{"id":2179120,"date":"2025-11-27T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2179120"},"modified":"2025-11-27T19:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:24:14","slug":"truth-behind-olly-murss-appalling-new-album-fans-say-theyre-staggered-and-he-should-be-stopped-and-his-label-is-mortified-codie-bullen-reveals-his-petulant-response-and-why-simo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/truth-behind-olly-murss-appalling-new-album-fans-say-theyre-staggered-and-he-should-be-stopped-and-his-label-is-mortified-codie-bullen-reveals-his-petulant-response-and-why-simo\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth behind Olly Murs’s ‘appalling’ new album: Fans say they’re ‘staggered’ and he should ‘be stopped’, and his label is ‘mortified’. CODIE BULLEN reveals his petulant response and why Simon Cowell’s had the last laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dressed in Christmas<\/a> Grinch pyjamas and slippers, a TikTok<\/a> creator creeps mischievously around his apartment. In the background, Olly Murs<\/a>\u2019s latest upbeat single Knees Up is playing. \u2018Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show,\u2019 the pop star raps. The short clip has now been viewed 650,000 times.<\/p>\n

Only this video, posted on TikTok earlier this week, isn\u2019t promoting the song. Quite the opposite. Its creator is ridiculing the Essex-born X Factor<\/a> star\u2019s new song, which features on his comeback album after three years in the wilderness: \u2018The new Olly Murs song is giving \u201cvillain sneaking\u201d\u2019 he wrote to his 180,000 followers, suggesting it would be more fitting as the soundtrack to an anti-hero than a pop song.<\/p>\n

Some fans have suggested that Olly, who has spent a break from making records to look after his young family, shouldn\u2019t have bothered returning to the music scene.<\/p>\n

Many others on social media have been mocking the pop star\u2019s bizarre new music, which features long segments of rapping, influenced by \u2018ska\u2019, a fast-paced Jamaican music genre. And I\u2019m told that some bosses at the singer\u2019s record label EMI are mortified by Knees Up.<\/p>\n

The upbeat track is certainly not the sound Olly\u2019s dedicated fanbase, made up largely of middle-aged women, is used to. But 41-year-old Murs has described the new song as \u2018going back to his laddish roots\u2019.<\/p>\n

Knees Up isn\u2019t the only song in the firing line, however. Another track on the album, Bonkers, about his wild lifestyle and delivered in a cringeworthy exaggerated Essex accent features the lines: \u2018They say when I was little, I was loco\/Don\u2019t think I was ever dropped on me head though\/Maybe that one time I fell off the bed though\u2019. That, too, has been widely ridiculed on social media.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Yesterday\u2019s News and its lyrics: \u2018Some said I\u2019d be spotted nude\/ In Tesco\u2019s by the mangoes in an old pair of shoes.\u2019 To which one TikTok user replied: \u2018Olly you need stopped, what is with these weird accents?\u2019 Other listeners wrote: \u2018It\u2019s the most embarrassing album ever, who let him do it?!\u2019 and, \u2018Genuinely staggered that this has been released. It\u2019s beyond appalling.\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a former fan wrote: \u2018As a girl who used to love Olly, I\u2019m trying to force myself to like this song.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The cover of Olly Murs’s new album, Knees Up. Released this month, it has already garnered significant criticism on social media<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Murs released Knees Up with EMI Records, which also represents artists such as Taylor Swift, Lorde, Lewis Capaldi and Justin Bieber, and where Lucy Dann is the managing director.<\/p>\n

One insider said: \u2018EMI are so proud to have Olly but you have to wonder what Lucy and the team thought here. I guess they have let him do what he wants.\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Olly appears to be making the most of the social media attention by playfully responding to the hate. This week, he posted a video replying to a comment making fun of his song. In it, Olly put a dummy into his mouth and pretended to cry, then spat it out and stared angrily at the camera.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the kind of behaviour that made him the sweetheart of X Factor viewers everywhere when he came second to Joe McElderry in the talent show\u2019s 2009 season.<\/p>\n

As one of Simon Cowell\u2019s most successful X Factor alumni, his debut single, \u2018Please Don\u2019t Let Me Go\u2019, reached number one in 2010, and since then, he has sold over 30million records worldwide and received multiple award nominations, including six BRIT Awards.<\/p>\n

Perhaps what is most bizarre about his latest project is that it is Olly\u2019s own idea \u2013 and indeed he has a writing credit on the album which draws heavily on the pop influences of Madness and The Specials, bands Olly adored as a child growing up in the small Essex town of Witham.<\/p>\n

In fact, the album is one that father-of-two Olly, who is married to bodybuilder Amelia Tank, 33, has always dreamed about releasing.<\/p>\n

Speaking last week, Olly said: \u2018This was probably the kind of album that I wanted to launch my career with, but I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Olly Murs performs during Radio 2 In the Park in Chelmsford, Essex earlier this year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Olly Murs is consoled by Simon Cowell and host Dermot O’Leary after coming second place in 2009’s The X Factor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Olly Murs\u00a0went on to co-host The X Factor with the late Caroline Flack in 2015, taking over from Dermot O\u2019Leary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018For a long time, I was making records for other people, my fans, and what I thought they wanted to hear. This time I wanted to make an album for me.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m out here doing my thing, and if people like it, great. If you don\u2019t, it is what it is.\u2019<\/p>\n

Indeed, sources say that when Olly was signed to Simon Cowell\u2019s record label Syco, following his X Factor success, he was pushed in a more mainstream direction by the music mogul.<\/p>\n

\u2018Simon knew what people wanted and therefore heavily influenced what his artists released,\u2019 said one music source.<\/p>\n

\u2018He spent time and effort choosing the right songs for them and making sure everything was absolutely perfect. You can\u2019t help but think he did Olly a favour. Imagine where his career would have been if he had released this at the beginning?\u2019<\/p>\n

Olly went on to co-host X Factor with the late Caroline Flack in 2015, taking over from Dermot O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n

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Murs is married to bodybuilder Amelia Tank, 33. The couple have two children<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But when it was revealed two years later that Olly was joining the judging panel on rival talent show The Voice UK, sources revealed that Simon was furious.<\/p>\n

One source said at the time: \u2018Simon isn\u2019t happy Olly\u2019s swapped allegiances, especially as he left the X Factor to concentrate on his music.\u2019<\/p>\n

During a TV appearance in 2017, Olly claimed Simon hadn\u2019t been in touch: \u2018Simon knows me and he knows where I am if he wants to speak to me.\u2019<\/p>\n

Olly left Syco in 2022.<\/p>\n

Following the release of Knees Up, a music insider laughed: \u2018I wonder what Simon is making of this album?\u2019<\/p>\n

Despite getting a hammering on social media, it is not all bad news for Olly. The album going viral for all the wrong reasons worked in Murs\u2019s favour as he peaked at number three on the Official Album Chart. However, his album has now dropped out of the top 100.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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