Simon Cowell – Money Over Talent
Well, I am surely not the first person this morning to put hand to keyboard and write about this weekend’s X Factor results. Twitter, facebook and numerous blogs are filled with ecstatic / outraged X Factor fans feeling happy / sad of last nights outcome.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I see a certain (tiny) amount of appeal for the big haired, high-top wearing duo that is Jedward and I think the onslaught of abuse they received at the beginning of the show was over dramatic and uncalled for but musically, Lucy Jones was better. Everyone that has two (or even one) working ear drum knows that Lucy is in a different league to the twins but her getting voted off by the public was not the shocker, it was Mr Simon Cowell choosing to take it to the public vote.
Like most people I know, I have a weird ‘thing’ for Simon Cowell. He is nasty and pompous but that has always been counter-acted by the knowledge that he could pick talent. Whatever he said or did I knew that he appreciated music and could pick the talent from the talentless.
What a hypocrite.
‘I will leave the country if John and Edward win’ was just one of the comments Cowell exclaimed after one of the performances by the twins. Words like mockery, ridiculous and talentless were constantly uttered when asking for his opinions of the two and then, stop the press! Britain like them? They bring in the ratings? You could almost see his brain thinking – Simon Cowell + Jedward = another £10milllion house? And that’s what I feel was in the forefront of his brain last night. No longer was he a talent scout, he was a sell out.
Lucy Jones will no doubt fade into oblivion now, like most reality TV stars do, but to have her 5 minutes of fame cut short because of money making opportunities and to always be remembered that Simon Cowell sent her home in favour of Jedward must be a bitter pill to swallow. Simon has lost my vote but what about you?
November 10th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
He made the right choice, both for me personally and for the X Factor as a whole. This is not purely a ’singing’ competition – if it were would all the contestants be young, good looking and marketable? It is an entertainment competition and Simon kept the entertainment value in.
And as for money making opportunties – do you think Simon/ ITV do it for the love of music!
November 13th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Like so many you miss the point, Simon DID NOT send her home, it was the public by not voting for her, all Simon did was to let the public decide and they did – they clealry prefer a comedy act to her attempts at singing.
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Well – jedward have bitten the dust now so its sort of a moot point
But I dont think anyone be too stunned that Simon took an option that would probably make him more money …