Should Cheeky Girls be Number One instead?

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Question: should the Cheeky Girls bring their brand of vulgarity to the top of the Christmas Week Charts as a lesson to Waterman et al?

Proposal here: http://www.thefridaything.co.uk/slapwaterman/
*Not* a viral on behalf of Cheeky Girls.

― Alan Connor (alanconnor), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

It might be better if everyone just actually, physically slapped him. That'd learn him.

― Ferg (Ferg), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

not heard either OTV or GA, but almost anything would be better than Cheeky Girls as Christmas number 1

― Jeff W, Friday, 20 December 2002 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

i don't understand. how wd it be "a lesson to waterman et al"?

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Because I'm getting pissed off at this 'male vocal harmony group' bushlit. You're a boyband, fah fack's sakes, get used to it...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

right, that's waterman pissed, who's "et al"?

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

That'd be Girls Aloud, who reckon they aren't bubblegum pop. No, they're the world's first Appleton tribute band. Well done you!

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

They're also marvellous.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

The most disturing site I have seen recently was a five year old girl marching up and down a train carriage singing 'We are the Cheeky Girls/ touch my bum!' over and over, all the way from Manchester to London. Therefore anything other than the Cheeky Girls.

(Also the word cheeky makes me feel sick, I can't explain why)

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Going mad - disturbing sight that was meant to be.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

this is an argument i've got no time for except to say that the page the above links too is so not otm that it's lost it's trousers, car keys, house and children.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

LONG LIVE THE CHEEKY GIRLS!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 December 2002 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Girls Aloud rule!!!!

OTV are looking way miserable whenever I see them!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 20 December 2002 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Girls Aloud single is the first Tv-pop record I've bought. I bought it cos I really like it. The circumstances of its making are irrelevant next to that. Why not campaign for "Sk8er Boi" anyway?

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 December 2002 15:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why not campaign for DJ Gregory-Tropical Soundclash.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 20 December 2002 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually no Sk8er Boi is a better bet.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 20 December 2002 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, I think the midweeks had Avril at #16 or thereabouts. So not much hope there.

In an ideal world, the Christmas #1 would be the Mum & Dad single. But there ain't no way in hell that's happening.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 December 2002 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes - the intial idea was for something actually good, or interesting. Bjork, the Fall, Yo La Tengo all have singles out. Then it seemed like the best bet would be to just try and prompt a few thousand extra sales of something already doing well. I thought this would be Ginja's "Delboy's Tune", based on the number of times I've seen its video. "Sk8er boi" came up a couple of times, but wasn't doing well enough in the midweeks. So the Cheekies it had to be.

The et al is anyone in the industry who thinks that their job should be easy, that the public are to be told what to buy and should feel grateful to be invited to the party:
> Viewers will be able to see the selection
> and progression of one all-boy and one
> all-girl group - right up to the release
> of their debut singles, out on the same day,
> and both battling it out for the coveted
> Christmas Number One slot!

I suppose there's also a degree of affection for the charts in this: if Number One is to mean anything, or anythig more than Number Two, then it has to be joyfully random and surprising, like the UK 100 Top-Selling Singles Of All Time. We know that these things can be stitched up, but to be told that they're stitched up months in advance without anyone even knowing anything about te singles feels like a slap in the face.

― Alan Connor (alanconnor), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

In fact though if GA does beat OTV then my faith in the charts and record buying public is still reaffirmed - here are two equally exposed, marketed and hyped singles and the public is still going to pick the (much) better one. How does your 'rigging' the charts because records 'should' be crap at Christmas differ from Waterman and Walsh, who let's face it are providing easily as much entertainment as the Cheeky Girls - "Pete Waterman should kill himself on live TV"!!!? This whole idea that the Xmas no.1 should be a crap novelty instead of a good pop record stinks.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

The most interesting aspect of all this is that here are two self-professed industry masters and svengalis who are - however hammily - putting their reputations on the line a little, saying "well this is my vision of what the public want", and one of them is going to be proved more right than the other.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

I don't understand the question but the answer is definitely yes.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

eighteen years pass...

surely they should be number two

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 October 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link

What was their New Jersey?

― Typo? Negative! (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 October 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link

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