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Old 29-02-2012, 20:35
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Insatiable is a solid album - she's the only one who can sing out of GA. Yet for years she's been "blamed" for the ongoing GA hiatus, the odd one out who doesn't lick Cheryl's ass. Why is it so strange that she doesn't mix with the others?? I don't socialise with 95% of my work colleagues. Then the whole "hilarious Tesco record deal" - not like foghorn Cole who signs with a "proper" leeeabbbal.
Just playing Nadine's album and got a bee on my bonnet
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Old 29-02-2012, 20:49
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Insatiable is a solid album - she's the only one who can sing out of GA. Yet for years she's been "blamed" for the ongoing GA hiatus, the odd one out who doesn't lick Cheryl's ass. Why is it so strange that she doesn't mix with the others?? I don't socialise with 95% of my work colleagues. Then the whole "hilarious Tesco record deal" - not like foghorn Cole who signs with a "proper" leeeabbbal.
Just playing Nadine's album and got a bee on my bonnet
Now now... let's not forget Nicola.
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Old 29-02-2012, 20:56
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You've already put your finger on it... Cheryl Cole.


Loved by the media, anybody who speaks out against her in the press gets slated... it's been going on for years and it still goes on to this day. It's only a matter of time before some icon says something and then they will be really backed into a corner. You can only favour a celebrity to an extent.
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Old 29-02-2012, 21:20
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Hmm, I think the Cheryl war didn't help, but Nadine's Insatiable campaign was pretty much exactly how not to run a press junket. She spent a lot of the time in interviews making digs at Girls Aloud and their fans - alienating your core fanbase is never going to bode well. The UK media hates people who don't keep up with their roots, the fact she jetted in for a week of promo the week before the single was released, half of which she cancelled when she realised the single was bombing didn't really go down too well either. The song selection was strange - Lullaby would have been a much less dated choice for lead single, and Nadine's direction of the video didnt work at all - the fact it failed epilepsy tests was another PR blunder.

The album itself is fine, but it was quite unremarkable, but the production was dated, and she managed to upset a lot of her collaborators - William Orbit in particular really didnt want to be associated with her. And while her voice is the strongest in GA, it's not particularly distinctive or unique. A few of the songs - My Sexy Love Affair being a prime example sound like they were written by 5 year olds on crack.

So in short, the material was average, she was managed horrifically, and she alienated her major fanbase. I think there's a lot more to this than Nadine vs Cheryl.
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Old 29-02-2012, 21:20
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Insatiable is a solid album - she's the only one who can sing out of GA. Yet for years she's been "blamed" for the ongoing GA hiatus, the odd one out who doesn't lick Cheryl's ass. Why is it so strange that she doesn't mix with the others?? I don't socialise with 95% of my work colleagues. Then the whole "hilarious Tesco record deal" - not like foghorn Cole who signs with a "proper" leeeabbbal.
Just playing Nadine's album and got a bee on my bonnet

Well, the reason it flopped is because the production really wasn't very good- it sounded very dated and cheap. And she's extremely unlikeable, which is admittedly due to the media but she doesn't exactly do much to disprove people's perceptions of her.

Put Your Hands Up is a good song though. That should have been the first single really, in my opinon...
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Old 29-02-2012, 21:24
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Nadine clearly has the better voice but she comes over as such a cold person. When she tries to be humorous and to be nice - I'm thinking of her appearence on The Paul O' Grady Show - she seems to be over-compensating and it's seems false.

Cheryl has more warmth is her toenail than Nadine displays in her whole body.
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Old 29-02-2012, 21:27
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the irish press are hardly on board with nadine either. so when the press back home and your former mentor turn their backs. perhaps a solo career is not meant to be.

some of the other girls handled the press better, doing things away from the group. nadine was candid about how big her role in girl aloud was in her view and it came across big headed. the production team or label never backed up her claims, so it didn't gain her any credibility and distanced her further from the group. the tesco deal was not a wise move either in all honesty. who would make a trip to tesco just to buy a nadine coyle cd? so in my opinion, it was a combination of the record deal and i think she needed to play the media game a bit better.
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Old 29-02-2012, 21:46
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Lots of reasons really. Her music career became a bit of a joke with the appalling sales, 'dated' music, her manager Bruce, the Tesco deal, Sweetest High and the ridiculous outfits she wore to her New York club gigs.

Plus I think some Girls Aloud fans see her as being too big for her boots. She didn't really socialise with the other girls, she refused to take part in both Passions and Ghosthunting. I think she missed a big awards show because she 'lost her passport' (which is something she lied about on Irish Popstars). She spent too much time in America, which could be seen as ditching the UK. People mocked her for developing an 'American' accent. There was a post on her website saying she was the 'lead singer' of Girls Aloud. And an interview where she said Brian Higgins always got her to record Girls Aloud songs first, before the other girls. And when she was in Girls Aloud there was a lot of backlash over the early songs being so Nadine-heavy. Apparently she'd been planning a solo career for a long time, and I don't think the fans see her as being particularly invested in Girls Aloud.

Also I seem to remember the guy from Popjustice, plus another journalist, making some negative comments about her on Twitter, so perhaps she's not too popular behind the scenes? There's loads of reasons really, too many to list.

