Frankie made me fall in love with Goo goo Iris and Ed Sheran. Never heard of them before. He has very good taste in Music, his Image and stage presence is amazing, good vocals too. I love that he is friends with Amelia Lily, I'm tipping him to win. Best wishes Frankie Cocozza.
Frankie Appreciation Thread
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Originally Posted by lacedwithdoubt:
“I have a Frankie appreciation tumblr over at http://heytherecocozza.tumblr.com if anyone's interested
I mostly just started it as a way to chat to other fans of his.”
“I have a Frankie appreciation tumblr over at http://heytherecocozza.tumblr.com if anyone's interested
I mostly just started it as a way to chat to other fans of his.”
Awesome , thanks
Amelia Lily and James Michael both speak highly of Frankie. They say they were the best of buds in the house with him.
He looks like he is a great guy, just misunderstood and misjudged by a lot.
He looks like he is a great guy, just misunderstood and misjudged by a lot.
Originally Posted by ArsenalX:
“Amelia Lily and James Michael both speak highly of Frankie. They say they were the best of buds in the house with him.
He looks like he is a great guy, just misunderstood and misjudged by a lot.”
“Amelia Lily and James Michael both speak highly of Frankie. They say they were the best of buds in the house with him.
He looks like he is a great guy, just misunderstood and misjudged by a lot.”
His "attitude" at the first audition didnt help, I happened to love it. I like it when contestants are sure of themselves, you can't be a weeping willow in this game.
I hope he does well. Not sure he could win, there are some stunning acts this year (although to be honest one of his biggest rivals has gone in Amelia
) but I hope he goes through a good few weeks.
Originally Posted by ArsenalX:
“Amelia Lily and James Michael both speak highly of Frankie. They say they were the best of buds in the house with him.
He looks like he is a great guy, just misunderstood and misjudged by a lot.”
“Amelia Lily and James Michael both speak highly of Frankie. They say they were the best of buds in the house with him.
He looks like he is a great guy, just misunderstood and misjudged by a lot.”
That's good to hear, I liked James in his Holy Moly interview, he was hilarious.
Sadly quiet in here, even before the sorry business yesterday.
I've been thinking about Frankie and about singing, and about why I've come to rate Frankie as a singer when that's all too obviously not a popular position to take. Maybe it's something to do with my being old enough to have been conscious of music when punk was first on the scene... not just conscious of music, but putting together the priorities in and out of music that, with some modificatiions along the way, would inform the rest of my life. Some of my favourite vocalists are fairly widely acknowledged, at least among those who know them at all, to have wonderful voices. Others - and the punk thing was especially good at valuing these, but to an extent they're around in many other genres - aren't gifted in that way but have voices that make something new of each syllable, so that whenever they perform there's a drama in the performance that makes you sit up and take notice and feel. That, for me, is Frankie.
I nearly said that was Frankie, but there's no call for getting that downhearted. The whole X Factor thing has picked him up and spun his life around and spat him out. I hope he soon finds his feet again and maybe the experiences he's just had will go toward giving him a more rounded view of life than he's had before. Selfishly, but for him too, I hope he's soon making music again, because I think his talent is very real, just not of a particularly fashionable kind. If he wants to do that, the X Factor exposure may be a great start. Twenty million people know who he is, and if only one in a hundred of them love what he does that's a fanbase most practising musicians would give their eye teeth for.
Anyways, just a friendly shout in case anyone comes here other than to mock, and if anyone does we may be able to keep an appreciation thread going. I've never liked iTunes one little bit but I installed it tonight and signed up to the store for as long as it took me to download Frankie's six songs and get them safely on to a CD. I hope there'll be more from him, with the right kind of band around him, I'm not ready to guess what that might be. I shudder at the thought that he might have given 100% to making a go of the X Factor, I doubt there'd be much left of him if he had. I guess that's the punk heritage again, I've ever such mixed feelings about a work ethic in music because the end result so often seems to me to have had all the life processed out of it. Perfect in the way margarine in a tub is perfect, and about as interesting or engaging. Frankie's vividly alive when he's on stage and that's most of what will matter for him as a performing artist.
I'm having a right old ramble here tonight. Just as well nobody's around to read it.
I've been thinking about Frankie and about singing, and about why I've come to rate Frankie as a singer when that's all too obviously not a popular position to take. Maybe it's something to do with my being old enough to have been conscious of music when punk was first on the scene... not just conscious of music, but putting together the priorities in and out of music that, with some modificatiions along the way, would inform the rest of my life. Some of my favourite vocalists are fairly widely acknowledged, at least among those who know them at all, to have wonderful voices. Others - and the punk thing was especially good at valuing these, but to an extent they're around in many other genres - aren't gifted in that way but have voices that make something new of each syllable, so that whenever they perform there's a drama in the performance that makes you sit up and take notice and feel. That, for me, is Frankie.
