August 3, 200717 yr Seems Louis W and Simon C are panicing a bit here. Announce a single release and date, put together a video, release to radio stations, book loads of promo interviews etc - THEN - decide it's all not going very well. Damage limitation kicks in - 'I know, let's not release that song after all - we'll call it double A CD - but really, we can see the original song isn't going down well - radio stations aren't playing it. Right - let's try a different track and see how that goes - we'll put the release back a month to prepare.' Wierd - never heard anything like that before :huh: LW is determined for Shayne not to flop - but is he flogging a dead horse? You Decide :P
August 3, 200717 yr I love If Thats Okay wonder why they think itll do bad? Wait, has Radio one playlisted yet?
August 4, 200717 yr taken from an interview with shayne this week ....so glad he is kept so well informed by LW and SC :o IS THERE ANY TRUTH IN THE RUMOURS THAT LOUIS WALSH AND SIMON COWELL WEREN'T HAPPY WITH YOUR NEW SINGLE 'IF THAT'S OK WITH YOU' AND WANTED YOU TO MAKE IT A DOUBLE-A SIDE? Not at all. Me, Louis and Simon love the song and the album. Everyone loves it and I've had some really good feedback. I'm going be releasing the song as it is. I'm still recording for the album but the single won't be a double A-side. press release yesterday :lol: Shayne will be revealing new material exclusively on Key103's Monday morning breakfast show. He'll be chatting to host Mike Toolan in a live phone-in before introducing his new song, 'No U Hang Up', which will feature alongside 'If That's OK With You' as a double A-side, released on 24th September. You'll be boogying in your dressing gown and slippers when you hear it!
August 4, 200717 yr Author taken from an interview with shayne this week ....so glad he is kept so well informed by LW and SC :o press release yesterday :lol: Don't you just admire a man so in control of his career. :lol:
August 4, 200717 yr Author If I hear this song on the radio once more I will scream. <_< Your in the wrong country. No Louis radio influence over here
August 5, 200717 yr i hope it does well, even though i dont love the song, but i think that there might be some good songs on the album, plus i do think he has talent. i think it will go top 10, but they will need to push hard for anything top 3 i think
August 5, 200717 yr To be honest I really like this song and it is doing alright on airplay and videoplay and due to him performing on The X Factor, it will be big and to be honest, I do now feel it will go at least top 3.
August 5, 200717 yr Bertie87 has posted the charts in Chat. the song is not in the top 50 for radio and in the TV charts has gone from 9 to 11. it's not doing well at all.
August 6, 200717 yr Author Shouldn't No U Hang Up be released by now? Its out in 3 weeks lol The double A side isn't out till Sept 24th.
August 15, 200717 yr Radio 1 Review :lol: Shayne Ward - 'If That's OK With You' Fraser M 13 Aug 07, 09:30 AM It's always quite annoying when you thought you were finally rid of something, only for it to pop right back up in your face when you least expect it. Like when you've spent the past ten minutes washing a saucepan and you think you've managed to scrape last night's dinner off the bottom until you look at it from a slightly different angle and you realise you've got at least another five minutes in the company of your scouring pad ahead of you. That's pretty much how I felt about the return of Shayne Ward - that sigh of knowing you've got to plug away in the face of something inoffensive but generally unwelcome, just when you thought you could go and put your feet up in front of Hollyoaks. The easy criticism that gets flung at all reality show graduates is that their songs, usually chosen before anyone actually knows who's going to win, are generic and bland, sticking to drippy ballads that appeal to the lowest common denominator for maximum profit. I knew that Louis Walsh had been crowing for some time about Shayne's "new sound" that he was going to come back with, but even so I was floored by this: a transparent Akon ripoff, Shayne? Are you sure about that? Are you absolutely sure those ridiculously transposed 'harmonies' were a good idea? Should I assume that it's only due to a printing error at your record label that this song isn't billed "Shayne Ward, featuring Alvin, Simon and Theodore"? Imagine, if you will, 'No Promises'. Now imagine that all the weepy-balladness gets stripped away from it and it gets turned into the most anaemic-sounding R&B that you could possibly think of, while remaining every bit as wet as the original. (Sample lyric: "I'm gonna wanna hold you in my arms when you cry / If that's OK with you". Come on, Shayne. You don't need permission to do EVERYTHING. Grow a pair, would you?) Add in the aforementioned chipmunk effects, and congratulations: you've got 'If That's OK With You'. So much for a sonic revolution. I'm not going to say that I'm not slightly impressed by the attempt to steer away from the sub-Westlife crooning, but if you're going to take a new direction, at least commit to it. Everything about this song screams "will this do?", with the half-arsed production being the worst culprit. To top it all off, this song has some of the worst lyrical howlers I've heard since Kelly Rowland's grammar-baiting 'Stole'. "I love the way that you look without your make-up / I had a girl before we met, but we broke up"? That's not even a rhyme, for Cowell's sake. And I have a three-year-old niece who finds that lyric far too simplistic. Even worse: "I wanna saint your mother just for giving you birth." First of all, "saint" is not a verb, Shayne. The word you want is "sanctify", or possibly "consecrate" or "canonise". And "giving you birth"? Stop! No more! Uncle! Of course, since the video was shot by a pool and Shayne is of course lyk so buff omg lolz (I don't see it myself, but everyone on YouTube assures me that I am wrong), it probably doesn't matter what I say; I'm sure this will sell by the truckload. But it's still an embarrassingly misfiring attempt to be current/relevant/cool. I'll give Shayne points for effort, but he'd probably be better off as the one-man Westlife after all.
August 15, 200717 yr Author Thanks BYM+M's. :lol: No wonder Louis feels he needs to lash out at much more talented artists if this is radio 1's opinion of his beloved Shayney. :lol: Edited August 15, 200717 yr by truly talented
August 24, 200717 yr I don't care that much about the album. GA's album won't be as huge as the GH last year, and Shayne's album is gonna flop anyway lol Wat u mean its gona flop??? :angry: :angry: :angry: Shaynes d best singer eva!! n hes goin straight to number 1!!! n hes gona do way beta dan GA!!! Get ur facts rite!! Coz shayne has amazing fans n wer gna get him to number 1!!! :D :heart: :rolleyes: :cheer: :wub: N hes d sexist man alive!! :wub: :P
August 24, 200717 yr The double A side isn't out till Sept 24th. That's precisely a month; 4 weeks and no sign of the single is beyond worrying.
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