December 14, 20222 yr If this hits no1 will this be the first time since 1988-90 we have had two years in a row when a Christmas song has got to the top spot on Xmas chart week?
December 16, 20222 yr The worst one yet, absolutely awful with some autotune added in for their 'singing'??
December 16, 20222 yr It's a little too on the nose for me lyrically. Some charity singles can be brilliant, or fun, but I think as the public we should be able to be trusted to have a laugh along with them without being constantly parroted about the cause and why they're doing it in every line of the song. We get it - we're all living through it and we know why they do it, they've had the last four Christmas number ones supporting the same charity! So lines like 'the nation's skint and they're underpaid', 'people can't afford the bills', 'charity's really coming home', 'tonight we're reaching out and helping you' etc just actually feel depressing compared to their last four efforts, which - although not good to me - I could see how they were entertaining and uplifiting. Not sure, it feels like 'fun' through gritted teeth, whereas the other four actually felt like they were having a good time making them. Maybe it was done with this tone to suit the current public mood, and obviously harking back to the original Band Aid cause - that was a very serious song and needed to be. But this isn't what I expected at all. I did laugh at the 'Pray for a sausage roll' randomly popping in among the doom and gloom though! Also Martin Lewis sings better than I expected! Edited December 16, 20222 yr by gooddelta
December 16, 20222 yr It's like an even less sincere and self-aware 'Heal The World', and that doesn't even seem as cheesy in comparison to this.
December 16, 20222 yr Doesn’t sound vocally as bad as some of the others. Still a pile of garbage and I’m sorry but they just come across as fame hungry people. I really hope it doesn’t get the #1 but it’s a forgone conclusion….
December 16, 20222 yr It's a little too on the nose for me lyrically. Some charity singles can be brilliant, or fun, but I think as the public we should be able to be trusted to have a laugh along with them without being constantly parroted about the cause and why they're doing it in every line of the song. We get it - we're all living through it and we know why they do it, they've had the last four Christmas number ones supporting the same charity! So lines like 'the nation's skint and they're underpaid', 'people can't afford the bills', 'charity's really coming home', 'tonight we're reaching out and helping you' etc just actually feel depressing compared to their last four efforts, which - although not good to me - I could see how they were entertaining and uplifiting. Not sure, it feels like 'fun' through gritted teeth, whereas the other four actually felt like they were having a good time making them. Maybe it was done with this tone to suit the current public mood, and obviously harking back to the original Band Aid cause - that was a very serious song and needed to be. But this isn't what I expected at all. I did laugh at the 'Pray for a sausage roll' randomly popping in among the doom and gloom though! Also Martin Lewis sings better than I expected! It's noticeable how the longer these have gone on, the more the Sausage Rolls thing has kind of stopped and it's more become more of a Saviour complex, I mean if people weren't convinced in the past it's gone to his head and it's a massive ego trip, I don't know what to tell you now! Vocally, it's actually not horrendous I guess thanks to autotune, but in every other way, it's quite sickening - a millionaire patting himself on the back for doing his one good dead before doing naff all to help the situation for the rest of the year. I always at least could respect the fun they were all having, but it seems really lacking from this. Also, we all know this remake of Do They Know It's Christmas will never be topped (albeit an artifact of its time now): xjG_VB-la7o
December 16, 20222 yr It's like an even less sincere and self-aware 'Heal The World' Don't give him ideas for next year's song! :manson:
December 17, 20222 yr im not streaming or listening anywhere. i don't want to contribute sales to this shite. i'll give it a full listen after the xmas chart is published lol
December 17, 20222 yr You'd wish the public would see through this shit. Just support another song and ask people to donate to that instead ugh lmao.
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