If Matt Wins The X Factor Tonight He Will Release a Biffy Clyro Song

Motley Crue

I think I'm going to be sick



But, if Matt Cardle wins the X Factor in about three hours (and he is favourite to do so), he is going to release Biffy Clyro's 'Many of Horror (When We Collide)' as his 'Winner's Song'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAh--lH0H3U

First of all, and no disrespect to Biffy, but they've been taken as a struggling Indie band on the college circuit and almost thrown into festival headlines and multi million dollar record contracts in a few short years and surely Matt covering a song like this - by a band who are set to headline Sonisphere 2011 - is a massive attempt by Simon Cowell to bring across some of those who voted against him in the Rage Against the Machine Xmas No 1 fiasco

I'm personally disgusted by X Factor leeching off a well established band, who have tried for many years to gain accreditation, and taking their songs and recycling them in the same way the likes of Miley Cyrus have allowed before. And if Biffy have allowed these songs to be covered by X Factor, then shame on them, for allowing this corporate marketing machine to simply offer them money and success and going along with it all - perhaps they believe they're going to change something?

Does anyone else find something wrong with this?

zuroph

Well they dont deserve the sonisphere headline slot for one thing.

Malice

Motley Crue wrote: »

I'm personally disgusted by X Factor

Me too.

GLaDOS

I go to this forum so I don't have to hear about this sort of bollox...

blue movie

have to say i was very pissed off to hear this he ruined it and if he wins it will be known as his song rather than a biffy clyro song as they are obviously not as well known as the puppets that come through x factor

Malice

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I go to this forum so I don't have to hear about this sort of bollox...

Agreed but I think in this case the thread is relevant to the Rock & Metal forum.

Mushy

blue movie wrote: »

have to say i was very pissed off to hear this he ruined it and if he wins it will be known as his song rather than a biffy clyro song as they are obviously not as well known as the puppets that come through x factor

Don't worry, by January when everybody is wondering who won it, they'll be saying he sang that Biffy Clyro song.

blue movie

Mushy wrote: »

Don't worry, by January when everybody is wondering who won it, they'll be saying he sang that Biffy Clyro song.

hopefully

Nolanger

They'll know how Journey feel.

Furious-Red

Well bad news lads . Its gonna be released since he won.
Agreed people will prob think he wrote the song himself , similar to when Westlife covered this and people will associate with Westlife instead of Daughtry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtgVL__Li2E

Beekay

Wonder would the original make it to No.1?

Furious-Red

Well it made number 20 when released , could see if climb back into the charts . Would love if the original got more buys

Mushy

Furious-Red wrote: »

Well it made number 20 when released , could see if climb back into the charts . Would love if the original got more buys

Facebook group:p

the_barfly1

X Factor changed the name of the song... I would have thought the guys in biffy would have had a little bit more integrity than to allow that. Disappointing.

Beekay

Gonna have to laugh at the idea of an x-factor song being played by a headliner at Sonisphere

Knifey Spoony

Isn't there more than enough songs in the pop market for them to shamlessly cover rather than dipping into a market that is fundamentally the complete opposite of what that show stands for? Complete and utter bastards. :mad:

Monsieur Folie

Okay so we should definitely start a campaign to get the original above the X Factor version. It's only fair that Biffy get the recognition they deserve. Who's in?

Angron

Pretty indifferent to this really. Don't like Biffy Clyro, hate the X-Factor. As was said, in a few months time, people will probably struggle to remember the winner of this, at least Clyro are relatively famous.

Furious-Red

Monsieur Folie wrote: »

Okay so we should definitely start a campaign to get the original above the X Factor version. It's only fair that Biffy get the recognition they deserve. Who's in?

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Lets-Get-Biffy-Clyros-Many-of-Horror-to-Number-One-for-Christmas-2010/113266465409399

Mushy

the_barfly1 wrote: »

X Factor changed the name of the song... I would have thought the guys in biffy would have had a little bit more integrity than to allow that. Disappointing.

Isn't it Many of Horror (When We Collide) they used? Cos he doing the radio version.

RayCon

Nolanger wrote: »

They'll know how Journey feel.

Insanely more wealthy ?

Monsieur Folie

Furious-Red wrote: »

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Lets-Get-Biffy-Clyros-Many-of-Horror-to-Number-One-for-Christmas-2010/113266465409399

Joined!

Angron

Nolanger wrote: »

They'll know how Journey feel.

A desire to kill the cast of Glee?

Nailz

I hate X Factor and I hate Biffy Clyro, so I couldn't really give a ****.

Mushy

Nailz wrote: »

I hate X Factor and I hate Biffy Clyro, so I couldn't really give a ****.

Care enough to post in a thread bout it though:p

Nailz

Mushy wrote: »

Care enough to post in a thread bout it though:p

Or, I care so little, I'd like to point out how little I care...

zuroph

Monsieur Folie wrote: »

Okay so we should definitely start a campaign to get the original above the X Factor version. It's only fair that Biffy get the recognition they deserve. Who's in?

just lol.

Monsieur Folie

zuroph wrote: »

just lol.

I'm glad I managed to inadvertently make your evening slightly funnier than it originally would have been.

zuroph

it will never happen, and starting such a campaign at worst would achieve nothing, at best it would further dilute all the other stupid campaigns that have been started, such as bird is the word, and cage against the machine. Its pointless, and not going to achieve anything.

Monsieur Folie

zuroph wrote: »

it will never happen, and starting such a campaign at worst would achieve nothing, at best it would further dilute all the other stupid campaigns that have been started, such as bird is the word, and cage against the machine. Its pointless, and not going to achieve anything.

Still no harm in trying.

Even if Biffy got a decent spot it would make people more aware of the original artist, which would still be a fair enough achievement.

Also, Bird Is The Word is a decent contestant for No.1, it's got about 600,000 fans on the main fan page, currently.. I wouldn't rule them out yet!

Angron

Rather "Surfin' Bird" to either the X Factor thing, or the original tbh.