X Factor ,,,,,,Cant take it seriously anymore

[LlcoolJ]

It's been a nasty pile of shite for years. Watched a bit of it when it first started but got a bit uncomfortable about laughing at the crap acts who thought they were brilliant. From what I've seen / heard they've ramped this up massively and it's now all about taking the piss out of mentally deficient people and/or building up the hopes of mediocre singers they they can become the next big thing before dashing them. Lovely.

I read an interview with an ex researcher of the show who said that they are instructed to find people in the auditions who are just the right side of mentally ill. So that they can be mocked without the majority seeing it as distasteful. They have to be the "right sort of mad".

It's pretty sick if you think about it. Can't believe so many blokes on here whose wives watch it.

 

[BensGrandad]

Wife is watching the results but apparently this weeks songs are MoTown themed or based so can somebody explain how Honey G song was in that category.

 

[Feathers]

I didn't know there was an X Factor thread until now.

Cool. I'll have somewhere to vent my frustrations.

 

[swindonseagull]

Wife is watching the results but apparently this weeks songs are MoTown themed or based so can somebody explain how Honey G song was in that category.

Sorry BG I cant explain

 

[Feathers]

First frustration:

Saara has the best voice, the public haven't warmed to her so she ended up in the bottom two last week.

Hope she's not there again.


P.S. Emily is my favourite

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Sorry BG I cant explain

It's a token act for the crowd,this board carries token Palace and the Albion carry token keepers

 

[BensGrandad]

I think that she is a novelty and quite entertaining but by no stretch of the imagination could you say she performed a motown song.


According to the internet she sang Diana Ross Coming Out but I never noticed it.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

I think that she is a novelty and quite entertaining but by no stretch of the imagination could you say she performed a motown song.

http://www.popmatters.com/feature/6...-motown-sounds-influence-on-hip-hop-sampling/

 

[BensGrandad]

I think the best one and she is through is Giffy who sang Rocking Robin.#'

Just read on the net that Honey G sang Diana Ross's Coming Out not sure that I recognised it.

 

[Eeyore]

It's been a nasty pile of shite for years. Watched a bit of it when it first started but got a bit uncomfortable about laughing at the crap acts who thought they were brilliant. From what I've seen / heard they've ramped this up massively and it's now all about taking the piss out of mentally deficient people and/or building up the hopes of mediocre singers they they can become the next big thing before dashing them. Lovely.

I read an interview with an ex researcher of the show who said that they are instructed to find people in the auditions who are just the right side of mentally ill. So that they can be mocked without the majority seeing it as distasteful. They have to be the "right sort of mad".

It's pretty sick if you think about it. Can't believe so many blokes on here whose wives watch it.

I used to watch the initial auditions but came to same conclusion as you. It's the modern and culturally acceptable version of a Victorian freak show. A bit like Jeremy Kyle. It will only be challenged when one of the unfortunates harms themselves after the trolling backlash. One year they got together the worst group of acts and had them sing a song in the final. It was a grotesque send up. They've stopped it now. One of them was a youngster who had clearly been put up to the whole farce by her parents. I actually found it quite upsetting.

If the finals are on I tend to watch them as some of the acts are rather good. Even then I question as to whether I should watch it at all. The Voice is much better.

 

[Ernest]

Crap so far I've ONLY voted 653 times this week

 

[Feathers]

Second frustration:

The public don't recognise a good voice. They obviously don't like her.

She may as well just give up and go back to Finland.

 

[Uncle C]

I think the best one and she is through is Giffy who sang Rocking Robin.#'

Just read on the net that Honey G sang Diana Ross's Coming Out not sure that I recognised it.

That's cause she made it her own.

 

[BensGrandad]

That's cause she made it her own.

But it wasnt a Motown song but a crap rap rendition.

 

[Uncle C]

But it wasnt a Motown song but a crap rap rendition.

I was taking the piss.

 

[JJ McClure]

That's cause she made it her own.

I thought it was because she looked like a pop star and she sounded like a pop star.

 

[Whoislloydy]

Never watched it never will, i don't like how they exploit people with blatant special needs for "good TV"

 

[Tooting Gull]

I think there was a moment many years ago when someone with a casting vote (it was actually Cowell, not Louis amazingly) kept Jedward in at the expense of someone who could actually sing. You knew then exactly what a farce it was, but our kids like it so I still see it from time to time. I'd say it was harmless fun, but when you see how desperate some of the contestants are, you wonder about even that.

 

[GT49er]

It's Opportunity Knocks for people with smartphones and thick brains

Oh come on, stop remembering Opportunity Knocks through rose-tinted spectacles - and remember that it was once won by a bloke standing in his underpants twitching his muscles in time to some annoying Cha Cha type elevator-music.

 

[El Presidente]

Oh come on, stop remembering Opportunity Knocks through rose-tinted spectacles - and remember that it was once won by a bloke standing in his underpants twitching his muscles in time to some annoying Cha Cha type elevator-music.

Opportunity knocks was utter shite, as is X-Factor.