Dream: Classic or Dud

"This Is Me" is EVEN BETTER. Blimey! The hooks are 80sesque, just big enough to stir, just reserved enough not to piss you off, it's like Atomic-Kitten-meet-Simple-Minds; the music is the Future Bible Heroes if Stephin Merritt cared about drum programming. Gorgeous! Lyrics, OK. Final "Get a grip." perfect. And all over in 3 mins.

"This Is Me" is great if you consider it a kiss-off to other teen-pop groups, mediocre otherwise. Certainly more nuanced and better produced. Also enjoyable as the exact mirror-world double of their first single. I haven't seen the video yet, but if it swapped black & white and male & female dancers and redid their first, that would be magnificent.

Au contraire, it would be rubbish if you thought it was about other teenpop groups (the NSync fallacy). As a boygirl song it works OK, but its the breeziness and sweetness of the hook that strikes me.

Is this the same thing as D:Ream?

N'Sync's new single isn't about other groups, it's about themselves. Besides which, otherwise the lyrics are naff and slightly disturbing in a plaintive sort of fashion.

Erm, no, Tracer. *Completely* different.