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It is diabolical btw.

Obviously, it's Mark Ronson's version of "Stop Me..." they are aiming at.

this is horrendous. absolutely horrendous.

Not being from the UK, I didn't know what X-Factor was... so I had no idea what wannabe boy-band R&B nightmare was in store. I think these guys could be the next Color Me Badd.

This version gives the song a new edge? Honey, if this is edgy, steer clear of "wild men" The Who, as they might kill you.

By the way, which one in the band is the bad boy and which is the sensitive one? My guess: the guy in the Yankees hat, and the one in the vest respectively.

I like the fact that the person who posted this originally is so into music that they went to the trouble of googling it, then found us to tell us about it.

Ok, I might disagree about the quality of the original, and also think that the fact that the poster is really backing these Futureproof guys makes it seem likely that they are actually working as the bands PR rep... but hey - it's another cover version and it might increase Moz's profile amongst the young, who so desperately need a talented musical icon to look up to!

Fucking horrible.
Stop
singing
this
please

Go fucking R&B up some other 80's song.
Moz was nuts to allow this.

Is this person delibiratley trying to wind us up?

To post this shite and then write
"Futureproof’s version is more in tune"

I see they posted it anonymously! I wonder why that is.

Well, it is pretty bad - depolorable in fact! But methinks this person may be having us on - they refer to "Morrissey and Smiths fans" yet try to convey the impression they were ignorant of Morrissey before googling the song's author! But they do know that he sang with the Smiths.

But yes, this is terrible, and these boys ARE out of tune themselves from what I can hear!

Jesus Christ... First Ronson, then that appalling Fate or Trouble "Everyday Is Like Sunday" massacre, and now this travesty. Presumably Morrissey and Marr would have to give permission for them to actually release it.

I lasted 7 seconds :-)

Nice wind up though!

"I’m sure all Morrissey and Smiths fans will be pleased with the boys effort as will the man himself. Hopefully they release it. Have a Happy New year."

Are you having a laugh?????

Oh yea girl oooooooh girl yeeeeeaaahhh.
  I waaas dellaaayed I was reeeeeaaastrained ohh yeah yeah yeah girrrrl....

Butchered!!!

Moz must be cringing.

bit early for april fools

Look, it's just a bunch of youngsters singing over Ronson's re-imagining of 'Stop Me IYTYHTOB', which got an endorsement from the original songwriters.

Even if the funk-soul-brother-rap version is not to your taste: At least consider that it introduces an entirely different audience to lyrics that include 'shy, bald Buddhist' and 'mass murder' in the same line. Rather different to the usual R&B Rap b***h, h*e stuff, eh?

Some youngsters in that audience will probably be Googling remembered words from that 'weird' song and may undergo a 'conversion experience'.

Actually I'd like to see the whole X-Factor, Fame Academy entrance exam being overhauled so that only those contestants who can do a note perfect rendition of TBWTTIHS are allowed past the entrance gate, yodelling and all. At least we could be spared any further Mariah Scarey renditions.

How about it, Mr Cowell?
Kind regards.

PS: If you're below 0 and a -1 hater: I don't even see your comment: So don't bother. Bye!

What's annoying is that this took place in my home town and I wasn't there to heckle. Futureproof?!?! Proof that the future of music has well and truly gone round the u-bend. I may well be in the minority of Smiths fans who didn't actually mind Mark Ronson's version of Stop Me. However, I did think the singer he'd chosen grated somewhat when it came to moaning the lyrics in a soft porn r'n'b style. These singers take that to a new level though; what the hell is all that 'yo, yo-ing', like some terrible Vanilla Ice impersonator and who told them that the baseball capped, white boy doing hip hop lite monkey dancing was a good look? Wasn't this parody about 20 years ago. Have you not heard of Ali G? Some people are so devoid of any sense of irony, or embarassment, or taste that a spectacle such as this is enough to epitomise the utterly depressing state of Western youth in the 21st century. How can you cheer, you brainless morons?
Forget that it's a Smiths song, this band are truly laughable and should be pitied, having had their ego's and hopes for instant fame inflated by some worthless reality television show and hackneyed record industry bigwigs, who don't give a crap about originality, quality, or integrity.
The covering of Smiths songs is mainly a good thing. You don't have to like the covers, but each one highlights just how important The Smiths have been to the musical landscape and how Morrissey and Marr continue to inspire waves of more than just 'indie' kids. I take umbridge with this though. Someone behind 'Futurespoof' has clearly gone, "This song has been quite popular and it's a bit 'cool', as some bloke called Morrissey wrote the lyrics, and he's all 'vogue' these days because of the indie scene. However, Mark Ronson made it much more 'modern' so we'll do his version. Because, if you're found associating too closely with The Smiths it'll harm your 'laydee lovin' image."
I might go back and watch it again though ... for the comedy value. All bets are on as to how long it'll be before this band go the way of Steve Brookstein.

this version is horrible! This boy band has taken the beautiful, unique, and interesting sound, that is stop me... and turned it into a boring, mainstream treachery. The only thing that keeps the song alive are the lyrics.

ahhh sh!t the guy who cant put on a hat is breakin it down stright from da hood yall

these guys can get more puss than 90% of the members on this site! dont hate the player hate the game niggaz

They sound like flipping Boy George.

Could anyone possibly butcher such a beautiful song any more? This makes me want to vomit.

I really like it. This is one of the best covers in years!

signed,

Marlee Matlin

The person who posted this with the message about "Smiths & Morrissey fans being proud...blah, blah, blah..." is--My God, hopefully--being sarcastic with this whole thing.

