So. X Factor. Now I know I shouldn’t be watching it but for a bit of car crash TV it does go down in history as being one of the most frightful bits of “entertainment” ever made.
Looking through the line up over the past few weeks it is very apparent that irritating singers are still around in abundance. Specifically I am talking about Miss Diana Vickers. Blonde haired, blue eyed, annoying.
She is the total embodiment of everything I hate about modern music all rolled into one badly dressed, shiny faced bundle. Her voice is that of Cilla Black mixed into Dido and a little of Kelly from the years gone by group “Deuce”. Each line of every single song is accompanied by an annoying squeal like the similar vocal acrobatics of Mariah Carey only with far less panache. Her hair is always shockingly frizzy and with more backcombing than the whole of Earth Wind and Fire managed throughout the 1970’s. She punctuates her on stage “art” with one hand held close to her face, it gets in the way of her singing, such as it is, and makes you want to just set fire to her outfit and the rest of her whilst giggling madly and ramming cooked ham into her face.
Mr Cowell et al appear to enjoy this and it is obvious why they would do. They are looking for the singer that will create themselves the most dosh. Sadly for the rest of us it means we will have to continue to suffer musical faeces dumped into our ears every time the radio is powered up.
On another note it is rather depressing that the Somerset girl group got kicked out so early. I think they would have been a far more interesting subject for me to take the piss out of and subject to involuntary euthanasia.
What a shame that Daniel was booted out this weekend though… he obviously wasn’t the thing everyone wanted, Tom Jones-esque as he was, but he certainly made me smile. I have no idea why.
Oh and Rachel can fuck off as well.
End of Lecture.