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Post by monsta on Nov 8, 2005 4:37:49 GMT -5
Has anything more nauseating appeared on British television? I agree that 'every so often a song comes along that captures the imagination of the universe' but that said song would be No Good Advice not some dull-as-fuck bile which can only appreciated by the likes of The Conway Sisters. And they insist on showing that video which looks like its been pinched from a life insurance advert.
Who commisioned this shite? They must be hung (up).
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Post by agrippina on Nov 8, 2005 7:04:12 GMT -5
It's rather insulting of them to say that "the universe" has a collective imagination, and that even if it does, it's so vacuous and easily distracted that it can be "captured" by a dire Westlife song that sounds like a mangled version of Wind Beneath My Wings.
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Post by Martino on Nov 8, 2005 8:54:34 GMT -5
Who commisioned this shite? They must be hung (up). i agree that westlife do indeed suck big fat donkey dick, but i have to question something. They shouldn't be hung, they should be hanged, or so my english teacher imprinted into my head. But how come with the whole guy fawkes thing, are people hung, drawn and quartered? It makes no sense. |
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Post by gazbo on Nov 8, 2005 9:42:25 GMT -5
The past tense can be hanged or hung, whichever you fancy.
Back on Westlife, I was amazed when I saw their incredible performance on TV: they were sat on stools, wearing suits, and I was quite happy with just that. But no! In a move of genius, just as the key change came, they stood up AND walked forwards!
With this sort of inventiveness, is it any surprise they are number 1?
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Post by ComedyClaire on Nov 8, 2005 10:05:31 GMT -5
Back on Westlife, I was amazed when I saw their incredible performance on TV: they were sat on stools, wearing suits, and I was quite happy with just that. But no! In a move of genius, just as the key change came, they stood up AND walked forwards! Aww, that made me laugh! =) |
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Post by Martino on Nov 8, 2005 12:16:16 GMT -5
The past tense can be hanged or hung, whichever you fancy. no apparently not. hung refers to objects hanged refers to people i think i may have to contact susie dent. |
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Post by monsta on Nov 8, 2005 12:28:57 GMT -5
Sadly hanged (up) didn't fit in with the original pun.
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Post by splitchick59 on Nov 8, 2005 13:25:04 GMT -5
Reporting from America to say that the US's imagination has not been captured by "You Raise Me Up". Many other territories can probably say the same.
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Post by Kubla Khan on Nov 8, 2005 13:35:22 GMT -5
Westlife should do the stair lift ads now Thora Hird is dead.
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Post by costas on Nov 9, 2005 5:59:46 GMT -5
And they insist on showing that video which looks like its been pinched from a life insurance advert. Good god, you're right. They're using the oldest trick in the book, i.e. showing lots of happy smiley images and then juxtaposing them with a dull-as-shit product in an attempt to make us think "Hmmm... Happy... Product... Aha! Product makes me happy!" They do it with boring stuff like insurance all the time. "I like waking up and realising it's Saturday... I like cute little puppies in baskets... And I like Dullbastard Life Assurance". Only this time it's "Here's some B&W footage of people smiling whilst Westlife sing. Get it? Westlife = Happy. Now go and buy the album while you're out getting scratchcards and Sheeba" |
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Post by noddens on Nov 13, 2005 19:33:49 GMT -5
What makes me mad is, Josh Groban did this song on his 2003 Album "Closer", he sings it way much better than Westlife, but because he doesn't have all the "Hype" it is lost. I hate the way it makes out that Westlife are the original singers of this amazing song.
Josh Groban does this song more justice.
Westlife are just a manufactured band who does what they are told to do.
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Post by audrey potnoodlehorne on Nov 16, 2005 17:07:35 GMT -5
Nice to see them targeting the grandad demographic. It's like a Wether's Originals ad.
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Post by drbastard on Nov 17, 2005 5:38:17 GMT -5
Not everyone can be as exciting as Madonna I suppose.
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Post by SuperFunTastic on Nov 17, 2005 13:37:07 GMT -5
On the hung/hanged thing, I'm pretty sure people are "hanged" because they're not being hung like a coat on a hook, it's a specific procedure which involves being dropped from a height and your neck being broken by the noose so you die instantly. When someone is "hung", drawn and quartered, they are just hung from a noose-type thing for a while but not until they actually die, then they're disembowelled and chopped into quarters. More of a torture device than execution. Or that's how I've come to understand things...
