Soooo I haven't blogged for almost a month...but hey, I've been up to my ears in college work and extra reading. Having found myself with a spare moment I would like to have a rant.
I gained some major cool points this weekend by staying in both Saturday and Sunday night to watch X Factor, out of habit more than interest, and came to a few conclusions most displayed through twitter and/or facebook. Now I feel it is time to share them with the blogging world.
Firstly on Saturday, one of the judges said something that broke my heart a little bit. It went along the lines of "Cher I see you as the future of the music industry" ...if Cher 'could turn around and punch you at any moment' Lloyd really is where the music industry is going god help us all. I don't think I could listen to a Radio 1 play list filled with spoilt brats and school bitches supposedly 'rapping' over generic drum beats whilst pulling stupid faces. Really what is it with everyone? What exactly is so special about her? ALSO something else I discovered tonight, the week Paije left Cher was actually the one at the bottom of the pile, I'm not happy at all. Surely in a competition voted for by the public they should have the deciding vote?!
Saturday also led to an angry tweet about One Direction being no where near as good as Ellie G singing 'Your Song' but I've already had a bit of a moan about X Factor contestants and Elton John songs so I'll let this one go, for now.
And now we come to Sunday. TWO HOURS LONG! That took stringing it out to a whole new level; towards the end of it I was getting bored and could have quite happily checked facebook later to find out who had won, but I stuck with it.
I watched Matt be crowned the 2010 winner and although I do believe he is a genuinely nice guy I really believe it should have been Rebecca's crown. Not only does she have an a-ma-zing voice but I think the X Factor "journey" would suit her much, much more than Matt.
Matt can sing, he can play guitar and from what I gather he can write too. Honestly, I think he would have been more suited to the life of a runner up...all the publicity but with more freedom. The winner's path in too controlled. For him to be a "credible recording artist" to quote Mr. Cowell I think second place would have done him good. However I am looking forward to hearing what his album has to offer, which will probably be out this time next year, as he could prove me wrong and write a bunch of cracking songs...despite what he has done to Biffy Clyro's MANY OF HORROR.
Yup, the winner's song is a cover (surprise, surprise) and as one of my friends pointed out on facebook it will probably become more well known than the original and for some dimwits they will probably not even realise it is a cover. That is my main point really, if you're going to do a cover, fine. Just don't rename it. As a Biffy Clyro fan I am disappointed that this version will most defiantly peak higher than Biffy's and many people won't even make the connection because it has been renamed. Also, unfortunately, Matt does not do it as well as Biffy...
Why would you rename it? Renaming it will not ever make it your song.
That is pretty much my rant over. And for everyone who says that you should turn off X Factor if it annoys you so much pffft to you, it's a great conversation topic on a Monday morning and well you have to watch X Factor it's, like, necessary. :P
Byeeeeeeeeeeee
PS Never Mind the Buzzcocks with Tim Westwood and the JLS sub-bench = genius
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