WHeT Charlotte Church?
I remember her becoming famous in the late 90s/early 00s when she was a kid. I never listened to her much but did like that one song “Dream a Dream”. I remember hearing her sing “Bridge Under Troubled Water” and thinking she sounded amazing. And then out of nowhere she abandoned her classical singing and she came back as a pop artist in 2005 with her song “Call My Name”.
I always assumed she turned off most of her audience when she tried transitioning over.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 56 | April 26, 2024 5:40 PM
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Op add her to your other odd fascination list
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 24, 2024 6:21 PM
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Her voice was never great. I suppose it was "cute," for a while, but when she matured it was amateur hour, even by relaxed, classical crossover standards. When she was late teens or so she decided to go pop-slut, and with terrible music, at which point her popularity nose-dived and became virtually non-existent. She still seems a bit trashy or "chav"-like, it however the Brits say it, and it seems mostly to be of her own doing.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 24, 2024 6:25 PM
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She did not have a trained voice. I’ll bet she can no longer sing like that as it probably gave out.
The Ford Millennium Anthem sucked.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 24, 2024 6:37 PM
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Her voice gave out and she said the firefighters of 9/11 weren’t heroes and everybody got up in arms.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 24, 2024 6:38 PM
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In college I had a music teacher who used Charlotte as an example of someone who had a natural gift of singing but instead of training her voice further she misused it and lost her voice. He always said that her voice was gone, and this was around 2009.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 24, 2024 6:40 PM
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She's busy sucking Hamas cock so her mouth isn't available to sing.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 6 | April 24, 2024 6:42 PM
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Oh, her voice WAS beautiful r2. If she trained her voice she would have been one of the greats and her voice would still be around.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | April 24, 2024 6:44 PM
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Didn’t she open some bed and breakfast?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 24, 2024 6:48 PM
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She’s fine. She sends her love.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 24, 2024 6:49 PM
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She had a talk show in the UK like 15 years ago. It didn’t last long.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 24, 2024 6:53 PM
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And she used to perform on her show. That shit Kelly Clarkson does isn’t original like people think. Maybe to US audiences but Church did it in the UK long ago.
I remember her and Fergie butchering 9 To 5
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 11 | April 24, 2024 6:55 PM
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R7 I have to respectfully disagree. I think her voice is not good at all in that example. It's okay, but it is nowhere near great. Countless West End and Broadway performers could put that performance to shame. If she was singing that at a local fair in a small town, or a high school talent show, I might think otherwise, but it's just not remarkable.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 24, 2024 6:59 PM
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R12 that’s your opinion. She didn’t make millions off of nothing babe.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 24, 2024 7:02 PM
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The last time anyone saw her, she was sailing down the Thames with Queen Elizabeth for the Millennium Celebration. I think when they got to Greenwich, Liz pushed her in.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 24, 2024 7:02 PM
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No, she would never have been one of the greats R7. She’s a mediocre soubrette soprano who could easily be outsung by any freshman soprano at any low level conservatory.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 24, 2024 7:03 PM
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Charlotte Church is a horrible person although not quite as horrible as her mother. She paid for her mother to run a pub, a shop, a bed and breakfast and she still isn't happy.
So many stories about them in Cardiff. They're not a popular family. People know fake shit when they see it.
As for the pop career the Tissues and Issues album came out in an era of amazing British pop. Girls Aloud were getting into their prime, Sugababes were having huge hits, Rachel Stevens was knocking out bangers. For all the tabloid hype Church was so pedestrian. She recorded a Rick Nowels Boy George song called Even God Can't Change The Past which is a beautiful song but was sung a lower register and she sounded like she needed to blow her nose.
More recently she bought Laura Ashley's old house and turned it into a "luxury retreat" but spent so much money on it she had to take money back from her parents. She sold the story of the development to a tv channel for a behind the scenes show which was so dull. It's staffed by volunteers.
She also won't send her kids to the local school so they're homeschooled by the "charity" she runs and asks the public to donate money to.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 24, 2024 7:20 PM
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I remember her becoming a tabloid fixture in the 00s as a teen. British tabloids were harsh on her.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 24, 2024 7:30 PM
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Her last name is Church, it couldn't end well.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 24, 2024 7:32 PM
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Mother Maria Church orchestrated the sacking of manager Jonathan Shalit because she felt he was taking too much money.
The case went to court and a day after some pretty damaging revelations about the Church family they settled and agreed to pay him £2m.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 20 | April 24, 2024 7:35 PM
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She’s no longer a millionaire.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 21 | April 24, 2024 7:42 PM
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[quote]Charlotte Church denies antisemitism after pro-Palestinian chant
Thanks for posting that! Was on the fence about her, but when I see she’s standing up for oppressed people despite judeo-fascist pressure, I’m on her side now!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 24, 2024 7:43 PM
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I'll always love her for throwing shade at that old whore Elizabeth Windsor:
[quote] I've met her about seven times and she never remembers me. When you get close to her you realise she's an old woman and has no idea what's going on
That nicely sums up the Queen's whole life - she spent almost a century shaking the hands of people she forgot thirty seconds later.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 25 | April 24, 2024 10:07 PM
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This is what I was talking about you jet set whores…
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 26 | April 24, 2024 10:35 PM
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Damn, and here I thought she'd end up a classy broad -- guess not!
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 24, 2024 10:48 PM
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[quote]Damn, and here I thought she'd end up a classy broad -- guess not!
Just not our type. Belonged mopping the stage, not performing on it.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 24, 2024 10:51 PM
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The Queen knows who the important people are. Ed Miliband's anecdote about her saying "oh it's you" was hilarious.
