So as you will have seen if you watched X Factor tonight it turns out Westlife are to release Daughtry’s track ‘What About Now’
which was played on loop for ten minute periods during the early stages of the auditions and boot camp. The use of the track was interesting, obviously Chris Daughtry is a product of American Idol, and therefore Simon had an interest. As far as we could tell the use of the track was paving the way for Daughtry to try to conquer the UK, something which would have made Chris very happy, as they are ‘awesome!’ Unfortunately (for Chris) this is not the case, and instead, represents the genius of the man that is Simon Cowell – get the song into the public consciousness (it got into the iTunes top 10 – not bad for the 7th single by an unknown American band, that only got to no.18 in the US) and then get one of the most successful and still popular (how?) acts of all time to release it! By why oh why do pop bands cover rock songs that were originally sung by really gravelly singers – Ronan Keating’s god awful cover of Iris anyone? The track, written by former Evanescence members Ben Moody, David Hodges and Josh Hartzler, who is married to Amy Lee, the lead singer of Evanescence will be released next Monday.
Daughtry – What About Now:
Westlife – What About Now:
We were also chatting earlier about the possibility of every official UK No.1 single from now until the new year, having an X Factor connection, what with Cheryl being no.1 today and new singles on the way from JLS, Leona, Alexandra, The X Factor charity single, the X Factor winner, Westlife and I’m sure there are more. Just how much money does Simon Cowell make an hour? Mr Cowell – we salute you!
