| Is Jim Famous? | |
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steven_stuart 01:29 pm UTC 03/19/09 |
| In reply to: | Bonnie Tyler / TEOTH is UK's no.1 Singstar karaoke download - angie 11:46 am UTC 03/18/09 |
| I was recently sitting in the cinema and finding the ads that they show before the film to be rather boring. But then an ad for Playstation 3 came on. It featured twelve different people singing Total Eclipse. The last one was so awful that she broke the camera lens. Two ads later they showed the gorilla selling chocolate ad. I then went to the toilet and Bat Out Of Hell was being piped into the men's room. If Jim isn't famous with the average man on the street, he should be. I am hoping that Bat The Musical will be a big success and elevate Jim above Meat Loaf. He has certainly done a lot more than Meat. > FYI: > 1980's hit Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler is > the most downloaded track in Sony's SingStore in the UK, > it has emerged. > > SingStore is the online content portal that arrived > alongside the PS3 iteration of Sony's world conquering > karaoke franchise SingStar in December 2007, and has to > date seen four million tracks downloaded by users at a > cost of 99p each. > > The Guardian reports that Bonnie Tyler's power ballad tops > the all-time download list, with Europe's The Final > Countdown, Pink's Just Like A Pill, Elvis Presley’s > Suspicious Minds and Natalie Imbruglia's Torn in hot > pursuit. > > Here's the SingStar Top Ten in full: > > 1. Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler > 2. Final Countdown - Europe > 3. Just Like A Pill - Pink > 4. Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley > 5. Torn - Natalie Imbruglia > 6. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper > 7. Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor > 8. Take On Me - A-ha > 9. Baby One More Time - Britney Spears > 10. American Pie - Don McLean > > It's worth noting that tracks such as American Pie are > relatively recent releases, suggesting their uptake has > been considerably fast. > > ------------------------------------------------ > > Guardian article: > Sony has released some figures from its track download > site. If you thought you were the only Bonnie Tyler > fanatic out there, think again... > > A group of mates stumble back home after a long, merry > Friday night at the pub. "Hey, let's play SingStar," > someone drawls as the drinks cabinet is raided for that > bottle of ouzo brought back from a Greek island hopping > trip in 2002. "We need some new songs," declares someone > else, "Let's get on the SingStore!" > > It can only be this sort of scenario - surely played out > every week, all over the globe - that explains the top ten > list of most downloaded SingStar tracks. Since the PS3 > launch of Sony's karaoke sim in December 2007, four > million extra songs have been purchased online. And, brace > yourself, this is what we've mostly opted for... > > 10 American Pie - Don McLean > 9 Baby One More Time - Britney Spears > 8 Take On Me - A-ha > 7 Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor > 6 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper > 5 Torn - Natalie Imbruglia > 4 Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley > 3 Just Like A Pill - P!nk > 2 Final Countdown - Europe > 1 Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler > > So what can we learn from this line-up? The fact that 50% > of the chart comprises of eighties hits would seem to > suggest that the greatest downloaders of SingStar tracks > are nostalgic thirty-somethings. Either that, or eighties > pop music - with its combination of bombastic choruses and > idiotic lyrics - is just better for karaoke than anything > produced before or since. > > It's also interesting that the vocalist gender split is > 50/50, which would seem to suggest that PlayStation > karaoke is very much a unisex activity - although it's a > dangerous assumption that players go with their own gender > when selecting tracks. How many of Gamesblog's male > readers have belted out that lung-busting Tyler classic at > two in the morning? > > On the subject of Total Eclipse, what is it about that > song that makes it such a PlayStation karaoke gem? Of > course, the Cadburys advert has no doubt raised its > profile over the last year, but I expect it would have > topped the chart without the endorsement of a drumming > gorilla. > > No, I know why it's at the top. In many ways, the song is > like a videogame level. It starts off slowly and quietly, > building the setting, introducing you to the central > themes. Then the pressure begins to mount up, leading to > the mini-boss of the middle section, where the drums come > in. After this, a brief period of calm, before the > climatic explosion - "We're living in a powder keg and > giving off sparks!" - a vocal boss battle of epic > proportions, requiring several special moves across the > vocal register. > > And then calm again, as the song ebbs away on a tide of > bitter lament, a love affair shrouded in darkness and > unspoken anguish, like Solid Snake skulking away from > another ostensibly successful mission, his soul sullied, > his head bowed. | |
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