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Post by Poptastic! on Oct 24, 2005 18:21:18 GMT -5
I just found out that not only has Westlife's new single been played about a million times in various forms (covered twice by the Conways Sisters, once by someone else, and the original was used to soundtrack people finding out if they were through at 'boot camp') but yet another song they have covered on their new album was sung on this weeks show, by Journey South - the Eagles song, Desperado. It seems like Westlife, or at least the people controlling them (including 2 of the X factor judges), are the desperate ones. Surely there are rules against this cynical promotion?
Jessica
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Post by Poptastic! on Oct 25, 2005 4:48:02 GMT -5
To top it all off, this morning I was woken up by my neighbours singing...you guessed it, You Raise Me Up! I thought I was having some terrible Westlife nightmare for a few minutes.
Jessica
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Post by Steveweiser on Oct 25, 2005 6:34:34 GMT -5
They're #1 by a distance. It's as bad as I feared.
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Post by MoondialSlater on Oct 25, 2005 7:33:07 GMT -5
How the hell have they sold that many in one day?
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Post by Kubla Khan on Oct 25, 2005 10:15:45 GMT -5
How the hell have they sold that many in one day? I think people are buying the DVD single for the superb video. You have to admire their fortitude; like the most virulent strain of bacteria they refuse to be destroyed and continue in their mission to blandify pop. Lose the fattest member? Whatever. 'Surprise' gayer revealed. Bothered? Music like Daniel O'Donnell but slightly less experimental? Numero uno! |
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Post by Mike on Oct 25, 2005 10:21:45 GMT -5
To top it all off, this morning I was woken up by my neighbours singing...you guessed it, You Raise Me Up! I've got four letters for you Jess - AS BO. "Westlife are a useless bunch of talentless tossers." - Melanie Chisholm, 2000, on one of her rare visits to the land of good sense and reason. |
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Post by agrippina on Oct 25, 2005 10:27:37 GMT -5
I thought I'd be able to escape from bland Westlife covers by watching Strictly Come Dancing instead, but instead I was subjected to the real thing singing, yes, You Raise Me Up while somebody performed a rather cheesy rumba in the foreground.
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Post by spinme on Oct 25, 2005 10:39:42 GMT -5
'Westlife are a useless bunch of talentless tossers' - Melanie Chisholm, 2000, on one of her rare visits to the land of good sense and reason. Just prior to losing her good sense and releasing Reason. There was a Westlife song on the radio this morning, which I took to be 'You Raise Me Up', but then turned out to be 'Unbreakable'... There's a certain talent in being able to take exactly the same song to number one so many times... Cheerio, Michael. xxx |
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Post by unidan82 on Oct 25, 2005 13:56:17 GMT -5
i thought the conway sister did it really well actually,
WAY better than crappy westlife.
Is Josh Groban the original? cos i think his is the best.
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Post by auntieflo on Oct 25, 2005 14:23:43 GMT -5
all i can hear is the Titanic-esque bit in the middle...it's haunting me.
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Post by Poptastic! on Oct 25, 2005 15:20:22 GMT -5
I almost admire whoever is responsible for this (probably Simon, Louis is too stupid) for managing to do so well with such a rubbish single, until I remember that no other band has to stoop this low to get a good chart position. It's ridiculous.
Jessica
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Post by jamie on Oct 26, 2005 14:23:32 GMT -5
OH is this the video which is all mediaeval-y and set in a dungeon?
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Post by Bananarama's Bra Strap on Oct 27, 2005 4:00:47 GMT -5
OH is this the video which is all mediaeval-y and set in a dungeon? that's bop-bop baby isn't it? You raise me up is a sepia tinged piece of vomit inducing tat. |
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Post by sinitta on Oct 27, 2005 5:40:42 GMT -5
It's so annoying. We really thought we'd have seen the last of them after the stinking swing album. It makes me so annoyed that they have had a 7 plus year career and Spice and B*Witched were gone in a heartbeat.
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Post by Kubla Khan on Oct 27, 2005 7:29:56 GMT -5
It's so annoying. We really thought we'd have seen the last of them after the stinking swing album. It makes me so annoyed that they have had a 7 plus year career and Spice and B*Witched were gone in a heartbeat. And there's still the inevitable attempts to forge solo careers to come. Hooray! |
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Post by sinitta on Oct 27, 2005 8:17:01 GMT -5
I'll forgive them their sins against humanity if Nicky's solo career involves full frontal nudity and / or gay sex.
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Post by PeterJ on Oct 27, 2005 20:07:33 GMT -5
...with Mark?
They didn't get to the top spot did they? If not which position?
I'm pleased to announce that I actually still have no idea of how this song sounds - wish I watched X Factor a lot more ;-)
Although if it's anything like as bland as their other stuff, I'll never, ever remember what it sounds like. My consciousness has good taste like that.
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Post by SamB on Oct 28, 2005 16:20:40 GMT -5
I don't know if the Josh Groban version was the first or not (I have one by Secret Garden f. Brian Kennedy), but whichever it is, it's a reworking of Danny Boy anyhow.
Can be really, really good when it's done well. I assume the Westlife one isn't.
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Post by PeterJ on Oct 28, 2005 19:49:21 GMT -5
Oh sod.
I've just seen the midweek charts you must've been referring to, and Westlife are, in fact, number one.
Still have no idea what it sounds like though - but then again isn't that what Westlife do best? Getting to Number 1 with a song no-one except their legions of fans have heard of?
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Post by cjw on Oct 29, 2005 8:52:29 GMT -5
I wasn't even aware this was new. All of there songs sound so ridiculously samey that i presumed it was one of the older tracks.
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Post by sinitta on Oct 29, 2005 11:42:03 GMT -5
They did an album track on TOTP:Reloaded today. Sounded exactly the same as all their other ballads.
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