X Factor should be cancelled for crimes against humanity!

So it’s that time of year again.

You know the time… the time you and yours huddle round boob tube and laugh at some poor deluded fools who want  to be the next Britney Spears or Justin Gingerprick.

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twitter trending topics on Saturday morning confirmed it. X Factor was ranking.

For me that means two things…

1. Having to endure the endless “ohh, I think X will win it, he’s a great singer. He’s cute too. hehe” (Not to mention getting made to watch the damn thing by the missus)

2. Arguing with every fan I come across about the “merits” and evils of the programme.

First thing first, look, I’m not saying there aren’t talented singers on the x-factor, but what I do say is that being a good Karaoke singer doesn’t make you a musician.

Like any decent profession, that should be something you achieve through hard work, study , practice, writing, gigging, marketing.

These people want to go from Karaoke to International top selling artist in less than a year – that’s an insult to all the many bands who struggle for years gigging and gradually building up local support and a fan base, until they are popular enough to get the attention of the record industry.

It rarely lasts long for the get famous quick crowd anyway. Apart for a one or two, what’s happened to all the other reality TV “stars”?

Chewed up by Simon Cowell’s money press and out the other end completely flat. But the money machine keeps rolling – just keep the suckers coming.

But that’s not even the worst part, here’s the biggest X-Factor evil…

The format of the programme is simple. The good singers make it through and that bad ones don’t. Right? Wrong…

It turns out that there is a screening process that all entrants go through before going through to the televised auditions in front of the judges.

That means that the best singers are let through and while other good - just not the best –  singers are sent home, all the nutters (the ones that everyone watches the first few programmes for, the ones that get people watching, then hooked on the series) that have no chance are allowed through for the “entertainment factor”.

In other words, the less fortunate are handpicked to be made a fool of  on TV and laughed at by the whole world.

Have you seen the way some of them get laughed at by Simon Cowell and Loui  Walsh? I have no problem with calling a spade a spade and if someone is crap, they should know it. But publicly humiliating someone on TV? I’m sure I wouldn’t see that level of unkindness in the most unkind school playground.

But the worst part, the part I hate the most is that for all I despise the X Factor, I end up watching those first few programmes along with everyone else.

It’s like driving past a car crash. I don’t want to look, but it’s just so compelling.

People keep watching and so the show goes on. It’s a vicious circle.

Simon Cowell and his evil empire must be stopped.

Who’s with me?

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