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| | lets hope that this is the beginning of the end. Comments posted by Alan McGee on myspace this morning: LONDON, December 14 /PRNewswire/ --
Simon Cowell and the X-Factor were today revealed as having the worst influence on the UK music industry, in a survey carried out by eMusic, the world's second largest digital music service.
Over half of people questioned by eMusic about the state of UK music scene cited the X-Factor and Simon Cowell as having the most negative effect on the music industry in the last 20 years. Cowell, who has managed the likes of Sonia and 5ive, and the X-Factor, which has made amateurs like MichelleMcManus, Steve Brookstein and Shane Ward famous for five minutes, were blamedfor the malaise in modern popular music. Together they beat Stock, Aitken &Waterman (16%), Steps (6%) and The Spice Girls (6%) to take the title.
In contrast, the eMusic survey acknowledged John Peel, the legendary radio DJ famed for championing independent music for 40 years and bringing to air artists such as Pink Floyd and The White Stripes, as the person who has had the most positive influence on the industry with 61% of the votes. Peel came in ahead of Alan McGee, founder of Creation records which launched Oasis(3%), musical impresario Jools Holland (7%), and founder of Glastonbury,Micahel Eavis (6%).
Almost half of the music fans questioned by eMusic alsothought that the UK's taste in music is becoming too similar. The rise ofreality TV and manufactured music artists (72%), similarity of radioplaylists (72%), and an industry driven by money not creativity (82%) wereall seen as major reasons for conformity of choice.
David Pakman, CEO of eMusic comments "The X-Factor may be entertaining television, but it does not produce important or lasting musicians. The moguls throwing cash behind reality-TV artists only create short-term phenomena and make it harder for truly talented acts to break through. The results indicate that we could be seeing a backlash against these over-hyped and over-manufactured artists. In the long run, authenticity and integrity will win the race."
LONDON, December 14 /PRNewswire/ --
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| | | Posted 14/12/2006 11:39:37 | |
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| | I like Will Young, Leona is great, Girls Aloud are good. If a truly talented artist is indeed, truly talented.. then they will make it also!
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| | | Posted 14/12/2006 12:57:43 | |
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| BW's Bacon Wrapped Sausage (14/12/2006)
I like Will Young, Leona is great, Girls Aloud are good. If a truly talented artist is indeed, truly talented.. then they will make it also! Girls Aloud must have some hidden talents, how about sending them to Ipswich to replenish the hooker stocks? |
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| | | Posted 14/12/2006 13:02:45 | |
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| It's not Christmas it's not an act of faith (14/12/2006)
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I like Will Young, Leona is great, Girls Aloud are good. If a truly talented artist is indeed, truly talented.. then they will make it also! Girls Aloud must have some hidden talents, how about sending them to Ipswich to replenish the hooker stocks? You're all heart.
you know, you know, if a feller named Monroe never fathered bluegrass
he would still be unrecognised as the grand wizard of speed metal 
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| | | Posted 14/12/2006 13:08:00 | |
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| Mr Badger's Baubles (14/12/2006)
It's not Christmas it's not an act of faith (14/12/2006)
BW's Bacon Wrapped Sausage (14/12/2006)
I like Will Young, Leona is great, Girls Aloud are good. If a truly talented artist is indeed, truly talented.. then they will make it also! Girls Aloud must have some hidden talents, how about sending them to Ipswich to replenish the hooker stocks? You're all heart. I'm just thinking of something useful they could do, which would ensure they kept out of the recording studio. |
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| | | Posted 14/12/2006 13:37:53 | |
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| reeks of snobbery. so who cares about which record is at the top of the chart, when was the last time you actually listened to radio one on a sunday? we don't need to sit there waiting for the songs we like with our fingers on play and record. we have so much more media it gives us vast options. music hasn't been ruined by Simon Cowell at all, I remember on x factor an auditionee sang nirvana, cowell said that it was the worst thing he ever heard and that KC would turn in his grave if he knew that somebody was on that type of show singing his songs. My little sister was into steps, she now likes all this emo rubbish and i'm sure when she's older she'll like a completely different type of music. I only started liking the smiths in my 20's because you need a level of maturity to get the lyrics. It's called growing up. Singles are bought by kids. that's where they're making they're money. For somebody to say that music has been ruined by a tv show is a joke. In my humble opinion.
