The Pants Factor!

Now i haven't been following The Pants Factor, sorry X Factor but from the songs i've seen Alex is by far the best and does have a voice, as for the other karaoke rejects i must be watching different singers as non i would pay to see live apart from alex maybe, all the others seem to be out of key, bad pitch and basically pub acts in a few months time. These programmes have become more about the judges and the quick mega bucks the judges make from the short term sale of the winner,

Lets look back over legends of pop that have won these shows:-

Pop Idol winner Will Young,first winner of singing talent show and the boys done well.

Popstars winners Hearsay, Did well with first CD and singles released but now as a band are no more.

Pop idol 2 winner Michelle Mcmanus, No 1 with show's winning song then back to the check out girl, someone needs the price for a cabbage in the vegetable aisle.

Popstars The Rivals winners Girls Aloud, still going strong due to the different styles of songs they release, not all bubblegum pop or ballads and doing a few cover versions of popular songs helps, as for the boy band winners One True Voice they didn't even get a number 1 and lasted about 2 months, they were that memorable i had to be reminded by Fran (a facebook friend & regular customer) that they even existed.

X factor 1 winner Steve Brookstein, hit with first song then playing at a pub near you.

X factor 2 winner Shane Ward had a few hits and was touted as the british Justin Timberlake, i think they were misheard, that should have been touted as will be selling Justin Timberlake in HMV in a year.

X factor 3 Leona Lewis i myself am not a fan but credit where credits due she has a amazing voice and a good PR team backing her that helps alot,her songs all sound very much alike and when she went up tempo it was her lowest charting song, i think her live concert would be a bit depressing with all those ballads.

X factor 4 Leon Jackson again No1 with show winners song but was beaten by a micky take of the show sung by Geraldine (aka Peter Kay) when he released his second single.

So far Only 3 out of 8 winners have been succesful and i don't think the winner of this years X factor will be long term success but if you look back over the winners the 5 that never made it weren't given as much backing as the other 3 with PR and managment, just look at Leona Lewis Simon Cowell has pushed her so much and got her all the best song writers and backing in the music business if the others had been given the same attention i'm sure they would have lasted longer than they did.

But its the real artists i feel sorry for, the ones who write their own songs and music, that travel around the uk playing bars and clubs all year to get seen, that travel and sleep in clapped out transit vans, these people work hard to become famous and these circus of shows on TV hand it to these wedding singer wannabes on a plate,

Keep music live and loud, get rid of these crap talent singing shows.