Christmas Lights Oxford Street

[Ladygooner]

Short notice I know, but the lights are being turned on tonight by Leona Lewis outside John Lewis (any relation do you think?!) at 6pm if anyone wants to be there?

[Jah Lush]

Leona Lewis? Who is she? Never heard of her. In my day ...blah blah blah.

[barrymarshall]

Christmas lights?! S'a bit early, no?

[*Bob*]

These are the lights for Christmas 2008.

They turned the ones on for Christmas 2007 ages ago.

[atila the gooner]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Leona Lewis? Who is she? Never heard of her. In my

> day ...blah blah blah.

Probably some z list celebrity totally bereft of any talent, but famous for being..........................famous? ( i'm guessing here)

[Keef]

I'm with Jah, who is Leona Lewis?

[*Bob*]

X-Factor, my friends...

[Keef]

So what Atila said then.

[Ladygooner]

Currently No 1 in the charts you old fogies!

[georgia]

Come on guys - winner of last year's X factor of course!

Far too early for the Xmas lights though...

[Keef]

I do feel a bit of an old foogiw when it comes to music. I don't even listen to XFM or Virgin anymore, we seem to be strictly Radio 4, so I have no idea who is big these days, and hadn't even heard of half the "big" bands that played Reading this year.

[char1ie]

http://www.aliciakeysfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/leonalewis.jpg

http://images.stage6.com/user_images/e/erront55/4666fc82a2127.jpg

Good choice of celebrity light switch.

Charlie

[Keef]

Yeah, I would.

[downsouth]

What, switch the lights on if asked? Me too.

[lozzyloz]

Are they using low energy bulbs?

[atila the gooner]

Keef Wrote:

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> Yeah, I would.

As I'm sure most red blooded males would, but It doesn't alter the fact that she is probably a z list celebrity who will go the way of all the other winners of "reality" TV shows, straight down the toilet after a year ( if that)

[*Bob*]

She's better than your average singfest winner - but if she simply knocks out gruesome bombastic sub-Carey power ballads (as Cowell will no doubt insist) she won't be around for too long.

Will Young did good - he made some smart choices for songs and production of said songs and managed to shed the 'talent comp winner' image.

[lozzyloz]

As I'm sure most red blooded males would, but It doesn't alter the fact that she is probably a z list celebrity who will go the way of all the other winners of "reality" TV shows, straight down the toilet after a year ( if that)

I'm not so sure. She's not quite my cup of tea but she has got talent and some heavyweight backing. The PR machine has started. She'll be big in 2008 and beyond.

But then again I could be wrong.

[mightyroar]

I am mildly obsessed by her current number one.

Not normally my cup of tea at all cant stand Carey, Houston etc.... but I am fascinated by the slightly dark and almost meaningless lyrics. So meaningless that they sometimes seem quite philosophical.

Either that or I am getting old and the company of small children has made my brain start to dissolve.

and she does give good warble.

[citizenED]

Sorry to buck the trend a bit, and I love Granddaddy, Jamie T, Preston School of Industry and Sparklehorse as much as the next man, but watching Leona sing Bridge over troubled Water on the X-factor last year brought a tear to my eye - she was ace.

[char1ie]

I see her as a Girls Aloud style-success. Pretty, funny, humble, talented and just nice. Gawd bless 'er!

Charlie

[DaveR]

Girls Aloud = Pretty, funny, humble, talented and just nice

Are you sure? How about living proof that if you throw enough real(if dubiously employed) talent - songwriters, producers, musicians, choreographers, stylists, PR etc. - at a bunch of decent looking girls who are willing to pole dance with their clothes on, that's enough to bring success in the pop business?

[*Bob*]

DaveR Wrote:

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How about living proof that if you

> throw enough real(if dubiously employed) talent -

> songwriters, producers, musicians, choreographers,

> stylists, PR etc... that's enough to bring success in the

> pop business?

This is what the 'pop business' is - and always has been. I like pop. I enjoy it for what it is and don't confuse it with real, chinstrokey music (which I like as well).

[mightyroar]

Yes DaveR totally agree, it's all just a mirage created by those snake oil merchants

but seriously now, does anyone else have any thoughts on the lyrics to Bleeding love?