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woops they did it again
Posted by BigJimBob on 17 October 2009 - 9:27pm.
John and Edward - surely a You tube classic.
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He said they are from another planet. I find it hard to disagree.
sorry
have I come in in the middle of a conversation?
they're talking about this
I couldn't watch it with the sound on.
30 seconds
That's how long I lasted. And I'm not that hidebound by Western conventions of harmony and tonality.
I'm retreating to a quiet room with a large dram.
Confused
They were on a bit of the show that I saw last week, I was enthralled. My first comment was that Saturday night television was worse than I thought it was but then I realised that it was some sort of a spoof. I had to watch until the end of the act but never really got the joke. This is the same but despite it being excruciating to listen to I'm beginning to think that it's just a very poor singing act and there's no humour intended. I'm very confused but I don't think even if I was in on the joke that I'd want to hear them again.
fank yew Miss Inky
I never watch "weekend telly" so a lot of conversations fly over my napper*, I didn't click your link because I was afeared, but I'll give it a + arrow
*my friend Claire (25) came up with a classic for men of my/our age who have that bald ring at the back of their napper - "The Corn Circle of Doom"
well I laughed and I own one
go on, you know you want to see the 'titanic' bit
which is where I turned off the sound and mostly looked away.
I don't watch X Factor, but it was hard to ignore this moment due to all the twittering, especially that of one Eamonn Forde.
I honestly don't know how anyone watches it.
go on, go on, go on
click the link.
it is beyond compare
James, My mate calls them
Baboon's Arses. Unfortunately this image is now stuck in my head.
For some reason
when I sat through this I could think of only two words. Those two words were:
Daphne
and
Celeste
I'm not quite sure why that might be, though it concerns me that this is the case.
They looked like
Thing 1 and Thing 2 tonight. And a full second apart on the dance moves. Proper, proper, PROPER crap.
It's a comedy routine isn't it? It's got to be?
Please, tell me it's a comedy routine.
They've murdered
a truly great pop song. In all seriousness, I think this track, and of course 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' approach genius in terms of their hook-laden structure.
Girls Aloud and Sugababes*? Meh.
*apart from Freak Like Me, but the appeal of that is 90% Numan.
They are extraordinarily strange
In the intro film they complained that one of the comments last week was that they couldn't sing, and likened this to saying 'that George Best couldn't play football.'
So bad
it's brilliant! At risk of being shot down, Cowells three singers tonight were very good. To clarify, they were very good for Saturday night telly, which is what it is, no more, no less!
No need to be apologetic
Jamie Afro to win!
Not that I'll spend any money voting, but y'know...
I worry about...
.. well, stuff
Worry no more
everything is ok, it's only telly.
I've stumbled into
my own personal hell where the only entertainment I can get (forget books) is British Saturday night telly.
Death is not the end.
even worse
"British Saturday night telly." - at one remove!
Try spending 5 months in Italy...
Saturday night TV there makes 'X Factor' and 'Strictly Come Dancing' seem like 'Civilization' and 'The Ascent of Man'.
Word equilibrium is restored
Relax everyone - here's another performance of the same song to make everything ok again.
Good
but it doesn't compare to the towering majesty of the original, particularly when the track resumes at around 3.09 after the daft spoken interlude:
Type O Negative
I have a version of some guys doing "Hit Me Baby" in a TON stylee, it's actually very good and I say that as a Type O fanboi.
I'm not taking the mick about these tracks
I genuinely think they represent, just from a purely song construction / production point of view, some kind of genius.
It's like the best of Abba - SOS perhaps, or Knowing Me, Knowing You*. Even as part of me is aware of the craft or trickery behind it it's impossible not to be carried along with it.
*e.g. the way the harmonies soar on 'breaking up is never easy I know...'.
NO
I'd rather eat the inside of my own head with a rusty spoon than watch that again
new
Is Whitney Houston's bodygaurd Frank Butcher? As a painter I think his hair could do with another coat of gloss.
Have just watched the twins. Brillant,thats the funniest thing I have seen on that since I started watching. Its a family thing in our house and I actually enjoy now.
Its one of the few things we can all watch together.
This year's McDonald Brothers
but with added gimpy dancing.
They do make it entertaining though, along with Stacy. I reckon the three of them are actors.
I think you may be right
Since someone else pointed out that Stacy is a female Frank Spencer clone I can't stop laughing whenever she is interviewed. And as to J and E's spoken bit in their slot, I nearly snorted a very good Malbec up my nose as I rolled on the floor.