Boy Band Mania: The Fooo ~ Build A Girl

Hurrah! It's another day, another boy band here at MyFizzyPop HQ (although it isn't really a HQ, it's just me but as you all know I'm a sucker for a decent boyband)! Following on from Monday's focus on Finnish boy band Satin Circus, today we are popping across to Sweden - definitely a pop utopia - where The Fooo are set to become my favourite Swedish boy band since What's Up! This delectable foursome have been floating around for most of the summer, but I'm better late to the Fooo party than not at all... They rose to fame on the back of a deliriously catchy song, Kangaroos (and accompanying dance performance in the middle of a busy shopping centre) that quite rightly went viral. It set the boys up with a burgeoning fan base that was the perfect platform to launch their pop career proper from - and chose a blinder of a song in the percolating & poptastic Build A Girl. What transpires is one of the most effortlessly engaging and easily charming pop songs of the year with a brilliantly mellifluous hook & a healthy dollop of cheeky chappiness thrown in along with it. What I really like about The Fooo is that they sing, they dance and they just exude having a good time. It's impossible to walk away from a song like Build A Girl or watch the "flash mob"-esque performance (above) without a massive smile on your face and/or a warm fuzzy glow in your tummy. The song is lyrically like a somewhat less sexually suggestive version of O-Town's Liquid Dreams as the boys detail their own recipe for what their ideal lady friend would be like (my favourite line? "The way you filling that sweater, they don't make em any better"! Brilliant - although they could record a gay friendly version too with lines like "The way you fill your trousers, make me go wowsers", etc). This is set to a positively bubbling beat with hand claps & jangling guitar riffs that is the perfect backdrop for their ebullient vocal style & means that addictive chorus is sparkling radiance from the first time it hits you. It's all like a modern boy band take on the Glee / High School Musical genre - and there is NOTHING to fault about the sheer joy of the video performance above. Do check out their EP as well, a rollicking treat from start to finish... They may have started by building themselves a girl, but their recipe for success is flawless :P