Martin
TS Member
I don't want to hijack the topic with my views on the farce that is Fuhrer Cowell's attempt to dumb down society and water down and freeze culture, but I will say the X Factor is an insult to the industry.
Talented, original, hard-working musicians will never reach an audience because these karaoke fraudsters fast track their way to fame, and for what? A year or two of fame, singing songs they didn't write and turning the Christmas lights on in small, low income towns?
I mean, why slog it out for years playing to no one, creating your own sound, image, identity and slowly building up a fan base, getting bigger and better, when you can go on tv, sing some covers exactly like the original version and have a label create the image for you? It will be one of the three or four images every pop star since the 80s have had, but hey, at least you didn't have to put any effort it, right?
EDIT:
Remember this gem?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RunljdHow[/youtube]
Talented, original, hard-working musicians will never reach an audience because these karaoke fraudsters fast track their way to fame, and for what? A year or two of fame, singing songs they didn't write and turning the Christmas lights on in small, low income towns?
I mean, why slog it out for years playing to no one, creating your own sound, image, identity and slowly building up a fan base, getting bigger and better, when you can go on tv, sing some covers exactly like the original version and have a label create the image for you? It will be one of the three or four images every pop star since the 80s have had, but hey, at least you didn't have to put any effort it, right?
EDIT:
Remember this gem?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RunljdHow[/youtube]