Dear
Simon Cowell & Joe McWotsit,


If I wanted to listen to a shite Hannah Montana song, I would simply listen to Hannah Montana.

Regards,

dchurch.
(dchurch bah, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:13, 70 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Miley Cyrus innit.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:15, Reply)

Yeah you know nuthin about music!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:21, Reply)

I'm actually a ten year-old girl.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:23, Reply)

*grooms*

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:23, Reply)

*googles age*
Would.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:24, Reply)

as much as it pains me to admit it
I watched some of the X Factor, mostly because my mrs likes it, but also in part because some of them weren't actually too bad.

any one of the last few would have been better than that fucking Hollyoaks reject.

also, that Stacey bird from Dagenham? So unbelievably stupid that it transcended stupidity and I think I love her.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:24, Reply)

I only like the mongs in the beginning

RATM for the win, Cowell has said it's cynical, I can only think he's being ironic.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:26, Reply)

someone made an interesting point on here yesterday
and that was that sony get the money for Rage just as surely as they get the money from X Factor.

haven't checked to see if that is true, but it kind of spoiled it for me.

also, I checked the itunes chart yesterday, and Killing in the name was conspicuously absent
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:28, Reply)

Yeah both singles ultimately are owned by Sony

but RATM said they would donate the profits to Shelter.

It's not really about money anyway, it's about some kind of musical integrity, I wouldn't mind so much if Joe was any good, but he's not, he's decidedly average.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:31, Reply)

he really is average
some of the other finalists had some personality at least, but he is just another singer with the same sort of voice doing the same sort of songs, which is the last thing we need.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:34, Reply)

Both tunes are on Sony
and RATM are second on the iTunes UK chart.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:32, Reply)

Can't see it at all in the top ten...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:33, Reply)

nor me

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:34, Reply)

Oh, dodgy site, apparently from some feed somewhere.
www.doipod.com/itunes-chart/
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:43, Reply)

They are 1st on Play.com with the album version
and third with the single, this could ruin it's chances or will they conglomerate?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:44, Reply)

you're looking at last weeks chart not the live chart.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:44, Reply)

fair enough

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:47, Reply)

it's number 1 on amazon
www.amazon.co.uk/MP3-Music-Download/b/ref=sa_menu_dm1?ie=UTF8&node=77197031&pf_rd_p=218610391&pf_rd_s=left-nav-1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=468294&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1QFPEZ4Q5J6GCCTPGP84
(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:49, Reply)

That Stacey bird
was ok providing she didn't stop singing. By christ she was annoying.

Mind you I watched the last couple of weeks with Mrs Sandettie, but she Sky-plusses it each week so we can skip though the yapping and all the bollocks and just listen to the performances.

Olly should've won, he was the most entertaining by a country mile. Robbie Williams has admitted he's not the best singer in the world, but what he can do is entertain a crowd. Olly is the same.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:08, Reply)

Agreed.
My ten year old daughter is a keen X-Factor fan and is going (with her mother) to the X-Factor Live nonsense next year.

A message to Simon Cowell - you, sir, are a corrosive influence on the minds of the young people of the United Kingdom. Music should not be battered down to some form of the lowest-common-denominator to be turned into a bland, MOTR, inoffensive ridiculousness. With you at the helm in the 1980s, we'd never have had Frankie Goes to Hollywood, or Erasure and I fear that Eurythmics would also have failed to attract sufficient attention in the form of profits for you and your employers.

In the words of Mr Richard Curtis and Mr Ben Elton "I hope that your mother dies in a freak yachting accident".
(Medical_Male Say aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:26, Reply)

Hasn't 'popular' music always been a bit shit?
I seem to remember the 80s being 'Stars on 45' and 'Agadoo'.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:30, Reply)

As Sid Vicious said...
"I have met the 'man-in-the-street' and he's a cunt".

(I think it was Sid.)
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:31, Reply)

A person is intellegent

people are stupid
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:32, Reply)

I use that insult all the time
The only finer one is, ooooooh perfectly festive and will be my new sig.
( djtrialprice, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:47, Reply)

goddammit!
Stupid character limit.
( djtrialprice, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:49, Reply)

I dont mean to sound like a smug twat (well, perhaps I do)
but I have found that not watching shite telly and/or reading tabloid newspapers, is an excellent way to avoid mediocrity and keep the blood pressure down.

