Fed Up With The X Factor Sob Stories?
It seems like the whole world is getting sick and tired of the X Factor sob stories.
Leon Jackson springs to mind from tonight’s show. If he tells us that he is doing it for his mum one more time, I may have to get the next plane to Glasgow and slap him myself!
The Unreality TV forum has been buzzing this week with X Factor fans who wish the show was focused on the actual talent on display and not the dead fathers, brothers, uncles or dogs of the wannabes who show up in their thousands.
And it seems as though Unreality TV readers aren’t the only ones fed up with all the XF drama. Apexnemesis ranted on his blog:
I’m a single mum, i’m a single dad, i was adopted, i was in a violent relationship, I had a serious illness, my parents just died, i live in an area full of gangsters, i’m an asbestos remover etc booo hooo.
It’s more like a competition of who can cry the best rather than sing the best.
And the reasons they want to sing - I want to sell loads of records and be knighted by the queen, I want a better life for my kid, I want to do it for my dead parents to make them proud.
None of them want to do it simply because it’s in their hearts to be an artist and they all want the easy route - get someone else to write the songs and they’re just going to be a hired singer who gets all the glory.
Well put Apexnemesis! I love the X Factor. It is honestly the TV highlight of my year. But this series has made me wary and cynical. Much seems staged and much seems manufactured. This show should be about the singers and the songs. Producers take note!
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October 7th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
They must be trying to wind X Factor down. There’s only a certain amount of crap TV the public will watch.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Where have all the singers gone, long time passing
Where have all the singers gone, long time ago,
Where have all the singers gone, become whingers everyone
When will talent ever return when will talent return.
Seriously though the programme is becoming a joke.
Which is probably why ITV bosses have started placing replacement programmes in the prime slot the X factor has previously enjoyed.
Maureen
Newcastle.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Oh My God… Can Everyone Just Give Leon A BREAK..AND LEAVE HIM ALONE…!!!
He Wants To Be A Singer….At Least Hes Getting SomeWhere With His Dream..!! Hes Obviously Got Talent If Hes Got This Far In The Competition!!…Everyones Just Reading To Much Into This “Whole Sob Story”..WHAT THE HELL…!!Hes Not Looking For Sympathy OK..!! He Wants To Reward His Mum For All Shes Done For Him..Wouldnt You Want To Reward Your Mum If She And You Went Through The Exact Same As Leon And His Mum..!! Hes Had A Bad ChildHood, We Know That For A Start,But We Dont Know How Bad His ChildHood Has Actually Been!..Soo No One Can Comment On Anyones Childhood…Its None Of Our/Your Business…
October 27th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
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September 2nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Absolutely correct, as long as you have a bloomin’ sob story, you get through, and half of them are lies! Who cares what their’ circumstances are? It’s their voice that counts!
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Jennie and Jodie..the 2 Js..x