Also, whose song is this…
“keep
me a secret, keep me as your own,
Duh
du du du du…
Etc.
I’ve
got it stuck in my head!
Wrong lyrics aside, we knew right away that she (for it was a she) was referring to a nice song called 'Keep me a Secret' by this fella.
Remember
Ainslie, the “Indie” one on Fame Academy series 1 (though to be
fair, it’s not hard to be the indie one when your fellow
contestants are this guy and this guy.) He had messy hair, wore scruffy Converse and did the dinosaur arms dance before it became too much a
parody of itself. He was also the Fame Academy 'student' with whom you'd
have most liked to go for a couple pints.
His debut single 'Keep me a Secret' went to No.5 soon after the show and
then dropped out of sight immediately. If you still used Myspace
at the latter end of 2006, you'd know he independently released an
album that was all a bit angsty instagram, didn't catch on, and hence
sold about 9 copies. We think he might work in animation now.
The
thing is, we recognised 'Keep me a Secret' because it’s sort of
continuously been in the back of our heads since 2002. We never
bought it, it's by no means phenomenal, it's probably just about
very very good, but we do find ourselves singing it in the shower
once every, say…two months? That’s pretty impressive for a decade
old one-not-really-that-much-of-a-hit-wonder that disappeared out of
popular culture along with its artist almost as soon as it arrived.
Someone
clever (that we thought was Harper Lee but it turns out not) once
said that everyone has at least one great novel in them. Maybe the
same can be said for penning pop songs, and we hope that rather than wallowing in some awkward asymmetric pose at home, apoplectic
with rage that he didn't become David Bowie, Ainslie is rightly chuffed with himself that he found his.
Let’s
remember, and say "Thanks Ains".
(If
Ainslie in fact does not like this song and did not want to be reminded of it again then, “Sorry Ains“)