Don't get me wrong though. I'm a big Nadine fan. I think her solo album was fantastic and she was a really crucial part of Girls Aloud. The reasons I've listed aren't reasons why I don't like her, they're just things that I repeatedly see her being slagged off for.
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Old 29-02-2012, 21:59
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People mocked her for developing an 'American' accent.
Yeah to be fair people also mock her Irish accent.
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Old 29-02-2012, 22:59
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If you read the forums (not this particular forum but others out there) the general consensus about her is she's too big for her boots and in the final few years never really seemed a team player within Girls Aloud - such as missing big events, ditching them and management for shopping with her sister, not turning up to tour rehearsals, recording the vocals to the Tangled Up album in another country. These things don't go unnoticed amongst fans.

Then there was the slagging off of Girls Aloud in interviews - saying the dance routines were bad and forgetting Kimberley's name. It's a fair enough statement but it did make her look bad.

Her debut was pretty forgettable and so was her album.

She seems very cold and stuck up in interviews when it comes to her body language and the tone of voice she uses to speak.

I don't think the problems are between Cheryl and Nadine - I think it's Kimberley and Nadine.

Then there was her over exaggerated claims about being in the studio longer than the other girls recording tracks when in all actuality every girl records the whole song in various different keys and then Brian Higgings picks the parts in post-production of the song and that process is actually on record. So she lied to make herself seem better than the other four girls.

Nadine had a proper record deal but she was dropped - thus she had to release through Tesco.
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:02
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Now now... let's not forget Nicola.
Nicola was crap. Not as bad as Kimberley and Cheryl but still bad. Her vibrato was disgusting. No wonder her music flopped commercially.....yodelling is not a current sound anywhere on the charts...:yawn:
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:07
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If you read the forums (not this particular forum but others out there) the general consensus about her is she's too big for her boots and in the final few years never really seemed a team player within Girls Aloud - such as missing big events, ditching them and management for shopping with her sister, not turning up to tour rehearsals, recording the vocals to the Tangled Up album in another country. These things don't go unnoticed amongst fans.

Then there was the slagging off of Girls Aloud in interviews - saying the dance routines were bad and forgetting Kimberley's name. It's a fair enough statement but it did make her look bad.

Her debut was pretty forgettable and so was her album.

She seems very cold and stuck up in interviews when it comes to her body language and the tone of voice she uses to speak.

I don't think the problems are between Cheryl and Nadine - I think it's Kimberley and Nadine.

Then there was her over exaggerated claims about being in the studio longer than the other girls recording tracks when in all actuality every girl records the whole song in various different keys and then Brian Higgings picks the parts in post-production of the song and that process is actually on record. So she lied to make herself seem better than the other four girls.

Nadine had a proper record deal but she was dropped - thus she had to release through Tesco.
I thought she turned them down (Interscope) and her Geffen deal fell through. Shame, as Sexy Little Affair has a great sound, and if she made it clearer and built on it, then it would be a great single.
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:08
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Nicola was crap. Not as bad as Kimberley and Cheryl but still bad. Her vibrato was disgusting. No wonder her music flopped commercially.....yodelling is not a current sound anywhere on the charts...:yawn:
Nicola is not crap, sigh.:yawn:
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:09
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Nicola was crap. Not as bad as Kimberley and Cheryl but still bad. Her vibrato was disgusting. No wonder her music flopped commercially.....yodelling is not a current sound anywhere on the charts...:yawn:
LMFAO...although Shakira yodels at times...but she can get away with it, she's colombian with Spanish and Lebanese heritage, and it really comes through.
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:12
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I thought she turned them down (Interscope) and her Geffen deal fell through. Shame, as Sexy Little Affair has a great sound, and if she made it clearer and built on it, then it would be a great single.
She was dropped by Geffen and has since been dropped by Tesco.
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:16
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She was dropped by Geffen and has since been dropped by Tesco.
Well obviously. Tesco aren't gonna keep her!
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:19
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Well obviously. Tesco aren't gonna keep her!
.....you know it's bad when you're dropped by Tesco. TESCO. just saying.
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:32
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There was also another hilarious moment when she refused to wear something in Girls Aloud because it was too provocative then she wears this... http://tiskin.com/wp-content/uploads...36_634x899.jpg
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:35
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Successful groups are all about the brand, the group unity and image. Having one member who clearly doesn't like the others and does her best to avoid them and do the absolute bare minimum is not good for the public image.
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:38
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There was also another hilarious moment when she refused to wear something in Girls Aloud because it was too provocative then she wears this... http://tiskin.com/wp-content/uploads...36_634x899.jpg
LOL....that is bad.
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:38
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.....you know it's bad when you're dropped by Tesco. TESCO. just saying.
Ah...when you put it that way...
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:39
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There was also another hilarious moment when she refused to wear something in Girls Aloud because it was too provocative then she wears this... http://tiskin.com/wp-content/uploads...36_634x899.jpg
Cheryl probably made her wear it. She's such a timid lady usually.

Why did best friends Kimberley and Nadine fall out?
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:42
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Why cant people understand that it was a distribution deal and that Tesco could't have dropped her?
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:50
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Why cant people understand that it was a distribution deal and that Tesco could't have dropped her?
That doesn't make a good story mocking her success - just write "Tesco dropped her" and watch the sheep tabloid readers baaaaa in hilarity
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Old 29-02-2012, 23:52
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Why cant people understand that it was a distribution deal and that Tesco could't have dropped her?
Well they stopped distributing her stuff - hence why there was no second single. The sales were poor.
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