History Music / McFly

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: 'iF U C Kate.' If you didn't notice already, [[DontExplainTheJoke separate the i then bring the capital letters in the title together as one word]].

* VocalTagTeam: Tom and Danny, though Dougie gets in on it in some songs, and they have inndividual songs where they're the only ones singing lead as well.

* {{Adorkable}}: Tom. [[http://twitter.com/#!/tommcfly Just check out his Twitter]]

* AudienceParticipationSong: "One For The Radio"
* {{Bishonen}}: Dougie [[http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00013/ed_imgSNF02BIZA_500L_13915a.jpg looks disturbingly good in drag]].
** Danny would count as this too.

* TheBusCameBack: After the better part of a decade, the album's worth of songs they recorded in 2011, but put on the backburner to form [=McBusted=], the band is ''finally'' releasing their 6th album, which is bound to make fans who hated the supergroup forming putting it off really happy.

* TheCoverChangesTheGender: They averted this when they covered [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_3w-RVypMs I Kissed a Girl]].
* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Thanks to the above, their cover of 'I Kissed a Girl' changed to be about a gay man questioning his sexuality.
* CoverVersion: Lots of them.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrn6BbM0TRQ Party Girl]].

* DrivenToSuicide: What "She Falls Asleep" is about.

* MrFanservice: All the members would count, but Danny and Dougie seem to be the most popular with fangirls.
** Though Harry is getting quite a bit of attention following his recent ''Series/StrictlyComeDancing'' win.
* {{Fanservice}}: The video for '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuEprxvR-9s Please Please]].'
** Party Girl's music video as well.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Star Girl.
-->''"There's nothing on Earth that could save us, when I fell in love with Uranus"''

* LoopedLyrics: Do Ya

* OopNorth: Danny is from [[UsefulNotes/FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Bolton]].

* WildTeenParty: 'Saturday Night'.

* BiTheWay: According to Dougie, ''all'' of them.

-->-- "'''[[SignatureSong 5 Colours in her Hair]]'''"

-> "Everyone asked me who the hell is she? That weirdo with five colours in her hair."
-->-- '''[[SignatureSong "5 Colours in her Hair"]]'''

** 'IF U C Kate's' title likterally has each middle letter spell out "fuck."

** 'One For the Radio's' video starts the same way as the opening scene of that film does, with one of the guys turning up the power and volume of a giant amp, then it overloading in power when he strum on his guitar.

* VocalTagTeam

* CallBack: Their second Greatest Hits album, 'Memory Lane', is named after an album track from 'Wonderland'.

* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Thanks to the above, their cover of 'I Kissed a Girl' changed to be about a gay man questioning his sexuality.

* TheCoverChangesTheGender: They averted this when they covered [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_3w-RVypMs I Kissed a Girl]].
* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Thanks to the above, their cover of 'I Kissed a Girl' changed to be about a gay man questioning his sexuality.
* CoverVersion: Lots of them.

[=McFly=] have released 5 Studio Albums (6 if you count "Just My Luck" in the US), 3 Greatest Hits Albums (Two regular, one exclusively B-sides sold only in certain Woolworths stores), 3 live [=DVDs=] and one [[TheMovie movie]] (Not counting ''Just My Luck''). They also have an upcoming one, confirmed by Dougie in a podcast in January 2019. They also teamed up with their friends James Bourne and Matt Willis of Music/{{Busted}} to form [=McBusted=], then released an album in 2014.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Songs that they recorded in 2011 and 2012 that were left on the back burner when they formed [=McBusted=] god dug out to be released in 2019 on ''The Lost Songs.''

* RemakeCameo: Dougie played the guy the girl was in love with instead of one of the band members in The Vamp's remake music video for their cover of 'That Girl.'

** 'I Wanna Hold You' was reworked slightly to change some of the lyrics to make it commercially viable as a single after a reviewer noted it was a bit too violent to be a serious pop hit (note that the only real lyrical change is changing "destroy the world" to "change the world).

* Unnamed 6th studio album (2019)

* Room on the 3rd Floor (2004)
* Wonderland (2005)
* Just My Luck (2006) (USA Only)
* Motion in the Ocean (2006)
* All The Greatest Hits (2007)
* The Greatest Bits: B-Sides and Rarities (2007) (Woolworths stores only)
* Radio:ACTIVE (2008)
* Above the Noise (2010)
* Memory Lane: The Best of [=McFly=] (2012)

** "Wonderland" comes from the first verse of ''Ultraviolet''; "Nothing goes to plan, it's all a game of chance they say in Wonderland"
** "Please, Please" from their third album "Motion in the Ocean" uses "Let's get the motion in the ocean so turn off your phone now"

** [=McBusted=] (2014) (w/ James Bourne and Matt Willis of Busted)

[=McFly=] have released 5 Studio Albums (6 if you count "Just My Luck" in the US), 3 Greatest Hits Albums (Two regular, one exclusively B-sides sold only in certain Woolworths stores), 3 live [=DVDs=] and one [[TheMovie movie]] (Not counting ''Just My Luck'').

* SpiritualSuccessor: To Music/Busted; Tom once auditioned for the band, they mostly became known through being Busted's support act on their arena tour, and they've remained friends with at least two of Busted's former members, James Bourne in particular helping to write several [=McFly=] songs for their first album (with Tom doing the same with Busted's songs on their second early in his career).

* PopPunk: Their fourth album, [=radio:ACTIVE=], dives head first into the genre, not that they didn't record songs in the genre before then, or after. In fact, they rerecorded their hit, '5 Colours in Her Hair' in this style for ''Just My Luck's'' soundtrack, which became how they performed the song afterwards.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To Busted; Tom once auditioned for the band, they mostly became known through being Busted's support act on their arena tour, and they've remained friends with at least two of Busted's former members, James Bourne in particular helping to write several [=McFly=] songs (with Tom doing the same with Busted's songs early in his career).