I hope it's a massive success but due to the horrible album campaign she's had so far I reckon Top20.

For a few years now it has started to tell the truth. Also, remember that The Sun were quoting her instead of using that cynical "a source said..." :D

 

Maybe the LJ was an exaggeration but if Boots can't get into the top 30 contestants of the Pop Idol year where there were the likes of Gareth and Darius then i don't really rate her as well.

 

Good luck trying finding one Liverpool supporter who will believe you. From Hillsborough to the Steven Gerrard court case some things stay the same. ;)

 

Besides as you are probably fully aware Little Boots refuted that she made those comments about Leona Lewis on her website and Myspace page.

 

I guess that is her problem in that she is the new Cathy Dennis, she is clearly a very talented musician and songwriter, but her personality is as bland as her vocals as she always come across as a normal person and not a larger than life popstar. As she is not as opinionated as the likes of Lily Allen and Elly Jackson (La Roux) or as engagingly barking as Florence Welch (+ The Machine) or Lady GaGa.

Her too. I am pretty sure Boots was criticising Leona Lewis or Alexandra Burke (someone from the X Factor anyway) and everyone (me included) was calling her a hypocrite as she herself auditioned for Pop Idol and failed to get far into the competition.

 

Judging by that, she seems like a bitter little person to me and, let's face it, her voice is nowhere near Leona's (even Leon Jackson's come to think of it :lol: )

 

One. If you think appearing on the "musical cancer" © Sir Paul McCartney that is Pop Idol/X-Factor is a good thing then I find that incredibly depresing.

 

Secondly how the f*** can you say this:

 

Little Boots - Meddle (Later with Jools Holland)

 

is worse than this:

 

Leon Jackson - When You Believe (Live on GMTV)

 

Is quite frankly staggering.

 

The very fact that Leon Jackson won X-Factor with those vocals is proof what a complete farce that programme is, and why the likes of Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Pete Townsend, Ray Davies, Kate Bush, Paul Weller, Morrissey, etc refuse to allow their songs to be covered on that ghastly show that is destroying pop music turning it from an art-form / pop culture into a commodity with as much credibility as a supermarket brand of baked beans.

 

thisispop - i even said i was exaggerfating about the LJ comparison. ;)

 

I don't really see how appearing on The X Factor and thinking it's a good platform is depressing. In fact, the thing i find depressing is people getting on their high horse thinking that doing things the conventional way makes them a better musician (for example).

 

The ignorant people assume that going on The X Factor makes it far easier to get a record/management deal but actually makes it just as hard or even harder. Going through all of those processes to try and win the opportunity of becoming a recording artist must be at least quite draining. And if you don't get extremely far in the competition (not Top 6) then you lose credibility as a musician/performer as you are not seen as good enough.

 

I believe Little Boots has got more hype than she should have mainly because of the current domination of british female artists cracking the US and because of her stage name - which she might have taken to avoid stereotypes thinking "oh it's that reject from that sh*te reality show Pop Idol"

I actually think low top ten - it's getting a far more positive response than New in Town ever did and getting quite big on the gay scene. :lol:

It's quite surprising actually that Remedy is in the Ireland iTunes top 20 and only no.65 in the UK iTunes.

Don't give up yet guys! It's getting lots of airplay and I've heard people singing it at work (always a sign of an up-coming hit). It's also starting to pick up the pace in climbs. It was at around 150 last week and it's now in the 60s. There's still three more weeks until release too! ;)

Now i'm just SO disappointed with Little Boots.

How can anyone so brutally set such portentously exotic, dream-like cover arts against such ground level, unambitious tunes?

 

number 23 is the place this deserves.

 

thisispop - i even said i was exaggerfating about the LJ comparison. ;)

 

I don't really see how appearing on The X Factor and thinking it's a good platform is depressing. In fact, the thing i find depressing is people getting on their high horse thinking that doing things the conventional way makes them a better musician (for example).

 

The ignorant people assume that going on The X Factor makes it far easier to get a record/management deal but actually makes it just as hard or even harder. Going through all of those processes to try and win the opportunity of becoming a recording artist must be at least quite draining. And if you don't get extremely far in the competition (not Top 6) then you lose credibility as a musician/performer as you are not seen as good enough.

 

I believe Little Boots has got more hype than she should have mainly because of the current domination of british female artists cracking the US and because of her stage name - which she might have taken to avoid stereotypes thinking "oh it's that reject from that sh*te reality show Pop Idol"

 

If you think appearing on Pop Idol & X-Factor is a very important thing then you are quite frankly an idiot.

 

And I am being very, very kind.

 

It is mind numbingly obvious as can be evidenced by the BAFTA award winning BBC4 documentary Pop Britannia that first Pete Waterman (Stock Aitken & Waterman productions) and latterly Louis Walsh (Boyzone & Westlife) & Simon Cowell (Robson & Jerome, Sonia, Five, Westlife, Ultimate Kaos, World Wrestling Federation, Teletubbies, Zig and Zag and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) have done much to destroy the credibility and reputation of the British music industry built up since the Beatles and the British Invasion of the 1960s.

 

For starter the Beatles appeared at auditions for the TV equivalent of X-Factor at the time Opportunity Knocks, and failed to get through to the TV stages. Does that mean they are sh*te?

 

Likewise, the likes of David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Slade, Rod Stewart, Gilbert O'Sullivan & Leo Sayer all auditioned and failed to get on to that show long before they became famous. Using your logic then that makes them sh*te, does it?

 

Obviously they were not as talented as Bonnie Langford, Bobby Crush, Neil Reid, Peters and Lee, Lena Zavaroni, Gerry Monroe, Our Kid, Sweet Sensation, Tammy Jones, Champagne and Tony Monopoly does it. :lol:

 

Coming up to date you are aware the winner of Fame Academy 2 Alexs Parks auditioned for Pop Idol and never made it through, obviously that means she is sh*te then.

 

However the likes of Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding, a member of One True Voice, Ben Mills (3rd in XF3) and a handful of other X-Factor final 12 contestants auditioned for Fame Academy and failed to get through to the TV stages.

 

Similarly Rhydian Roberts & Eoghan Quigg both auditioned and failed to get past the final 24 stage of a couple of different BBC1 Andrew Lloyd Webber talent shows, does that they mean they are sh*te?

 

Hell even last years ringer winner Alexandra Burke auditioned and was knocked out in the Final 24 stages of an earlier series of X-Factor, does that mean she is sh*te?

 

I short shows like X-Factor are for the basest, most lowest common denominator audience with about as much artistic value as a supermarket own brand of baked beans as it is little more than glorified Karaoke.

 

For the sort of audience who regard the greatest Irish band of all time to be Westlife and not U2. Or who listen to the Chris Moyles Show and zombiefied go out and download a copy of Mysterious Girl, Honey To The Bee or I Made It Through The Rain because that Radio 1 DJ told them to.

 

As it is all about mass produce, high record sales and not about making something great, innovative and new that will last for 20/30/40/50 years. Because if the winning act fails to sell, there will be another load of fame hungry wannabes around 12 months later.

it deserves number 1 for sure...

Little Boots is the new Kylie Minogue...

but i think it will go top 15....