God almighty how awful was that collection of Bieber-likes' cover of Kim Wilde's Kids In America?.

I have never heard anything so pointless, talentless & tuneless for a while.

"One Direction" alright & I know what direction is going to be in !!

(& I can't wait for the backlash, bring it on!!)

It is a good song, love Kim wilde especially her version of "you just keep me hangin on".

It was a cheese fest and I was cringing. They're only in the show because teeny bopper girls and middle-aged men in denial are voting for them.

Furthermore, the song is by Kim Wilde who is British. To me, the song sounds like a protest about Americanisation or music only being seen as worth if if it breaks the USA.

Yes it always had a cynical air to it, but I do recall at the time, her brother mentioning that it was also a very obvious attempt to break her into the US market, so a bit of both

I love the original song, has to be one of my favourite 80's pop songs and if you still listen to it now, it doesn't sound dated. Although, for a long time I did think this was sung by an American, until I realised that Kim was from Chiswick. For a long time, I thought the same about Paul Young too!

Do you not think she was trying too hard to be like Blondie (Debby Harry) though?

oh indeed, but no problem there !

She was similar to debbie in her day, i dont know if she was copying her though, they both made new wave music thats probably why.

Well as a 12 year old boy, I wasn't complaining

nope...i never got that impression. there were plenty of other post punk poppettes fronting groups.... she was just another one.

at the time she had never even been to america!

Cascada's cover was great of this too.

That sounds truly horrific :P

it doesn't sound like my cup of tea either, yuck

A shame someone didn't do a decent cover of it on X Factor. Would have liked to have seen Kim back in the Top 40. Been 17 years.

The song and video, and her look, all appear very Debby Harry... however, I wasn't around at the time so I imagine lots of people looked like that... kind of how now we have this influx of skinny tie wearing indie bands with scruffy hair...