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When was the last time there was a real concentrated effort by singers & groups to grab the coveted Christmas number with a festive song?
X-factor, love it or hate it, has killed off the annual Christmas number 1 festive single and replaced it with a guaranteed cover version number 1.
I used to love the festive songs fighting it out to top the charts and appear year after year in the festive compilation CD's |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lol popular music in the hit parade has always been manipulated.
Each to their own some people like it some don't. Its all personal choice
Pop six music on your wireless and rediscover great music and some amazing new bands.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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So....you're saying that artists who aren't X-Factor contestants, just don't try at Cristmas time?
Really?
If so, does this really constitute the 'death' of music? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"X Factor has killed music
I love the drama"
X factor has killed music. I hate everything about it. All these whiny fuckin pretentious bastards crying their eyes out when their egos aren't being massaged. Even the judges really have no discernible talent! None of these idiots have ever done a gig under a single bare lightbulb to the bar staff and a dog. They shouldn't be allowed near a stage. I saw AC/DC ON THEIR FIRST BRITISH TOUR PLAY TO 14 people! They did the whole show! I've seen BB. King play to an audience of 12! And yes I was the one who played to the bar staff and the dog. |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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"X Factor has killed music
I love the drama
X factor has killed music. I hate everything about it. All these whiny fuckin pretentious bastards crying their eyes out when their egos aren't being massaged. Even the judges really have no discernible talent! None of these idiots have ever done a gig under a single bare lightbulb to the bar staff and a dog. They shouldn't be allowed near a stage. I saw AC/DC ON THEIR FIRST BRITISH TOUR PLAY TO 14 people! They did the whole show! I've seen BB. King play to an audience of 12! And yes I was the one who played to the bar staff and the dog. "
that's cleared that up then |
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"X Factor has killed music
I love the drama
X factor has killed music. I hate everything about it. All these whiny fuckin pretentious bastards crying their eyes out when their egos aren't being massaged. Even the judges really have no discernible talent! None of these idiots have ever done a gig under a single bare lightbulb to the bar staff and a dog. They shouldn't be allowed near a stage. I saw AC/DC ON THEIR FIRST BRITISH TOUR PLAY TO 14 people! They did the whole show! I've seen BB. King play to an audience of 12! And yes I was the one who played to the bar staff and the dog. "
4th September 2004. When your life changed and you were forced to watch x factor, cajoled into buying the music of the featured performers, and you decided your taste is the taste everyone else should share. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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People who buy the X factor singles buy them because they like them. If you don't like them, fair enough but what makes your taste more valid than theirs? |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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Modern music passes me by. OK, X Factor may have killed the Xmas single but you're not telling me that, left alone, the British music buying public shows any more discernment. *cough*Mr Blobby anyone?*cough* |
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"mr Blobby
bob the builder
st winifred choir
all fantastic Christmas Number 1's of the highest musical craftsmanship"
I'm quite fond of the Mr Blobby Christmas number one, it's naff and cheesy but it has become part of Christmas. I couldn't even name you one X FACTOR Christmas single though such is the blandness of them all. |
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"Lol popular music in the hit parade has always been manipulated.
Each to their own some people like it some don't. Its all personal choice
Pop six music on your wireless and rediscover great music and some amazing new bands.
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this..
there is some cracking music on 6..
by and large most number 1 records have been rubbish anyway so some other contrived pap is hardly any different..
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When was the last time there was a real concentrated effort by singers & groups to grab the coveted Christmas number with a festive song?
X-factor, love it or hate it, has killed off the annual Christmas number 1 festive single and replaced it with a guaranteed cover version number 1.
I used to love the festive songs fighting it out to top the charts and appear year after year in the festive compilation CD's"
Did anyone ever realy care about the Christmas number one other than the music industry? I'm pretty sure most artists didn't.
I hate the X-Factor, and the crap it churns out with a passion, but it hasn;t killed music |
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I hate the X-Factor, and the crap it churns out with a passion, but it hasn;t killed music"
I think we have a more buoyant music scene now than we did in the mid/late 90's manufactured pop era, and that was pre-X-factor. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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pop music was killed long ago by stock,aitken and waterman back in the mid 80's .bland,boring samy tunes in every chart from 85 onwards complete garbage and its never recovered in the 30 years since in fact its got worse  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It was fun at Christmas seeing who won the Xmas battle. Not necessarily how tacky they or the song was. It wouldn't hurt for Simon Cowell to postpone the release just so this tradition can come back again. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The charts aren't representative of music and never were. Any more than tabloid papers are representative of literature.
Chart music serves a purpose but a world of music has never been so instantly available as it is now.
I hate the X factor for the derivative sham it is but if it's killed festive number ones, then it can stay a bit longer for me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Xfactor hasn't killed off the Xmas No1~ it hasn't been trendy as a credible artist to release a specific song for the festive season since the early 1990's!!
It's an easy programme to knock, maybe look it another way it brings a lot of pleasure on a Saturday night to a wide audience ~ that can't be a bad thing in this day and age.
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By (user no longer on site)
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Think the X factor is just indicative of the cheap manufactured pop that seems to work for the masses nowadays. There's still a lot of quality music out there it's just a lot harder to find and not played by the mainstream.
My worry is come 10-15 years time what live music/headline bands will we have for festivals etc everything now is just throw away pop |
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By *razedcatMan
over a year ago
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Not to sound like an Internet troll, but all reality TV shows are trash. History will not be kind to this era.
And Simon Cowell is an extremely clever man, having effectively guaranteed himself a fat paycheck every Christmas. |
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"Not to sound like an Internet troll, but all reality TV shows are trash. History will not be kind to this era.
And Simon Cowell is an extremely clever man, having effectively guaranteed himself a fat paycheck every Christmas. "
I hope history doesn't judge us by reality shows  . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The charts aren't representative of music and never were. Any more than tabloid papers are representative of literature.
Chart music serves a purpose but a world of music has never been so instantly available as it is now.
I hate the X factor for the derivative sham it is but if it's killed festive number ones, then it can stay a bit longer for me. "
I agree |
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"I find it quite amusing that so many people who hate x factor carry on watching it.  "
I don't watch it but you still get the annoying adverts on telly every day and night of the week and the newspaper stories about it so it's kind of hard to avoid even when you actively try to avoid it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I find it quite amusing that so many people who hate x factor carry on watching it.
I do too, it's really easy to switch over or switch off!"
I've gone for the switch off approach... I usually use netflix if I want to watch something other than sport, and tend to read the broadsheets who rarely cover American Jungle Brothers Celebrity Apprentice Factor ... It's quite pleasant living in ignorance of pop culture. |
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