Considering the amount of people she met why would she remember some kid who sings?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 25, 2024 11:28 AM
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He said: “I was deposed by the British people rather than my party, but as my career nosedived my wife’s took off.
“In 2019, she became a High Court judge and a dame. We were therefore both invited to the Palace to meet Her Majesty.
"As we saw each other, Her Majesty fixed me with her gaze and said, “Oh, it’s you. What are you doing here?”, knowing full well why I was there, and we had a wonderful conversation.
"There she was at 93, still full of vim, vigour and humour. There is a lesson for us all in the kindness she showed to me and to other Members of the House.”
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 30 | April 25, 2024 11:30 AM
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Didn't Church become involved with a series of questionable men that weren't such great influences on her?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 25, 2024 1:08 PM
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She’s fine (and in fine voice). She sends her love.
She and Jackie Evancho are in the studio now recording the flower duet from Lakme for release later this year.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 25, 2024 1:18 PM
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Every year, she calls Buckingham Palace and asks if this year they’ll make her a Dame.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 25, 2024 1:29 PM
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The fact the Queen didn’t remember her makes the Queen all the more endearing.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 25, 2024 1:35 PM
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[quote]Didn't Church become involved with a series of questionable men that weren't such great influences on her?
In her teens she dated 2 working class boys her own age in Cardiff. Both were dubbed "bad boys". Neither were particularly nice people and they both sold their stories to the tabloids. One of them went to prison for drug dealing.
And then she started dating Gavin Henson who had had a few decent matches with the Wales team and had a body much nicer than his face. One media saying was "You've heard of Posh and Becks, here's Dosh and Pecs".
Gavin Henson cheated on her repeatedly and had multiple drunken incidents, like pissing over someone on a train. They sold loads of exclusives to celebrity magazines and ultimately broke up. They have 2 kids. In sporting terms he achieved nothing like David Beckham, more a David Bentley.
Incidentally Charlotte's step dad cheated on her mother repeatedly over the years. She is now closer to him than to her.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 25, 2024 1:44 PM
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[quote]The fact the Queen didn’t remember her makes the Queen all the more endearing.
Or just senile.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 25, 2024 2:46 PM
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R32 Jackie is also a bad singer, incidentally. While very young she was tolerable, but like Charlotte, the voice didn't age well and is barely sufficient for the "classical crossover" genre.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 25, 2024 10:35 PM
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I remember reading comments by a few people at the time who commented that when she would try and his a sustained note, her chin would wobble which was indicative of no real classical training.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 25, 2024 10:42 PM
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She fell down outside and the pigs ate her
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 25, 2024 10:45 PM
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Totally agree with you OP. Her rendition of “Bridge Under Troubled Water” was stunning.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 25, 2024 10:56 PM
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I have never heard this song
by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 25, 2024 10:57 PM
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How do you lose your voice? You can't get it back??
by Anonymous | reply 43 | April 25, 2024 11:11 PM
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R7 she's barely okay there.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | April 26, 2024 12:06 AM
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R36. The Queen met Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten, and the Beatles. I doubt she excitedly told Philip, “ I Just met Charlotte Church !”
The Queen wasn’t senile. Church just doesn’t matter.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | April 26, 2024 12:34 AM
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She has absolutely terrible technique R38. She never really learned how to sing because she didn’t have to. Her audience doesn’t know the difference and her managers and producers don’t know either.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 26, 2024 3:23 AM
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R37 neither is a “bad” singer. Post a video of you singing. Let’s hear this.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | April 26, 2024 2:05 PM
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That performance at r7 is very mediocre. And obviously nobody worked with her on her stage presence.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | April 26, 2024 2:16 PM
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R49 all opinion. I think she does amazing and has great stage presence there.
What is she supposed to do? Dance? It’s a classical song. Retard.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | April 26, 2024 2:20 PM
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[quote]The Queen wasn’t senile. Church just doesn’t matter.
For the rest of the world the queen doesn't matter, either.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | April 26, 2024 3:19 PM
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[quote]What is she supposed to do? Dance? It’s a classical song. Retard.
Calm down, Charlotte. All the arm work she’s doing is weird. She just flails her arms around like she’s drowning on the Titanic. Just stand and sing the song. Less is more.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | April 26, 2024 3:53 PM
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R47 Based on your advice I will never criticize a restaurant meal or the quality of a house since I am completely incapable of building a house or running a restaurant
Everyone willing to open his mouth in public should be lauded as a great and famous singer since mist people can’t sing at all.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | April 26, 2024 4:11 PM
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R53 you not liking her doesn’t make her “bad”. None of that was “bad” fucking jobless retard reject.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | April 26, 2024 5:17 PM
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In 2010 she joined the "celebrity panel" on Andrew Lloyd Webber's talent show to find a new Dorothy for a production of The Wizard Of Oz - this was 4th series and followed I'd Do Anything where Jessie Buckley and Samantha Barks had their big break.
Charlotte only did it for the money and the opportunity to promote her new album and towards the end of the series sang herself.
Every single Dorothy (most of them were teenagers with limited performing experience) were better than Church. There were stories that she had 3 takes of the song as her vocal was so poor.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 55 | April 26, 2024 5:21 PM
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R54. I didn’t make any comment whether it was good or bad. Apologies that your stupidity led you to think I did.
I commented solely on your brain-dead playground retort that the poster probably doesn’t sing as well as Church.
If you need help dealing with your stupidity, you can always just politely ask.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | April 26, 2024 5:40 PM
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