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Why is Brian McFaddden a flop here, but popular and liked in Australia ?

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28-01-2011 5:32pm

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lucozader

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Why is Brian McFaddden a flop here, but popular and liked in Australia ?

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#2 28-01-2011 5:32pm
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Is it something to do with Australians being idiots?

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#3 28-01-2011 5:33pm
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...this should be good...

*popcorn*

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#4 28-01-2011 5:34pm
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lucozader wrote: »

Why is Brian McFaddden a flop here, but popular and liked in Australia ?

Everything is upside down over there.

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#5 28-01-2011 5:34pm
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He's an aspirational figure for the random Aussie bloke.

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#6 28-01-2011 5:34pm
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Moved from After Hours.

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#7 28-01-2011 5:35pm
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Is he really that big in Australia? I think its just Irish media types trying to make out like he a superstar just to fill paper pages

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#8 28-01-2011 5:35pm
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I think it has something to do with Delta Goodrem.

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#9 28-01-2011 5:35pm
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cause he's a flamin mongrel

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#10 28-01-2011 5:36pm
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Because he is with her
No other reason

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#11 28-01-2011 5:37pm
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..Because Australians have a very strange sense of humour:rolleyes:

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#12 28-01-2011 5:37pm
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Any man who can leave a pop group, then launch an album in Whelans wearing a Nirvana tee-shirt has to be f**in cool.....ireland just isn't ready for an artist of such genius.

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#13 28-01-2011 5:41pm
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Why is the OP obsessed with Brian McFadden, so much so, that he starts an identical thread to the one he started last March?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055856959&highlight=mcfadden

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#14 28-01-2011 5:42pm
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Because his partner is a very popular and well liked Austrailian.

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#15 28-01-2011 5:46pm
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Because he has a fat head and they feel sorry for him? Or maybe because he was caught on camera taking a quick glance at Mariah Carey's rack and they think he is a cool dude:D

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#16 28-01-2011 6:31pm
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lucozader wrote: »

Why is Brian McFaddden a flop here, but popular and liked in Australia ?

Because Brian's a big tit?:rolleyes:

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#17 28-01-2011 10:37pm
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When he started putting the Y in his name instead of the I - it made people question him....

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#18 05-02-2011 10:09am
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Because he permenently moved to Australia and he only promotes his music there.

He probably could do promotion back here in Ireland but I think Brian has too much bad publicity on his hands over leaving Westlife.

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#19 05-02-2011 1:30pm
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Two words: Kerry Katona

...and the fact they don't know who she is down there.

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#20 05-02-2011 5:05pm
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Could be Kerry Katona. He split with her in the days before it became clear to the public that she was a walking train wreck. Then he didn't help matters by heading off to Australia and appearing not to care too much about his kids.

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#21 06-02-2011 7:29pm
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He's not popular down under. Lived there for two years. He's riding on the back of Delta's success, he even toured with her being her support act. Most Ozzies look down on him and don't consider him to be good enough for her. For the Nintendo DS ads down there he appeared alongside her. He NEEDS her to get recognition down there. If they split ya can be granted he'll disappear back into the woodwork ad be forgotten. Suits him right for thinking he's bigger than one of the most successful boybands out there!

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#22 07-02-2011 8:34am
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FoxyVixen wrote: »

He's not popular down under. Lived there for two years. He's riding on the back of Delta's success, he even toured with her being her support act. Most Ozzies look down on him and don't consider him to be good enough for her. For the Nintendo DS ads down there he appeared alongside her. He NEEDS her to get recognition down there. If they split ya can be granted he'll disappear back into the woodwork ad be forgotten. Suits him right for thinking he's bigger than one of the most successful boybands out there!

Brian doesn't think he's better than Westlife.

He actually wants to rejoin them, you should've seen the tweet he posted about it.

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#23 07-02-2011 7:09pm
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karaokeman wrote: »

Brian doesn't think he's better than Westlife.

He actually wants to rejoin them, you should've seen the tweet he posted about it.

Perhaps he doesn't think he's bigger than them. Tired last night when wrote that, so may have come across a little aggressive.

But he left on account that he didn't like what Westlife were and the music they made. Now he does?! They haven't changed much since he left. He wants to rejoin 'cos he sees how big they've become even if they haven't quite cracked America. Whereas he's just recognised as Delta's other half.

The boys won't have him back at all. Seen the interview with Gay Byrne and as they say they remain friends with him, but he jumped ship all of a sudden with not much notice.

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#24 10-02-2011 11:11pm
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He's not real to them as he's an irish son.

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#25 17-02-2011 1:29pm
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oooo, buy, buy, baby please don't let me go, to live my life this way

no but in all seriousness i do think it did have something to do with kerry and all the things she said about him when he was just releasing his album, she couldn't have timed it more brilliantly if she tired.
but i like this other song he has done with Delta;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqHqh0nC8-w
you would think that he should have been more popular here, but i think what kerry did has stayed in the minds of everybody and thats what distroyed his solo career before it had even begun.
i don't know about him getting back with westlife, do they really need him? i don't think so, there doing fine as they are.
he could have made it on his own, if only it wasn't for ..... , and the things she was saying about him around the time of there split.
but i did read something on the net about him not bothering to promote in Ireland because of what went on in the past, which is kind of sad, we all believed kerry, little did we know what she was really like, until it all came out, eventually.

PS: i hope this isn't slanderess :eek:

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#26 22-02-2011 5:08pm
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I think its the fact he is dating delta

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#27 22-02-2011 9:27pm
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The fact he is dating delta would mean the aussies would love him as she is very well liked!

Wwe Irish wont forget the fact he doesn't seem too bothered about his kids, I'll never forget his interview with Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late. In the interview, Bryan said he had to live in Australia because he couldn't work in Ireland at a normal job as everyone knows him, Ryan then pointed out if they were his kids and their mother who is their guardian was taking drugs in front of them and was clearly very troubled, he would join the dole queue just to make sure they were safe. Bryan couldn't give a proper answer to that statement.

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