I’ve just heard the new Beyoncé song, Spirit, which is from the new Lion King film. It truly is spectacularly awful.
Now, I have nothing particularly for or against Beyoncé, but you have to hear it: it’s a cigarette paper-thin idea polished within an inch of its life. They’ve thrown in what sounds like about eight choirs, let alone one. At various times, the anorexic melody threatens to turn into The Voice by John Farnham (who should probably ask his lawyers to have a quick listen).
What other examples of overblown, awful, we-know-it’s-crap-but-we’re-doing-our-best-with-it songs are there?
Well this brings to mind the bandwagon jumpers that pick up on a new thing and see if they can recreate the magic. I present to the Massive Kim Wilde’s “The Second Time (Go for it!)” – released in 1984, a few weeks after Frankie’s Two Tribes.
The waggly bass line and the huge, expensive-sounding production were all hallmarks of the dominant Frankie sound of 1984. The video was similar to Two Tribes. With a star like Kim Wilde, the single is a guaranteed winner! But Kim forgot to use a song that wasn’t crap. Number 29 with a bullet.
Anything by the Manics for a start.
Incorrect. Great band.
Worst band in the world. See the esteemed Mr. Cowslip below.
I agree with you, Count.
Why does that guy have to sing everything above his natural register? Makes me wince to hear him straining like that, like the proverbial fingernails on a blackboard.
And i cannot STAND how he twists the line “A design for life” to fit the metre of the song. “A deZINE fo-o-or LIFE”. If the line doesn’t scan then change the title of the song!
Nah he’s brilliant. He does sometimes have to fit a quart of words into a pint pot (he generally doesn’t write them), and he does it superbly.
The Holy Bible is one of the greatest albums ever made, see Arthur’s top 60 albums thread for evidence of that (I’m not the only one, 3 votes for 1994)
Bon Jovi’s entire ‘career’ except the bassline in Keep The Faith.
Oh tish I don’t mind a bit of the Jove. This came on the bathroom radio when I was in the shower this morning. Cue singing with hand shower mic. The best start to the day.
Have you seen the new A Star Is Born? It has its moments but is generally a bore.
Anyway, the “centrepiece” song is this woeful tuneless dirge called In The Shallow or something like that. It’s the worst kind of rentatune cliched rubbish, with duet verses that start ‘hey boy’ and ‘hey girl’…. But it’s puffed up and produced to a ridiculous degree, and the two leads emote and fake cry as if they are singing an opera.
Dreadfully crap film, but… the scene where Thingummy pisses himself on stage at the Grammys is a hoot.
I thought the film was excellent.
I liked it until she became Lady Gaga. Then it was mostly unwatchable pop videos.
IT WAS LADY GAGA 😉