I have been following the X-Factor for years now. It's considered naff TV by many people but it's a guilty pleasure for me, however I've only ever watched the post boot-camp finals, so maybe that's an explanation aimed at softening my naff credentials. Anyway suffice it to say that I feel for the fame hungry kids who try their best on the show but end up in tears every weekend, many are far better singers than the guest stars who appear every Sunday night, many of whom are not a by-product of reality shows like X-factor but who nonetheless, struggle to belt out a decent tune even when compared to the X-Factor contestants.
Take Cheryl Cole for instance a classical case of looks over substance. Sweet Cheryl can do no wrong. Sweet Cheryl our national treasure whose ice thin singing voice requires substantial auto-tuning to be half heard. Her stint on the X-factor was awash in what you might call fake Cancerian tears, the type that Cancerians such as the late Princess Diana resort to in order to emotionally blackmail a partner (or nation) into giving them the adulation they so crave and it worked for Cheryl, cos year after year her emotionally railroaded nation voted her contestants into winning the show.
It beggars the question as to the value of shows like the X Factor and whether they are really talent hunting competitions or just a sadistic game show - a modern day Gladiatorial show where young talents are sacrificed by the nation after mauling each other at the O2 Coliseum. We all sit there in our arm chairs like ancient Romans in the coliseum cheering on our Gladiators in their quest for fame. The only difference is that they maul each other with their voices and we the audience get the privilege of killing each one off every weekend with our mobile phones as we sit back in our weekend armchairs as decision making extras.
The public's obsession with the grotesque reality TV genre began with the Big Brother series in 2000 and has grown from strength to strength, since the discovery that you can became famous by showing off on TV became de rigeur. While talent hunt competitions such as Britain's Got Talent and the X-Factor provide some cultural and entertainment value however banal shows like Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity and Come Dine With me to mind numbing moronic reality shows such as MTV's the Valleys, Geordie Shore and Jersey Shore offer nothing but mediocrity. Yet one wonders why the public continues to lap them up or perhaps their producers assume they have the watch factor. One theory is that those shows are aimed at mind control through onscreen display of the most mind numbing idiotic behaviour.
To be continued...
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