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The Military Wives
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It has to be because Christmas is near ...
How else can we explain the cod weep-fest that surounds this rather banal song sung not particularly well by a choir of women who cry afterwards?
It's another in a long line of similar cash cows - a group of people who happen to share a common link - priests / nurses / slaughtermen ... OK, I made the last one up, but keep your eyes open!
Leave out the wave of (from where?) emotion, and what do we have here?
A group of women whose wives are soldiers. Just soldiers, doing the job they signed up for, and trained for, with the full knowledge that they are being trained to fire guns because one day they willhave to fire them at someone, who will quitre probaby be firing back. So it's not a major feat of courage or endurance, or anything except men doing their jobs.
So their wives get banded together as as 'choir' based on nothing more than a common link with their husbands' occupation - and suddenly they are headed for the Christmas Number One.
The only saving grace is that for another year the predictbility of the X-Factor winner getting it - close in front of the sun rising tomorrow - is likely to be thwarted, but honestly people, it's a rather lame song sung not especially well, and but for the hype, it would not be selling anywhere.
OK - rant over ... incoming!!!!
How else can we explain the cod weep-fest that surounds this rather banal song sung not particularly well by a choir of women who cry afterwards?
It's another in a long line of similar cash cows - a group of people who happen to share a common link - priests / nurses / slaughtermen ... OK, I made the last one up, but keep your eyes open!
Leave out the wave of (from where?) emotion, and what do we have here?
A group of women whose wives are soldiers. Just soldiers, doing the job they signed up for, and trained for, with the full knowledge that they are being trained to fire guns because one day they willhave to fire them at someone, who will quitre probaby be firing back. So it's not a major feat of courage or endurance, or anything except men doing their jobs.
So their wives get banded together as as 'choir' based on nothing more than a common link with their husbands' occupation - and suddenly they are headed for the Christmas Number One.
The only saving grace is that for another year the predictbility of the X-Factor winner getting it - close in front of the sun rising tomorrow - is likely to be thwarted, but honestly people, it's a rather lame song sung not especially well, and but for the hype, it would not be selling anywhere.
OK - rant over ... incoming!!!!
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As an ex-Serviceman I'm fully behind the idea, especially because of where some of the charities that will benefit from it.
At least it's an original piece especially composed for them. Rather them number one than some other repetitive dirge/dreadful cover from that sh!te we've come to know as The X Factor.
At least it's an original piece especially composed for them. Rather them number one than some other repetitive dirge/dreadful cover from that sh!te we've come to know as The X Factor.
So it's not a major feat of courage or endurance, or anything except men doing their jobs.
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Totally agreed and one from which they do not shirk, nor expect any special or preferential treatment. They do though have the courage to serve and defend the freedoms which allow us to 'rise and sleep under the blanket of the very freedom they provide'. Some people couldn't summon the courage to walk through a Recruiting Office door.
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Totally agreed and one from which they do not shirk, nor expect any special or preferential treatment. They do though have the courage to serve and defend the freedoms which allow us to 'rise and sleep under the blanket of the very freedom they provide'. Some people couldn't summon the courage to walk through a Recruiting Office door.
good luck to them.
if forming a choir, recording a song, appearing at the festival of remembrance service, and generally giving themselves something to focus on for a brief while instead of worrying about their husbands who are risking life and limb, then it's been worth it.
and if, as a biproduct of that, some money is raised for forces charities and the x-factor rubbish is completely obliterated from the charts, then three loud cheers for them.
the 3 part series was worth watching for gareth the choirmaster alone!
if forming a choir, recording a song, appearing at the festival of remembrance service, and generally giving themselves something to focus on for a brief while instead of worrying about their husbands who are risking life and limb, then it's been worth it.
and if, as a biproduct of that, some money is raised for forces charities and the x-factor rubbish is completely obliterated from the charts, then three loud cheers for them.
the 3 part series was worth watching for gareth the choirmaster alone!
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