September 21, 200915 yr Author :o Surely the best single cover ever!!!! :o :w00t: :w00t: :wub: Absolutely :wub:
September 22, 200915 yr Love the single cover :dance: http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/97/l_66dbc662b4c04816802728a07ee2a64d.jpg
September 22, 200915 yr From Twitter alert fromm TPS popjustice: The new Will Young single is quite good as well I agree with TPS for them to like it it has to be upbeat. & there's this reply. smyjamie: @popjustice Is this the much-anticipated jazz-rave fusion Will Young single? 9 minutes ago from TweetDeck
September 22, 200915 yr Popjustice Good things about the new Will Young single sleeve Story filed Tuesday, 22 September 2009 http://www.popjustice.com/images/stories/j/willyounghopes.jpg 1. It looks like a picture of very small little person tied to a piano leg. 2. It includes an ampersand rather than an 'and'. 3. They look like quite nice shoes. 4. Will Young's in it. 5. Er... 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Well that went well. http://www.popjustice.com/
September 22, 200915 yr More from the popjustice homepage Good things about the new Will Young single Story filed Tuesday, 22 September 2009 1. 'Hopes & Fears' sounds a bit like two different Eurythmics songs plus bits of Laughing Girl Lennox solo tune 'Little Bird', except with a man singing. 2. It's upbeat in the BPM stakes but lyrically it is a 'mature relationship' song and is not, for example, an excitable jumping-up-and-down ditty of teenage romance. It's a very sober sort of pop tune. It begins with Will saying "look at what you do to me, I don't know who I'm becoming, baby looks like you're no good, you don't take care of me like you should", while the chorus notes that "hopes and (hopes and) fears bring us all to tears, baby this'll tear us apart, I don't even know what you want". 3. It is three minutes and forty seven seconds in length. That's seventeen seconds longer than the optimum length of a decent pop tune but the last seventeen seconds is just adlibs so you could probably fade it early if you wanted. Which would be a shame, because then there would be a fade instead of... 4. ...the song's abrupt end. 5. It works as well a single aimed at flogging copies of Will's Greatest Hits but it doesn't really sound like anything else on the Greatest Hits, so it's one of those looking-back-while-looking-forward jobs. 6. There are some amazing bursts of MANSINGING late on in the song in which Will's voice goes all deep and commanding and blokey. 7. It is not jazz and it is not overly serious and/or muso. Nor is it stupid. It's all very 'on brand' for Will Young ie "here I am singing a song about serious relationship issues, oh hang on I appear to be riding a horse/going for a swim/pretending to be John Noakes in a video" etc. Very charming and warm and approachable and all the usual Will Young things. 8. There's a "let go let go let go" middle eight where loads of the song drops out and then it all comes back in again. 9. If it hasn't already, it's destined to cause a small explosion at a Radio Two playlist meeting. 10. And that's your lot. So excited by this, popjustice used to always give Will a mention when he had a new single out ...but the site as hardly mentioned him in the last couple of years......so can't wait to hear it. :yahoo: Edited September 22, 200915 yr by Sunday
September 22, 200915 yr Author Fabulous - thanks sunday - really can't wait for this :yahoo: :cheer: :dance: 6. There are some amazing bursts of MANSINGING late on in the song in which Will's voice goes all deep and commanding and blokey. Bring it on :wub: :wub:
September 22, 200915 yr Cheers Sunday. Great to have impressions filtering through. :D Sounds like this is the single we've been waiting for. :cheer: Thrilled that Popjustice like it & can't wait to hear it. :dance:
September 23, 200915 yr Clip of the new track. :dance: :yahoo: 'Hopes & Fears' By Will Young 'Hopes & Fears' is a grown up pop song about RELATIONSHIP WOES. It's hard to pinpoint exactly where it will fit in the pre-Christmas bunfight - despite being an upbeat number it's almost too fragile for such unsavoury scenes - but it's a great tune which sounds like Will's best bits without sounding like a repeat of Will's best bits. The clip you are about to hear is the bit coming out of the middle eight breakdown bit, so it's a little bit adlibby and all over the show compared with a 'proper' chorus but it's our favourite bit because it contains Will's mansinging and it's good to hear him doing that. He's got a lovely voice, hasn't he? http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option...&Itemid=279 Loving what I'm hearing from the clip. :cheer: Great comments from Popjustice. :D
September 23, 200915 yr Author Thanks T - definitely moving forward to his next phase - sounds great from that little snippet - hope the rest is like that. :yahoo: Loving the comments on PJ - they haven't mentioned him for years :dance:
September 23, 200915 yr Thanks for the text TT :friends: It's only a clip but i have to say i am loving it so far :yahoo:
September 23, 200915 yr O/S update Hopes & Fears is Song Of The Day on Popjustice! Wednesday 23 September 2009 Will has been going down a storm on influential pop blog Popjustice lately, as he draws plaudits for both some brilliant artwork design for 'The Hits' and for brand new single 'Hopes & Fears'! Popjustice notes that during the new track there "are some amazing bursts of MANSINGING" and describes the song as "very charming and warm and approachable and all the usual Will Young things.". Hopes & Fears has also been chosen to be today's 'Song Of The Day' on Popjustice, and you can listen to a never-before-heard clip now, right here. Hopes & Fears will be released on the 8th of November, and is also included on Will's forthcoming album 'The Hits', which you can pre-order here.
September 23, 200915 yr Thanks for the OS update Sunday. They sound chuffed with the Popjustice response. :yahoo: Wonder when they are going to let us hear more? :unsure: :dance:
September 23, 200915 yr Thanks for the OS update Sunday. They sound chuffed with the Popjustice response. :yahoo: Wonder when they are going to let us hear more? :unsure: :dance: I want to hear it now :angry: :P
September 23, 200915 yr I want to hear it now :angry: :P Paitence is a virtue. :lol: Perhaps it will be tomorrow's OS treat, then Friday they can give us stills from the video. :w00t: Edited September 24, 200915 yr by truly talented
September 23, 200915 yr Author I'm loving it that we have no idea of the song beforehand and will have it and the video together. None of this - oh the video doesn't fit the song :lol:
September 23, 200915 yr I'm loving it that we have no idea of the song beforehand and will have it and the video together. None of this - oh the video doesn't fit the song :lol: Maybe it's intentional. The griping must get a bit wearing. :rolleyes:
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