Blog: My Chemical Toilet

I'm not one for R&B ballads, really. They tend to be syrupy and over-emotive, which is obviously a generalisation but, you know, given the choice between a ballad and a club "banger" it's the bangful one that wins me over 85% of the time. However, like the very best pop songs, Brit soul type McLean 's "Broken" manages to transcend the genre with which it would be most closely associated. It's a heartbroken, overwrought fist-clencher which, in a landscape of overproduced, autotuned pop spaff with half an eye on ringtone sales, actually makes you believe the singer [...]