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| | | Posted 14/12/2006 13:50:09 | |
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| ZINGle all the way (14/12/2006)
reeks of snobbery. so who cares about which record is at the top of the chart, when was the last time you actually listened to radio one on a sunday? we don't need to sit there waiting for the songs we like with our fingers on play and record. we have so much more media it gives us vast options. music hasn't been ruined by Simon Cowell at all, I remember on x factor an auditionee sang nirvana, cowell said that it was the worst thing he ever heard and that KC would turn in his grave if he knew that somebody was on that type of show singing his songs. My little sister was into steps, she now likes all this emo rubbish and i'm sure when she's older she'll like a completely different type of music. I only started liking the smiths in my 20's because you need a level of maturity to get the lyrics. It's called growing up. Singles are bought by kids. that's where they're making they're money. For somebody to say that music has been ruined by a tv show is a joke. In my humble opinion. The fact is, that record companies do spend vast amounts of money on promoting these type of 'artists'. They would love to get another Robbie Williams to sell vast quantities of tripe to housewives etc. If a record company's money is clogged up in all this guff, then less money is spent on new, up and coming bands. Major labels are only after making a fast buck, and to hell with music being art....let's make a fast buck....and it's fuckin rubbish. Simon Cowell is a cunt and knows fuck all about music. He knows how to market talentless gimps. Pete Waterman who started all this cheapening of music, is a cunt. |
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| | | Posted 14/12/2006 13:59:21 | |
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| It's not Christmas it's not an act of faith (14/12/2006)
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reeks of snobbery. so who cares about which record is at the top of the chart, when was the last time you actually listened to radio one on a sunday? we don't need to sit there waiting for the songs we like with our fingers on play and record. we have so much more media it gives us vast options. music hasn't been ruined by Simon Cowell at all, I remember on x factor an auditionee sang nirvana, cowell said that it was the worst thing he ever heard and that KC would turn in his grave if he knew that somebody was on that type of show singing his songs. My little sister was into steps, she now likes all this emo rubbish and i'm sure when she's older she'll like a completely different type of music. I only started liking the smiths in my 20's because you need a level of maturity to get the lyrics. It's called growing up. Singles are bought by kids. that's where they're making they're money. For somebody to say that music has been ruined by a tv show is a joke. In my humble opinion. The fact is, that record companies do spend vast amounts of money on promoting these type of 'artists'. They would love to get another Robbie Williams to sell vast quantities of tripe to housewives etc. If a record company's money is clogged up in all this guff, then less money is spent on new, up and coming bands. Major labels are only after making a fast buck, and to hell with music being art....let's make a fast buck....and it's fuckin rubbish. Simon Cowell is a cunt and knows fuck all about music. He knows how to market talentless gimps. Pete Waterman who started all this cheapening of music, is a cunt. i like simon cowell, think he knows his stuff, compared to the other two judges on it. The programme is entertaining. I dont see the problem with it. Some bands seem too obsessed with prooving how they arent manufactured and selling out, they would probably be able to merchandise themselves better so people would actually know who they were and here them if they promoted themselves more.
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| | I'd like to point out that making music is free. most people do it. if it is good enough then it will break through. Shit is still shit. and with out trying to make this personal, for somebody who claims to know so little about popular culture, you do hate it an awful lot. there are also popular manufactured bands like McFly who make good music. The whole image thing is irrelevant, the fact that you go so against it still you being conned by the marketing. why not judge a track or a band or artist on the individual song? On the simon cowell front, you have to respect a man who can judge a market so well so consistently. he is not forcing the public to buy what is sometimes in my opinion a pile of gash, he is judging his target demographic. A respected band such as the chilli peppers used to be good, now they churn out the same song 15 times for an album. prepubesant(sp?) girls listen to that shit because keidis went out with heidi klum or does. whatever. he has also released an auto biog. ghost written. as i said before. reeks of snobbery and hypocrisy. edited to try and make it at least semi coherant.
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| ZINGle all the way (14/12/2006)
I'd like to point out that making music is free. most people do it. if it is good enough then it will break through. Shit is still shit. and with out trying to make this personal, for somebody who claims to know so little about popular culture, you do hate it an awful lot. there are al
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