As recently posted, I decided I would try to watch the X-Factor. I could write for hours as to why I object to this programme, and what it has meant to the music industry. I will refrain though, and concentrate on the actual programme.
A haven of auto-tune, and drowning in reverb, it is very hard to write an objective opinion of the voices in the show. They are so heavily over produced and devoid of any individuality, I found the whole experience frustrating. The format is an infuriating faux personality contest between four people devoid of any real performing ability themselves, and fronted by a man who is surely the dullest performer on UK television. I realise that we are never going to see the kind of performer that I prefer, and we will never perhaps get a truly individual artist from the programme, but it would seem to me that the music would seem to be the least important part of the programme. We are expected to be entertained by the so called tension between Cowell and Cole or Minogue or Walsh, and frankly, there is no tension. It is a truly awful piece of television. I will persever, and watch over the next couplf of weeks if I can bear it, but I truly feel like I need a wash after watching it.
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