Westlife - single of the year!!!

[celticpilgrim]

ITV - just announced Westlife's 'you raise me up' as single of the year!!!

Am I missing something here - not to mention who were the other nominees!!!!!

[alexkp]

You have to bear in mind who is voting...and that fact that most of the competition is rubbish also.

>> Edited by alexkp on Saturday 10th December 20:39

[DJ111S]

Teen band tastic mainly, save for a few exceptions, Westlife, McFly etc etc. Bands such as Athlete weren't even in the final ten.

[tvrbob]

It's not even an original work. What's worse is that it is absolutely identical to the Josh Groban version. Westlife didn't even make it sound original.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Does anybody other than kids watch this dross?

[chris watton]

The band and the song are utter dross, so of course it won!

[alloypearltam]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Does anybody other than kids watch this dross?

Yes but if you know it is dross (I agree with you) then you must have watched it, so unless you are a kid then yes other people do (including me and I am 34)

[NiceCupOfTea]

alloypearltam said:

NiceCupOfTea said: Does anybody other than kids watch this dross? Yes but if you know it is dross (I agree with you) then you must have watched it, so unless you are a kid then yes other people do (including me and I am 34)

Nope, didn't watch it! Come on, a singles of the year show, primetime on a saturday night in winter with boy bands on - what else is it going to be other than dross!?

I don't need the music industry telling me what to listen to thanks, I can make my own decisions

[speedtwelve]

The popular music industry has been dominated by kiddy-friendly manufactured commercial tat for years. Most singles are bought by children and young teens, hence the 'charts' consist of the aforementioned $hite. Recent 'proper' bands like Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers etc don't get a look in because fans are mainly adults and will buy the album either on CD or online. If you are a heavy rock band, forget mainstream commercial exposure: anyone remember when Maiden were at No1 with 'Bring your Daughter (To the Slaughter)'?? It was played on ToTP because they had to, and was always faded out about 2 mins in before the guitar solo started...

Old b@stards like me will remember when 'chart' pop bands were the likes of Duran Duran, Ultravox, The Police etc. They actually wrote their own songs and played instruments! Gasp!

ST