All of the band members are songwriters, although most of their hits have been composed by external writers.
Filan and Feehily are the band's lead vocalists. The group's original lineup comprised of Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Bryan McFadden. Over the years, Westlife's music has evolved from teen pop to an adult contemporary sound, with an emphasis on ballads.
They were signed on by Simon Cowell and are currently managed by Louis Walsh. “Not again.Westlife is an Irish pop band that was formed on July 3, 1998. “For fuck sake,” he is thinking now, visions of headlines from The Independent and Noisey dot com flashing before his eyes – 'Sam Smith Baffled By Mention of Thom Yorke', 'HA HA SAM SMITH DOESN’T KNOW WHO RADIOHEAD ARE' – while Smith umm’s and lip smacks his way through a response. “Radiohead,” Napes replies, visibly swallowing an egg-sized ball of frustration and then redirecting his gaze to the floor. “Thom Yorke”, says Smith, in the same non-committal tone my nan uses when pretending she still remembers something that happened over a week ago. Here, they are at the Golden Globes, and a journalist is asking what Smith thinks of Thom Yorke releasing Radiohead’s unused Bond theme song on Christmas day. The man deserves an entirely separate award for having to coexist with Smith’s acute cultural blind spots as they stand side by side at awards ceremonies of international repute. Jimmy Napes is quite possibly the unsung hero of the last twelve months. Has SAM SMITH listened to Radiohead's "Spectre" theme song? #GoldenGlobes Who was the other person?" So at least he might now know who one of those people are. Smith was informed that he wasn't the first on the red carpet afterwards and responded with: “Shit! Fuck that! Two’s my lucky number, so it’s all good. So, you can see why some members of the LGBT community especially might be pissed that the achievements all of those individuals were essentially erased and replaced with the Bond theme song, of all things. And then there was Bill Condon, Alan Ball, Melissa Etheridge, John Schlesinger, Stephen Sondheim, and Elton “I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man” John. Including but not limited to: screenwriter, director, producer and LGBT rights activist Dustin Lance Black who won Best Original Screenplay in 2009 for his work on the critically acclaimed gay rights historical drama Milk. To be fair, this all did come with a precursor in the form of: “If that is the case, and even if it isn’t the case,” so we can’t really drag him for making bold assertions in absolute confidence.īut we can jovially dig his ribs a little for being blissfully unaware of the list of prominent and openly gay people who have won Oscars for various things before. But when he picked up the award he dedicated it accordingly anyway. That article ran in The Guardian back in January, so I guess in the time between reading and giving a speech the message had watered down in Sam Smith’s head to: “No openly gay man has ever won any Oscar, ever” – making him the first, right? No. This particular article featured comments made by Sir Ian McKellen addressing prejudice in Hollywood, and that it might be to blame for the fact that no openly gay man, such as himself, has ever won in the Lead Actor category. Smith’s acceptance speech began – as so many great acceptance speeches do – with the words, “I read an article recently”. Sam Smith, along with Jimmy Napes, won the Oscar for Best Original Song on Sunday night for their Bond theme, “Writing’s on the Wall”. Unfortunately we can’t lock him in a room with a computer that only has access to Jstor and Gawker, but we can make a list of things he doesn’t know so he can look them up. The answer to this sort of thing lies, as always, in education. He is a hopeful face in a cruel society, the cult member who genuinely believes the punch bowl is for refreshment. He will observe a friend getting abused racially in London and be rendered “absolutely speechless” by the fact that racism still exists in this day and age – this time of Kendrick Lamar and Form 696 and #BlackLivesMatter.īut the thing is, he means well. Occasionally, though, he will peer down and accidentally catch something sad, something that, in his eyes, stopped happening decades ago. Smith has been gifted with a voice that has lifted him up and carried him all the way above the shitstorm of racism, misogyny, transphobia, and general current of injustice that a lot of people battle against on a daily basis, and it has put him on a platform so high that these struggles are often no longer visible.
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