Caroline Sullivan 

Jedward: Planet Jedward

Jedward? That joke isn't funny anymore, says Caroline Sullivan
  
  


"I wanna hold you, wanna hold you tight, get teenage kicks all through the night," John and Edward Grimes declare on track 10 of their first album, which will have Undertones fans vowing vengeance on the X Factor finalists. Yet Teenage Kicks is the only song of Planet Jedward's 11 cover versions that suits their abilities. It's no insult to the original to admit that Jedward's ineptness works tolerably well on a song that's all about adolescent gawkiness, though it would be stretching a point to say I'd ever want to hear it again. As for the rest: whoever chose the material astutely picked songs Neanderthal enough to withstand the twins' have-a-go yapping. The Ghostbusters theme, Robbie Williams's Rock DJ, the Beasties' Fight for Your Right to Party – all survive unscathed, even if the "best porno mag" bit has been bleeped out of the latter. Off you go then, boys.

 

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