There is so much talent out there, you just have to look for it.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:34, Reply)

You should add that to the 'top-tips' page.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:37, Reply)

I should get on with some work

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:43, Reply)

True

However it would be nice to not have to look soo hard sometimes, I'd like to flick on my crap analogue radio in my car and not have to listen to wall to wall pop/r&b on radio 1 etc. Yes I could listen to Xfm, but only in london and they still play Scouting for Girls for god's sake!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:39, Reply)

I've found Radio 5 makes me a bit less angry
except when they're asking simpletons to phone in to demonstrate how stupid they are. I don't *think* that's what they actually ask people to do but it might as well be.
( djtrialprice, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:51, Reply)

Yep I like radio 4 *is old*
but I want music!!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:56, Reply)

unless
that dailymail of the airwaves cunt nicky Campbell is on, then i tend to shout a lot then put on some loud angry thrash metal to calm down
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:08, Reply)

Maybe
You could get a cd player/mp3 dock/portable mariachi band?
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:31, Reply)

I find this approach works pretty well for me too
I don't listen to the radio, I don't read the tabloids, I don't know which celeb is fat/thin/having it off with another celeb... and I'm happy and junk.

Look, I'll prove it...

*grins*
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:48, Reply)

Yeah but that's because you're illiterate and deaf.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:54, Reply)

Yeah
So's ym
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:56, Reply)

I see you and your husband aren't signed up for tomorrows bash.
That is gay.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:57, Reply)

I didn't even know there was a bash tomorrow
I don't look at the calendar!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:58, Reply)

There's a bash tomorrow at the porterhouse.
Gonz organised it. drag your bloke along and you get to see me.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:59, Reply)

I'll ask him if there is a reason we aren't going
he's my walking diary, I have no idea what I'm doing ever, I just ask him. :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:05, Reply)

If you're good I'll introduce you to baldmonkey.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:07, Reply)

The reason why the new single is a Miley Cyrus song
Is Cowell wants to pimp 'Wee Joordy Joor' out to Disney in the US, thus making him the next Jack Ifrom off of Senior School Singalong.

Cunt.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:49, Reply)

fuck me!
...and he calls the RATM campaign cynical?!!!

Someone should get him a dictionary.
(dchurch bah, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:51, Reply)

Christmas number ones don't matter
They've been shit for years.
Mister fucking Blobby anybody?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:05, Reply)

thanks for the offer
but I don't fancy getting my red wings.
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:10, Reply)

Oh, well if you change your mind
I'll let Susan Boyle know.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:11, Reply)

mmm
no thanks, I would rather stay with Palmella
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:15, Reply)

Palmella!
*late penny-drop*
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:18, Reply)

and her
5 lovely sisters
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:20, Reply)

He was pink and yellow
you Noel Edmunds House Party knowledge failure
(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:12, Reply)

err
blob, as in on the?
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:13, Reply)

PINK AND YELLOW NOT RED

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:14, Reply)

brown
wings?
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:15, Reply)

Is that an offer?
You should add that to this week's QOTW.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:20, Reply)

hahaha
oh god that would be terrible, up there with, "you're so easy im not going to rohypnol your drink"
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:22, Reply)

Knowledge failure

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:20, Reply)

I got it halfy
he's just slow.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:23, Reply)

I want RATM to be number one
cos its a laugh isn't it?
( Peej, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:28, Reply)

I bet they fudge it
like the Sex pistols
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:28, Reply)

It wont happen.
People aren't organised enough. There are already about 4 facebook groups for the cause, and I bet half of those people buy it from somewhere that doesn't count towards chart sales.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:34, Reply)

it's number 1 on amazon
and itunes at the moment.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:36, Reply)

Amazon doesn't count as it's too cheap.
Or so someone told me; I'll stand corrected on that one.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 13:00, Reply)

Stand
up.

It does count if they paid more than 39p for it to the supplier.

They can charge what they like (and take a loss if they please) - the rule only applies to distributers.
(dchurch bah, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 13:09, Reply)

Well
Shut my mouth.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 13:10, Reply)

1986
At a push, 1987.
That was the last year before Christmas number ones became cack. I'll give you 2 Become 1. Yeah, I'll give you that.
And although I think Sound of the Underground is a good single, it's not a good Christmas single.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 12:43, Reply)

Slade and Wizzard
FTW
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 13:11, Reply)

East 17 was ace...

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 13:48, Reply)

I can see its slushy appeal

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 14:10, Reply)

Yeah, Slade and Wizard were before 1986 and they're ace

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 14:09, Reply)

You mean you didn't like
Gary Jules?

Of course you didn't, the miserable cunt. At least the Darkness' song was actually christmassy. They definitely get my vote for most christmassy christmas song since 1987.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:18, Reply)