On Sunday, we witnessed what came to be the last programme documenting the audition process of the underrated, revolutionary post-feminist Space Opera series “The X Factor 2011″.
Hear that over there? That’s Ewan Mcgregor singing Your Song in a melancholic manner with an umbrella. See that over in the other direction? That’s your inescapable loneliness.
But put all that heroin and selection of complimentary bath salts to the side for one moment! Those headaches are probably nothing to worry about after all. Let’s just kick back, and remember all the classic moments of the past few weeks instead. Remember when a woman told Tulisa how it was all HER opinion, and then on top of that, that other thing happened as well? Sometimes the path to creating amazing music is hard. Just ask Brian Wilson or David Sneddon. Or both! They’re probably sitting together on the same park bench somewhere, trying to feed Hula Hoop packets to pissed off swans.
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On this day in 1983, music lost one of its most brilliant and unique voices in Karen Carpenter of The Carpenters. Aged 32, Karen passed away of a cardiac arrest after a long struggle with anorexia nervosa, ensuring that her already melancholic voice would forever sound so bittersweet that every listen would leave the listener cosy, yet somehow grieving.
Of course, The Carpenters hit the big time with cutesy ballad, ‘Close to You’ which topped the American chart.
However, The Carpenters, despite being possibly the most un-cool band in history, were much more than that and a lesson in songwriting and melody in their purest form.
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If you care deeply about the fate of houses that skinny dead women used to live in, then this is the story for you.
The family home of The Carpenters is going to be demolished because the current owner is sick of weird Carpenters fans hanging around all the time, and the fight is on to save the important memorial that one quite dull band used to live in for a while until one of them died.
Will the campaign to save The Carpenters house from demolition be successful? More importantly, can you really bring yourself to be even slightly bothered about whether a sodding house gets knocked down or not?
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