July 28, 201014 yr I made my mind about disliking JLS due to cheesy songs, i will give The Wanted a chance as they don't seem like all the ohter lame boybands who sing cheesy songs to get girl fans. Anyway my point is that JLS had the X Factor to boost them up, which helped them achieve a number 1, whereas The Wanted are heading for a number 1 without anything like the X Factor. Exactly. Also, unlike JLS, The Wanted are anything but generic
August 2, 201014 yr Congratulations with #1. :) Their next single is apparently 'Heart Vacancy'. It's a nice little ballad but it's VEEERY typical for a boy-band so I'm quite disappointed. This is the youtube snippet: 29umJ6g8EzM There is also the song is full but it's not them singing there.
August 2, 201014 yr It's a shame they're releasing this next. I've heard a few of their songs and 'Lose My Mind' seemed like the obvious choice to me. An obvious crowd pleaser, and much better imo.
August 3, 201014 yr It is suprising the team that is behind this song when they have made some of the worst songs ever in the past.
August 6, 201014 yr According to HMV their album is released 18th October http://hmv.com/hmvweb/simpleMultiSearch.do...ring=The+Wanted & they have seperate album slipcases like JLS
August 6, 201014 yr I like the song ATLn but is it just me or do they all sound identical and have pathetic voices?
August 6, 201014 yr & they have seperate album slipcases like JLS What :mellow: I'm now more and more disappointed in 'The Wanted'. And how good was the start...
August 7, 201014 yr I am good friends with Jay. :heart: Like. Not even p*** taking. We text each other rather a lot. Muahahahaha. x x x
August 14, 201014 yr I made my mind about disliking JLS due to cheesy songs, i will give The Wanted a chance as they don't seem like all the ohter lame boybands who sing cheesy songs to get girl fans. Anyway my point is that JLS had the X Factor to boost them up, which helped them achieve a number 1, whereas The Wanted are heading for a number 1 without anything like the X Factor. I don't think the songs cheesyness (though it may be a boy band staple) have that much of an influence on attracting such a very specific group of teenage girls- given the never ending, GOD UNBELIEVABLE/AWFUL stream of tuneless, bland,. hook free dirges http://www.erasureforum.com/images/smilies/icon_yikes.gif with which Take That built such ( but still tellingly only from specifically the original demographic) popularity (and no surprise their absolute sh!t excuse for pop had an equally stunning lack of success in comparrison, outside the UK). The abomination of cynicism + integrity free PR that was M*Fly :nocheer: didn't have typical boy band music(?) well apart from being the usual same monstrous lame crap obviously.Regardless of whether their music is any good or not, as already mentioned in this thread, by complete coincidence, they just happen to have a massive pre/teen 100% female following - when is music appeal ever so divisive? Tonnes of freebies (AKA sexual/psychological manipulation) Its just random chance that ALL five adult men just happen to have the same "non - threatening" appearance most popular with their target demographic? The guys complaining about the groups appeal have to remember the group is tightly conceived/manufactured to appeal to a very specific psychological profile rather than a group where on average there is no such specific "type" of appeal, its naturally random. ......and now we have a new first in boyband cynicism level reached, in our current Victoria 'inane level OCD' Bullmiakham inspired/ X factor etc fuelled, fame for fame's sake, fame above all else (integrity, morals, compassion - screw them all, to get that shot of fame) culture. Sell your souls to the record company for that fame and use any and all means to take advantage of one of the most vulnerable groups of society - school girls with their impossible to ignore sexual/emotional fantasy drives being raked senseless over with endless intimations of the availability/personal caring romantic nature etc etc from ALL the boyband members at their career start.
August 14, 201014 yr Who's the gay one then? The irony! http://www.myemoticons.com/images/emotions/happy/too-funny-1.gif Reality mimicking a cheesy twink porn staple (well the bits that reality could actually mimic, anyway). Inane political correct aside, in practise can there be much life in such a 'concept' - any group 'friction' could end up making the cat fighting in girl group look like a pinic surely?
August 14, 201014 yr In regard to 'All Time Low' and 'Heart Vacancy'... is there not something peculiarly... 'mature' about the songs? "I'm in pieces/It seems like peace is/The only thing I'll never know", I don't know about you lot but I couldn't see JLS singing those lyrics, they'd rather whine about "glossy magazines"... great one, so you're saying she's completely fake and need airbrushing? I'm sure you're quite the charmer there, Aston. I don't get why people are making out that 'Heart Vacancy' is a typical boyband song for boybands to sing: to me, it doesn't seem very typical at all; a typical boyband song would be the kind that follows the formula Westlife have hard-wired into every song they did: 1) Four piano-chord introduction, usually in a desecnding, minor key 2) Some lyrics about heartbreak/love confusion 3) Cymbal into chorus/maybe a few harmonies 4) Drums kick in after first chorus 5) Big chorus 6) Relatively quiet middle 8/repeat of the opening lyrics 7) Gospel choir to back up another chorus/I fall asleep 8) every dies away slowly, leaving lead singer to drone on te opening lyrics again. Seeing The Wanted live, they are all very able vocalists - particularly Max and Nathan - and 'Heart Vacancy' is not typical - the lyrics are again very mature - rather than claiming something like "You only get one shot/So may it count/You might never get this moment again". "I hear your heart cry for love/But you act like there's no room/Room for me or anyone" is just far more mature sounding; the kind of thing you'd hear from Take That. The fact the song features a distorted violin, guitar, and still has element of electronic influences, without relying on a huge gospel choir to back it up, masses of diatonic strings and huge drums. Granted The Wanted only co-wrote 'Heart Vacancy' and they don't have any co-writing credits on 'All Time Low', but they do write their own songs, for instance - 'Behind Bars', which strikes me as a possible single is easily one of their best songs in my opinion.
August 15, 201014 yr I don't think they wrote very much of it as it was originally recorded by Leona Lewis under a slightly different name
August 15, 201014 yr They re-recorded the track and changed quite a few of the lyrics. They then worked with Guy Chambers to reproduce what was your typical boyband song that I described so eloquently above, and changed it into something a little more unique in terms of balladry. Believe it or not, The Wanted boys actually have a lot more say in the stuff they sing than many people think. But I will not defend the fact that 'All Time Low' was simply given to them by Ed Drewett (who, incidentally has a new single out in November - 'Champagne Lemonade'). Oddly, whilst I still like it - I see 'All Time Low' as one of their wekaer songs. I'll be interested to hear this 'Lose My Mind' David was talking about, because as of now, I have only heard four soungs from them - 'All Time Low', 'Heart Vacancy', 'Behind Bars', and 'Let's Get Ugly'. The latter three are all kinds of amazing.
August 26, 201014 yr @oddone - Given to them by Ed? Geffen bought the track off of him! The Wanted are 2010 manufactured tripe and nothing like Take That... they never will be.
August 26, 201014 yr @oddone - Given to them by Ed? Geffen bought the track off of him! The Wanted are 2010 manufactured tripe and nothing like Take That... they never will be. Same thing really. Either way it was written by Ed Drewett and bought by The Wanted/Geffen. It's a little obvious he didn't just say "Here you go".
August 26, 201014 yr Anyone else surprised how the single managed 4 weeks in the top 10?. It's not because i don't like them or the song. I just didn't expect it to be a huge hit for them.
August 26, 201014 yr This could possibly my favourite album released this year :wub: The Wanted are 2010 manufactured tripe and nothing like Take That... they never will be. Get your ears tested mate.
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