I happened to stumble across a repeat of x-factor yesterday afternoon and was compelled to watch (rather like rubber necking a car crash). What I saw was some young girl singing some random pop song … she was horribly out of tune.
This was supposed to be some kind of studio stage where I presume the contestants have been vetted and should be “good”, so I was surprised by how bad she was. Three of the judges kindly called her performance “nice” or “nervous”, but when Simon Cowell simply said she was flat, he got booed. This was the plain truth … she was flat.
What does this show actually achieve? Are we to congratulate mediocrity and put it on a pedestal just because there was no-one better?
I also believe that the x-factor transmits some kind of hypnotic sub-conscious image stream which mixes your brain waves and fixes your eyes on the screen, rendering you unable to switch channels. It wasn’t until my wife came in, horrified by my vegetative state, that I was able to turn it off and do something less boring instead …
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You make a good point… it’s crap but watchable. I think it was the fact that the ‘flat’ girl was 16 yr old so the audience had bought into her story and ‘wanted’ her to be good and had suspended disbelief. The most embarrasing one was the bloke singing Staying Alive. awful.
The Culture Show on BBC2 at the same time is the one to watch really… thats the problem with sky+ it allows you to watch the crap and tape the quailty to ponder at a later date
Comment by qmonkey October 29, 2007 @ 11:37 amI have zero sympathy for the deluded talentless wannabes that put themselves up for ridicule on this horrendous show. They think they can walk into a career barely out of nappies, never mind having paid zero dues. The audience of booing morons says it all. These are the single celled amoebae that made Jade Goody a celebrity for chrissakes. I used to be able to say, look Britain, the world is laughing at you, but I cant even do that now, because we’ve exported this anti-talent cancer to the rest of the world in the form of American Idol, Operacion Triumfo (Spain) and Star Acadamie (France) God help us all!
Comment by kevmoore October 29, 2007 @ 12:31 pm