I love Perfect :( the mid-tempo demo version that leaked well before the re-release (in fact didn't that leak before Bad Boys even?) is way better though.

And Hallelujah is just amazing, my fave XF winning single for sure.

Yes it was indeed! I completely forgot it was before!

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10. Overcome
Average: 8,09
Voters
10.0: troylovesmusic, Regina, *Tim, Ryan., JosephStyles, jsilv, Liam
9.5: Adam92
9.0: AdamAloud, NickF1, J▼hnkm, Ultraviolence
8.0: Jonjo, Davidson, HausofKubrick
7.5: Draper
7.0: Acidburn, SceneofSixCrimes, Pippa
6.0: Jack500, Joe
4.0: Mr. Aly
2.0: Aprilconda



First things first, I'm the realest what are you thinking April? A 2? I love you, but this is unacceptable and appears to be an problem difficult to overcome in our relationship (:kink:)

More serious tho, with no 11's received this is only one of the 4 songs that received no 11's in the top 10.
The title track of Alexandra's debut multi platinum album ends at #10, a tremendous position and one I am very happy with. Overcome is one of Alexandra's best ballads along with The Silence and I didn't expect this to be top 10. Overcome leaked ahead of the debut of Bad Boys and people were loving it back then already, so maybe it wasn't too unexpected.

Edited October 4, 201410 yr by *Tim

only on buzzjack could 10 alexandra burke songs grab an average of 8.0 out of 10

only on buzzjack could 10 alexandra burke songs grab an average of 8.0 out of 10

Get your cameltoe out x

 

(Shoulda been at least 20 tho)

Overcome :wub: Always been a Burke fave of mine!

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09. Dumb
Average: 8,17
Voters
10.0: jsilv, JosepStyles, Nick F1, AdamAloud, Acidburn
9.5:Regina, Adam92
9.0: *Tim, troylovesmusic, J▼hnkm, Jack500
8.0: Liam, Ultraviolence, Jonjo, Draper
7.0: Ryan., Davidson, Pippa, Mr. Aly
6.0: HausofKubrick, Joe, Aprilconda
5.0: SceneofSixCrimes

Next up at #9 is one of the tracks on Overcome that immediately jumped out for me. The electronic up-tempo banger is loved by many, as shown in the votes received.
4 10's, 6 marks in the 9 region and the lowest ranking coming from nobody less than SceneofSixCrimes (did we really expect someone else here, he seems to hate all Alexandra's pop bops.)

I've always wanted this to be a single and I think I prefer it over Broken Heels *checks if I really do* Yes I do!.
Dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb Dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb Bye bye baby!
ICONIC (I'm smart Alex, pick me!)

Edited October 4, 201410 yr by *Tim

Dumb is FLAWLESS.

I wish hallelujah was higher- it is my favourite x-factor winning song and just such a beautiful song, I remember voting for her like 30 times in the final to win

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08. Start Without You (feat. Laza Morgan)
Average: 8,22
Voters
11.0: Pippa
10.0: Jack500, HausofKubrick, Ryan., jislv, Adam92, troylovesmusic, *Tim, AdamAloud, JosephStyles, Aprilconda, J▼hnkm
9.0: Ultraviolence, Nick F1
7.0: Joe, Liam, Regina, Draper, Acidburn
4.0: SceneofSixCrimes
2.0: Davidson
-1.0: Mr. Aly

Next up is Alexandra's third UK #1 single, Start Without You, which features flop rapper Laza Morgan.
The song reached #1 for 2 weeks, pushing down Olly Murs' Please Don't Let Me Go and blocking Katy's Teenage Dream from reaching the top spot.
It also became her fifth conscecutive top 5 hit in Ireland, as well as charting in the top 100 in The Netherlands (stan a bit), Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Balkan Queen tbh.

Start Without You first had a different video, from which footage has appeared on the world wide web, but Alex scrapped that one and decided to record a new, much worse one. The video basically shows her and a few muscular dudes working out in the gym and doing some weird ass dances. Great concept bish.

However the song itself remains rather flawless and sounds amazing in the sun and never fails to cheer me up. The infectious beat, Alexandra's vocals and even Laza's rap all sound amazing. Aly of course disagrees, cause he hates Alexandra's best songs as usual. His music taste is going downhill. Poor ha

Edited October 5, 201410 yr by *Tim

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07. Let It Go
Average: 8,30
Voters
11.0: Jack500
10.0: HausofKubrick, Ryan., jsilv, Mr. Aly
9.5: Adam92
9.0: troylovesmusic, *Tim, AdamAloud, JosephStyles, Joe, Liam, Regina
8.5: Jonjo
8.0: Aprilconda, Ultraviolence, Nick F1, Draper, Davidson
7.0: PippaJ▼hnkm
3.0: Acidburn
2.0: SceneofSixCrimes

Landing at #7, a lot higher that its acutal charting position, is the feel good anthem Let It Go.
Released as the second single of Heartbreak On Hold and follow-up to Elephant, this was completely shunned by radio, with no good reason.
Even her fans couldn't pull her through anymore. It charted at #33 in the UK and #41 in Ireland. The following week saw the horrendous charting of Heartbreak On Hold, which was the final nail in the Heartbreak On Hold coffin.

