His name is Simon Sweetman. He's written an article on stuff.co.nz that has really laid the X Factor bare.
I love the sort of directness Simon sprinkled liberally through his article. Some of the gems....
The X-cruciating factor (headline)
...New Zealand's next big pop star is Jackie Thomas. Who? Well, that's right - she'll be working at the checkout counter before too long.
But are there really any winners? By winning the competition isn't she already set up as the biggest loser...
...a second season is already lined up after all and our idiotic funding body has already gone into bat, giving out our money.
Jackie Thomas will join the names Ben Lummis and Rosita Vai - people who can sing at the local church or RSA and hey, they're better than you and me, sure, but they did no such thing as become a pop star. Their fame wasn't even fleeting - they were paraded around cruelly for another tier of ugliness
Jackie Thomas is a nobody.
So I couldn't watch it. Not even for the car-crash.
X-Factor is a cruel rort; a nasty ruse and we're all being ripped off by it.
But now Jackie Thomas will think she's somebody for a day. For a week. For a tour. For an excruciating album with a tacky video and for a handful of promotional appearances at movie theatre malls around the country timed for the school holidays.
And then she'll work at a packhouse or as a cleaner or go on to train to do whatever else in this world.
... wearing The X-Factor crown is worse than meaningless - it's the ultimate sign that you have nothing close to anything resembling an x-factor.
... another sign that NZ On Air is a cruel, nasty joke. A clueless, sac-less vacuity.
Just another laughing stock in waiting while New Zealand's real talent schleps it out loading its own gear, playing to no one for twice as long and half as much as it should.
The X-Factor should make us all die inside a little.
X-Factor you are cruel. You are ugly. You are not what I want for this world.
Simon - I salute you.
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