Owen sucks up and moves forward

I ll tell you that Owen has sold a healthy amount of albums because of this exposure. As long as he doesn’t win, he’ll be in profit.

kakosi said :

Gerry-Built said :

Actually; after tonight’s A Current Affair article (I was actually looking for my ‘candy TV’; The Block) about Australia’s got Talent; I’m feeling more like this whole thing was manufactured (than I already did). Got a feeling Media Watch is going to be interesting this week…

It is a bit too over the top to be real – but who knows.

Keep in mind that ACA is a channel 9 show. Do you really expect anything they have to say to be complimentary to the opposition, or portray their show in a good light?

Or think of it this way – if channel 9 thought that running a particular story on ACA was likely to cause their viewers to watch a show on channel 7, would it ever be broadcast? Rival broadcasters aren’t in the habit of promoting each others shows positively.

I avoid ACA and Today Tonight like the plague – I’d love to know how many ads for ‘The Voice’ were shown before and after this particular segment though. Did channel 9 just throw all pretense of this being anything but a hack on the opposition out the window by having the presenter plug The Voice too? I’d not be surprised in the least if they did.

Gerry-Built said :

Actually; after tonight’s A Current Affair article (I was actually looking for my ‘candy TV’; The Block) about Australia’s got Talent; I’m feeling more like this whole thing was manufactured (than I already did). Got a feeling Media Watch is going to be interesting this week…

It is a bit too over the top to be real – but who knows.

Actually; after tonight’s A Current Affair article (I was actually looking for my ‘candy TV’; The Block) about Australia’s got Talent; I’m feeling more like this whole thing was manufactured (than I already did). Got a feeling Media Watch is going to be interesting this week…

Gerry-Built said :

I guess at 28, he has decided the busking and the obvious skill have only got him so far. Due to last week’s efforts; he’s a standout in that comp already. He’s not so much sucking up, as being respectful to those who have a chance of helping him get that next step. And like it or not – they certainly are in a position to enable that next step .

Exactly. It is basically a job interview for a job he chose to apply for.

I am sure he wants to earn a comfortable living, as most of us want to as well. Once you get that financial independence you are much more free to pursue your dreams and aspirations.

There are many artists out there who cringe about their first commercially successful album. But they actively pursued that success and now realise that is what gave them the freedom to do what they really want to do.

Of course there are lines people will not cross -{“My aim isn’t to be in a boy-band chief” pure gold! } but we all decide where these lines are ourselves no matter what field we are in.

HenryBG said :

I don’t understand it.
Owen has talent.
So, WTF is he sucking up to a boy-band loser, Danni Minogue and some other fat twat?
It’s incomprehensible the damage record labels and pokie machines have done to our music industry.

I guess at 28, he has decided the busking and the obvious skill have only got him so far. Due to last week’s efforts; he’s a standout in that comp already. He’s not so much sucking up, as being respectful to those who have a chance of helping him get that next step. And like it or not – they certainly are in a position to enable that next step (I feel dirty just thinking about Kyle doing ANYTHING)…

I wish him well, but don’t forget – there’s always the Myles Barlow option.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNWnlMKkwb8

Nice one Owen! We have one of your albums bought when you were busking and it’s great. To all those who say he shouldn’t be sucking up and apologising – If it gets him $250,000 to help him out who cares! Do what you have to do 🙂

HenryBG said :

I don’t understand it.
Owen has talent.
So, WTF is he sucking up to a boy-band loser, Danni Minogue and some other fat twat?
It’s incomprehensible the damage record labels and pokie machines have done to our music industry.

It’s because he wants to make a living from playing his music. I agree the industry is in a bad way but you can’t compare 2012 to what happened years ago. Everything has changed. It is damn near impossible to make it these days and shows like this one give people an opportunity to take their careers somewhere. It’s an opportunity that may not occur just busking or playing pub gigs. It’s sad but true. You can’t knock someone for trying to make a living out of something he is so passionate about. Good or bad… this is how it is. All power to him.

You can see the cogs turning ” maybe that arrogant vibe I give out all the time seemed bad on tv, I want to be on tv, I’ll change!” It will all feel less violating sitting shotgun with Kyle in his Bentley after a long Sydney lunch sharing stories about being awful to people……..very Robert Johnson………..