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A song we'd like to be Number One at Christmas: Reality Fool Allstars — 'Chasing Cars'

  • October 2, 2008
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The idea of this potential Number One single is that everyone who has EVER been kicked off X‑Factor, Pop Idol, Popstars and the rest gets together in a massive CHOIR OF FAILURE (a 'quailure') for a huge orches­tral rework of Snow Patrol's recently-appointed 'anthem of woe', 'Chasing Cars'.

It would be a cross between this:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SU–VxFL8E

And this:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKT_HGfgC30

And it would be Number One for eight centuries.

In the Band Aid-style video, every time someone appeared on screen to sing their song, their own par­tic­u­lar tale of distress 'n' mis­for­tune would flash up in big letters. 'DEAD DAD.' 'BATTLED CANCER.' 'ONCE DROPPED A CAKE.'

BUT SERIOUSLY

It's all very easy to be snooty and hilarious about this because after a while you become slightly numb to the parade of miserably wheeled-out sob stories but if you will indulge us for one moment we have to say that this per­form­ance from last weekend, wherein Rachel Hylton reima­gined 'Chasing Cars', was truly extraordin­ary and made us cry a little bit.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5XaZkoHPhA

HAVING SAID THAT

We know it's probably not the done thing with recov­er­ing drug addicts etc but we'd love to go out on a three day bender with Rachel Hylton. We bet she would 'really give finding booze after 11pm 110%' and 'really make that 4am argument with a minicab driver her own'.

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