They had a couple of bigger hits than this to come, although it was always very much Eminem + others. #10 D12 вЂ“ Shit On You: Eminem now famous enough to give his mates a leg up on a record which is about as witty as its title. #4 Gorillaz вЂ“ Clint Eastwood: Who wouldnвЂ™t have preferred this at #1? Great song, and the whole вЂnightmare ArchiesвЂ™ conceit managed to stretch into a surprisingly long and interesting chart career. RIKROK вЂ“ вЂњIt WasnвЂ™t MeвЂќ HEARвЂ™SAY вЂ“ вЂњPure And SimpleвЂќ В» Comments Was this record a bad decision? Not really. Westlife until now have offered nothing so seismic вЂ“ theirs are songs of security, with drama coming not from bold choices made but from bad decisions avoided. вЂњUptown GirlвЂќ is a daydream of inversion, the world turned upside down so much that an ordinary boy and a rich girl might make it together. Still itвЂ™s an unusual track for them, not just in the tempo but in the way the song and its singers operate in different registers of fantasy. Its sin, which it shares with almost every 2001 cover hit, is that thereвЂ™s no earthly reason to choose it over the original. So there are far worse Comic Relief singles and far worse Westlife records. But itвЂ™s not like that wasnвЂ™t part of the originalвЂ™s appeal.

This jolly atmosphere matches its video, though the emphasis on poor virtueвЂ™s triumph over rich vice has the sad side-effect of treating Claudia Schiffer as a prize. вЂњUptown GirlвЂќ becomes more of a romp вЂ“ no butchery, as it always had rompish elements вЂ“ and to seal that impression itвЂ™s all iced and cherried with a patented Westlife key change. On record, WestlifeвЂ™s take cuts out a lot of JoelвЂ™s emotional nuance вЂ“ the delicious tension between brag and daydream, the way Joel is fronting for the lads, but also thinking, what ifвЂ¦? In WestlifeвЂ™s version, the boys are the lads, and the song is staged as a round, with different members stepping up for a verse.

вЂњUptown GirlвЂќ in WestlifeвЂ™s world involves a woman waking up to the fact sheвЂ™s stuck with a pack of howling arseholes. He wants to beat the high class boys, but theyвЂ™re a background detail. This puts the emphasis on a part of the song Billy Joel doesnвЂ™t stress as much вЂ“ вЂњUptown GirlвЂќ in his reading is the fantasy of a boy dreaming that a rich girl will notice what a stand-up guy he is. But the video for вЂњUptown GirlвЂќ вЂ“ the most entertaining thing about it вЂ“ leans into just this conceit, casting the band as five honest lads working service jobs and pitched into a cartoon class-clash fantasy, against posh goons straight out of an IPC comic.

You forget how much of an impact you have on children.Features the best joke on a Comic Relief single вЂ“ a girl gets bored of her вЂњwhitebread worldвЂќ, and instead she chooses Westlife. They are beginning to understand how big Westlife is. He said: 'The children were too young to experience Westlife the first time around. The video for the Irish band's new single, 'My Blood', features the kids of every band member, and Shane Filan, 40, admits that having children has changed the band's approach. He had already written some songs for us.' But if we want to be in the charts again, we needed to do something fresh, that's when we got the call to say Ed Sheeran was a Westlife fan as a little boy. We just did a big tour around the UK and Ireland and Asia. Whilst Nicky Byrne, 41, added: 'I think we enjoy the nostalgia. We kept some ballads in there for the old school audience but also freshened ourselves up.' With this album, we wanted to find a sound that was good for us. Something that felt new rather than what we used to do. He said: 'Because we were a band of the 90s and 00s, the big thing for us was doing something fresh.

Westlife released their new album 'Spectrum' last week - which came as their first major album in eight years - and Kian Egan, 39, revealed that the band wanted to produce something 'fresh' rather than recreating the music from their 1990s and 2000s heyday. We were doing the shoot with Claudia Schiffer and she was going for lunch halfway through the shoot but the label told us we had to do finish the shoot.' She invited us for lunch and we turned her down. Speaking on Monday's (18.11.19) episode of 'This Morning', Mark, 39, said: ''When we shot Uptown Girl, Claudia Schiffer was in the video. Claudia invited the band to lunch after she appeared in the music video for their 2000 cover of Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl', but band member Mark Feehily has now claimed they were forced to turn down her offer by their record label.

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