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It honestly felt both hilarious and ironic when everyone trashed "Daylight" by David Kushner and got Hozier his highest charting song the next year. It was a case of "we have Hozier at home/we don't care, we want the real thing"

So, it makes me wonder, given how Malcolm Todd has been dividing listeners with his Temu Steve Lacy style, is there a chance we could get lightning to strike twice?

I personally think they do. For those who don't know, they're the band who made the original version of "There She Goes", made famous later by Sixpence None The Richer. It peaked at only #49 in the US, but it was also the only song of theirs to chart here. They only faired slightly better in their home country of the UK. Another thing is that they may be the band was the most direct inspiration for the Britpop movement.

But on top of that, they have a fairly interesting story, being fronted by the infamous Lee Mavers, who had a reputation for being a raging perfectionist to the point where the band went through EIGHT PRODUCERS and £1M, only for Mavers to not like any of the recordings. It got so bad that the label had to 1) give one of the 8 producers a handbook called something along the lines of "A Guide to Dealing with Lee Mavers", which Lee found and, as a result, rejected the recordings they made together out of spite, and 2) scrape together their only album from the best recordings they had, which Lee, of course, hated and asked fans to boycott the album. Then he disappeared and in the 2000s, a book called 'In Search of The La's' was published where the author actually managed to find and interview Lee.

I would love to see Todd talk about them.