I nearly said that was Frankie, but there's no call for getting that downhearted. The whole X Factor thing has picked him up and spun his life around and spat him out. I hope he soon finds his feet again and maybe the experiences he's just had will go toward giving him a more rounded view of life than he's had before. Selfishly, but for him too, I hope he's soon making music again, because I think his talent is very real, just not of a particularly fashionable kind. If he wants to do that, the X Factor exposure may be a great start. Twenty million people know who he is, and if only one in a hundred of them love what he does that's a fanbase most practising musicians would give their eye teeth for.
Anyways, just a friendly shout in case anyone comes here other than to mock, and if anyone does we may be able to keep an appreciation thread going. I've never liked iTunes one little bit but I installed it tonight and signed up to the store for as long as it took me to download Frankie's six songs and get them safely on to a CD. I hope there'll be more from him, with the right kind of band around him, I'm not ready to guess what that might be. I shudder at the thought that he might have given 100% to making a go of the X Factor, I doubt there'd be much left of him if he had. I guess that's the punk heritage again, I've ever such mixed feelings about a work ethic in music because the end result so often seems to me to have had all the life processed out of it. Perfect in the way margarine in a tub is perfect, and about as interesting or engaging. Frankie's vividly alive when he's on stage and that's most of what will matter for him as a performing artist.
I'm having a right old ramble here tonight. Just as well nobody's around to read it.
Originally Posted by EdgarK:
“Sadly quiet in here, even before the sorry business yesterday.
I've been thinking about Frankie and about singing, and about why I've come to rate Frankie as a singer when that's all too obviously not a popular position to take. Maybe it's something to do with my being old enough to have been conscious of music when punk was first on the scene... not just conscious of music, but putting together the priorities in and out of music that, with some modificatiions along the way, would inform the rest of my life. Some of my favourite vocalists are fairly widely acknowledged, at least among those who know them at all, to have wonderful voices. Others - and the punk thing was especially good at valuing these, but to an extent they're around in many other genres - aren't gifted in that way but have voices that make something new of each syllable, so that whenever they perform there's a drama in the performance that makes you sit up and take notice and feel. That, for me, is Frankie.
I nearly said that was Frankie, but there's no call for getting that downhearted. The whole X Factor thing has picked him up and spun his life around and spat him out. I hope he soon finds his feet again and maybe the experiences he's just had will go toward giving him a more rounded view of life than he's had before. Selfishly, but for him too, I hope he's soon making music again, because I think his talent is very real, just not of a particularly fashionable kind. If he wants to do that, the X Factor exposure may be a great start. Twenty million people know who he is, and if only one in a hundred of them love what he does that's a fanbase most practising musicians would give their eye teeth for.
Anyways, just a friendly shout in case anyone comes here other than to mock, and if anyone does we may be able to keep an appreciation thread going. I've never liked iTunes one little bit but I installed it tonight and signed up to the store for as long as it took me to download Frankie's six songs and get them safely on to a CD. I hope there'll be more from him, with the right kind of band around him, I'm not ready to guess what that might be. I shudder at the thought that he might have given 100% to making a go of the X Factor, I doubt there'd be much left of him if he had. I guess that's the punk heritage again, I've ever such mixed feelings about a work ethic in music because the end result so often seems to me to have had all the life processed out of it. Perfect in the way margarine in a tub is perfect, and about as interesting or engaging. Frankie's vividly alive when he's on stage and that's most of what will matter for him as a performing artist.
I'm having a right old ramble here tonight. Just as well nobody's around to read it.”
“Sadly quiet in here, even before the sorry business yesterday.
I've been thinking about Frankie and about singing, and about why I've come to rate Frankie as a singer when that's all too obviously not a popular position to take. Maybe it's something to do with my being old enough to have been conscious of music when punk was first on the scene... not just conscious of music, but putting together the priorities in and out of music that, with some modificatiions along the way, would inform the rest of my life. Some of my favourite vocalists are fairly widely acknowledged, at least among those who know them at all, to have wonderful voices. Others - and the punk thing was especially good at valuing these, but to an extent they're around in many other genres - aren't gifted in that way but have voices that make something new of each syllable, so that whenever they perform there's a drama in the performance that makes you sit up and take notice and feel. That, for me, is Frankie.
