Double the trouble!
I HAVE never been a massive fan of the X Factor – I catch it in passing, let's say. - 04/11/09
But now I am making a point of switching over when it comes on, as it has descended into pure pantomime with those Grimes twins from Ireland, mentored by the freshly face-lifted Louis Walsh.
I can hardly bear to watch as the blonde quaff-haired teens massacre their way through hit after hit. As Graham Norton said on his show the other night, they may have covered Ricky Martin’s number, She Bangs, but they’re light years away from anything of the sort.
I understand that people appreciate the youth, the humour, the sense of fun that ‘John’ and ‘Edward’ bring to a programme that, particularly in the figure of Simon Cowell, often takes itself a little too seriously for a talent show.
However, the lads make a joke out of a format that has produced
incredible singers, like Leona Lewis (manufactured, yes, but nobody can argue with that voice).
Talent is talent, people – you either have it or you don’t, and I think it’s about time the public started awarding the people that have some, rather than the two that blatantly don’t! It’s been fun, but it’s time to make way for the
big guns…
Rachel O’Keefe,
Manchester.
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