It's not about the music........
As you know I love music: It's one of the reasons why I photograph it. Not for the glamour, because there isn't any really. Or the money, because there isn't any. But simply for the passion. And I come across people who play the music with the same passion. Like last week when I met a couple of rather famous people: well famous in the facts that one had written with Sir Paul McCartney and one who who had had a song written about him by Noel Gallagher of Oasis. I also met Jon Power of Cast, who was an assuming lovely guy. They had one thing in common. They were doing the music not for the kudos but for the pure passion of doing the music. Which brings me to the X Factor.
Before I get started on it by the way: Please do not buy the record they have produced for the poppy appeal. Buy a poppy instead. Anyway, there I was over for tea at mums with her and Adam. Both are fans of the programme. But let's be honest here they are only doing it for one thing and one thing alone. It is not the passion for music but the passion for celebrity and money. Simple as. If they had the passion they would be in clubs on Saturday night singing, sometime literally for their supper. Add to this that there is no outstanding talent there this year: I know they keep saying that the favourite to win (I've forgotten her name but Adam votes for her every week) is "unique". But she isn't really. To find out unique she is take a listen to Chairlift or Fiest. So yes, stop watching X Factor on a Saturday. Go out and find some real music will you? Because in reality the X Factor is fixed anyway.
My friend Leanne, who will be recording in New York in January and a star this time next year, went on the X Factor when she was fifteen. You will no doubt have seen the crowds turning up for auditions on the programme. However, not all of them get to actually do an audition. Leanne did not. She did not even get a chance to sing. In other words the people on X Factor are screened long before they get to see the judges. Seems a "story" or lack of a singing voice are more likely to get you to the judges rather than having talent because frankly Leanne can sing the pants off of any of the X Factor finalists and indeed, last years winner what's-her-name or was it a what's-his-name? I forget. Like I have forgotten 99.9 per cent of anybody who has ever appeared on the programme. Will Young I remember, but he seems to have done it is own way rather than the superficial way of whoever wins this year and spoils Christmas.
Before I get started on it by the way: Please do not buy the record they have produced for the poppy appeal. Buy a poppy instead. Anyway, there I was over for tea at mums with her and Adam. Both are fans of the programme. But let's be honest here they are only doing it for one thing and one thing alone. It is not the passion for music but the passion for celebrity and money. Simple as. If they had the passion they would be in clubs on Saturday night singing, sometime literally for their supper. Add to this that there is no outstanding talent there this year: I know they keep saying that the favourite to win (I've forgotten her name but Adam votes for her every week) is "unique". But she isn't really. To find out unique she is take a listen to Chairlift or Fiest. So yes, stop watching X Factor on a Saturday. Go out and find some real music will you? Because in reality the X Factor is fixed anyway.
My friend Leanne, who will be recording in New York in January and a star this time next year, went on the X Factor when she was fifteen. You will no doubt have seen the crowds turning up for auditions on the programme. However, not all of them get to actually do an audition. Leanne did not. She did not even get a chance to sing. In other words the people on X Factor are screened long before they get to see the judges. Seems a "story" or lack of a singing voice are more likely to get you to the judges rather than having talent because frankly Leanne can sing the pants off of any of the X Factor finalists and indeed, last years winner what's-her-name or was it a what's-his-name? I forget. Like I have forgotten 99.9 per cent of anybody who has ever appeared on the programme. Will Young I remember, but he seems to have done it is own way rather than the superficial way of whoever wins this year and spoils Christmas.