PS - I saw a clip of something from the X-Factor yesterday during a very good piece of the One Show about how the X-factor is killing creativity in British popular music. The clip they showed was of two young lads murdering a classic Journey track - Don't Stop Believing I think. Can we have a whip round to take out Simon Cowell for such sacrilege?
I think the young Geordie boy Joe did Don't Stop Believing on Saturday and I had the phone in my hand to ring 999 and report a murder.
The X Factor is a good show, but it's all about instant fame without the hard work that goes into being a success. Bands go on the road in their Transits for years trying to get the big break, and yet these karaoke knob heads do the X Factor and have their 15 minutes of fame.
I love it when someone gets voted off and they claim "it's not the end, it's just the beginning". No mate, it's the end. You can fade back into obscurity.
Not only that, but these acts get signed up by Cowell's team and get dropped after an album and usually end up doing a summer season in Butlins before serving burgers at McDonalds.
The modern music scene is stagnant and X Factor does little to freshen it up
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Jackson" <robjackso...@yahoo.co.uk> To: <classic-rock-mag-readers@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:33 AM Subject: New from the Classic Rck awards
PS - I saw a clip of something from the X-Factor yesterday during a very good piece of the One Show about how the X-factor is killing creativity in British popular music. The clip they showed was of two young lads murdering a classic Journey track - Don't Stop Believing I think. Can we have a whip round to take out Simon Cowell for such sacrilege?
I was unfortunate enough to see some of this episode of X factor,
round a friend's house...it was horrible.
Apparently it was 'rock night', and lead to cringe-worth throwing of
the horns.
It's little more than a karaoke competition with buckets of tabloid
gloss and glamour piled on top...it's worring how serious some people
seem to take it!
Looking forward to seeing the winners of the CR awards in the next
issue, if it makes it here any time soon :P
I confess to having watched this. I like the whole "soap opera" of it.
I further confess to being one of the people rooting for the dodgy
twins (although not voting as that costs money). THey are the most
entertaining thing about that programme - so bad they are quite good.
You cant beat a bit of car crash telly. Once they go I will probably
stop watching
Rock week however, was cringworthy. Funnies bit for me was when Louis
Walsh commented to an act that "it was rock week and you didnt sing
rock - they woulndt write about that in Kerrang" (or similar) - as if
they would write about any of the acts on the X Factor!!!
Sting made some comments about it recently which I have to agree with -
about how it is churning out clones of what we think singers should be
and killing creativity. I feel guilty about watching as I could not
agree more.........but somehow I find myself tuning in every week
Kat
On 4 Nov, 00:40, "Greg (Owner)" <gregreadi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I was unfortunate enough to see some of this episode of X factor,
> round a friend's house...it was horrible.
> Apparently it was 'rock night', and lead to cringe-worth throwing of
> the horns.
> It's little more than a karaoke competition with buckets of tabloid
> gloss and glamour piled on top...it's worring how serious some people
> seem to take it!
> Looking forward to seeing the winners of the CR awards in the next
> issue, if it makes it here any time soon :P
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