#grenfell charity single

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Louis Tomlinson’s donation, via Grenfell Athletic [21.11.2024]

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Charity single: [x] Louis @ 1:40

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

Episode 4

Royal wedding montage. No, Samantha Cohen didn’t tell you some weird Rainbow Fish story. That did not happen. 

Voices of journalists talking about how amazing she is and how she is going to change the family for the better. I guess the royal coverage is good…as long as they say nice things.

“I don’t know how I was so calm.” Drugs, Meghan. It was drugs. 

Wedding crowds montage. Same song as Four Weddings and a Funeral because these two think they are living a rom com. Celebrities attending the wedding. International coverage. Amal and George and the Beckhams. Will and Harry. No one mentions that it was Wallis Simpson’s car. She didn’t talk about the “real” wedding three days before.

There was no expectation, Harry. You were supposed to get married in Craithie Kirk because you were a man of the people. That was the first story that came out.

CWK talks about the dress. Doesn’t mention the Commonwealth flowers in the veil. No mention of the tiara drama or the egg debacle either. 

Bold choice going with the vampire bride shot. Yes, KC was important to you Meg. He single-handedly saved your train wreck wedding. Lots of discussion about the Kingdom Choir and no one mentions that they perform at all the Commonwealth events. 

They sold their wedding pics, just like Peter. They are soooooo tacky. They laugh about cutting the cake with the sword. That wedding cake was truly symbolic, a priceless collection of gold pedestals propping up a mediocre confection. Her mom ditched her for the celebs. That is hilarious. Of course she did.

Interesting that Meghan hasn’t looked happy once during this whole documentary, but she sounds truly joyful when talking about the wedding. That was the highlight of her life. 

Kate’s face in the wedding pictures is everything. Says it all. I wonder if Meghan sold a Kate pic. I haven’t seen one yet. Never mind, I just rewound and, sure enough, she did.

Interesting how they are appropriating narratives—she’s a hugger, writing in a new character, modernizing—that were created by the tabloids. Every single word this Archewell guy is saying was written by Camilla Tominey, Andrew Morton, or Valentine Low. He is parroting the royal experts Harry was mocking last episode.

Train trip with the Queen. Why does she wear a necklace in some shots, but not in others? They are splicing different interviews and using filters to make it look line one interview. This section was edited into incomprehensibility after the death of the Queen.

Grenfell. LOL, she makes it sound like she was in the UK when the tragedy happened. Wild. I like the Grenfell ladies but why are they spending time on this and not covering her current charities? 

Bitching about Nott Cott, which actually looks super cute. “I don’t know who lived here before.” Your brother, the heir, lived there before, Harry. You know that.

 That’s how she decorated it? Pottery Barn circa 2001? No wonder her domestic goddess career never took off. All of this just to upgrade from 2000s Pottery Barn to 2014 Restoration Hardware? But….they weren’t living in Nott Cott. They rented a Cotswolds farmhouse before the wedding and lived there until moving to Frog Cott. That’s why all these pics are of them getting dressed. They were just using Nott Cott to prep for London events. 

Wait, did they just bitch about their multi-million cottage in Kensington Palace being too small right after the Grenfell segment? Yes, they did. Wow.

Pregnancy. She sold her sonogram pictures. Australia. You weren’t showing already, Megs. There was no bump. Cue shots with no bump. This is epic gaslight. We can clearly see she’s not showing, but they flat out say she was.

Lol, she wasn’t that popular. Her polls peaked at 41% net approval after the wedding and dropped like rocks. And Australia wasn’t the turning point, Lucy. It was her dad talking to the media all summer long. Isn’t Lucy Harper a pr person? Shouldn’t she be able to interpret polling data? Headlines about how popular she was…including the 2018 Time’s Most Influential List, which is hilarious because they were sandwiched between Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s MSB. Yeah, the royals were really jealous of that. OMG, they show Meghan’s covers and its…Woman’s Day and Hello! Canada. One of the headlines is “Freddy Mercury’s Secret Wife.” 

Wait, now he’s happy because the media put Meghan on the front pages? They have a very strange relationship with the media. Hold on, he thinks Meghan outshone The Queen? Seriously?????? He thinks the frumpy brocade dress outshone The Queen? I remember calling that a hater cover because Meghan looked so terrible in it. No one thought she overshadowed The Queen. Literally, no one. 

