X-Factor and Autotune

[venusian]

I don't normally watch, okay. I saw this week's programme because the wife and kids were away and I was channel surfing. Okay?

It's not the artistic merits that I don't like - the really cynical way they apply it to one of a pair of singers who were initially friends to create a bigger difference betwNeen them and put pressure on their friendship for the sake of 30 seconds of onscreen drama just makes them a bunch of cunts really.

Well yeah, but that bloke was completely shit and danced like a spaz. He was making me cringe and I did actually feel for the poor girl having to share a stage with him.

I saw this and thought it was entirely engineered by the couple and their relatives. I.e. they decided the telly wants human interest stories so they created a "Crap Singer Does Right Thing By Friend" story for them. Also she's just the sort of miserable ultimately useless whale that other miserable useless whales identify with because she is in no way threatening to them.

They're not looking for talent; they're looking to make a TV programme.

[gravy]

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Spot on

[Darkflame]

Autotuning the news is pretty fun;

http://www.barelypolitical.com/autotune

[Dungeon-Dave]

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Spot on

Sure Tony Hayward and Gerald Ratner would agree there, too...

I don't normally watch, okay. I saw this week's programme because the wife and kids were away and I was channel surfing. Okay?

Methinks the gent doth protest too much...

[Alarm]

It's pretty obvious it's post production. One of the acts were a duo and they autotuned only one of the singers. It allowed them to force the girl singer to dump her partner.

I thought you claimed you didn't watch the show?

[Alarm]

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

I think Paul Gadd would disagree.

[Dio]

Rare cases. Generally you have to stick the mud to yourself. Flung mud rarely does. Who remembers Sony's behaviour in the pre and early PS3 days, or the rootkit debacle, now?

[gilesgoat]

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

I think Paul Gadd would disagree.

I disagree too.

[Chuffmeister]

Cor blimey. You can't believe anything you see/hear/taste/smell/imagine/notionally experience these days.

It's like the Matrix or sommat.

[betamax]

They're not looking for talent; they're looking to make a TV programme.

Well it's boil-in-the-bag entertainment, like all "reality TV". No actors or writers to pay and pamper, the tiny prizes awarded at the end are nothing compared to the average TV show fee and retainer bill.
You can treat the "cast" like shit and they'll still queue up around the planet for the privilege of being John Merrick III in the new media freakshow.

[stealthbanana]

Makes you wonder if this shit is some form of publicity. Makes you wonder how they found out, and what sort of 'medics' decided keeping it quiet is best served by splashing it all over the press.

[betamax]

she has a child who might be put at risk by her string of mental problems.

Dear writing staff of The Sun. Die. Crawl deep into the suppurating arsehole of tabloid churnalism and suffocate on the bullshit fumes you miserable, prole-herding, word raping, auto slandering hackbots.

Sorry.

[Ollie]

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

I think Paul Gadd would disagree.

I'll see your Glitter and raise you a Michael Jackson...

[Ollie]

Doesn't really make much difference, she was obviously going to be dropped in stage 2 anyway. She was bloody awful, even with the benefit of Autotune.

[Gorecki]

I don't normally watch, okay. I saw this week's programme because the wife and kids were away and I was channel surfing. Okay?