TV & Film

Comment: The X-Factor Show Day Is Done - GONE!
Once an entertaining show - now a "Fix-Factor joke"
26th November 2011

Sad to say, this show has reached it's sell by date. Its become even more cheap and tacky, unprofessional and has become about people and personalitites and promotions rather than just singing. They are just NOT at the end of the day, each day, looking for raw talent or even an "X" so called factor! - they are looking for something that can be used to be adaptable to PR spin (used, abused and spit out when finished with) and is somewhat versatile while maintaining a semblance of looking entertaining. Short version: They are looking for some thing, someone that will make them money while being tied to their thick book of rules and strict contracts (when they wish the rules to apply that suits themselves - Frankie Cocoza anyone?).

In previous years they did honestly try to bring some genuine talent, I will give them that (and thats being generous) but now is all about the personalities of the judges, the promotions, the advertising, the one they can spin and thus gain the most out of, the judges wishes to outbid each other in dresses, jokes or comebacks, the fake group voice-overs singing, the miming star acts, even the attempts to sway the voting (Note: Ameila was bottom of the vote last week. NOW all of a sudden, even the latest M&S adverts have her finish it off! See HERE. Its just one more stunt after another) ...Whats being forgotten about is the actual talent!

The natural clear singing voices are being drowned out by too loud, brash music, unnessary dancing allover the place, flashes and bangs, the choirs covering for the singers poor notes - or entire sections, the fake tears when they try to win the public's sympathy when they discover "God, I'm not as popular as I thought I was". We have the drink, party, drug fiends who don't give a rats arse about how they come across, we have the bullying diva's, we might have the nut-jobs, we have the few ones with real talent dressed up in rotten clothes (by M&S?) and plastered by gawd terrible make-up who end up looking like street prostitutes at times ...seriously! We have the judges totally bizzare voting off of acts when they have to eliminate one of the bottom two acts! ...And again I say it, what about the underlying talent?

We have a show that is a walking advertising machine, a money raking-in machine, we have nearly the adverts with every single song, we have the phone competitions, we have the X-factor products on our supermarket shelves, we only have the acts appearing because they are releasing their latest album the following week and/or they are going on tour, we have the fake arguments and the back-stabbing off camera but smiles for the cameras, thats going on. We have the judges supposedly ignoring some of their acts, in some cases buggering off to America totally and then coming back and not talking to them all week! We have other judges (Gary Barlow) who thinks its openly ok to not only put down a teenager and their talent but at times to openly insult them enough that it borders on intimidation and further bullying - and all on camera to millions! Then we have the lies which the following week they only admit they did!
...And in all of this mess, the real talent is long forgotten about - and thats a damn shame.

A lot of the public is not fools. They might play along for a while to see where a story or show goes but when the end comes to each night, they see what they consider to be fake, they DO see the PR stunts, they DO see and hear the lies - and know it to be what it really is. ...And that is why people now are turning off in their millions - and it IS millions. They have had enough! I can't really blame them! Simon Cowell might get another year out of this show - it will die a slow lingering death - but its DONE!
Its time to move on and I think the new BBC show (The Voice) will bring about the final death of X-Factor. As much as I have enjoyed previous years, I will now not miss it when its gone. I will see this years show out to the end - I hate starting to watch something and leaving it half way - but after this year is over, I too am done with this show.

I and others, numbering in their millions have decided they have had enough. If the best this show can try and spin as good music is Cher Lloyd, Simon Cowell is seriously deluded.