Archewell guy speaking again.  He seems to think that the royals, who were desperately trying to cover up the epic disaster of the Australian tour—which included insulting the Australian government house, exaggerating an incident with a faulty heater, assaulting an embassy employee, walking out of a United Nations event, making a staffer cry in front of a reporter, wearing jewelry gifted by an allegedly murderous despot, and trolling her father by saying he hadn’t paid for her college—were jealous of how “well” she did in Australia. This is delusional.

Lol, now they are bitching about avocados. It wasn’t the avocados. It was her dad. They just jumped from blaming the royals for the bad press to blaming racism. First The Queen was jealous, then the staff were scared, then the media was racist and giving Kate better press…I’m getting whiplash. Pick a villain, guys! I can’t follow this argument at all. The Queen was upset because Meghan stole her Woman’s Day cover with Freddie Mercury’s secret wife so she leaked stories about Meghan’s favorite perishable fruit and the evil tabloids turned that into the racialized avocados of death? Whaaaaaat????? I love how Harry throws up his hands and says “well, if you can’t see it, I can’t do anything for you.” See what? None of this makes any sense.

BTW, they used the “Hurricane Meghan” headlines even though Meghan told Oprah she hadn’t heard about that. The Oprah interview also implied she never knew about the bump-holding headlines and they used those in the documentary too. Oprah read them to her and Meghan acted as if it was the first time she was hearing about it. The only headlines Meghan, according to their statements during the Oprah interview, was supposedly aware of were the “made Kate cry story” and the avocado story, and she laughed at the avocado story.

Walkabout in Liverpool. A member of the public scolded her about her dad. See? The problem was her dad. Harry and Meghan, however, blame family lies and the tabloids. Her dad was giving interviews right and left, and people were watching him in real time, complaining about how he was treated.  No one in the palace was leaking this. No one was lying about it. He was out there, giving interviews to anyone with a couple of bucks because he wanted to explain that he did actually pay for her school. Her sister was doing the same thing.

And here’s the Diana 2.0 stuff. Wait, she was going to kill herself…over the racialized avocados of death? I paused to re-read the transcript of the Oprah interview because I remembered the suicidal ideation story as being a lot more sympathetic than “the Kate story and the avocados made me want to end it all.” In that interview, they start with the tabloid stories, but then Oprah asks her whether she felt lonely and she talks about Harry working all the time and being all alone. She talks about not being able to leave the house and see her friends and also about the tours being exhausting and having to smile through it all. She also claims there were talks about Archie not being a prince and not getting security and how that was stressing her out. Then she talks about people being concerned about Archie’s skin color and then she talks about her suicidal ideation. That kind of emotional build-up is what Oprah brings to the table. That’s why she gets the big bucks. Here, they just jump from “our Australian tour was super successful” to “mean tabloid stories about Kate and avocados” to “I just didn’t want to live anymore,” and it’s not as powerful, particularly since the behind-the-scenes pictures they keep showing us are all happy pictures. 

Also, we skipped over the big show of support at Sandringham.  And Doria can also do the “one tear, left eye” trick. It must be genetic.

She wasn’t allowed to get help? Girl, they knew you were nuttier than a fruitcake. They would have sent you to a shrink in a hot minute. And they weren’t afraid about how it would make the institution look. Harry admitted to going to therapy and it went fantastic. James Middleton went to therapy too. They put up pics of Megs looking sad…and they are all from events that happened afterwards.

The households separated because of leaks? Bullying isn’t even going to get mentioned? No, it isn’t, and neither is the big social media campaign KP did to support Meghan.

I’m blown away by the fact that all this drama is about a story about bridesmaids’ dresses. The Oprah Winfrey interview was motivated by this one story about making Kate cry. The Archetypes podcast was about the story about making Kate cry. They made a six-hour Netflix documentary about a story about making Kate cry. There is now an entire subgenre of royal coverage based on Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid attire. This one story has been living rent-free in Harry and Meghan’s heads since Fall 2018.

