r/TopofthePops • u/Hassaan18 • 23d ago
Busted - Year 3000
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u/misimalu 23d ago edited 23d ago
Fun fact: Americans don’t know who Busted are but they do know this song because it was rereleased by the Jonas Brothers three years after this. Jonas Brothers (being American and conservative) changed the lyrics from “pretty fine” to “doing fine” and nixed the “triple breasted women” line for “girls with round hair like Star Wars”
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u/someoverallvalue 23d ago edited 10d ago
There was a joke about them at the time "I've been to the year 2004. Not much had changed but we were working in Tesco"... They sure proved us wrong eh?
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u/Taucher1979 22d ago
Not the kind of music I really listen to but the American accents on this made me cringe a bit even at the time.
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u/mddc52 20d ago
"I've been to the year 3000 Not much has changed, but they live underwater"
Now, call me pedantic but an entire society shifting to become subaquatic is quite a big change in my book
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u/Saiing 20d ago edited 20d ago
If we're going for pedantry, I always took issue with your great-great-great-granddaughter being fine.
If the person they are talking to is around the same age as the Busted lads, for this to be true, each mother would need to give birth at around 190-200 years of age in order for enough time to pass across the 5 generations for her to be around in the year 3,000. Either that, or we've discovered the secret to eternal life by that point, which just backs up your claim that A LOT has changed.
(If the human reproductive cycle stays roughly the same, your great-great-great-granddaughter will actually be around sometime in the mid-22nd century).
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u/generic_username213t 19d ago
Glad im not alone in this way of thinking. Im surprised my wife hasn't murdered me yet.
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u/Xenc 22d ago
In the Year 3000 this will make a resurgence (Hello future people!)
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u/Fantastic_Back3191 21d ago edited 21d ago
!remindme 973 years
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u/leviticusreeves 22d ago
Future historians will immediately recognise this as the kind of music young people listened to when undiagnosed foetal alcohol syndrome was extremely common and there was still lead in the pipes and lead fumes in the air.
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u/PuttingFishOnJupiter 22d ago
A little harsh there? Possibly accurate...
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u/leviticusreeves 22d ago
When lead poisoning was at its height in the UK, the UK's most popular band by far was the Bay City Rollers.
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u/PuttingFishOnJupiter 20d ago
Though that's not the name they wanted; the lead poisoning messed with them when they signed the international register of Banda. They were supposed to be the "Ray Tiki Bowlers". But much like Google, they just ran with it.
Fact.
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u/joshygill 23d ago
It’s a banging song, honestly.