This was a victory for all of us who appreciate proper music, written by proper musicians who can actually use instruments to perform their music. You might not like RATM but at least they wrote and can perform it.
The charts have been decimated for far too long by mass-produced, suger-coated pap that is so mediocre it's untrue.
Groups (and that's what they are, despite the likes of Louis Walsh calling them bands) like Westlife, Boyzone and the like are created purely to appeal to teenage girls and bored housewives and they just churn out cover after cover after cover.
Proper bands rarely get a look-in anymore.
And although there is a certain irony in a song that encourages people to think for themselves and do what they want being promoted as a rival to Simon Cowell for the Christmas Number 1, something had to be chosen, and although on the face of it the way the song has been promoted would appear to go against the ethos of the song, maybe we should look a little deeper.
Millions of people tuned into watch X Factor every week for 12/13 weeks. Every week they were spoon-fed by Simon Cowell and his sychophants sat next to him.
We had Cheryl's pained face which made her look like she needed considerably more fibre in her diet than she was actually getting, as she had to make a choice of who to send home-almost as if this was a surprise event to her every week.
We had Dannii Minogue's face that didn't move at all.
We had Louis Walsh comparing everyone, every week to a 'young Ronan Keating' or a 'young Westlife'.
Then we had the pantomime villain, Simon Cowell. Have people already forgotten the completely over-the-top gushing of praise he gave Cheryl Cole after her less-than-inspiring performance of her new single? And why was this? Purely to get the millions of sheep watching to go and buy it.
The X Factor was a cosy little arrangement for Simon Cowell, whereby he hijacked Saturday night TV and used it to make millions of pounds for himself and he arrogantly automatically assumed he would be guaranteed the Christmas Number 1 slot every year.
Well, this is a wake up call for him. And I'm looking forward to seeing which song gets selected to be the anti-X-Factor song next Christmas!
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Hear, hear. You still can't beat the true greats of music such as Morrissey and Talking Heads!!
ReplyDeleteI bought RATM when I heard the slapper Cole whining about how the ittle Geordie poofter "didn't deserve this". They don't have a God given right to be number one you old bag, and now you know!!