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British X Factor Reject Wins French Version
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http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201009116020894
"Matthew Raymond-Barker, from Mitcham in Surrey, came out on top in Tuesday's final in front of millions of television viewers."
"Matthew Raymond-Barker, from Mitcham in Surrey, came out on top in Tuesday's final in front of millions of television viewers."
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I did think Marina would win, but still pleased that he did win
Here he is winning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13956826
not really. i`m not being funny, he is very average. even he cant shed any light on his win!
Sorry, the point was that it was not as simple as having the best technical voice; "I'm not the best singer in the world, believe me, but I just try really hard". People voted for him because they could relate to his enthusiasm, honesty and general likeability as well as being able to sing a bit. It's no coincidence that the majority of candidates who were eliminated each week all said that they wanted to see him win. Anyway, he clearly has something about him to have won it and I wish him good luck for the future....
i can relate to that, to a degree. however, i just don't see any spark personally. an average voice with a nice personality. to make it in this industry you need a little more than that. look at our home grown winners that failed to set the charts alight!
i wish him well, all the same.
May be France will not dump on their Winner. Hopefully Matthew will get fair promotion. Or may be it is like UK XF and the runner up gets more support.
Good luck to him any way. At the very least his experience has gained him better fluency in French.
There is a slight backlash against him winning now in France. Some people have criticised his vocal ability and are saying that his emotions on the show (which made him popular) were fake. He seemed genuine to me and he's admitted that he's going to have to work hard and put out a decent album if he wants a career. On the other hand he's a self admitted big fan of the UK show, so maybe he's seen where a few tears and false modesty can get you.
that is a pretty low figure!
- Winner's song got to #94 in French charts.
- Two follow-up singles fail to make the charts.
- Rants on Twitter in autumn 2012 about Sony for giving his album a digital only release and says they never wanted him to win and have never supported him. Later apologises.
- Album released in November 2012 and sells around a 1,000 copies.
He did a TV interview recently in France where he said he had no choice but to move back to London and live in his parents' house as he had no money. He even had to pay to travel to the interview out of his own pocket. It's sad, I don't think a UK winner of the show has ever flopped so bad.
at my old posts, but none of this is much of a surprise to be honest. the majority of the uk winners have flopped, been dropped or underperformed to a certain extent and unfortunately the people that vote for these winners don't necessarily buy the subsequent music.
i felt that he was particularly weak in all honesty and it didn't surprise me that he failed at the first hurdle here in the uk. having said all that, the story is still sad and i do feel a bit disappointed for him.
:eek: what a loser... who even voted?
Basically, girls/young women who thought a British guy speaking French with a strong English accent was cute. To be fair, the show was a big flop and so he never had a big platform to launch a career anyway. Only about 2 million watched the final despite Beyonce and Bruno Mars giving performances.
The judges and the producers were also to blame. In the beginning the judges criticised him, but then he cried one week after one of them (rightly) pointed out he wasn't a very good singer. After that they were nice to him. Also, it was very close between him and the runner-up in the final voting and so the producers could have stopped him winning. If he was on the UK show, he would have got a backdrop with devil's eyes for his final performance and maybe a leaked story to the tabloids about him trying to strangle someone.
Anyway, I think this performance sums up what the problem was:
http://youtu.be/JaBnl5H4_kI
did you see the judge`s face at 1.24?:eek: she kind of summed up how i felt watching this again.:o