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Where would Matt be without Run For Your Life? |
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Where would Matt be without Run For Your Life?
Seriously, had Simon not pulled the strings and gotten ace song guy Gary Barlow on board to compose the lead single, would Matt's debut album have even charted? Matt's strongest co-write 'Starfish' might have cracked the top 100 in Albania (and stayed on the state-monitored chart of popular musical hits for 5 weeks) but I don't think it even made the top 500 in the UK.
The big question is: will Gary be willing to compose something to propel James Arthur's album to gold/nearly platinum-selling status (like Matt's) or will Cowell have to bring somebody else in to write the lead single? I'm not sure that Cowell and Barlow are such good friends nowadays so an alternative donor may need to be recruited. |
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I think the question is would he have done better because I
Thought run for your life was awful |
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Who on earth or indeed even on this thread is Rupert?
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Considering the fact that it was the best song on the album and still didn't do very well, I doubt his album would have sold as well as it did. Having Gary Barlow as the songwriter certainly helped.
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Considering the fact that it was the best song on the album and still didn't do very well, I doubt his album would have sold as well as it did. Having Gary Barlow as the songwriter certainly helped.
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I think run for your life was a really good song but matt cardle made the song suck
Leona should have had the song, she needs a hit |
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The song he has out now as his new single "It's only love" would've been better .
From the letters album "Starlight" would've been a better track to release or even "stars and lovers" is quite good. |
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I was the WORST song on the album
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The OP made RFYL seem like a massive hit...
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The OP made RFYL seem like a massive hit...
![]() The key question is this: is this James Arthur character good enough to get other people to write his songs and to sing them as well as Matt has sung them? How talented is he? Could he be the best male singer there has ever been? Only time will tell I guess. |
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In my opinion, it was the best, and it was all down to Gary Barlow. It wasn't a good song though.
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It's all relative isn't it? For Matt it was a massive hit! Come on, I'm no fan of the guy's music and I'm not trying to patronise him here but having previously had a number 1 hit with somebody else's song, he was under pressure to deliver a song that would promote his album of no-writes and co-writes. The best option was to find another song of somebody else's, then get Matt to sing it (in his own mainly high-pitched voice without help) and see how it went. It didn't do too badly. If you compare it to the performances of Matt's co-written songs (Starfish, It's Only Love etc) you'll see it was a massive hit, relatively. Matt's co-writes may be bad but his no-writes are good is what I'm saying here, I think.
The key question is this: is this James Arthur character good enough to get other people to write his songs and to sing them as well as Matt has sung them? How talented is he? Could he be the best male singer there has ever been? Only time will tell I guess. The thing with male winners is the only way they'll stay in the press is if they're dating someone high-profile or having an affair and James will do neither in the long-term and all interest will be lost, no matter what style of music he releases - the interest and momentum will all be lost by the time he releases his first single. The reason why female acts tend to do better because they're constantly in the press if they're out shopping, if they're wearing something new it makes the news so the interest is still there by the time they release their first single. |
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It's all relative isn't it? For Matt it was a massive hit! Come on, I'm no fan of the guy's music and I'm not trying to patronise him here but having previously had a number 1 hit with somebody else's song, he was under pressure to deliver a song that would promote his album of no-writes and co-writes. The best option was to find another song of somebody else's, then get Matt to sing it (in his own mainly high-pitched voice without help) and see how it went. It didn't do too badly. If you compare it to the performances of Matt's co-written songs (Starfish, It's Only Love etc) you'll see it was a massive hit, relatively. Matt's co-writes may be bad but his no-writes are good is what I'm saying here, I think.
The key question is this: is this James Arthur character good enough to get other people to write his songs and to sing them as well as Matt has sung them? How talented is he? Could he be the best male singer there has ever been? Only time will tell I guess.
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