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To me, it always seemed that the pop music industry could not get any worse, and I've posted before on how much I hate the manufactured money-churning kiddie-exploiting junk they call music, but yet again they have excelled themselves to new heights with the christmas number ones lineup.
Darkness.
This'll probably get the number one slot. Everyone loves them at the minute, and it's got sleighbells in, so it has to be a hit.
Proper Chrim-Bo.
Havent heard this one yet, am keeping my eye out on the music channels for it before I make my verdict.
Cheeky girls - have a cheeky christmas.
WHAT THE F*** IS THIS!!!!!! These two useless, talentless saps with nothing more than a pair of matching shiny hotpants to sell records are still making money? This song is the dreggs of manufactured a*se.
Pop rival contenders - war is over thing.
How anyone could release a song saying that the war is over when the war isnt at all over and British troops are still out there is beyond me, but to make it that bit more 'pop-classy', it's been done by a bunch pf people that arent even pop stars, but a bunch of kids on a reality tv show that noone gives a toss about anyway. Also spot the underage kids in the video - have the judges not noticed?
Christmas is all around.
Utter w**k. Whoever came up with this idea lost their only brain cell when they last cut their toenails. Even on the video the guy who sings it says that the song is rubbish. Note the fractionally different chord changes to aviod paying WWWet any money on royalties, and not only using the gag of getting girls in bikinis on the video to make men watch it, but saying it too.
Gareth gates - another pile of junk.
This isnt even a christmas song! It doesnt even have any sleighbells in it!!!! Well done pop world by still making the money out of this whimpering chimp, who now has his hair done at Vileida, but if you want christmas number 1 you're gonna at least have to have sleighbells.
Whoever those birds are that are doing 'Jump for my love'
Why this warranted a cover is anyones guess... oh yes - they dont have the ability to write their own songs, and they want a fast buck. They could have at least tried to make it sound like a new song, instead of taking the old one, raising the volume of the bass drum, and then getting some bontempi organ wheezing for a bridge.
It used to make me mad. It ued to make me so angry that I felt like I would not be committing a crime by killing Pete ("If one true pile doesnt make number one i'll give up the pop industry" - LIAR!!!) Waterman and Simon ("If i get in on the video and play the sleighbells, I'll get royalties too") Cowell, but not any more. It used to make me think that the pop industry had really hit the bottom this time, and that the kids would realise what mugs they are being by buying this manufactured pap, they would stop buying stuff, and the pop world would have to start writing credible music to gain it's audience back.
But it isnt going to happen. They will keep finding new nobodies, give them a weak song, and then when the kids get bored of them, they'll get another pop-wannabe and do the same over again, while the original nobodies go back to flipping burgers. Kids will keep buying it, as at the age of 5 (where the market is now aimed) they don't know any better, and next christmas we'll have even more seasonal guff, even more reworked cheddar and even more sub-average songs with sleighbells in.
I hope that the cheeky girls get christmas number one. It'll be the angel on the cheesiest tree yet.
Darkness.
This'll probably get the number one slot. Everyone loves them at the minute, and it's got sleighbells in, so it has to be a hit.
Proper Chrim-Bo.
Havent heard this one yet, am keeping my eye out on the music channels for it before I make my verdict.
Cheeky girls - have a cheeky christmas.
WHAT THE F*** IS THIS!!!!!! These two useless, talentless saps with nothing more than a pair of matching shiny hotpants to sell records are still making money? This song is the dreggs of manufactured a*se.
Pop rival contenders - war is over thing.
How anyone could release a song saying that the war is over when the war isnt at all over and British troops are still out there is beyond me, but to make it that bit more 'pop-classy', it's been done by a bunch pf people that arent even pop stars, but a bunch of kids on a reality tv show that noone gives a toss about anyway. Also spot the underage kids in the video - have the judges not noticed?
Christmas is all around.
Utter w**k. Whoever came up with this idea lost their only brain cell when they last cut their toenails. Even on the video the guy who sings it says that the song is rubbish. Note the fractionally different chord changes to aviod paying WWWet any money on royalties, and not only using the gag of getting girls in bikinis on the video to make men watch it, but saying it too.
Gareth gates - another pile of junk.
This isnt even a christmas song! It doesnt even have any sleighbells in it!!!! Well done pop world by still making the money out of this whimpering chimp, who now has his hair done at Vileida, but if you want christmas number 1 you're gonna at least have to have sleighbells.
Whoever those birds are that are doing 'Jump for my love'
Why this warranted a cover is anyones guess... oh yes - they dont have the ability to write their own songs, and they want a fast buck. They could have at least tried to make it sound like a new song, instead of taking the old one, raising the volume of the bass drum, and then getting some bontempi organ wheezing for a bridge.
