rage against the x-factor - Outcome: RATM is the Christmas Number One!

skippi90 said:
The chart has an effect on all other music. Will the huge record labels produce music that they know won't appeal in anyway to the mass markets? I'm sick of the drivel that currently frequents the top 10.
Click to expand...

How does it have such a big impact on other music?

I think the answer to your question is yes they will produce music that doesn't appeal to the mass markets, the fact that most dance music doesn't make it to the charts is proof of this.
 
I've never joined an internet campaign before. But hell yes I will be buying the single. especially as it'll be under a £1

Sick to death of reality tv and things like x-factor.
 
lemonkettaz said:
Surely if all of us that love our "real" music got our music to be mainstream we'd probably hate it and find something else that most people don't like?
Click to expand...

No, I'm not some daft 14 year old going "ZOMG they totally sold out".

If I like the music they make I will continue to regardless of how popular it is.
 
jakeke said:
It's not Simon Cowell's fault, he's just taking advantage of the remarkably low average IQ of X-Factor viewers. Anybody with a business mind would do the same
Click to expand...

I certainly haven't got a low IQ and I also wouldn't buy any single associated with X-Factor unlike all the sheep who are going to buy RATM.
 
dmpoole said:
I certainly haven't got a low IQ and I also wouldn't buy any single associated with X-Factor unlike all the sheep who are going to buy RATM.
Click to expand...

Thinking an idea is GOOD and CHOOSING to follow it isn't being a sheep.

I could call you a sheep for many things you do where you don't really know WHY you do them, it's just something you think of as "it's what you do".
 
Raikiri said:
No, I'm not some daft 14 year old going "ZOMG they totally sold out".

If I like the music they make I will continue to regardless of how popular it is.
Click to expand...

Why so defensive?

Sadly it isn't just 14year olds that adopt that attitude.

There are plenty of people my age, older and younger that turn their nose up at a band for making it big.

Kings of Leon is a band that in the last 2 year have sort of hit the big time and all you get of certain people is "they are nothing like they were when they started", "omg their 1st album beats anything else"
 
I already have the single, both 7" & 12", from when it was originally released. So, even though I absolutely abhor the X-Factor, and all the other 'reality' shows, I won't be buying the single myself.
 
lemonkettaz said:
Why so defensive?

Sadly it isn't just 14year olds that adopt that attitude.

There are plenty of people my age, older and younger that turn their nose up at a band for making it big.

Kings of Leon is a band that in the last 2 year have sort of hit the big time and all you get of certain people is "they are nothing like they were when they started", "omg their 1st album beats anything else"
Click to expand...

It was a sweeping generalisation meant to insult the people who think like that, inferring they think like 'daft 14 year olds'...
 
I enjoy watching the X Factor, but I dislike the music they put out.

I loved Leona Lewis, but found her music completely boring. To date I havnt bought any X Factor albums.

A lot of my friends are X factor sheep, and well into their mid 20s, who give me the usual 'If other musicians are better, why dont they go on the X Factor' crap.

No decent musician / singer would want the X Factor contract, simple as that. They would be able to come up with an album on their own rather than wanting generic Simon Cowell approved pop songs.

skippi90 said:
The chart has an effect on all other music. Will the huge record labels produce music that they know won't appeal in anyway to the mass markets? I'm sick of the drivel that currently frequents the top 10.
Click to expand...

This is the problem with music. If it isnt popular enough to get into the charts, then the record companies will not back it. And there is quite a lot of good music out there that is not popular, but it just hasnt ever seen a commercial release on CD.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom