My Christmas Number One
I watched the final of The X-Factor this morning, because I was out at A Christmas Carol last night so I recorded it (yes, I did, and I’m not ashamed. Well only a bit).
For those of you who don’t know, the final was between:
Ray, 18, Liverpudlian and a born entertainer, though I’m a bit suspicious of anyone of eighteen whose preferred music is swing.
Leona, 21, from London, a modest girl with a great ability to feel the emotion of a song and with a truly fantastic voice.
And she won. Now, I know that if you care at all, you were watching, and if you weren’t watching you just don’t care.
But my point is this. At the end of the final, both finalists sing their versions of a song which they have already recorded: then the winner’s is released and becomes a near-enough dead cert for the Christmas Number One.
Last year’s was called One Moment in Time.
This year’s is called This is My Moment.
Do you see a bit of a pattern? Me too. I want to overhear the conversation where the songwriter is commissioned to write it: - - “ballad - - Christmas - - must be catchy - - strong emotion - - key change - - will look good when the winner sings it with tears in his/her eyes”
And a big “money moment” which is the memorable point in such songs, often just at the key change, like that one that goes and I eeeI eeeI -- - - - - - will always love you - - -
My bid for next year’s is called Moment of my Heart, because television programmes with Heart in the title are always successful so I don’t see why this shouldn’t apply to songs too.
Oh this is my moment
The moment of my heart
I think of all you give to me
When we are far apart
And soon we’ll be together for
It’s Christmas in my heart
And we’ll make lots of money
As this song goes up the chart
Next year’s X-factor winner will sing it, millions of people will buy it in December and by March they will find it in their cd collection and feel faintly embarrassed. Ah, showbiz, isn’t it great?
For those of you who don’t know, the final was between:
Ray, 18, Liverpudlian and a born entertainer, though I’m a bit suspicious of anyone of eighteen whose preferred music is swing.
Leona, 21, from London, a modest girl with a great ability to feel the emotion of a song and with a truly fantastic voice.
And she won. Now, I know that if you care at all, you were watching, and if you weren’t watching you just don’t care.
But my point is this. At the end of the final, both finalists sing their versions of a song which they have already recorded: then the winner’s is released and becomes a near-enough dead cert for the Christmas Number One.
Last year’s was called One Moment in Time.
This year’s is called This is My Moment.
Do you see a bit of a pattern? Me too. I want to overhear the conversation where the songwriter is commissioned to write it: - - “ballad - - Christmas - - must be catchy - - strong emotion - - key change - - will look good when the winner sings it with tears in his/her eyes”
And a big “money moment” which is the memorable point in such songs, often just at the key change, like that one that goes and I eeeI eeeI -- - - - - - will always love you - - -
My bid for next year’s is called Moment of my Heart, because television programmes with Heart in the title are always successful so I don’t see why this shouldn’t apply to songs too.
Oh this is my moment
The moment of my heart
I think of all you give to me
When we are far apart
And soon we’ll be together for
It’s Christmas in my heart
And we’ll make lots of money
As this song goes up the chart
Next year’s X-factor winner will sing it, millions of people will buy it in December and by March they will find it in their cd collection and feel faintly embarrassed. Ah, showbiz, isn’t it great?
posted by Daphne at 7:40 pm
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I see Cliff almost made it to No.1 today and that may have been his best chance at keeping his incredible record going (no pun) of having a No.1 in every decade from the fifties.
Maybe his fans will run out........with their zimmers on fast forward......and buy more copies to try and get him the double whammy of No.1 and the Christmas No.1 at the same time.
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