I'm sick of this bullshit
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tarannau said:The 60s were shite mostly too. Ken Dodd had more than one No1 , as did Benny Hill. And don't get me started on those unbearably twee Liverpudlian cunts, the Beatles or something...
Ken Dodd is a legend!
And The Beatles late stuff was great imo.
But yes I am also sick of this bullshit.
Saturday night I had a proper hissy fit at Rollem, who likes all this shite.
X-Factor sends me fucking mental.
andy2002 said:
Too true. too true.
people who didn't write their own songs or play their own instruments
Diana Ross, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Dusty Springfield
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rubbish argument
Diana Ross, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Dusty Springfield
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rubbish argument
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hiraethified
It suggests that there's more to them than just an ability to competently trot out songs written by lurking popmeisters.milesy said:
Of course, there have been some exceptional non-writing singers (Sinatra, Presley etc) but they tend to have approx 4 trillion tons more charisma and originality than the standard chart-friendly, ultra-bland pop fare being churned through the industry at the moment.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
not to mention of course any number of great opera singers and so on.Dubversion said:
foo said:fuckin well argued milesy!
wot you got to say to that then zeddy?
my colleague (and mate) has just been moaning about all the 'dumbing down' on tv, with xfactor/big brother/i'm a celeb etc. a gaurdian reading self proclaiming socialist.....shame he hates anything the proles are into innit.
why are so many so called left-wingers such fucking snobs?!
<strangles colleague with mouse lead>
Because fooey, it drags too many people (very young people in particular) into believing that these people actually have any real talent and that this process of identifying 'talent' has any merit.
The only merit shows like The X Factor have is to make a small number of people a pile of cash.
The only purpose a show like this really has is to hold up a mirror to the rest of UK society and reveal them to be a bunch of lazy, fat ignorant cunts for cheering this process on.
The producers of this shit must sit back and laugh their arses off every year at just how gullible so many people are.
Money for old rope.
The ultimate statement on The X Factor is that the only part of the show that is even remotely watchable is the early stages when the white trash of our society line up to willingly have their dignity shredded before millions of viewers.
How fucking sad is that?
I'd have more respect for the makers of this crap if they called it 'The Pub Singer Of The Year Show'. Or 'King Of Karaoke'.
At least that would be honest.
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hiraethified
They were actors and Nesmith wrote some songs, but - to repeat - I'm not saying that all great modern singers have to write their own songs to be classed as good, but in the face of an endless stream of identkit TV-spawned products, it certainly would be a bonus.Belushi said:The Monkees didnt write their own songs or play their own instruments and they were one of the best groups ever
I actually feel sorry for many of the contestants in those shows who get catapulted into barely-earned uber-nova fame, only to most likely end up on their arses a few years later.
McFly and Busted write some of their songs 
andy2002 said:
He's consistent, at least, the poor dear
zed said:
so if people watch and enjoy the x-factor they must be lazy, fat and ignorant? you assume that they can only like this type of entertainment and have to be spoon fed everything, i take it, and only buy "chart" music?
and as for the bit about what the only "watchable" bit about x-factor being, that's just your opinion - which you're perfectly entitled to - but then you are stating that opinoin as fact and then using that fact to make a statement about society. it doesn't stand up really
I'm not trying to be controversial ...it just happens to be what I think. Sorry if you don't agree with what I say or how I say it.
Sure Elvis was a very important part of contemporary musics evolution, until the 60's. Then he inexplicably became a jaded crooner like that other over-hyped gangster Sinatra. I'm not denying they had stage prescence and the ability to hold a tune ...but they were hardly musical greats were they? The term 'greatness' has to be reserved for people with a bit more than nice singing voices surely?
Maybe we've just got different ideas of what talent really is.
When's the next series of Stars In Their Eyes anyway?
