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The other day I did a post on a 98 degrees song. I called them a boy band but also said that the term "band" was used loosely, because you have to play instruments to be a band. Well, I'm not familiar with a lot of their music, but this song makes NFG sound like a boy band that actually does play instruments. Given, it's not the whole song that sounds that way, but when they hit that chorus, that's exactly what it sounds like, which is totally OK. It's hard to cover an eighties pop hit without some of that sound coming out of it. Plus, it's the blending of pop and punk that make them sound that way, and it's the thing that has developed their cult following.
The band signed their first record deal with Drive-Thru Records in 2000 and released an EP of covers. The album, From the Screen to Your Stereo, included only covers songs from movie soundtracks. This song would've been perfect for the album, but it wasn't included. The song was originally released by the British pop group Go West for the Pretty Woman soundtrack. Apparently NFG's love of movie music rivals my own and was more than could fit on one EP.
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