She's the only Spice Girl I have any time for, as well as thinking she had the best voice of the five. I won't be buying her album but wish her well. No shame in selling it on QVC, if that's what it takes. It's a competitive world, the music industry, and you have to work with the available promotional resources if you want to market something, I guess.
I agree - she has used an outlet to promote her CD. At least she's got off her backside and actually done something. I'd have less respect for her if as soon as the radio stations stopped playing & promoting her music she gave up.
A day sitting on a sofa talking about yourself isn't exactly difficult work. Flogging your tat on QVC is only one step up from the Daily Mail giving it away.
I don't understand the snobbery towards QVC. Like I said in another thread, it appeals to an audience who does not worry about what's "cool"...so what's the problem? I'm more bothered by the unpleasant elitism of mainstream radio stations, personally.
I don't understand the snobbery towards QVC. Like I said in another thread, it appeals to an audience who does not worry about what's "cool"...so what's the problem? I'm more bothered by the unpleasant elitism of mainstream radio stations, personally.
I don't understand the snobbery towards QVC. Like I said in another thread, it appeals to an audience who does not worry about what's "cool"...so what's the problem? I'm more bothered by the unpleasant elitism of mainstream radio stations, personally.
Maybe it's not elitism so much as good taste. I don't want mawkish crap covers by soldiers or their wives, or fishermen from wherever... Or Steps or Boring Keating.
John Barrowman as well - an album and a skincare range.
Yes, and Barrowman was the trend setter for singers flogging albums on QVC.
It was his success that lead to the Chart rules being changed to allow QVC sales to qualify. I think he sold 2000 albums in 10 minutes :eek: :cool:
(there was an article in the Guardian a few years ago about it)
Well, Mel C has not been one to let anyone decide for her that her career was over. When her record label dropped her, she started her own label. If the radio stations won't play her, she'll go elsewhere. Nothing wrong with that.
Nothing wrong with an album of show tunes either. I love Mel's voice and am looking forward to hearing what she's done with the tunes come Christmas, when this will hopefully be one of my stocking fillers
Maybe it's not elitism so much as good taste. I don't want mawkish crap covers by soldiers or their wives, or fishermen from wherever... Or Steps or Boring Keating.
Who is any one person to decide what is good taste? Music is more or less entirely subjective. There are so many reasons why one person might enjoy artist A and why others will prefer artist B. Don't people who enjoy the sort of stuff QVC sell have a right to do so without being judged so harshly? There is obviously a big audience for it so I find the sneering rather strange.
I like easy listening and classical crossover myself, depending on who is singing them. I wouldn't buy anything from QVC but I see no reason to look down my nose at people who do, or those who use it to sell their products. Who does it hurt?
What's wrong with promoting on QVC? Promotion is promotion and it's part of her job, to sell music.
Agree. Nothing wrong. It's a pragmatic move. All power to her elbow and all that! Also, I don't think she's been 'reduced' to anything. Peoples' tastes move and change with the times. Nobody stays at the top for ever.
In the last couple of years, QVC have had loads of singers on flogging an album:-
Mel C
Susan Boyle
Ill Divo
Ronan Keating
Steps
Military Wives
Michael Ball
Daniel O'Donnell
Elaine Paige
Noah Stewart - No me either
Katherine Jenkins
The Soldiers
Some Fishermen from Cornwall I think
and loads more that I can't remember.
Then you've got loads of celebs flogging Skincare and Jewellery
Lulu
Arlene Phillips
Andrea Mclean
At the end of the day, it all comes down to cold hard cash.
If it wasn't worth there while, they wouldn't do it. They must be raking it in.
With these has-beens on air flogging tat no wonder QVC is my idea of hell
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I agree - she has used an outlet to promote her CD. At least she's got off her backside and actually done something. I'd have less respect for her if as soon as the radio stations stopped playing & promoting her music she gave up.
Leave Melanie alone. She has nothing to prove.
Stages is a brilliant album. As was The Sea.
If UK radio refuse to play you - regardless of the quality of the material, then of course an artist will go to other avenues.
But just to say, Melanie has also been promoting on:
The Jonathan Ross Show
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
This Morning
Loose Women
Alan Titchmarsh
Children In Need....
Meow
Exactly!
Yes, and Barrowman was the trend setter for singers flogging albums on QVC.
It was his success that lead to the Chart rules being changed to allow QVC sales to qualify. I think he sold 2000 albums in 10 minutes :eek: :cool:
(there was an article in the Guardian a few years ago about it)
Nothing wrong with an album of show tunes either. I love Mel's voice and am looking forward to hearing what she's done with the tunes come Christmas, when this will hopefully be one of my stocking fillers
Who is any one person to decide what is good taste? Music is more or less entirely subjective. There are so many reasons why one person might enjoy artist A and why others will prefer artist B. Don't people who enjoy the sort of stuff QVC sell have a right to do so without being judged so harshly? There is obviously a big audience for it so I find the sneering rather strange.
I like easy listening and classical crossover myself, depending on who is singing them. I wouldn't buy anything from QVC but I see no reason to look down my nose at people who do, or those who use it to sell their products. Who does it hurt?
This.
What's wrong with promoting on QVC? Promotion is promotion and it's part of her job, to sell music.
Agree. Nothing wrong. It's a pragmatic move. All power to her elbow and all that!
Phrases like this make me hate the Mail. Its irrelevant and they say it as though its a bad thing!
As for appearing on QVC, she's on the telly isn't she? Its not like she's touring holiday camps and Hospital Radio stations is it?
With these has-beens on air flogging tat no wonder QVC is my idea of hell