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Justin Hawkins Rides Again | October 26, 2024



This week I’m reviewing Extreme’s “Beautiful Girls”. I’ve always admired Extreme. They are supreme musicians and I count certain members of the band as friends, so it gives me no pleasure to say this; I do not like this. At all.

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  1. @JMTRN8285

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    Extreme is an eclectic band. Similar to their role model “Queen “. They play from the hardest & darkest tracks to ones like this, a calypso song. I’m a feminist & think this is great. PLEASE take a look at a song they put out just in the last weeks. It’s called “Save Me” & tackles the sadness of suicide. You may think differently & appreciate their eclecticism.

  2. @pittstaffio

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    Nuno posted on FB and IG about a year or so before this album was released. It was a post on International Women's Day and it was a celebration of women of all shapes, sizes, ages, and pigments….complete with a beautiful picture of women of every pigment aligned with each other on a beach. It wasn't his first post on International Women's Day. He had done it in the past. But it was an appreciation of all women, the diverse population of women around us who are beautiful inside and out.
    As a woman, I loved it. When the album came out I remembered THAT post and was pleased to see a lighthearted track nestled between some pretty deep and potentially dark tracks…like "Save Me" the video that was just released this week.
    Nuno has directed and produced these videos and said that they may release a video for every track on SIX.

  3. @kenrubotham

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    Justin Hawkins, frontman of The Darkness, is a talented musician, but his theatrical antics often seem like a desperate bid to stay relevant in a rock world that has largely moved on. While his falsetto is impressive, it sometimes feels like a gimmick that masks a lack of substance in his music, and his flamboyant persona can come off as more of a parody of rock stardom than an authentic embodiment of it.

  4. @kimmywhycensored6374

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    When "more than words" was popular, my boyfriend sang it to me across the table at a Shoney's. I hated that song so much that I didn't unserstand how anyone could like it, so I assumed he was making fun of it. I laughed at his obvious joke which hurt his feelings so badly that he cried. Should have been a hint for both of us that we weren't compatible. Lol

  5. @punkstrummer101rs

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    As a woman under 30 and having been a fan of Extreme since I was a kid. This song is just not it… it's bland and uninspired, but you know what, it's the choice of video that hurts it the most. It's giving creepy uncle 😂😅

  6. @sarahquinones8635

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    I feel like this song grows on you. When I first heard I thought, "WTF!!@" But then I couldn't stop singing it. It's an innocent song paying homage to the women who bring life into this world. They are celebrating all the women not just for their looks but for all the wonderful things that women can do and for all the special qualities that only women can possess.

  7. @belindahutchings9420

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    My thoughts…it's Extreme and they can (and will) do what they want. And they'll do it well. As to the video, I loved seeing representation in not just body type, but age, race and ability. What made it really fun seeing this was that I saw more than one of the featured women at a concert two nights prior to the shoot. My only complaint was the woman in the lifeguard stand. She seems more like a professional model than the others. And if she's not a model, then she's amazing! As a woman, and having rolled my eyes through DECADES of bleach blonde busty babes in the rock videos, it's nice to see women looking a bit more normal and comfortable.

  8. @coutico

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    I think, if I'm not wrong, this song is taking from the Pop Portuguese music, the trashy ultra-commercial one, which is melodically basic in the best case scenario, and whose lyrics are all about how beautiful Portuguese women are (ehem, ehem)… But certainly it reminds me of the worst of the Pop Portuguese music. It has the same feeling and certainly the same beat. And the fact that Nuno inserted that song right after X-Out (perhaps the greatest song in Six), it's a classic Nuno joke. "This album is too perfect… how can we kill the vibe and play with people's minds? Let me put an absolutely useless song here". I've confirmed with close sources to Nuno that this could be a possibility.

  9. @mshellp1536

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    For all the beautiful women of all shapes and sizes…….then why doesnt the video represent that?! It's full of steriotypical californian women.
    If they truely wanted to celebrate all women then why didn't they film them when they were on the world tour!
    They could have photo'd and filmed female fans as they arrived at their concerts. They could have asked women to arrive early at concerts and filmed crowd scenes of them and then done a montage that truely shows women of all shapes, sizes, ages and colour from around the world, instead of a bunch of wannabies in bikinis!
    Its a terrible video

  10. @dfpguitar

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    They might be trying to go for thst lowest common denominator sugar on sugar nothingness of songs like "where is the love" by black eyed peas, hoping it will be as big of a commercial success.

    It is also too fast and flat to be reggae. Fast like ska but it aint ska either.

  11. @sultanoftippoo3857

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    I’ve not followed Extreme as a band so know very little about their music. Listened to Beautiful Girls just after watching this and thought it was an inoffensive radio friendly summer track.

    In short would it get so much criticism if it wasn’t made by a well known band, I don’t think so.

  12. @adjoho1

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    They had no idea how big More Than Words was. They din't write it as a hit, and never intended to be that way.

    They've made their money, and are doing shit that makes them happy. End of.

  13. @Necropheliac

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    It’s kind of a weird look when dudes in their 60s write insipid pop songs about kissing “girls”.

    The style is more like that 90s style of pop-reggae. The Beach Boys did it better with Kokomo.

  14. @51char

    October 26, 2024 at 1:09 pm

    If you listen to the video version and the album version, it is clearly nuno taking the lead in the lead singer roles when he sings, “how to know the one to which one to make mine”…not Gary. So it’s unclear why Justin is focused solely on Gary, when Gary may have not have even written the lyrics

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