by drakula63 » Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:12 am
In the taxi yesterday, I had the terrible misfortune to hear the charity single 'bridge over troubled water'. It began badly, with some guy doing a rap - which sounded awful. It was all downhill from there as it just became three minutes of everyone singing their own little bits and trying to outdo each other. Dreadful. Cowell should have just donated £10,000,000 to the charity and spared us all this torture. Let's face it, he earns almost £100,000,000 a year and so it wouldn't have been much of a sacrifice. I hope Paul Simon keeps his royalties just as compensation for having his song ruined.
Of course I have the utmost sympathy for the victims of the fire, which was a terrible tragedy, but those suggesting that Cowell and co are doing this out of kindness or general philanthropic reasons are seriously in error. Just think how high Mr Cowell's stock will rise after this. Think about that. And all the other shameless stars who tripped over themselves to get on this single and parade their virtue in front of the world; how many more singles and albums will THEY sell in the weeks and months to come?
Even without the words, The Shadows version is vastly superior to this execrable rubbish.
And I think this thread might be in the wrong section.