Back on topic, has anyone noticed how this "song" only has 4 lines of verse at the start and then it has some fucking bagpipes and the chorus repeated ad nauseum? No second verse, no bridges, no middle eight...it's so lazy and just shit. And the key change is so unsatisfying and ineffective it gives a bad name to the entire modulation genre.
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Post by laureneleanor on Nov 18, 2005 7:02:24 GMT -5
Does no one else find it ironic that the Conway sisters, mentored by Simon Cowell of BMG fame who also (oh so surprisingly) manages westlife, sing the song two weeks before it is released...then suddenly Westlife have a number one with it?? Considering the lack of promotion on Westlife's part and the large amount of viewers X factor acquires, could it possibly have been a publicity technique? Promoting a song for all its worth are we Simon?
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Post by Madison on Nov 27, 2005 16:53:03 GMT -5
i think i may have to contact susie dent. Now she should release a record. I'd definately buy that.  Perhaps entitled 'Jacuzzi'... |
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Post by Kubla Khan on Nov 27, 2005 18:14:39 GMT -5
Their bloody song is STILL at number 2. *sulks*
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Post by JayJay2604 on Nov 28, 2005 11:19:41 GMT -5
Glad to see i'm not the only one totally nauseated by that sodding advert. And I totally agree with whoever said Josh Grobin did it better, it was a beautiful song when he did it now it's just cack.
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Post by auntieflo on Nov 28, 2005 14:52:01 GMT -5
Does no one else find it ironic that the Conway sisters, mentored by Simon Cowell of BMG fame who also (oh so surprisingly) manages westlife, sing the song two weeks before it is released...then suddenly Westlife have a number one with it?? Considering the lack of promotion on Westlife's part and the large amount of viewers X factor acquires, could it possibly have been a publicity technique? Promoting a song for all its worth are we Simon? It was also the song played to accompany the Conway's "best bits" on both the X factor and that thing with ben shepherd afterwards.. |
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Post by andrea69 on Nov 28, 2005 17:29:36 GMT -5
And yet still loads and loads of people continue to buy this complete cacka....I was v dissapointed in the X Factor for this blatant promotion
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Post by poptart on Nov 30, 2005 18:13:20 GMT -5
isnt it heart of the nation
and on the hung hanged thing
nicky byrne is very well HUNG
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Post by Cathal on Dec 3, 2005 11:12:24 GMT -5
What makes me mad is, Josh Groban did this song on his 2003 Album "Closer", he sings it way much better than Westlife, but because he doesn't have all the "Hype" it is lost. I hate the way it makes out that Westlife are the original singers of this amazing song. Josh Groban does this song more justice. Westlife are just a manufactured band who does what they are told to do. I agree totally. The Josh Groban version is sensational and it's such a pity that the public will now think that You Raise Me Up is Westlife's song. |
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Post by HeartGoesBoom on Dec 8, 2005 8:14:35 GMT -5
Haven't seen the advert yet, hopefully it will feature more key-changes, providing a 10 year old girl to faint - possibly be sick - because Kian 'looked at her'.
I know someone who cried when the boring one came out of the closet.
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Post by HeartGoesBoom on Dec 16, 2005 4:30:00 GMT -5
Saw it. Its laughable, but scary because there must be people out there who believe it.
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Post by Danniiboy on Dec 16, 2005 17:19:28 GMT -5
The original version of the song by Secret Garden (the Eurovision winners) was at least passable - but the Westlife dirge makes the bile in the back of my throat rise...
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Post by Mike on Dec 18, 2005 17:42:18 GMT -5
The advert's been revamped, so now it's 'every so often an album comes along'. The brazen cheek. As members of the nation, aren't we entitled to sue for defamation of character and emotional distress?
How amusing that the JCB song beat them to number one. I still haven't heard it, but I can't see how it could be much worse than a record that is utterly devoid of merit even by their standards. Shane's vocals don't sit on the song at all, Mark squalls his way through it in a disastrous stab at emotional resonance, Kian and Nicky contribute their usual amount (did they even show up that day?) and after 40 years in the business, Diana Ross has never sounded worse. The haggard old shrew should have been put out to pasture long ago, especially since she's now reduced to slaughtering her own songs...
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