Alex - 1 Year break
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Just heard interview with Car Deeley on radio 2 - saying that they really want to do things properly with Alex and that she will probably take a year to meet producers get good dongs etc etc
Has anyone else heard this - a one year break is it true !!
Has anyone else heard this - a one year break is it true !!
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Good news - it is necessary.
I think she said she wanted to go back to Cornwall and write her songs for 6 months. Another big mistake. She can`t write structured songs.
Oh well.......time will tell.:rolleyes:
I didn't think that Alex was interested in DONGS
(Sorry I really am. I just couldn't resist it!)
DAVE
LOL!;)
They may have worthy thoughts about giving her time at the moment but watch them drop her like a hot potato if her first album doesn't sell because everyone's forgotten about her and moved on to the next big thing.
Perhaps that's why it's a good idea to spend six months writing?
I would agree that she has a problem with structure - *but* with the caveat that everything I heard her sing from the Academy (thanks to Edman's wonderful site) was just her and an acoustic guitar. That automatically makes any song longer than a couple of minutes sound like it's a bit of a bore. Instrumentation can do a hell of a lot of stuff. But, yeah, I agree that she needs to work on that side of things. I'd just like to see her collaborating with someone who knows where she's coming from, rather than some boyband hack.
Partridge (who bought a Jane Siberry album he's been looking for for ages today)
Lemar anyone? Ainslie anyone, even? I think it's a very good idea - if they do it. If she waits a year, say, the show will have got her the contract, the contacts, preferably a few credible collaborators and hopefully a cracking album. It will have got rid of much of the reality TV stigma, and the media will be able to treat her work pretty much without that hanging round it. I think that's precisely the approach Ainslie is trying to take, too: get the deal, a bit of attention, and the chance to work with the lads from James. Then let the work speak for itself.
I agree, Cat Deeley said at least a year. Thats basically record company speak for 'I don't know what the #### to do with you, but I like you and think you're gonna be huge' Her style of songs is not the type to be produced by 'factory music' outlets, so it means she's really got to write it herself, and thats difficult, because the songs she has at the moment, no amount of production is going to make them into hit records.
Yes Lemar spent time away, but if you count the time, its only about 7 months. Gareth and Will did exactly the same thing, taking plenty of time to get the right writers in to get good albums out, but none of them took a year, and with the music industry being so transient at the moment, people may not want to know.
Of course I could be completely wrong and she could come back in a year's time with such a good album it could take on the world, but while thats what I really hope for - because it would be a shame to get such a good performer and then #### it up - I'm not sure its gonna happen.
As always the ultimate test is time.
Will Ainslie be allowed to release his album though? Everyone is assuming he will, I'm not so sure at the moment.
But, yes, Lemar is a good example, but he is working in an area of music that is fashionable at the moment. The timing is totally right for him. (personal view: I also think he is a lot more talented than Alex).
No, I wasn't really into Lemar. Paris was my favourite this time but I don't tend to go for the students who play the type of music I'm normally into. If I did I'd have loved Peter and Ainslie. That's what's great about FA, it opens you up to other musical genres.
But yes, it is my personal view which is why I labelled it as such, but I also think it's the generally accepted view. Lemar's talent has never been challenged anywhere even amongst people who hate FA. Alex is slightly different, I've already read two newspaper columnists this week questioning whether she can sing.
Hmm...this seems to confirm there won't be an FA3 then...FA2's winner's album will be coming out around the time FA3's winner would have been announced.
Oh?...
....I thought she was already a talented superstar.
I thought she had X-factors by the bucketload.
Now we hear she can't write songs.
Now she's boring when she does anything over a couple of minutes.
Now we hear that she needs to take a break to get some talent.
It's a far cry from the overenthusiastic claims we heard on Fame Academy.
She will "change the face of the British music scene"....
...In a year's time, when she might be good enough.
Needs a year's break?...I thought she was better than all the other acts out there already?..So I was told.
Do you think all the other music acts around today need a year's break?..Or are they already good enough to release records?
That's a good point....I was under the impression Alex was ready to storm the charts.....Now it looks suspiciously like she's off for 6 months intensive training a a total PR overhaul.....
Why is it necessary ? Is she perhaps not good enough ? Should she have entered the FA next year, when ready ? Are the music people shitting bricks at the dud that they bought the prize for ? Was Carrie talking shite ?
Well, I never argued that! I've been saying for a while she should take some time.
And plenty of artists take six months off to write an album. That's much more common - and sensible - than rushing something off in a month.
Relevance ?
Have you really or are you just saying that ?
It would have been clearer if Carrie had told everyone that she wouldn't be any good without 6 months extra training.....Unless it's to undo Carrie's work of course.....
Carrie has, once again, proved herself to be a total humbug ! Of course, I've been saying that all along.