Let It Go's radio shun got Alex quite a lot of press, as she gave an interview with DigitalSpy, expressing her feelings about it.
It did not deserve this faith and neither was the radio shun justified. Radio 1 have had a vendetta against her and Capital was still pressed about the Elephant premier they missed out on.

Start Without You is iconic *_* Let It Go is pretty great too, can't believe it flopped so badly :cry: #pooralex

Also Let It Go went to #1 in Indonesia :magic:

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06. Elephant (feat. Erick Morillo)
Average: 8,37
Voters
10.0: Adam92, AdamAloud, Joe, Aprilconda, Draper, SceneofSixCrimes
9.0: Ryan., troylovesmusic, JosephStyles, Liam, Davidson
8.5: Jack500
8.0: HausofKubrick, jsilv, *Tim, Ultraviolence
7.5: Regina, Jonjo
7.0: Mr. Aly, Nick F1, Pippa
6.0: J▼hnkm
5.0: Acidburn

Just missing out on that top 5 spot is the first single from Alexandra's sophomore album, Elephant.
Produced by Erick Morillo and written by Alexandra herself and 5 others, Elephant was supposed to be a new step in Alexandra's career.
But things went the other way around, as Alexandra got slammed for the use of auto-tune and radio's refused to spin the song to death.
Alexandra first premiered the song in remix form, The Sympho Nympho remix to be precise, on Radio 1.
It was a pretty lowkey premier and the presenter even said it was Erick's new song, instead of Alexandra :drama:

Alexandra first teased the song by giving fans slight hints about Elephants. She had an Elephant cake, an Elephant necklace and she kept teasing the fans. A nightclub premier was supposed to take place in December, but that didn't happen and the release date was pushed back 2 weeks.

The official premier was meant to take place on Capital FM. However Alex's flop team send the song to radio stations ahead of it's premier, which resulted in some flop internet station premiering the song ahead of Capital, which then led to Capital cancelling the premier and shunning Alexandra's song from the airwaves.
The boss of Capital also made fun of the song on Twitter, which had angered fans.

But Elephant went well and charted at #3 and sold over 100k copies so far. It was nowhere near as big as it could've been, but we can thank Capital for that.
The song also went top 10 in Ireland, Malta and Bolivia, Top 20 in Slovakia, top 50 in Belgium (Flanders) and Croatia, as well as reaching #54 in The Czech Republic and #71 in Slovenia. True Queen of the Balcan Countries.

I still absolutely adore Elephant and play it regularly. It's the 2nd most played song in my iTunes library, followed by Let It Go :kink:
Altho I am not amused the bitch blocked Europe from watching the video on her VeVo and instead I have to watch it on some lowkey European record label called X Energy Records, their channel.

Which means this is our top 5

 

All Night Long (feat. Pitbull)

Bad Boys (feat. Flo Rida)

Before It Explodes (feat. Bruno Mars)

Broken Heels

The Silence

 

Should've voted and would've if I'd known more, 'Elephant' is her best song for me! Vocoder alert, yes. Still a top tune though, particularly the chorus/breakdown *.*

I really like elephant + start without you

 

I hope broken heels wins

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05. Before It Explodes (feat. Bruno Mars)
Average: 8,47
Voters
10.0: Adam92, Aprilconda, troylovesmusic, Liam, Jack500, *Tim, J▼hnkm, Acidburn
9.5: Jonjo
8.0: AdamAloud, Ryan., Regina, Mr. Aly
7.0: Joe, Davidson, Nick F1
6.0: Draper
4.0: SceneofSixCrimes

Next up at #5 is a slight suprise for me. The Bruno Mars-penned Before It Explodes was always a favourite amongst the fans, but I never expected this this high.
Obviously not everyone voting for it factored in its success as there were less people to bring its average down.

Before It Explodes features vocals from Bruno himself and leaked after the Overcome release by 2 German boys working at SyCo. I thank them for bringing me this tune.
It didn't make the cut in the first place (wot Simon?!) but apparantly Simon wanted it on the Deluxe Edition, but Bruno had already sold the song to Charice and refused to feature on it as he wanted to focus on his own career. Too bad Simon, you just wasted a massive oppurtunity.

I absolutely adore Alexandra's and Bruno's voices together. They blend so well and sound so strong together.
I fully believe this could've been a #1 for Alexandra had they included it on the Deluxe Edition and released it instead of The Silence.

The people who haven't heard the song yet, please educate yourself

Before It Explodes *.*

I am still baffled by how low Hallelujah is :mellow:

 

Elephant is probably too high for my liking, as much as i like it.

 

I don't think ive ever properly listened to Alexandra's Before It Explodes before but I do have Charice's version... but it is rather special isnt it *.*

 

The Silence for #1 please :wub:

First time hearing 'Before it Explodes'. It's actually very good :o but shocked it's done so well here, including over her CLASSICS.

 

Still love 'Let it Go' - even if it failed completely it's generic pop done very well, and i easily prefer it to 'Elephant'. 'Start Without You' is iconic too. Hated it at the time then i saw the LIGHT.

 

Wonderful top 4. 'Broken Heels' out next i presume...