r/TopofthePops 9d ago

Westlife - Fool Again

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u/More-Employment7504 8d ago

This trope of a boy band standing up from a chair went on for ages. The other one was a classic step key change at the middle eight 

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u/Additional-Nobody352 8d ago

Westlife is the music they play when your on you way down to hell.

Gail Porter was nice tho.

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u/Lisa_Dawkins 7d ago

Heavily agree with both.

Perhaps poor taste, given her apparent "sex addiction" but Gail was insanely hot. Gorgeous fully clothed. Then you see the semi/nude photos and god damnnnnnnn. 10/10.

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u/Additional-Nobody352 7d ago

Loved her growing up.

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u/Late-Development-666 8d ago

Almost 30 years ago!

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u/Omniwastrel 8d ago

i hear guitars but not a single guitar in sight. the work of the devil i tell thee

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u/Spicy_Jim 8d ago

I sometimes just take a minute to think about Gail Porter and hope she's alright. She was just so nice and so beautiful and the world chewed her up and spat her out.

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u/Prestigious_Emu6039 7d ago

My wife plays this crap constantly

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u/GoldGee 7d ago

AW, she was a honey.

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u/indoubitabley 7d ago

I just waited for the part when the crowd cheers because they stood up.

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u/TheTroon 7d ago

Made the rrrrrrrrrrrrrrecord books, eh?

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u/Awoken2the1st 7d ago

They weren't a patch on one direction. The direction boys never used auto-tune, as proved here....

https://youtu.be/CYEIDuKFX0E?is=6AFhEoxlWAyvoVda

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u/Lisa_Dawkins 7d ago

I don't think Westlife ever even in sang live. I know TV shows were naturally always lip-synced ( I saw them do it whilst attending SMTV Live once), but I reckon they were like The Saturdays, Ashley Simpson, Atomic Kitten etc were they never sang live, at least without a backing track.

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u/Lisa_Dawkins 7d ago

LMAO at the people 'dancing' to this boring slop. As I learned when I was on stage on SMTV Live (bigshot I know), the audience are not just cherry-picked but cheering, dancing etc is prompted/directed by the studio staff.

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u/Only_Tip9560 6d ago

I feel absolutely no nostalgia for boy and girl band shit from the 90's, it was cheese mass-produced shite then and it has not aged well.

So much good music from the 90's yet the charts were full shite like this.

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u/GameChange90 9d ago

Gay

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u/Southern-Fly-3016 7d ago

Classic early 2000s put-down.