Comments on: THE OSMONDS - “Love Me For A Reason”

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:32:02 +0000

For a minute I thought you were going to say “with a buzzsaw.”

By: richard thompson

richard thompson — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:15:01 +0000

Boyzone couldn’t sing in harmony with their inferior version

By: mike

mike — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:07:44 +0000

…and Buddy Rich once made the front page of the Melody Maker (late 73, I think it was) for launching a vitriolic diatribe against… The Osmonds!

And so our wheel turns full circle.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:25:15 +0000

Before (if?) we go back to the Osmonds, I must mention that it’s rather ill-becoming of Cowell to complain about substandard choreography when he hired the frigging choreographers in the first place! I was very nearly anticipating a Paul Anka/Buddy Rich moment at one point on Saturday where he drags the choreographer on stage and lectures him about how when he moves, he slices like a freaking hammer, &c.

By: Mark G

Mark G — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:41:42 +0000

“Honk”

They managed to do a pretty damn good performance of Amy Housewine’s “Back to Black” the previous week. (Which has led to Amy’s version crashing into the singles charts on d/l’s)

Basically, whoever wins will be lining SCowell’s pockets for at least 3 months until the gas runs out. Picking SameDiff over Rhyd would just be smiting his own nos.

Also, he’s very cagey about voting against an artist who might win through, which is why he chose the boy group to go when he had two acts up. If he;d voted them to stay, the phonein votes might have put them out anyway, and he’d be mentoring a girl group he voted to leave.

Still, The Osmonds! whoa!

By: RobM

RobM — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:41:33 +0000

But surely Simon is mentoring Same Difference, so would feel honour bound to support his act? I missed this week’s show (working) so don’t know who was in the bottom two - who was with Alisha then?

By: Mark G

Mark G — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:38:23 +0000

In a “Derek and Clive” way, naturally.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:20:12 +0000

Same Difference just need to find their Trevor Horn, really.

By: Mark G

Mark G — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:07:11 +0000

Cowell *wants* Rhydian.

My bet is, he’d vote to keep Rhydian over Same Difference.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:02:26 +0000

Beverley could probably make a better living as a session singer than any of the other contestants but I think you’re right; she’ll win and end up being pushed into becoming another failed Whitney. Whereas Cowell is increasingly viewing Rhydian as just this year’s Darius.

By: RobM

RobM — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:56:26 +0000

Let’s face it, if Cowell and Co are really looking for someone with the X factor, Rhydian has it in spades. But they want someone like Beverley who’s just a good singer and can be manipulated. Rhydian won’t win, shame.

By: Erithian

Erithian — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:32:16 +0000

Point taken MC, but I’m reminded of Terry Wogan’s famous words to David Icke in his turquoise shellsuit: “They’re not laughing WITH you, they’re laughing AT you”.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:16:27 +0000

But pop is MEANT to be preposterous in a you’ll-never-be-me/I-am-not-of-this-world sense, as opposed to, say, Same Difference, who are clearly the missing link between Bardo and Kate Garraway.

By: Erithian

Erithian — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:59:00 +0000

re Rhydian - and if only he didn’t look and sound more preposterous every week. He reminded me more of the scary nutter in a previous series who murdered “Tainted Love” then told the judges he knew where they lived.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:38:21 +0000

2 other older Osmond brothers called George and Thomas who were both born deaf?

Oh yes; we knew them as Virl and Tommy, and they were regularly mentioned in the teen mags (my sister was buying import copies of Spec and 16 during 73-74, and Os-triv was a major component factor, along with extensive coverage of a couple of ordinary looking Joes called Randy & Kev, who played a couple of firemen on US TV, oh and and advice column purporting to be from LaToya Jackson called “Tell It To Toya”…!)

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:19:39 +0000

If only he hadn’t done “Go West” on Saturday.

By: RobM

RobM — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:13:31 +0000

Oddly enough, Marcello (#33) I was thinking the same about Rhydian and Billy Mackenzie. If only he didn’t look like Max Headroom.

By: crag

crag — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:15:31 +0000

Top story, Caledonianne! Thanks to all who posted a response to my query re: Merrillmania etc.
Interesting Osmonds fact i discovered the other day-did anyone know that as well as (deep breath) Wayne, Alan, Jay, Merrill, Donny, Marie and Jimmy there are 2 other older Osmond brothers called George and Thomas who were both born deaf?
The really odd thing about these two Gummo Marxesque characters was that although unsuprisingly their disability prevented them from recording w/ their siblings they have apparently performed live and on TV with them several times over the years!
I wonder how that worked?

By: Caledonianne

Caledonianne — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:12:57 +0000

As one who was around at the time I can confirm the fans-for-bruvs-other-than-Donny phenomenon.

Indeed, I had a schoolfriend who was so smitten by Jay that she instructed us all to stop calling her Elizabeth and address her by the name of her idol. Despite this moment of madness, as a grown-up she became editor of the TV Times.

By: Mark G

Mark G — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:07:11 +0000

Yeah. He won’t though.

Not after his “I’m coming out” anyway. (no hidden messages there, viewers!)

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:29:41 +0000

SECONDED!!!!

By: mike

mike — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:13:59 +0000

I’d like to see Rhydian get his chops around “Eloise”.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:55:32 +0000

Well it’s probably a bit like boot camp; once the judges let you through, you get six months (six weeks?) of melismatic square bashing drilled into you, since in Cowell’s forever 1990 world you have to be Whitney or Mariah to gain International Success and that is that.

A shame really because with Rhydian in the current series I have caught a glimpse of the ghost of Billy MacKenzie on a couple of occasions but there’s no way they’re going to allow him to develop that.

In the seventies the Jehovah’s Witnesses were in the habit of ringing our neighbourhood’s doorbells with their Free Book Including Interview With George Harrison. I don’t think they found any takers.

By: Erithian

Erithian — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:25:39 +0000

Back to LL (#21) – no denying she’s a talented singer but she sounds like she’s fighting to keep up at times. Somewhere in the mix is a half-decent song but it’s bludgeoned into submission beneath the worst case of Mariah-itis I’ve ever heard. If someone had auditioned performing all that vocal gymnastics, wailing and octave-jumps I do wonder what the judges would have said.

Yes, even without Google I remembered Joyce McKinney (#25) and the “I would have skied nude down Mount Everest with a carnation in my teeth for Kirk” quote. (Mind you Waldo, she wasn’t all that!) Just after the story was all over the tabloids I actually found myself opening the door to a Mormon missionary. As it happened I was playing a tape of the Beatles’ “Please Please Me” album at the time, and oooh, if ONLY it had reached the track that goes “My baby’s got me locked up in chains…”

By: mike

mike — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:47:30 +0000

“Joker” Jay in particular had a lot of fans to call his own, and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when Merrill got married to Mary.