Frank Kogan

I grew up in New Zealand and my first introduction to Busted was Year 3000 on Singstar. I live in India now. I was 9 then and have been crazy about Busted EVER since(well, not really. I forgot about them and now i'm crazy over James and Matt).Now i'm 14 and I never knew about the cover and my friend came upto me one day and said "Hey, I got this awesome new song. Its callde Year 3000. Wanna listen?" and I was like "Its not new, I used to love it when I was younger". But when I listened to it, it sounded more strange and girlier. The lyrics had changed as well. So I went back home and found tht there was a cover and I got appaled! The song is much more poppier and in the bubblegum pop sense. I told my friend the truth but she still likes the Jonas version better (stubborn girl!). I have nothing against the Brothers, but for me, it left a really bad taste in my mouth. They shouldn't have changed the lyrics either as both songs were pop-punk and a big characteristic of pop-punk is catchy, spunky lyrics.
For me, thr TJB version took the punk out of pop-punk. They should'nt have messed with a legend of a song.