However, the "performers" actually rehearsed this song and sang it in front of people, in all its distortion... The beauty of everything that was/is The Smiths/Morrissey is completely discarded and "hip-hopped" into oblivion by these punks... To say "they just don't get it" would be giving them too much credit.

Didn't Morrissey once say something about violence being the surest way to get a reaction from someone? Well...

...and don't call me 'surely' :p

Is that K-Fed on the left?! :D

This is gawd awful. What's with the ending -or is it the beginning of another butchering- 'set me free, why don't you babe? get out my life, why don't you babe? cause you don't really love me'... tru dat, homies

"Proof that there is no future"....But moreover it serves as proof that the up-and-coming generation is dreary, hopeless and doomed to repeat the worst of all that has come before because history does not fit in a text message....At least we still have Morrissey, the last beautiful, meaningful thing left worth living for.

this is not the first obnoxiously retarded band that has bastardised one of Morrissey's untouchable masterpieces...

the killers covered "why don't you find out for yourself".

this is how boyzone first appeared, on an irish chat show, rta or something like, and look what happened to them, pretty sad version this really.

You wouldn't believe how obsessive some of the fans of these reality bands are. They make Morrissey fans look like amateurs.

You also wouldn't believe how ignorant they are of pop music generally as their only exposure to music tends to be through these tv shows.

I think Charlie Brooker described this X-factor singing style as something like "generic warbling shit". That seems pretty accurate. I'd also add that if Bowie cheekily called his own album Young Americans "relentless plastic soul", then this is soul diluted and bastardised so many times over that it constitues what plastic would shit if it could shit and had to live on a diet of it's own shit for three or four decades. That's how bad the singing is in this cover.

Let's face it, they (the 'band') don't even know who Morrissey is...
more crap covers of covers
oh how Cowell and co must be loving the fact they've almost killed pop music completely...
because he's obviously not a fan of music.
This shower of shite need a good kicking.

....gives new meaning to the phrase "extraordinary rendition" (even the Yanks wouldn't dare inflict this upon prisoners doing the "shackle shuffle" in Guantanamo Bay - or maybe they would out of pure spite - who knows?). Everybaaady now, "Oooooh-whoaaaoooaaaoh....who said I laaaard beeecuzz aaahhh neverrrrrddd". Tragic, but compelling, in a guilty sort of way. I think I'll add this to my youtube favourites "Staaap me, oh-whoaaaoooaaaoh, staaap meeee.."

...that I already had my dinner. Now it is lying on the floor in front of me. I shouldn´t have listened to that R&B-Pigshit! And I don´t believe that MOZ gave his OK to that....

Greetings from Germany,

Alex

I'd rather listen to that awful Chris Martin and Noel Gallagher version for the rest of my life...

how the hell this things get this weird

Indeed this version is 'Futureproof.' After I heard it I wanted to kill myself thereby futureprofing myself.

Is this for real? Dear God, please stop. To put it Moz's own words, this takes the word crap to a whole new level. It's horrible.

RG

but i guess they tried

and some of them are pretty bad, this particular cover sucks the hardest horsedick amongst them all. This is truly soul-less 'hip hop' teen kiddy shite. What on God's Earth is the point of such a destructive monstrosity of a cover? The pubic lice that populate the music industry these days have little, actually nothing, to be proud of.

Oh my god! This is bad! Stop them!

i could only make it for about 45 seconds before i had to shut it off. i have never heard of x-factor before and now that i have, i will never be able to get that 45 seconds back ever! that was absolutely horrendous. i have been a Smiths/Morrissey fan since 1984 and have enjoyed lots of different covers, but this one may, errrr, IS the worst i have ever heard.

Yeah, they are playing this cover version on Indie 103.1 radio here in L.A. I change station everytime it comes on.

I lasted about 5 seconds into that video and had to press stop. I skipped to the middle, lasted about 4 more seconds and had to press stop. As everyone has already said, they are obviously covering the Mark Ronson/Daniel Merriweather version, NOT THE SMITHS! Uggh this was so putrid I think I just vomited a little in my mouth.

this video is:
better, at least, then the horrendous t.a.t.u. cover of "how soon is now?"
but far, far worse than death cab for cutie's tepid version of "this charming man."

honestly. i'm okay with smiths/morrissey covers IF they're more or less the same style as the original - like death cab's "charming." it's when the covering artist adds some "new artistic vision" bullshit, as this band did, that things fall apart. no one will ever make a better smiths song than the smiths, so bands may as well just do a solid cover rather than try to rewrite or recompose the song somehow.

i don't know why we get mad about these things so easily. it's obviously not worth getting worked up about and has no lasting creative impact on either the smiths or music as a whole. judging from the video, only about 15 people were in the audience, and 7 of them were screaming girls.

Is this a joke? who are these bozo's? i just wasted 5 seconds i will never get back.

that all pro-Smiths comments were removed from the video?! Also, I just tried to reply to someone's comment but it doesn't work. Those little bastards are censoring us ;)

I always thought the song could have used some Justin Timberlake sound alike rapping over it. Definitely better than The Smiths version. I mean they have sideways hats, it has to be better!

Over 'n' out!

beatin' the meat is murder!

its all your fault.

u led these guys to think they have, chuckle, some sort of 'X fuctor'.

cover anything 80's but not the smiths.

the ali g / vanilla ice / new kidz parody-comedy value as someone here said is great though.

ohhhhhh baby i waas delayed yeah oohhhhh i was well -LAID- oooohhhhhh, sad thing is there will be hundreds of young girls queued up to drop their knickers! - (ugly) but lucky bastards.

stop them, we have all of this b.4.

terrible