Olly: I don't get enough credit
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/s103/the-x-factor/news/a489993/olly-murs-id-get-more-recognition-if-i-didnt-come-from-x-factor.html
I like Olly, but that doesn't come across in a good way
Would he have even found fame without the X Factor :eek:
He expressed his belief that he would be considered more credible had he not found fame in The X Factor.
He told Fabulous magazine: "My fans are incredible, but the media and the industry don't give me enough credit because I'm from The X Factor."
He added: "As long as the fan base is growing, eventually the media and the industry will have to realise who I am.
I like Olly, but that doesn't come across in a good way
Would he have even found fame without the X Factor :eek:
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I don't think he meant it that way, but he needs to be careful because anyone who doesn't like him will be irked by this type of thing. He sounds like he is taking himself a bit too seriously... I'm not sure that people like that when it comes to pop stars.
Good for him that he is successfull & has many fans, he should enjoy that instead of running after some sort of ellusive recognition. He is setting himself up for disapointment, especially now that he has said he is craving for it.
A friend of a work colleague accidentally bumped into him in a pub and he asked her 'do you know who I am?'. He obviously has issues with recognition.
I'd say that title goes to One Direction by quite a large margin.
And by and large, the media are very good to him. There are a few people who take the piss out of him but the majority of stories you read about him are positive. I expect the main thing he's cut up about is that he doesn't receive artistic recognition from music critics, but the artists who have both commercial and critical success are very rare, and I'm willing to bet that if he had a choice for his next album - critical respect but fewer sales, or the usual reviews and the usual high sales, he'd go for the latter every time.
Leona rivals them based on her first album which is the most successful album from an X Factor contestant anywhere in the world.. Olly probably isn't even third.
Exactly. I'm not sure whether Olly would have even found fame without The X Factor, in all honesty I don't think he would be this big if it weren't for the publicity he gained by being on The X Factor in the first place.
I really can't see any longevity for him in music, once his 'sound' is no longer current, he'll be gone. He's made plenty of money though, so he can't grumble.
The public voted for him to go in week 7 didn't they? If he had gone, he wouldn't have had the opportunities he's had because he ended up the runner up, I suspect.
Well obviously he can.....for England:rolleyes:
~This. and he has said this too often to be saying he has been misquoted
No one will ever match them so I dont class them as x factor contestants .
Ok I admit I forgot about those boys
My bedroom, preferably
that's quite an exact figure, lolz!! can i tag along next time you use the tape measure?
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wutt, mate? :eek:
you won't be recognised-- not get any recognition-- without XF... period!!!! lolz!! :sleep: :sleep:
I agree with this.
The dude gets played over the radio, TV a lot. is that not some sort of recognition??
He should be greateful. Like you mentioned, many artists do not have the support of radio or tv and they struggle to break the top 40.
Olly is perfectly respectful of his roots. He hasn't said anything against the XF. So I don't what you all are talking about in terms of him being disrespectful to the platform which gave him his career.
And also it's a fact that many in the music industry loathe talent show contestants. They're the arrogant ones. Look at Leona - somebody with outrageous vocal talent. And the one year she was so successful, she got nominated for 4 Brit Awards. Did she win any? No. Because the music industry is conceited and arrogant and think of themselves as above the common people and talent show contestants.
It's not Olly's who's conceited, it's the music industry's attitude towards talent show contestants. Anyone who can't see this is naive. Olly is perfectly right.
But Olly doesn't acknowledge other talent show contestants having a problem with the media, just 'Me, Me, Me' :rolleyes:
He has had a very lucky start compared to others trying to make it in the industry. Because of XF he's had a huge budget spent on him by a leading management & record company, He also has continued his high profile by being on the XF spin-off programme. Doe she honestly think he's have had a hope in hell of replicating this success without that launch pad?
I think his music is absolute S*** BTW