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Reply 1
Oh, was that the one with Laura-Jane Foley? It was in Varsity (of which she's deputy editor, I think) but I didn't see it. Was it any good?
AdamAbdelAziz
Not really related to uni bout did anyone see the program last nite, what a dick the girl was!!


"Having my hair cut is like loosing my virginity" - why did she bother going on there if she wasn't going to put some effort into it?
Reply 3
I thought the band were a bit crap, "You have to drink, and have ATTITUDE LOL." Yes, that's the spirit.
fishpaste
I thought the band were a bit crap, "You have to drink, and have ATTITUDE LOL." Yes, that's the spirit.


They were better than her, she was such a boring bitch.
Reply 5
happysunshine
They were better than her, she was such a boring bitch.


A bit pretentious and shallow though, you don't think? Sort of people the term pseudorebel was invented for.
fishpaste
A bit pretentious and shallow though, you don't think? Sort of people the term pseudorebel was invented for.


I don't know what your little word means. I don't care. She was up her own choir girl big arse.
Reply 7
It's people like her which put people like me off applying to Cambridge.
fishpaste
A bit pretentious and shallow though, you don't think? Sort of people the term pseudorebel was invented for.


"a bit" is an understatement. These people believed that musc is about who you are. They should go and read some of hindemith's writings about composers as craftsmen/craftswomen (oh how pc of me). You do not have to be sad to write sad music!!! On the other hand the girl was a bit crap.

Musicboy
Reply 9
I saw it! I couldn't believe her attitude problem. If she felt so strongly about her religion and its incompatibility with rock and roll..why the hell did she sign up to do this? :rolleyes:
aliel
I saw it! I couldn't believe her attitude problem. If she felt so strongly about her religion and its incompatibility with rock and roll..why the hell did she sign up to do this? :rolleyes:

Because when she signed up she was under the impression she would be faking being a classical musician, opera singer etc, not heavy metal.
By all accounts of the peeps i know that are matey with her she's a nice girl.
J
Reply 11
She was a Cambridge student? I didn't see all of it. Hilarious!
Reply 12
foolfarian
Because when she signed up she was under the impression she would be faking being a classical musician, opera singer etc, not heavy metal.
By all accounts of the peeps i know that are matey with her she's a nice girl.
J


No way. The programme is clear in it's aim, what would be the point (and entertainment) in placing a classically trained girl to "fake" a classical musician/opera singer. Has she never watched "Faking It" before?
i agree she wasn't the best person to be on the show..but still.. i dunno i thought she did try, she was a bit precious about her hair, but i guess most people have something like thta. i really thought she was trying hard, she looked so ill jus t before she went on stage at the end but she still went up there and did it and convinced (i think?) a #t least one of the judges.

for me to get up on stage like that and do that would be so hard - I could understand a lot of her feelings (even if she did go on about them a bit)

tbh i thought the mentor people were more annoying. i didnt watch the whole thing tho

rosie
Reply 14
tbh I think she seemed like the sort of girl who would be well-liked and easy to get on with, especially in the Cambridge environment. However her mindset before going into her 4-week stint seemed a bit off. The way she was astounded by that rock-show-award-thing they went to made me think she was perhaps very sheltered...

One thing that did very much annoy me indeed was when, after she'd dismissed every CD in the rock-chicks collection as twaddle, and was then asked 'but can you see how other people would like it?'... and she said 'no'... followed by something that came across to me like 'I think the only reason people would like that music is to look hard'... ... ... I'm not sure if that's what she meant but OHMYGOD...

I think she could have been more open-minded about it all. Every other faking-it character seems to go in wanting to 'experience' whereas she seemed to only want to achieve the goal as purely herself unchanged... I don't think the issue of her religion vs rock should have restricted her... afterall Christian Rock is pretty damn big.

She said herself she felt she'd wasted the 4 weeks, and she probably had.
Tifa
Christian Rock is pretty damn big.


never mind big, it's even worse than normal rock music.

MB
aliel
No way. The programme is clear in it's aim, what would be the point (and entertainment) in placing a classically trained girl to "fake" a classical musician/opera singer. Has she never watched "Faking It" before?

Big letters won't make you any more right. She isn't classically trained, she had just been led to believe that's what she would be doing, or something pop like. She was honestly shocked when the subject of cut and dye was raised.
And I don't know whether she's seen it before or not. I just know she is a nice girl who doesn't deserve the jealous contempt which some of you seem to have for her.
J
Ditto, I do think some people here are a little judgemental.
So what if she dismissed the heavy rock music as 'twaddle', so do I - and I'm entitled to my opinion, just as she is. She did try to put the effort in - she wrote her own song, and was in tears when she failed to impress the judges. She seemed fairly nice to me.
Reply 18
foolfarian
Big letters won't make you any more right. She isn't classically trained, she had just been led to believe that's what she would be doing, or something pop like. She was honestly shocked when the subject of cut and dye was raised.
And I don't know whether she's seen it before or not. I just know she is a nice girl who doesn't deserve the jealous contempt which some of you seem to have for her.
J


I'll have you know that my "big letters" were used because they are a novelity to me at the moment! I can assure you I am not showing "jealous contempt", for she showed nothing to be jealous of. Never would I have acted like she did, she truly did act like she was "better" than the girl she spent a month living in her house. You obviously know her, and thus are trying to protect her. But I am sure she is aware of the fact that she was a horrible snob that month!
Reply 19
Jamie Frost
Ditto, I do think some people here are a little judgemental.
So what if she dismissed the heavy rock music as 'twaddle', so do I - and I'm entitled to my opinion, just as she is. She did try to put the effort in - she wrote her own song, and was in tears when she failed to impress the judges. She seemed fairly nice to me.


I would understand if she genuinely had no idea of what she was being led into, but it would seem very strange as 'Faking It' is based around the concept of culture shock. lol, I think she would have loved to do a pop-thing... might have made a better show in retrospect...

Also, I don't have a problem with her dismissing rock music as 'twaddle' but I think it's not very open-minded to dismiss everyone who likes rock music...

Personally, I think Metallica and Rachmaninov are both brilliant and I don't mind people telling me different, but I would if my character was to be judged for it... I just think it's about respecting peoples tastes, whether its Christian Rock, Bluegrass or Baroch...

I sincerely hope I'm not being told I'm judgmental, afterall, it's reality TV, what you see won't be what you get. And I doubt many people would judge her character in totality without actually knowing her, i certainly wouldn't.