X-Factor

[Job]

The first show mildly entertained, but from then on it sank to it's natural level of garbage entertainment for the clueless classes.

Not a single contestant stands a blind chance (pun) of ever being a star outside if the cheap cabaret circuit.

It is shameless explotation of peoples pathetic unrealistic dreams of stardom and totally revolves around the painful theatrical voting out system with dramatic pauses and fake tension.
They might as well be voting out cabbages in Church fete, the whooping and hollering of the friends and relatives of the contestants is testament to how the producers have forced false hope amongst people who should really know better.

Yes the public do vote, but this is the same group who would no doubt vote for free beer and Jordan for PM.

I 'm guessing that the only way Simon Cowell can live with himself is the knowledge that if any one with any actual talent turned up, he would offer them a deal outside of the program.
Utterly shameless and a direct reflection of the Chav takeover of this country.

 

[Dillinja]

Your post is a great summary of all reality TV shows, not just X-Factor. Not that I've ever watched it. But I can imagine that it's just like the rest of them.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Wormhole X-Treme rules of all the X thingies

 

[Alan]

Well that Will Young bloke did ok from the first series of these things, but what happened to that fat girl that won last time, one hit then faded to dust.

 

[Dillinja]

Nothing that big could possibly fade into dust. I'm sure she probably melted because the stage lights were too hot.

Seriously though, who the fuck was going to buy any of her songs? I don't care if she is the greatest singer on earth. You don't sell records with a body like that.

 

[Archeon]

but what happened to that fat girl that won last time, one hit then faded to dust.

If i'm thinking about the person I think you might be thinking about I think she might not have won, but got offered a contract outside the show... I think...


I said this in another post, but once they stopped the auditions I just stopped watching... well thats a lie, I watched it last night for a while - while I was eating, the final 3 acts were pretty good. Or atleast better than me in any case, but really its only the auditions which are interesting (CHICKEN MAN!! HE HAD THE X FACTOR TO THE EXTREME!! ), I didn't even bother staying to watch who won and they were announcing it when I walked out

 

[Mairghead]

Nothing that big could possibly fade into dust. I'm sure she probably melted because the stage lights were too hot.

Seriously though, who the fuck was going to buy any of her songs? I don't care if she is the greatest singer on earth. You don't sell records with a body like that.

Tell that to Alison Moyet.

Having a model-perfect body seems to count for nearly everything in the bubblegum pop world, but this is rather sad in my opinion. I'd rather listen to fat people (men or women) with super voices and original songs than care about the meaningless gyrations of scantily clad sex kittens and studmuffins who happen to be able to croon along to blandly processed music which they've been spoon fed and which no one will give a damn about in five months' time.

Thankfully, there are exceptions.

 

[Cyfr]

Do you even watch the show? There are some brilliant people there who could easily be superstars namly Roweta and G4

 

[Jeeves]

I use to watch the first few weeks of the first and second seasons of pop idol with my sister, purely to laugh at the comments Simon Cowell made to that looney's, like the chicken man. Was extremely funny. Those type of shows have just been milked now though, absolute crap.

 

[Alan]

If i'm thinking about the person I think you might be thinking about I think she might not have won, but got offered a contract outside the show... I think...

you think ?

 

[Lumikki]

Only reason people watch reality TV shows is to see people make a fool out of themselves in television. I guess it's entertainment for some.

 

[Job]

No, I'm sorry they're all shite, for a start the music industry knows how to find talent and this isn't the way they do it, it's just another part of this sad, sad, sad new idea of having the great unwashed vote people off any fuckin group of dingbats they can put together.

Promise them everything and watch them get crucified as their dreams get squashed live on TV (Roman Gladiators springs to mind).

To be a star, you have to have something special, NONE of them have it, if anyone turned up WITH it, they would whisk them away, competing in that drivel would destroy any style you may have.

Would REM, Eagles, Red Hot Chilli's, Prince, Madonna, George M, etc..etc have an ounce of credibility if they had been discovered on these shows?

There have been a few, but that was from the good old days when a talent show was just an innocent attempt to discover real talent, not the cynical manipulation of working class people to extort money from other working class people...fuckin shameless.

 

[oblimov]

i read today that the ex bosses of channel 4 said that reality shows were all shite and hated big brother

the sad thing is m8, they wouldnt show em if the ratings didnt love em, blame it on the fact that this country is full of brain dead illiterate benefit sponges who would rather watch a woman shite in a bucket LIVE! in her own home while decorating the walls with excrement than actually watch thought provoking programs

its the dumming down of society, watch the news and youll be shocked at how simple its became.

/sigh

 

[Archeon]

you think ?

I know, because he is the one...

 

[Deacan]

I only saw one episode, the one with the chicken factory bloke.

If he made a Album i'll would buy it.

 

[Vindicator]

The first show mildly entertained, but from then on it sank to it's natural level of garbage entertainment for the clueless classes.

Not a single contestant stands a blind chance (pun) of ever being a star outside if the cheap cabaret circuit.

It is shameless explotation of peoples pathetic unrealistic dreams of stardom and totally revolves around the painful theatrical voting out system with dramatic pauses and fake tension.
They might as well be voting out cabbages in Church fete, the whooping and hollering of the friends and relatives of the contestants is testament to how the producers have forced false hope amongst people who should really know better.

Yes the public do vote, but this is the same group who would no doubt vote for free beer and Jordan for PM.

