To quote my favorite judge, “That was utterly dreadful.”
http://www.peter-ould.net Peter Ould
The thing about John and Edward though Randy is this – they’re SO bad, they’re actually quite good…
B.T.Carolus
So you’re saying they’re camp? I think they’re rather good at stage presence and showmanship, but their singing (when it exists) is execrable. So what does that leave you with, a couple of guys who can put on stage shows but cannot record anything?
http://www.peter-ould.net Peter Ould
I certainly don’t think they’re camp.
Jedward as recording artists? Well, if they do a lot of rapping then it could work…
Derek Smith
Hear Hear!
My wife and I watch them every week from Singapore. Quite possibly the best thing that has happened to this former ‘singing competition’.
PS – ‘Star Fleet’ – you are inspired, Peter. I used to watch that avidly…
http://randythomas.org Randy
I weep at pop music today :)
Ok…that was a little overly dramatic.
Kind of like these brothers :) They’re back up dancers are more entertaining than they are. And was it my imagination or did they literally stumble and fall all the time? You can see the light go on in their eyes each time they remembered they needed to be somewhere else on stage.
I am sure they will take over the world. :).
Jenny
They can’t sing or dance – what chance do they have for the future? People watch them because they are entertaining in their ridiculousness. I watch them for this reason, but I can’t see this on an album so why would I buy their album?
I love the adveritising that is coming out of Jedward mania – some people are getting really creative with it. Found this viral video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_wfG1CT1rg
Ifan Morgan
I agree they might have done this from Queen. However, what they did was pretty smart anyway
As to singing competition and their lack of ability in that department, this is foolishness. There is no act in the X Factor show who is equipped to sing – most of them work within a range of five or six notes, the songs chosen often involve only two or three notes. When they are obliged to sing a “high” note they either miss it or they miss the one after [a common inability among non-singers]. It is fascile to speak of this as a singing show it is a pop celebrity show like all the others and as one said the real talent is among everyone else, the dancers, musicians, backing singers, lighting technicians, dance coaches, singing coaches, directors and producers, who spend each week striving to hide the truth that this is a bunch of non-entities that the Judges picked to make money out of the advertising the show sells…. and if you think that’s cynical ….dont start me!
Jedward have the wit to entertain and not pretend that they can singing…. really they don’t need to sing anyway.
Enjoy the controversy, Simon’s doing what he does best!
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want Martin Luther
Aber mit der Heimat
geht man immer herum,
durch die Welt,
dort und dort
Peter Handke
No one could describe
the Word of the Father;
but when He took flesh from you, O Theotokos,
He consented to be described, and restored the fallen image to its former beauty.
We confess and proclaim our salvation in word and image.
Kontakion of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
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4th Week after Trinity
Almighty God,
you have broken the tyranny of sin
and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts
whereby we call you Father:
give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service,
that we and all creation may be brought
to the glorious liberty of the children of God;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
God’s Word
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but gracious words are pure. (Proverbs 15:26, ESV)
It’s not the fact that the brothers can’t sing. It’s not the fact that by all accounts they really can’t sing.
