The song is wack. The sh-- is mad wack," he told the radio station. Uglier comments followed. She added that she wrote the track to defend herself against Eamon's attacks because, as she says in the song's intro, "You know, there are two sides to every story. Yannick Bolasie and Bradley Wright-Phillips.
The Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus of the pop world. To understand it all, we must travel back to November , a month that had plunged the world into a mire of uncertainty. The Concorde had just flown for the final time, film fans were simultaneously weeping and laughing hit new film Love Actually , and the British public had to prepare for life without Brookside for the first time in two decades.
Guys with inoffensively soft voices were de rigueur at the time. The rise of a dulcet-toned Eamon would make perfect sense in this climate, except you have to ignore the fact his tune was believed to contain the most profanity of any UK chart topper at the time. In the clean version, six words of the chorus had to be beeped out. Six out of Our story begins with Eamon and his mystery girl more on this later having a great time being a couple and doing coupley things. But wait, why are we switching from black and white into colour?
Could it mean that it was all a flashback? But they looked so good together, so made for each other. How angry, we hear you ask? An aside on the pizza: is it the best pizza to ever feature in part one of a two-part pop music beef? The mozzarella looks chewy, but not too chewy , the base has clearly got a perfect Neapolitan crunch, and would you look at that pepperoni distribution.
And fair play to him. Thought that tirade was just sparked by a hangry Eamon taking it all out on his soon-to-be-ex, did you? Not a chance. This is no spur-of-the-moment decision — a lot of thought has gone into this, presumably across a number of sleepless nights in his unnecessarily low-ceilinged apartment.
Fast forward a few months. He told us he was done with her. He threw a whole pizza off a table with the anger of a man who knew there was no coming back. Why would he be… unless…. A century-and-a-bit later, R'n'B misfit Eamon Jonathan Doyle would pen lyrics that would forever change the art form in the ears of many, swingeingly challenging Lubbock's age-old ideologies in the process.
On the 24th of November, , 'Eamon' - whose grandparents hailed from Co. Wexford but in a far more accurate sense, did not hail from Wexford - produced this snippet of urban poetry:. Fuck the presents might as well throw 'em out. Fuck all those kisses, they didn't mean jack Fuck you, you hoe, I don't want you back. The self-proclaimed 'ho-wop' a combination of hip-hop, doo wop and 'hoes' anthem reached no.
In Italy, it climbed the charts with such fervour that it was re-recorded in the vernacular, with Eamon's 33 swear words carefully edited out for the swarms of Italian pre-teens who, like all of us, were simply benumbed by the booming tune of 's great breakup anthem. And while Eamon's original is no doubt timeless to those of us who began to cut our teeth in the world of using the word 'fuck' and listening to extremely borderline R'n'B 12 years ago, it was arguably the retort of fellow Staten Island native 'Frankee' which propelled it to the iconic status it still clings to - buried deep within the very bowels of our selective forgetfulness.
Frankee's slam dunk into the hoop of flagrant arse-chancery saw her claim to be an ex-girlfriend of Eamon; her response track, 'F. As you can probably remember, it was literally the same song, but with different words and a video that showcased far more boobs - causing some factions of Eamon's male fanbase to jump ship to his [alleged] embittered former flame's cause.
Eamon, in true Eamon fashion, denied having ever met Frankee, refuting her accusations that he was "talkin' shit like a snitch" with the following statement:. I was not involved with 'F. The only way I was associated with it was when I was asked for licensing permission by Frankee's representatives, which makes me a writer on her song by copyright law. But I really didn't expect all this to come out of it, they are having fun with it, it's cool but in the end they are paying me for their 15 minutes of fame and I welcome her to my world of Ho-Wop!
It was more than a chart battle - it was a debate for the ages; a vitriolic, bilious, surprisingly melodic rivalry not seen since the days of Biggie and 'Pac.
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