Harry keeps talking about trading stories and not playing the game. He totally planted the Rose Hanbury affair story as revenge for the “made Kate cry” story. Absolutely,

Happy Nott Cott Christmas.  She wasn’t allowed to text photos? Lol, you weren’t texting photos bc you were saving them for Netflix.

People Magazine article. I guess these were the friends working with the magazines. Wasn’t their privacy super important? Weren’t they in danger if their identities were revealed? That was the argument that was presented under oath to the court. Now it turns out she was just saving the reveal for the Netflix special. Baby shower. OMG, Amal Clooney making floral arrangements, wtf? Backlash because of course. 

They are gifted Frogmore Cottage. Archie’s birth. Vintage footage about royal births. She had a long-standing relationship with her UK doctor? How? Seriously, how? They couldn’t do the photocell at Portland Hospital? Didn’t Fergie do it at Portland? Twice?

Birth announcement drama. The problem wasn’t that you broke protocol, Meghan. The problem was that CBS got the exclusive and you lied to the press about the birth. They bring in academics to say it was about racism because of course.

Archie. They took a picture of the nanny with the baby in a mud cloth carrier, lol.

South Africa with Archie. They couldn’t do a hospital photocall with the baby, but now they are taking him on tour. Doria just said “it’s not the institution’s baby, it’s her baby,” but they are taking him on an official tour. They can’t be expected to serve their child on a silver platter for literally two minutes, but they can take him on a week-long tour. I had to double-back and check the dates because I felt this wasn’t nearly as jarring and contradictory when it happened, and it wasn’t. The tour was several months after the birth and they had already taken the baby (who was supposedly too young to fly to Balmoral for the summer) to Ibiza. They way they presented it in the documentary, however, sounded ridiculous.

BTW, no coverage of the Vogue magazine, Smartworks capsule collection, the summer vacations at Elton’s house, the private planes, etc…. All of these were roundly criticized (well, not the Smartworks capsule) and yet the only story that matters is the Kate story.

Lol, the Archewell guy just admitted the royals were afraid Meghan would cause an international row during this tour. Not afraid that she would embarrass the royal family with her activism, noooooo. Afraid she would cause an international row.

Tutu. Wasn’t this footage intrusive two episodes ago? Make up your minds, guys! Tom Bradby. Is she trying to spin the interview as an oopsie due to exhaustion? Is she saying Tom tricked her? She really thinks people are stupid. Also, she takes no responsibility for anything, not even the Uber-narcissistic “I trusted too much.” She’s not even capable of that.

{Edited: Apparently Harry is doing another interview with Bradby. Guess he didn’t really trick them then.]

Astroturfed supportive hashtag. Guess her huge investment in Twitter bots paid off. LOL, my kid squints at the screen and says “all the tweets have the same timestamp.” Yes, they do.

Oh, the Diana footage is a bad idea. You can tell she was trying to act like Diana during the Africa interview (so much eyeliner). They really do think she’s Diana though, and they planned their tours (Australia, Africa, big meeting with African leader, big tour with baby) to bolster that impression. It’s interesting that worthy projects (Smartworks capsule collection, Vogue, Morocco girls’ meetings Ireland tour, dog shelter) that would make Meghan look good, but don’t support the Diana narrative are simply not mentioned. The India hygiene project is not featured in the documentary, but the Diana-like pictures in traditional dress are. 

You Don’t Own Me for closing credits. Hahaha. Harley Quinn music. So appropriate. The music in the last three documentaries is better than the music in the first three. 

Husband and group chat both discuss the Diana 2.0 stuff. She really thinks she is Diana and the documentary is trying to present her as Diana. Everyone agrees that she is no Diana. The psychologist thinks she should have worn more eyeliner. The lawyer tells her that eyeliner wasn’t the problem. There isn’t enough eyeliner in the world to turn her into Diana. Everyone thinks the music is good. Much texting about how much the tiny cottage cost. Someone looks it up on Zillow and it’s an insane number. Many “but my palace was sooooo small�� jokes. Many comments about a KP cottage, no matter how small, being much classier than a California McMansion. Many comments about the Archewell guy sounding slimy. 

On to the next episode.

[ssfoc]

I have noticed that none of the Harrie Larries I follow did anything but a bare minimum reblog about the charity single. Except for several implying that because Louis' vocals sounded good, it was probably due to the sound engineer. It's so petty and shitty.

