OK, Laura White was an X Factor favourite of ours last year, and we were totally devastated when she got booted off the show. You may remember that the scandal surrounding her departure, and how it got mentioned in parliament.

Now, Laura has released her first single You Should Have Known, and it’s a pretty good pop record. Really, go and look it up on YouTube.

However, over the last month or two, Unreality TV has been swamped with spam from so-called ‘fans’, urging people to go to YouTube, Laura’s official site or her Twitter account. We’ve seen this class of low-rent marketing tactic in the past, but real fans don’t go and leave spammy comments all over the place.

It’s not clear whether anyone from Laura’s management, record company or promotions people are involved in this, but the spam is coming from the same two or three people. I’m taking the step of mentioning it here, because you can’t force people to listen to a single if they don’t want to. And if Laura’s management can’t get the song proper UK airplay, what good will bombarding websites with spam do?

Now, we at Unreality TV genuinely believe that Laura White deserves to have a successful pop career. We just don’t agree with the tactics some people are using to promote her single – whether that’s her management or a bunch of fundamentalist fans.