It used to make me mad. It ued to make me so angry that I felt like I would not be committing a crime by killing Pete ("If one true pile doesnt make number one i'll give up the pop industry" - LIAR!!!) Waterman and Simon ("If i get in on the video and play the sleighbells, I'll get royalties too") Cowell, but not any more. It used to make me think that the pop industry had really hit the bottom this time, and that the kids would realise what mugs they are being by buying this manufactured pap, they would stop buying stuff, and the pop world would have to start writing credible music to gain it's audience back.
But it isnt going to happen. They will keep finding new nobodies, give them a weak song, and then when the kids get bored of them, they'll get another pop-wannabe and do the same over again, while the original nobodies go back to flipping burgers. Kids will keep buying it, as at the age of 5 (where the market is now aimed) they don't know any better, and next christmas we'll have even more seasonal guff, even more reworked cheddar and even more sub-average songs with sleighbells in.
I hope that the cheeky girls get christmas number one. It'll be the angel on the cheesiest tree yet.
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Last night I found my self flicking through the channels to find some music channel called The Box. It had a vote on for "best band in the world ever" and guess who won? Busted. Further proof that this country has lost it's taste in music, so I estimate some irritating "cheeky girls/Proper Crimbo/Pop idol crap" to fill the charts this year, just like it did in 2002.
He finds it "kind of funny" as well, doesn't he?
Christmas No 1 for me?
Mad World.
"I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had"
Uplifting ;)
Mad World.
"I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had"
Uplifting ;)
I've actually stopped listening to charts. I get angry.
Black Eyed Peas should take their own advice - shut up.
I could come up with a similar half-wit response to every single thing in the charts, but it's easier just to say that everyone in the charts should listen to the Black Eyed Peas.
Black Eyed Peas should take their own advice - shut up.
I could come up with a similar half-wit response to every single thing in the charts, but it's easier just to say that everyone in the charts should listen to the Black Eyed Peas.
Most chart music is....
yeah but just because they did their own stuff doesn't make them any less irritating
Darkness, manufactured?
Don't think so...
Plus they deserve it, they actually got together themselves and did their own stuff, they wern't cherry picked like 90% of the stuff you see nowadays.
If you do your own stuff, you deserve 10x more than the others. That's why the Cheeky Girls deserve more than the Pop Idols. They actually put ~some~ effort into writing their own song!
Anyway, the Darkness need some encouragement. I'd rather have more acts of them pop up than MORE 'Fame Acadamies' and 'Pop Idols,' just look at what they're doing, they're preventing crappy pop acts from dominating the charts.
Don't think so...
Plus they deserve it, they actually got together themselves and did their own stuff, they wern't cherry picked like 90% of the stuff you see nowadays.
If you do your own stuff, you deserve 10x more than the others. That's why the Cheeky Girls deserve more than the Pop Idols. They actually put ~some~ effort into writing their own song!
Anyway, the Darkness need some encouragement. I'd rather have more acts of them pop up than MORE 'Fame Acadamies' and 'Pop Idols,' just look at what they're doing, they're preventing crappy pop acts from dominating the charts.
Youre right, they shouldnt be number one, none of them should.
Someone with talent should.
How about this for a gag? we all buy the cheeky girls one, then when it goes to munber one, the pop industry will take on loads more blatantly talentless acts, and we can see how far they'll go?
Someone with talent should.
How about this for a gag? we all buy the cheeky girls one, then when it goes to munber one, the pop industry will take on loads more blatantly talentless acts, and we can see how far they'll go?
The Darkness deserve it. They've had a great year, even though Justin Hawkins says 'F**k' a bit too often.
But they rock, combining the styles of Queen and Diamond Head really well.
But they rock, combining the styles of Queen and Diamond Head really well.
Slaveunit wrote:
> Darkness.
> This'll probably get the number one slot. Everyone loves them at the
> minute, and it's got sleighbells in, so it has to be a hit.
what makes me laugh about the darkness is that their lead singer takes what he's doing really seriously even though he cons**tantly claims he's having fun. I've seen/read him in interviews really slagging people off who pan their sh*t music as if he doesn't know what he's doing is a f***ing joke.
and no it shouldn't be no 1
> Darkness.
> This'll probably get the number one slot. Everyone loves them at the
> minute, and it's got sleighbells in, so it has to be a hit.
what makes me laugh about the darkness is that their lead singer takes what he's doing really seriously even though he cons**tantly claims he's having fun. I've seen/read him in interviews really slagging people off who pan their sh*t music as if he doesn't know what he's doing is a f***ing joke.
and no it shouldn't be no 1
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