I’ve seen on my dash people praising Louis’s voice all day. To be honest, I don’t know if they are mostly Louies Larries or Harrie Larries. I don’t keep close track, I admit, because Larrie politics makes me tired and crabby.

In my heart I believe Harry and Louis work together. They don’t deserve a fandom that pits them against each other. Their managements are baffling / shitty sometimes, but that’s not on them, sister, and they don’t deserve hate.

We got stalkers tailing their every move, digging through their trash, for Pete’s sakes, to find information that is potentially devastating. Let’s not add to the terrible things for them.

People can blog & reblog what they want. The “unfollow” button is there if you don’t want to read it. Just remember, everyone has a bad day now and then. Forgive, be understanding, be nice. People’s lives are harder than we imagine, and we’re all doing this for free, for fun. Let’s be family for each other.

Now let’s talk about Louis’s and Liam’s parts.

I heard the song, and I thought the engineering was really good, at least, on first listen.

All the singers sounded like their best selves, the nuances in their voices captured but the rough patches smoothed. They recorded on 18 June and the single was released 21 June, so there wasn’t that much time to do much engineering. They were auto-tuned… but there is no studio recording that isn’t, these days.

I was listening to this podcast:

http://andthewriteris.libsyn.com/ep-20-desmond-child

Desmond Child is a songwriter who’s worked with Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Cher, KISS, Alice Cooper, Zedd. He’s also gay.

He said that it takes a great singer, a singer who is a great actor, to draw you into their story for the 3 minutes of their song. For that moment, you are living the emotional experience of that song, the emotional truth of their story.

He has a lot more to say about archetypes, androgyny, role playing, closeting, and being gay in the industry, that I found fascinating.

(A short transcript: https://seasurfacefullofclouds.tumblr.com/post/162095382040/ross-golan-interviews-desmond-child)

If a three-minute song seems short for telling a story, then what are four or five words? Seems inadequate, right?

I’m trying to work on a write-up of Lucozade. I don’t follow Zayn closely, but this song seems to mean a lot for Zayn fans. Zayn’s delivery of his story seems to match the message of the song– hazy, slurred, going in and out of passion, in and out of focus, the pain subdued and then reignited.

Louis and Liam, on the other hand, are singers who enunciate their words (thank God– I needed lyrics for Lucozade). Their articulations are, by now, second-nature to One Direction fans. We easily identify their voices because we’ve unconsciously memorized their vocal habits, the sound coming from their mouths and throats. We love them. They sound like family.

Yet they’re growing older, and learning, at last, how to use their voices fully. To hear their full potential is glorious, just like listening to Harry’s full album and realizing THAT was in him (I still can’t believe it).

Liam’s words, “I’m on your side,” was sung with beauty, sympathy, and strength. We know what kind of person Liam is: loyal, hard-working, with huge talent and a heart to match. He’s doing great in the charts. This song was a tiny promo for him; I’ve loved his solo appearances, and he totally smashed the Capital FM summertime ball (Niall too). But the truth of his story is: we know he’s on our side. His vocals feel honest because we know him, we’ve seen him do charity work, we know he feels sympathy and love. And he did sound fantastic, his voice deeper and smoother, yet always sounding like Liam.

Louis’s part, “I will lay me down,” also sounded exactly like Louis, but deeper, bigger, as if he opened his chest and the sound came from the deepest bellows. His voice sounded notably bigger and deeper than it did on Just Hold On (which was admittedly in a higher part of his range– a high part of any male singer’s range, tbh). He still has the telltale Louis-hitch at the end of the word “down”– something many people caught. Louis’s voice always has that quality of feeling both personal, and empathetic, communal. It’s very painful & intense, yet reassuring at the same time. I think he has been doing voice training, and I haven’t seen him smoking as much (but he was smoking in the papped Donny photos). Yes, it was great engineering, but also yes, his voice has undergone a nice improvement.

As for the charity, I saw many reposts for it.

