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    Well, looks like Robin Thicke or Icona Pop so I'm satisfied. "Bang Bang" is the best thing I've heard from will.i.am in ages as well so it's only really "Walks Like Rihanna" sullying a decent top 5.

     

    EDIT: I thought Passenger was #5 rather than Naughty Boy. Don't get "La La La" at all.

    This is why I loathe headlines. 'We won't reverse cuts in 2015' is massively different from 'We won't borrow to reverse current (as opposed to capital) spending cuts, and will only fund them from cuts elsewhere or raising extra revenue'. The latter is what he actually said, as the story makes clear, and even fits in with the 'cut military spending/tax the rich!' solutions so beloved by the people who'll be claiming they'll leave the party if we go through with it.

     

    As it goes, that's the kind of exercise in subtlety I'm quite happy to see from Ed - he's being directly honest in saying he won't pay for reversing current spending cuts on the national credit card (but that we can borrow for capital projects, which makes perfect economic sense). Good. That's the exact message we should be putting out. If we're going to reverse cuts (and there's no problem with that), they need to be funded from somewhere - and if anything he's just laying the ground for the inevitable tax rises that are going to come in the next parliament, either from the Tories or from Labour.

    So why aren't you voting for him?

    One of the reasons to hate headlines being that people often don't read beyond them - Ed surely knows this, and regardless of the merits of what he was actually saying he must have realised that it was going to be misconstrued as "we won't do anything different".

     

    Subtlety is fine, and I agree that we can't be seen saying anything too radical on certain topics (you can imagine I'm popular in Sheffield with that one), but the approach suggested by that headline is plain unpopular on the doorstep and we need to be both clearer and more canny with the media.

    That's why I said "not many". :lol: I'm doing media at uni, so we've had lots of lectures about illegal downloading and Napster and all that kind of stuff. I can show you the lecture slides if you don't believe me, but there's honestly not many people that do both. Most people that legally download don't illegally download a song here and there.

    It's widely accepted that illegal downloading isn't killing the music industry because people who illegally download also invest in music ie. buying songs and albums as well, so I'd question the intentions of your lecturer.

    Bugger.

     

    He was by far the second best for me - Mike is a bit bland and Andrea was completely overwhelmed tonight. Didn't think she did "My Immortal" particularly well.

     

    The Beeb clearly wanted Matt or Leah to win as well - at least they should still get their way :lol:

    Also, just because Walks Like Rihanna has been hammered does't necessarily mean it'll open well (though that has been the rule this year, any song hammered by radio, regardless of quality, has smashed ...). Look at the Wanted's discography sales and then listen to the uh quality of Rihanna. It'll open around 50-60,000 for a low top 5/ no.6 place.

    Surely even you aren't idiotic enough to ignore the link between pre-release airplay and opening sales. It would be catastrophic for them to open on anything less than 70k, and I don't but the whole "well they barely ever sell any more" (hi What About Us)

    The Wanted have been so hammered on radio that, despite it being terrible, I expect Walks Like Rihanna to open with about 100k. Hopefully that won't be enough, I'd expect them to be #1 on the first mids though.

     

    I'm so glad that Can't Hold Us was a bona fide hit since it looks like it'll set Same Love up really well. Macklemore's album sales will look miniscule compared to his single sales towards the end of the year - although SL will probably boost it more than the other two singles anyway so maybe no more than they do now.

    Then again I guess the more recent trend of simplistic music videos is a lot to do with the recession. With everyone struggling the world over, it would be highly frowned upon if some a-list star spent millions on a music video so a lot of them are very low key now, or you get one decent video per era, usually for the lead single.

    I'd like to think that the "I'm On A Boat" video put off a lot from doing anything extravagant as well, but probably not.

    Six year contract is promising if he manages to stay fit, I'm assuming there's a relegation fee clause of £8-10 million in there somewhere.

     

    Did anyone see anything of Real Betis last season? We got their keeper Adrían on a free after they let his contract expire, I'm wondering whether they didn't offer him a new one until it was too late and he wanted out because he wasn't first choice at the start of the season.

    Yeezus released next week apparently, so Kodaline for #1 after all. Not especially pleased, "All I Want" had a nice video and "High Hopes" was decent but I don't like "Love Like This" at all. They seem like the whole credible folk-pop version of The Hoosiers, which hopefully means we won't be seeing many more banjos in the future.

    The German team getting to the final in 2002 was stunningly lucky (as shown by crashing out in 2004), they had the best keeper in the competition in Kahn and Ballack was fantastic but otherwise they were dull as. Could have lost to Ireland, should have lost to the US. Saying that, it could have easily been England. We were no better and yet probably would have won if we'd beaten Brazil.

    I'd say even with no single Kanye has to be favourite over Kodaline. Look at how Watch the Throne did even before "Niggas In Paris" took off - he's very much back in the public consciousness after that, Cruel Summer and his other half.

     

    A really harsh comment to make, like said above. Also, during a national emergency when everyone was looking to the president for guidance, he goes and says that, potentially undermining confidence. It took the attention from the victims and put it on Kanye West. It's a sweeping statement that doesn't even try to be an accute analysis of the events.

    Baa.

    Doesn't he wear fur and gloat about wearing it?

     

    Remember what he said about George Bush and Katrina.

     

    Remember the Grammies.

     

    Nah, even if I found his music tolerable (I don't, except Golddigger), I couldn't get past his odious personality.

     

    And lyrics, in their most fundamental form, are about conveying a message. And any man who makes comments like him is not a man I'd want to listen to.

    What exactly was wrong about what he said on Katrina and Bush?

    I think Kanye is talented but he is nowhere near as talented as he thinks he is. There are so many better rappers and Hip-Hop artists out there who seem a lot more humble than he is. Andre 3000, Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar to name a few.

    He's an inferior rapper to all three, but he's also produced most of Jay-Z's decent material in the last 12 years. That's where his strength lies, and on his own albums he can tailor his production to suit his own (fairly limited at times) rapping.