Terrible Band Tapped to Sing Official World Cup Song

February 14th, 2006 | by: WC Bob |

At World Cup Blog, we still listen to Duran Duran on an 8-track. So it comes as no surprise that we have never even heard of Il Divo, the band that has been selected to sing the official World Cup song ‘Time of Our Lives’. That doesn’t mean we don’t have an opinion on the matter. Il Divo sucks. They are horrible. This is the worst decision FIFA could have made.

Of course others are bound to disagree. Apparently Il Divo has sold 5 million copies of their debit album and they have hit the number one slot in 13 countries and achieved top 5 placing in twenty-five countries. None of this means anything though when you learn “Il Divo have taken opera into the mainstream on a global scale.”

Sorry, opera fans, but this is one form of artistic expression that we would rather see left out of the mainstream. Give us butt rock. Give us hip hop. Give us Duran Duran circa 1983. Give us anything but a Disney-like opera song sung by four guys named David, Sebastien, Urs and Carlos.

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Sophia

Well, I really think that FIFA made a great decision. Il Divo is great, they have true talent, and they WILL sing a great song.

Many people don´t like the opera-pop-classic style that they sing, but at least, they have GREAT voices. They really can sing, so I think making Il Divo sing the official song, it´s a great decision.
Randy Alley

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Euler

Sophia! It’s nice to have a feminine perspective on an issue that most woman hate: football.

I can already imagine the men looking for paper bags.

Jorge Ben have the real football feeling! Read more here:

http://brazil.worldcupblog.org/group-f/brazil-could-or-should-provide-world-cup-song.html
J R

I, too, think Il Divo is the worst thing that’s come along since… gosh, I can’t think of anyone that bad to compare them to. I don’t care how many millions of albums they’ve sold and how wonderful they’re supposed to be. It just shows that people will buy ANY hype.

I just thought of someone worse than Il Divo: The Fall Out Boys. But noone ever said they were the best thing to come along since Jimi Hendrix.
Matthew Tang

Well, I totally agree… il divo is sux… they are not a good singer as they never relate the song… they sing because they want to and it doesn’t bring out the feeling… if it has to be people with strong vocal… I’d rather listen to Russell Watson or Amici Forever if it has to be a group… I’m really not happy to see this…
Claire

They couldn’t of made a worse choice. who wants opera singers doing the world cup song. It will be awful. Sorry if i annoy anyone but they will be ridiculed.
Jay

And what on earth, does “couldn’t of made…” mean? I suggest you first leanr how to speak and write and then move on to more complicated stuff like music, for example…
jd

the song is actually not bad… yes it does not have the energy previous songs have… but it sounds nice when its played after the match and does give a very european tone to it…. and we r here for the game it does a decent job of complementing it…
Tess

HA! Il Divo is amazing…..so that particular World Cup song isn’t the greatest, but we saw them in concert recently and the most amazing sound ever…a religious experience! No they’re not italian, but they sing/speak impeccable Italian. Looks, voice, intelligence, worldly….i’ll take em.
Intan Fuhaira

Malaysians….PLEASE. You are judging my favourite group here! I am ashamed to be associated to those of you who said Il Divo is no good. Well, alright, the world cup song is not a great song. Lack of energy factor. And perhaps FIFA made a mistake choosing Il Divo and Toni Braxton for the national anthem. BUT Il Divo is a talented group. However, their vocals though are not to be judged by a bad choice of songs.Perhaps you have not listened to many good vocals lately. And oh, matthew..you can continue listening to russel and amici but have you actually really listened to Il Divo or was that one song all you judged them by?
Beverly Ward

Obviously the Idiot who made this comment has no taste whatsoever for real music.