Last– the boys are doing their solo careers, and it’s not realistic to expect equal enthusiasm from the fandom for everything they’re involved in. I didn’t say “fair”; I said “realistic.” They know this, they expect this, or they should. They’re not going to get uniform support from the fandom, they’re not going to get the same support they got as One Direction. Every aspect of fandom has changed– the number of fans, the number of blogs, Twitter accounts, fan fiction being written and read, art, charity drives. Hiatus lowers enthusiasm. That’s the truth.

But that’s okay. Life can’t stay static. Art doesn’t stay static, or it gets stale. That means successes and failures. They’re in an industry where one failure can mean a fade into oblivion, but they are persistent people, and also experienced professionals. Harry’s tour sold very well– not at 1D levels, but he wasn’t expected to. If Louis or Liam or Niall tour, they will also sell well, but again, not at 1D levels. That’s what they’ve chosen. Industry already pits them against each other. Let’s be better.

S

[charitabledirection]

Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne are among the contributing artists selected for making this charity single to help the many who were affected by the Grenfell tragedy. Below is the itune link where you can purchase the tune and have your donation bring some much needed relief. ✨ Bridge Over Troubled Water - Single by Artists for Grenfell https://itun.es/us/H6gIkb

[elceeu2morrow]

what ugly grafitti sneakers 🧐

@crankydee you asked for it! I typically love his sneakers but graffiti and pump sneakers? $760?? I'll pass, thank you very much. 5.4.17

You didn't ask, but these are the other two that I found questionable:

Louis dancing on his tippy toes? Please and thank you. Is it a sneaker? A sock? It's just a no. 12.2.17

Super cute while participating in the Grenfell Towers charity single. Sounds like an angel singing "I will lay me down" but the sneakers that looks like slides are the devil. 6.19.17

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

Wed 19 May ‘21

Niall and Anne Marie will be on Roman Kemp’s breakfast show Friday for the release day of Our Song (together! At last!) doing some sort of golf themed interview- “nobody told me it was 8 am” joked Niall, but Roman beat him out for my sympathy vote- “nobody told me it was golf” he shot back. Anne Marie-- “nobody told me it was with you two,” lol. Niall also posted an outfit ‘of the day’ selfie from his elevator but as I no longer trust that those are of the actual day I’m side eyeing it. Cute outfit though I guess, mustard orange shoes and a baby blue jacket.

An unheard 2012 interview with Louis was posted; it’s just the same old 2012 fodder really, but it is interesting to revisit that stuff now with slightly more context and perspective. How strange is it now to listen to Louis talk about things like what he likes in a lady and how to pick up women though? He doesn’t like girls with bad breath he says, or who are cocky (uhhh do you use that word here [in America] he asks, clearly wondering if he’s just blundered into radio unfriendly territory), and he manages to work mention of Harry in there of course; he’d choose him as a wingman because he is “incredible with women. He knows what to say and when to say it.” He talks about the things americans say that he finds strange (and imitates them, love that), says the band “argue about the most ridiculous things, we might argue about what radio stations playing or if someone’s too cold and they got the window down in the car. Like, really stupid petty things” (you say that but this business about the car window being down and making you cold has come up an awful lot of times over the years, I think maybe you DO care about it) and “to be honest, we’re really lucky we’ve never actually had a big argument, arguments last absolutely no time because we’re with each other all the time it’s be silly to hold a grudge,” ugh SAD. In other Louis throwback stuff for today, we learned something new about when he recorded for the Grenfell Towers charity single in 2017; someone said their uncle was a security guard hired at the studio to deal with the 1D fan crowd and that Louis offered to buy all the people working lunch.

Liam posted about the fourth anniversary of the release of Strip That Down with a little video message! He’s looking handsome with a short haircut and said “I remember being in the studio recording this knowing it was going to be my first single” and “a massive thank you and I’ll be looking forward to playing some new songs for you guys again.” And what about that hair? His stylist is proud (as he should be it really does look fantastic) and posted a picture and said “Oops we did it again… New hair for LP today. Shorter. Sharper. Fire.”

And Emma Corrin changed her hair which does seem like a thing someone might do after they were all done filming something, but since she was wearing a wig for her My Policeman role it’s not impossible they could still be filming so; no actual news info there.

[twopoppies]

hi ginna, hope you are well<3 maybe you know the original video where they got this from?

