I have been listening to the departed Jeff Buckley a lot recently who has re-entered the pop charts, due in a large part to an 'online lynch mob' campaigning for people to buy his record instead of the X Factor winners version. Power to the facebook retards!
What suprises me more than anything about X-Factor is it's quite blatent lack of adventure. 'Hallelujah' was performed by some ass-wipe 4th placed loser on American Idol this year. It went to No.1 that same week on the I-tunes chart, selling 178,000 downloads. The highest boost in digital sales a song had ever received. So, it wasn't exactly an inspired choice by Cowell as some tabloids have suggested. A drab accountant would have chosen the same fucking song.
Talking about dead singers who like swimming and have huge 'underground hits' - eight years ago today Kirsty MacColl died when she was hit by a boat whilst swimming in Mexico. At the age of 41 she was gone. She didn't leave a substantial legacy in regard to her recordings (based largely around covers) but she was involved in one of the most popular Christmas songs ever. Yes, that one. Nothing better than falling out with loved ones at a time when people should come together. As it's Christmas here it is...
What suprises me more than anything about X-Factor is it's quite blatent lack of adventure. 'Hallelujah' was performed by some ass-wipe 4th placed loser on American Idol this year. It went to No.1 that same week on the I-tunes chart, selling 178,000 downloads. The highest boost in digital sales a song had ever received. So, it wasn't exactly an inspired choice by Cowell as some tabloids have suggested. A drab accountant would have chosen the same fucking song.
Talking about dead singers who like swimming and have huge 'underground hits' - eight years ago today Kirsty MacColl died when she was hit by a boat whilst swimming in Mexico. At the age of 41 she was gone. She didn't leave a substantial legacy in regard to her recordings (based largely around covers) but she was involved in one of the most popular Christmas songs ever. Yes, that one. Nothing better than falling out with loved ones at a time when people should come together. As it's Christmas here it is...
'The Fairytale Of New York'
- The Pogues -
- The Pogues -
Oh, and the best news possible in the land of TV-music shows is that Sleepercell got voted off Orangle Unsigned Act tonight. They're now 'dead' too. The mamby-pamby fuck faces. Yes! I may well keep an eye on their 'development' in 2009. How many months to the break-up - I give it till May.
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