Copywatch 1: Daniel Powter

Daniel Powter: he's had a bad day. He's taking one down (whatever that means). He sings a sad song just to turn it around.

Well, not exactly a sad song.

Think about putting on your blue suede shoes, and boarding a plane. Touching down in the land of the delta blues, in the middle of the pouring rain?

Yep, in his second single, Mr Powter took significant "inspiration" the intro from Marc Cohn's 1991 hit "Walking in Memphis". Check it out, Cohn's first:

We know you've had a bad day, Daniel - what with that being your only hit and all.

But there's really no need to take it out on Marc Cohn, is there?

-Copywatch: Cracking down on unoriginality since... I don't know, yesterday? x

Britain's (still) Got Talent

Here we go again - the curtain rose once again over the live stages of ITV's fourth series of popular reality show Britain's Got Talent. Refreshingly (we hope) this post isn't your typical "overproduced!/rigged!/unrealistic!/degrading!/scam!" outcry - the likes of which all too often dominate the media coverage of such programming. Actually, we quite like Britain's Got Talent.  It's been another bumper crop of talent from the fruitful fields of blighty this year, and we'll be looking forward to the rest of the week on ITV. It's great entertainment.
The only small - and it is small - qualm we have with the series is its use of the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack. That's literally it - it just seems odd to feature the music from such a psychologically disturbing movie within the first ten minutes of a primetime and relatively light-hearted TV talent show. Though it seems producers were bored with Carmina Burana and wanted something new, yet equivalently epic. What can you do?

Well, maybe use an extended or looped version of the actual Britain's Got Talent music? Which brings us neatly to the little bit of BGT trivia we have for you: Andy Love and Jos Jorgensen are the two composer/producers behind the actual BGT title music. They're also credited as the composers of the equivalent music for ITV's other large-scale talent search, The X Factor and the american version of Britain's Got Talent. They also co-wrote the single Upside Down from Paloma Faith's debut album Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?. So, there you have it...

WWTM x


PS: That's actually a great album, check it out: Do You Want the Truth Or Something Beautiful - full review to follow.