Re: X factor time again : Sat Sep 28, 2013 12:19 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Nope, it's just OK entertainment. With the occasional crackin new young singers thrown in.

It isn't.
You can delude yourself all you want but it still won't be.

Re: X factor time again : Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:45 am  

Anakin Skywalker wrote:

It isn't.
You can delude yourself all you want but it still won't be.

Well clearly it is popular entertainment because of the day/time slot it is given by the ITV schedulers every year, which just also happens (probably by coincidence) to be the most expensive day/time to run a TV advertising campaign - because its so popular.

As for whether or not it unearths some decent young singing talent every year, well that is down to individual choice but I happen to think it does and the only shame is that even just fifteen years ago there was a huge number of outlets where they could practice their trade professionally - and any of the finalists would have passed agents auditions to do just that.

Chart music sales isn't the only measure of professional success.

Re: X factor time again : Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:44 pm  

Anakin Skywalker wrote:

It isn't.
You can delude yourself all you want but it still won't be.

Why am I "deluding" myself? I think I know what entertains me. How arrogantly patronising!

Re: X factor time again : Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:46 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

Well clearly it is popular entertainment because of the day/time slot it is given by the ITV schedulers every year, which just also happens (probably by coincidence) to be the most expensive day/time to run a TV advertising campaign - because its so popular.

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No, you're deluded. Nobody in fact advertises during X Factor - as the sole arbiter of what is entertaining, Anakin Skywalker, decreed that it isn't, so this is why you won't see any ad breaks.

Re: X factor time again : Sat Sep 28, 2013 8:19 pm  

Whatever it is, I'm enduring it for the wife and it's making me grind my teeth.

Awful. But it won't be ditched because it makes millions.

Re: X factor time again : Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:47 pm  

It's pish-poor but it isn't compulsory! It's given a few of my mates a pass-out straight after football. We can go straight to the boozer whilst the girls stay in and watch that without us annoying them by passing withering judgement on the desperate wannabees. A Win-Win situation.

Re: X factor time again : Mon Dec 16, 2013 1:00 am  

Well, anyone who says that Sam Bailey isn't an outstanding singer sadly has very faulty ears.

One of the best X-Factor series there has been, but the winner really is an amazing talent, judged by any standards.

Re: X factor time again : Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:15 am  

Cronus wrote:

Whatever it is, I'm enduring it for the wife and it's making me grind my teeth.

Awful. But it won't be ditched because it makes millions.

You are a better man than me for having the ability to endure it.
It's awful, the glimpses of it I've viewed.
The wanabees are sad enough but the cockroaches who sit on the panel.
Dearie me!

Re: X factor time again : Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:20 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Well, anyone who says that Sam Bailey isn't an outstanding singer sadly has very faulty ears.

One of the best X-Factor series there has been, but the winner really is an amazing talent, judged by any standards.

She's very good in her genre of that there is no doubt.

I would love to have a sneak peek at her accounts at the end of next year though and see whether or not she has been billed for any of the promo work done during and after X Factor up to the arena tour, I wouldn't put it past the management in order to declare a slim dividend for her at the end of the first years promotion, most of the X Factor winners don't release any more material for at least twelve months, which all have to be paid for.

Very good in her genre but personally I don't go in for the "power ballad" format.

Re: X factor time again : Mon Dec 16, 2013 10:49 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Well, anyone who says that Sam Bailey isn't an outstanding singer sadly has very faulty ears.

One of the best X-Factor series there has been, but the winner really is an amazing talent, judged by any standards.

Can't see a 36 year-old woman getting much airplay on the likes of Real Radio, though.. can't see her being commercially successful