I nearly said that was Frankie, but there's no call for getting that downhearted. The whole X Factor thing has picked him up and spun his life around and spat him out. I hope he soon finds his feet again and maybe the experiences he's just had will go toward giving him a more rounded view of life than he's had before. Selfishly, but for him too, I hope he's soon making music again, because I think his talent is very real, just not of a particularly fashionable kind. If he wants to do that, the X Factor exposure may be a great start. Twenty million people know who he is, and if only one in a hundred of them love what he does that's a fanbase most practising musicians would give their eye teeth for.
Anyways, just a friendly shout in case anyone comes here other than to mock, and if anyone does we may be able to keep an appreciation thread going. I've never liked iTunes one little bit but I installed it tonight and signed up to the store for as long as it took me to download Frankie's six songs and get them safely on to a CD. I hope there'll be more from him, with the right kind of band around him, I'm not ready to guess what that might be. I shudder at the thought that he might have given 100% to making a go of the X Factor, I doubt there'd be much left of him if he had. I guess that's the punk heritage again, I've ever such mixed feelings about a work ethic in music because the end result so often seems to me to have had all the life processed out of it. Perfect in the way margarine in a tub is perfect, and about as interesting or engaging. Frankie's vividly alive when he's on stage and that's most of what will matter for him as a performing artist.
I'm having a right old ramble here tonight. Just as well nobody's around to read it.”
Very thoughtful post. I confess I lost some of my enthusiasm for Frankie as the series wore on but I like the way you have placed him in the punk tradition which I value too. Processed margarine sums up my own feelings about most of the remaining contestants this year as well. I feel Frankie was taken advantage of to a degree by the producers and their minions so I especially regret his departure under these circumstances.
Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for reading it. Yes, I can't at the moment see Frankie as having the element of anger punk arguably can't live without, but there's more to the tradition than that. He's like a little Peter Perrett, Louis Walsh might have said if the Only Ones existed in Louis' universe. Probably with no more accuracy or relevance than Louis' usual pronouncements, though. Between who Frankie seems to be, the state of the music scene today, the prominence and mild infamy he has and the nature of his fanbase I can hardly guess what he'll be doing if and when he's next on a stage, but I look forward to finding out. Just so long as he doesn't get stuck with a life as the Z-list "celebrity" who was booted off X Factor.
Kicked out for being what they wanted him to be?
Frankie - I wanna be famous, I wanna be huge. I look forward to all the money, the cars, the showing off but mainly I’m looking forward to all the girls.”
“I see myself as a bit of a liability but I can admit that.”
Gary commented:
This is Frankie, I have high hopes for him.
Robbie added:
Yeah me too, I loved his audition, but is he going to live up to it?
Speaking about the bum tattoos, Williams added:
‘I think that’s fantastic by the way. That’s proper behaviour!”
Frankie then sang Rihanna ‘What’s My Name’. It was a different version than we’re used to and he put his own spin on the track.
After his performance, Gary admitted that he’d been impressed by the vocal and said:
His voice is better than I remembered, to me he’s gone up a level here today.
Do you know what, if he gets through, the one thing I’m going to make sure he doesn’t do, is behave.
Robbie added:
He’s an absolute problem, for everybody.
Whilst not a fan of Frankie, the show and his mentor have to take some blame
Frankie - I wanna be famous, I wanna be huge. I look forward to all the money, the cars, the showing off but mainly I’m looking forward to all the girls.”
“I see myself as a bit of a liability but I can admit that.”
Gary commented:
This is Frankie, I have high hopes for him.
Robbie added:
Yeah me too, I loved his audition, but is he going to live up to it?
Speaking about the bum tattoos, Williams added:
‘I think that’s fantastic by the way. That’s proper behaviour!”
Frankie then sang Rihanna ‘What’s My Name’. It was a different version than we’re used to and he put his own spin on the track.
After his performance, Gary admitted that he’d been impressed by the vocal and said:
His voice is better than I remembered, to me he’s gone up a level here today.
Do you know what, if he gets through, the one thing I’m going to make sure he doesn’t do, is behave.
Robbie added:
He’s an absolute problem, for everybody.
Whilst not a fan of Frankie, the show and his mentor have to take some blame
Yes. We may not get to know, at least for a while, but I'd not be completely surprised if the whole of his time on the show went pretty much according to script. He was good for publicity but was never going to be the kind of performer Syco would want on their books, and, as has been pointed out, there's every sign of the production team having been fully complicit in his excesses. Probably not including the coke, but I can't believe anyone was genuinely shocked by that, and it was for them to decide whether to go public with it.
So, Frankie's been seeing the UK from the back of a tour van, and in another 43 days we get to hear the album they said would never happen http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/thetelescreen - anybody else heard the demos and looking forward to it?
A bit weird to go looking for this thread and find my little confessional essay above which I'd completely forgotten ever writing
A bit weird to go looking for this thread and find my little confessional essay above which I'd completely forgotten ever writing
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