Hi sweetheart. It's from a charity single they made for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

[queenjessiej]

Jessie J behind the scenes of The Grenfell Tower Charity Single recording.

[lwtpromoteam-blog]

https://artistsforgrenfell.com/

[whtlitewhtheat-blog]

If this doesn't make your heart swell, I imagine you don't have one.

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

Why is this book dissing their royal engagement by calling it mediocre and not on par with their star status and popularity??! She did grenfell, smartworks, the dog charity and old people's home. That stupid luminary bakery wasn't even official royal work n that's the only thing she was seemingly passionate about (probably bc of the cakes and they gave her free latte every time she went). She wanted the fancy work which used her star power,s wanted to be at the baftas! Hence Lion King!

They had bizarrely inflated expectations for their royal events and engagements. Every single on was supposed to be the big “game changer” that would make everyone love them. They were inevitably disappointed because it’s a marathon, not a sprint and you have to build your rep slowly. 

But I think that’s why they felt all their tours and engagements were “shit.” They weren't and they actually got better events and engagements than most royals, however, none of them were big game changers because that’s just not the way it works. 

[duchessknowseverything]

"I WILL LAY ME DOWN.. "

[the-empress-7]

Let’s talk about results baby

I have a legitimate question. Meghan has been a part of the BRF for 19 months now. In that time what has Meghan Markle done to promote BRITISH interests? It is her primary duty as a working royal to promote crown and country. On Archie’s birth certificate she put down her profession as “Princess of the United Kingdom”. So let’s talk about her job performance shall we?

I do not count writing the forward to the Grenfell cookbook as one, she basically took credit for the work that had already been done by the people of Grenfell. Not her idea. Not her effort.

I do not count British Vogue. Talk about a vanity project. The only entity who benefited from this project was Vogue. A private profit making American company. The women she “recognized” were already well known. She “shined a light” on women who already enjoy the spotlight.

I do not count SmartWorks. It was proven that the capsule collection she curated was part of the excess inventory at the retail partners. The only people to benefit from his project? Her friend Misha Nonoo. Whose wedding Meghan gleefully attending wearing a $14,000 designer gown two weeks after the launch. The fact that Meghan’s personal friend was involved in a project where a BRF member is patron of is unethical and appalling to say the least. Sure some women got the clothes they needed for interviews. But would they not have gotten those already? SmartWorks has been operating successfully long before Meghan made an appearance. 

I do not count the Southern Africa tour. I have never seen a country get so poorly represented by a BRF member. After all that time spent, I learned two things. South Africa is home to the murder capital of the world, and that women in South Africa live under the constant threat of rape and murder. If I were South Africa I would ask the UK for my tax payer money back. All that security for nothing. The stereotyping of proud African countries by someone who claims to be a “sister” was insulting to say the least.

I do not count the flavor of the month approach on their instagram. Rotating charities out each month is just lip service. I can’t tell you the name of a single charity they picked since the gimmick started.

In the last 19 months, Meghan took a six month maternity break and now is on a 6 week break again. She rubbed shoulders with Elton and Beyonce. She flew to NYC for a 500,000 baby shower. She spent another $1,000,000 on her wardrobe. She travelled on private jets to NYC, to Nice, to Ibiza, to Italy. She gave a lot of speeches. She used a lot of buzzwords. She posted pithy quote after quote on Instragram. She had her newfound celebrity friends (aka clients of Sunshine Sachs and Kruger and Crowne) come to her defense. The list goes on and on and on.

In the end, where are the results? Where are her contributions to Queen Elizabeth II and the United Kingdom?

[charitabledirection]

June 14th, 2020: Three years ago the Grenfell Tower fire claimed the lives of 72 people. A few days later there was a mini One Direction reunion when Louis and Liam took part in the recording of Bridge Over Troubled Water, a charity single released in support of the victims ❤️

Here is the single: Bridge Over Troubled Water~Artists for Grenfell

[slyhopps]

NO BUT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON, I just stumbled upon a video from Radio One Lebanon stating that they would reuinte for the Grenfell Tower charity single!??!?! Loads of articles aswell and the tweet by S***n C****l ??? 

[queenforeverblog]

#artistforgrenfell #grenfell #charity #single #brianmay #simoncowell #robbiewilliams and many more