I 'm guessing that the only way Simon Cowell can live with himself is the knowledge that if any one with any actual talent turned up, he would offer them a deal outside of the program.
Utterly shameless and a direct reflection of the Chav takeover of this country.

Spot Fucking on mate!

The Show's used to be about finding some actualy hidden talent. But pretty much after the first show the producers realised that people didnt care about finding somebody who could sing beautifully, Just people they could laugh at and feel there sense of embarrassment for them. Then it just went from 1 outrageous show to the next and the masses loved it apparently so that's why there here and that's why they shall remain.

Tell that to Alison Moyet.

Having a model-perfect body seems to count for nearly everything in the bubblegum pop world, but this is rather sad in my opinion. I'd rather listen to fat people (men or women) with super voices and original songs than care about the meaningless gyrations of scantily clad sex kittens and studmuffins who happen to be able to croon along to blandly processed music which they've been spoon fed and which no one will give a damn about in five months' time.

Thankfully, there are exceptions.

Thats the Plain hard truth, Spot on!

Anybody who likes Opera for one will tell you the beauty of music regardless of if a fat bloke barely able to stand bellow's it out. Oh and if you say " What an out of shape black woman talking about peoples problems ?" Then you sir not only have the IQ of a napkin but your a wank stain on the linen of society!

Your post is a great summary of all reality TV shows, not just X-Factor. Not that I've ever watched it. But I can imagine that it's just like the rest of them.

Nothing that big could possibly fade into dust. I'm sure she probably melted because the stage lights were too hot.

Seriously though, who the fuck was going to buy any of her songs? I don't care if she is the greatest singer on earth. You don't sell records with a body like that.

How you could say the first line and then produce this next line?

Who the fuck care's what she looks like? I mean she's a girl and she sing's songs about love and caring or losing somebody close to her. Do you even like that kind of music ? I mean if she was hot would that make you buy it ?
You all know when other guys ask each other about music it's something rocky / indy / metal / rap etc they wouldnt even dare risk saying ye I listened to that song by that fat bird, it was good but she's fat so I wont buy it. It would be more likely something like, Pfffaaa did you see the rack on that little sex doll in that new song where the fan blows off her top ? Most guys would not mention love shit or those guy bands that prey on teenage girls that adore them because there friends told them there hot. Bull shit you'd buy it, it would be labelled tripe and chucked into your 12 year old sister's room while chanting Girl power.

< Not that you said you'd buy it but to imply that it had no chance of being bought because she is fat when you clearly wouldnt touch the music if she was the hottest woman on earth>

 

[Marc]

X Factor, pop idol etc are must see TV, well for the first 2-3 weeks of each series anyway. Some people who actually think they can sing lol. As cyfr said though, there are some excellent singers.

 

[Ezteq]

any one remember oppertunity knocks? was a talent show on tv when i was little it was just a talent show, you saw them sing, tell jokes whatever and then audience voted, you didnt get all this back stage "i wanna be famous so im going to be as much of a prima donna as possible" shit you see on these reality tv shows, and a lot of folk who were discovered on op. knocks are still on tv today, wonder how many reality tv berks will still be about in 5 years?

The whole thing makes me cringe i watched x factor twice, i feel so sorry for the contestants who actually can sing because they are just being treated like puppets, make one the sexy one, one the bolshy one and one the bad guy, yep we got a show there...... we got about 12 versions of the same show just with different names too.

Please people stop voting on these bags of mucus!! if no one voted for or watched this crap they would have to stop making them, but as binky says humans are stupid and unfourtunately stupidity reigns supreme in most things to do with the media.

Tbh wrap all the poeple involved with shows like this in petrol soaked copies of "heat" magazine, ram a "hello" writer up their arse and Jordan down their throat and set light to em!

 

[Marc]

Bob Monkhouse and Les Dawson

Both Class acts

 

[Marc]

and Jordan? There aint a man alive who "wouldnt"

 

[haarewin]

and Jordan? There aint a man alive who "wouldnt"

im sure there are plenty
who gives a damn what people sing look like? if the music is decent, i'll buy it.

 

[Marc]

im sure there are plenty

No way!!!

 

[harebear]

Hmmmmmm I can think of far better women than Jordan :S

 

[Jeeves]

How you could say the first line and then produce this next line?

Who the fuck care's what she looks like?

The thousands of people who didn't buy the CD purely because she was a munting troll that got a sympathy vote.

 

[Jeeves]

and Jordan? There aint a man alive who "wouldnt"

I wouldn't.
She's a dog ugly slapper, that's rough as sand paper, and has more cake than a baker's shop.

 

[Marc]

The thousands of people who didn't buy the CD purely because she was a munting troll that got a sympathy vote.

Horseshit.

I think that Noel Gallagher is ugly but i still buy Oasis's stuff cos i like the music.

 

[Marc]

I wouldn't.
She's a dog ugly slapper, that's rough as sand paper, and has more cake than a baker's shop.

Ok, let me rephrase it for Jeeves' sake.

There isnt a hetrosexual man alive who "wouldnt"

 

[Jeeves]

That's a bit of a contradiction, since any man who has sex with Jordan must be either gay, or attracted to men.

 

[Rookiescot]

and Jordan? There aint a man alive who "wouldnt"

Nope. Not even maybe.
Hell you could make your own "Jordan" at home.
All you need is 2 spacehoppers and an old wicket keepers glove.
Do I get a Blue Peter badge for that?

Now Kylie on the other hand .....
And if you made her wear a flat topped hat you would have somewhere to keep the telly remote, an ash tray and your bottle of beer