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Meloboy - Hot Love (Novamute)
UK release date: 14 March 2005
Meloboy - Hot Love

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The success of the Scissor Sisters in the UK has left the way open for further high camp imports, and Meloboy - described as "Cologne's hottest, brightest and gayest new talent" (even though he hails from Brixton!) - will be hoping to capitalise.

Unfortunately this track is lukewarm and sounds clumsy. The vocoded vocals and the heavy plod of the rhythm track may well derive from New York's finest, but the lyrics let him down in every way. Couplets like: "He's my pot of gold and he's not very old," whilst amusing in one sense, are not likely to win over Radio 2 listeners quite that effortlessly. The arrangement is sparse and unappealing, although the remixes make more of a case for dancing.

A missed chance, then, for bandwagon jumping - Meloboy's going to have to do a bit better than this to make people sit up and take notice.






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