tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post7858425966488333824..comments2023-10-31T15:14:05.373+00:00Comments on Hagley Road To Ladywood: Cowell Dollar, plastic breasts and old fogeysUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-69059377262879000352009-11-30T13:56:42.508+00:002009-11-30T13:56:42.508+00:00This decade should be known as the decade of pap e...This decade should be known as the decade of pap epitomised by The X-Factor that piece of pre-packaged hyped-up commercialised and commodified soulless talent show.<br /><br />Hear endeth the rant!HarpyMarxhttp://harpymarx.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-27591613483282054882009-11-30T10:21:33.947+00:002009-11-30T10:21:33.947+00:00Is Brett talking about his new album, by any chanc...Is Brett talking about his new album, by any chance? It didn't really leap out and grab me, I must say!<br /><br />Peter Kay's Geraldine doo-dah show was on the other night. I hadn't seen it before but it was amusing to see Paul McCartney so involved in it because it made me wonder if he was thinking "I too hate tv talent shows! I had to cut my teeth on the Reeperbahn!" I think I heard somewhere that Pete Waterman appeared on it because he was so sick of X Factor and all that cobblers too.<br /><br />The hoopla surrounding Jeanette Crankey's older sister having that album that's sold more than anything ever (including bread or tubes of toothpaste apparently) is rather depressing. Cowell's sad little speech about how "Susan shows us that you don't have to look like Madonna or Britney" is crap. Is the "industry" going to recast Atomic Kitten and all that with blothcy-faced middle-aged dinner ladies? I think not. They like to see SuBo as the record industry having a heart, but it's so clear that it's marketing media-manipulation codswallop, yet most people don't seem capable of understanding this. <br /><br />PS: I've never heard Subo sing. I shall try to keep it that way.Helen Highwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08087854313840436307noreply@blogger.com