In the nervousness not to offend; very little real talent; lots of the awful, cringe making, show up the loonies element; not edited as well as usual - very much that "it's going off already" feeling.

Awful and repetitive scripting every week. Unfortunately I did watch part of it on Saturday and really... words just fail me.

On the question of auto tuning - here's a novel idea. Look for people who can sing and not the ones agents put in.

You STILL watch it ???!!!

Please make it stop.

I gave up on X factor years and years ago - did not think anyone in music actually watched it at all because it is aimed at 10 year olds and those who are housebound and has not turned out any decent talent for years and years. Now it sounds as if it is not even good TV anymore - probably the last ever series. Sell by date is well gone and I think that once it closes then the music industry may have a new lease of life as the Christmas charts will become free of X factor.

X Factor has been a great success - but by continuing it until the acts had no talent whatsoever has distorted the charts and undermined real music thus contributing to the demise of the UK music industry.

Rage against the Machine showed that the public had had enough last Christmas. They hammered in the nails which the current series is just finishing off.

I had to laugh when the absurd Louis Walsh was quoted last week as saying about Auto-Tune: 'Even Cheryl Cole uses it'. He actually thought that 'even' made sense!

Prunella Minge wrote:
I had to laugh when the absurd Louis Walsh was quoted last week as saying about Auto-Tune: 'Even Cheryl Cole uses it'. He actually thought that 'even' made sense!

Nothing quite proves the death of the music business more than the fact that Louis Walsh is probably the most successful manager in music.

Will his talents never begin ?

Having started this thread I must butt in here - no, The X Factor, Simon and Louis haven't destroyed the music business - they saved it - by boosting a small corner of it.

Everyone else has destroyed it including many on this board (yes, me guilty too) by not boosting other vital areas.

My excuse is that I was being wrongly locked up. What's yours?

JK2006 wrote:
Having started this thread I must butt in here - no, The X Factor, Simon and Louis haven't destroyed the music business - they saved it - by boosting a small corner of it.

Everyone else has destroyed it including many on this board (yes, me guilty too) by not boosting other vital areas.


Through gritted teeth, I must say that does make sense, and is nicely put. But perhaps it's a bit unfair to suggest that it was just as easy, or hard, to 'boost' other areas. I take your very good point about Cowell and Co, but arguably by hyping that small corner so much they've - no doubt unwittingly - made it harder for something less 'immediate' but more subtly authentic? History surely shows that boosting the line of least resistance does have its consequences, both intended and unintended, and they're hardly if ever good. Maybe all I'm saying is it's a more complex affair to apportion culpability.