Rage Against The Machine vs The X Factor
I am most intrigued by this battle for the Christmas number 1.
In recent years, I have been completely disheartened by the whole chart scene as it has become awful in my opinion (am I allowed to have an opinion or should I just follow what us Brits watch on TV).
Susan Boyle has become a star. Some wee guy called Joe will become a star (for a couple of months anyway until the next rent a pop star to give Simon Cowell more money comes along). What ever happened to real talent, song writing, playing gigs until you are discovered. These guys don’t have any experience of that and have become famous for being on TV, not for being good musically.
Check out the NME’s biggest selling singles of the last decade. Hear’Say, Will Young, Gareth Gates and Shayne Ward all come from this manufactured music. I am damn sure my ears and brain would be all the happier if I had never had the misfortune to listen to any of their songs. Actually, do they have any songs? Or do they just sing over other people’s songs?
I have to now put up with Simon Cowell’s turgid pop machine every year, and not just once a year. It is non stop. The British public seems to lap it up though.
However, someone on Facebook has set up a page to try to stop this Christmas number 1 trend. And quite aptly, they chose the song by Rage Against the Machine called Killing In The Name. The lyric of “And now you do what they told you” seems appropriate. And to add to this, I just tried to find the Facebook page and it has gone. It would seem that Facebook has pulled it. Are they also trying to control us?
Oh, and another point – RATM and Simon Cowell are both on the Sony BMG music label, so Sony BMG must be loving it
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Hi, although I agree with a lot of your comments, I do think that Will Young should be excused the ‘manufactured’ tag. How do you ‘manufacture’ a solo voice anyway?
He broke away from Simon Cowell as soon as he possibly could and Cowell has had no imput into his career for at least 7 years. Will writes or co writes most of his albums, but it is as a LIVE performer that he excels. I guarantee that he sings live on all the tv shows that you see, even though Cheryl, Leona, Alexandra Rhianna et al were happily miming. Fair enough if you don’t like his voice,we can’t all like the same things, but he is not one of Cowell’s proteges, in fact I don’t think they like each other much!!
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