Charlie Simpson says Busted won't change the lyrics to their risqué old songs. The pop group - which consists of 39-year-old Charlie, James Bourne, 40, and 41-year-old Matt Willis - were teenagers when they formed in 2000 and had hits with tracks like 'What I Go to School For', about a schoolboy's crush on his teacher, and 'Air Hostess' which contains the line "That uniform you’re wearing, so hot I can’t stop staring / You’re putting on an awesome show." Charlie is loathed to censor any songs in 2024 because the tracks are representative of a moment in time.
Speaking to the Metro newspaper’s Guilty Pleasures column, Charlie said: "Some of the lyrical content of those songs we just wouldn’t write now, so there’s definitely that kind of [gross] feeling, but they’re so well known by our audience that it doesn’t really matter. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. “It’s not like we’re coming out with a new song that sounds like those old songs, or lyrics that sound like those.
It captures a moment in time so we can just play them on and on.” Charlie and his Busted bandmates did make one slight alteration to the age of Miss Mackenzie in 'What I Go To School For’ to reflect their own ages now. He said: “We changed the teacher’s age in ‘What I Go To School For’ to 53 instead of 33.
“We didn’t want to change them too much, that’s what people want to hear, it’s what they remember, but making th.
