I bet a lot of people on here are addicted to X Factor and latterly Pop Idol etc.
I want to rant about that.
Firstly, 99.9% of the people on it are sh**e
Karaoke obviously has a lot to answer for. What's going on? Suddenly mere mortals are convinced they are immense in the talent department.
FACT - what sounds good in a pub/club with 20 beers down your neck IS NOT talent.
Secondly. Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh & SHARON !!!! are prolly all approaching OR the wrong side of 50.
Granted, they have some experience of the music industry. BUT !!!!
Hasn't music always been about teenagers, and teen angst and teenage rebelling against the system ?
If you want some fairly ordinary people, who can't really sing, but TRY to sound like ...(choose from list) Westlife, Girls Aloud ..Beyonce, etc etc .... TUNE IN to X Factor.
Me, myself & I personally think that a bunch of total old fogeys who know hee haw about performing (behind every struggling artist is a rich manager) are encouraging a generation of bad karaoke singers with a burning desire to be famous ( and hee haw talent to back it up) have the general public (who prolly arent teenagers rebelling against the world anymore) hooked.
FFS, If my parents had understood the music I liked as a teenager, I would have smashed every bit of music I owned up on the spot.
How dare these old BAS***DS meddle with our teenage psyche !!!
To Summise for the hard of understanding ( Bobbie en Tejas)
1) 99.9% of bad karaoke singers are on that show
2) how dare 3 people who are 50 odds or over be the judge of what teenagers want to hear
X Factor is nothing but dumb tv, in fact its so dumb it's a really successful franchise. The media types love a good franchise, so little work for so much reward. And lots of dumb people vegging out on the sofa of life.