Joe really did sound pretty great on the X Factor. Here, he sounds appalling. He tickles the big long note in the title, you can hear him missing it and oh does it hurt. The letter I simply is not the kid’s friend. And it just sounds like those big CDs of Christian music they used to advertise on Channel 4. He’s not feeling it. I’m not feeling it. It’s difficult to tell how anyone could ever feel it. This is, simply, a really very, very bad record. He’s got the potential to make good ones, though, and what the future holds it will be interesting to see. I can’t see him doing stuff that isn’t ballads, but not all ballads are the same – there’s good ones, and there’s bad ones. And this song, this one here – this is bloody awful.
Said it before, say it again:
Opportunity knocked and you scratched your arse.
December 20, 2009 at 8:53 pm
possibly the greatest thing about PRO>GEN ’91 (CALL IT BY ITS NAME) is that extra hook Colin adds behind the second chorus, and then this leading into Mr C. Undeniable.
December 20, 2009 at 9:08 pm
I like how in addition to the usual song = amazing journey on the show stuff, the central metaphor could be read as being that getting the Christmas number 1 doesn’t matter.