted jaunty, anthemic mode ( “Are you sure that you’re mine…”) and then ends up at – in the uncut version – “You’re just a whore, you sleep around the town / And I got proof cos the word is going round”. Oh, mate. Who's David (UK CD2 liner notes). Busted. Universal Records, Island Records. 2004. MCSXD40355, 9817000-7. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) As a child I assumed that like with Take That and the Spice Girls European/World chart dominance, Busted and other multiple chart topping, BRIT Award winners naturally followed suit. So on “Crashed the Wedding” we covered what is for me, Busted’s crowning glory of their number ones, and a shining example of when they were really at the peak of their powers and were as brilliant as they were. Revisiting “Who’s David” under 2023 eyes, I am feeling the same about it as you are Tom; it’s undoubtedly the weak link of singles from the ‘A Present For Everyone’ album, an awkward lyric and I dare say whiny and unlikeable beast 17 years on.