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Why Simon Cowell is good for music
• By launching karaoke as a national pastime on TV he’s forcing people to either go back and find the original songs or to go elsewhere to get their music if they don’t want to sing along
• Good original performers with no chance now of getting on TV will look for better and more original ways to get their music heard (yeah for the internet!)
• Natural teeth colouring will come back as no one will want teeth as white as his, meaning any non Cowell music on TV will be more noticeable because of the bad teeth, and therefore British bands stand a better chance of making it
• All these cover versions mean more money for the original composers if they haven’t already sold their soul, ha ha ha ha.....
• It keeps really annoying idiots away from gigs (cos they’re trying to get on one of his shows)
• No more karaoke machines in pubs
• Early Dylan will be acclaimed as people tire of all the Cowell led false self flagellation and self pity
• Cowell music keeps Pete Docherty off the front pages (and perhaps means he has to write some music to get the money to score the drugs)
• We will at last realise that all those dreadful novelty records he produced were awful and not kooky as we recognise his hand in them
• He gives underemployed has beens something to do other than make comeback records by appearing on his shows thereby saving our ears
• He will use more and more makeup which will hopefully mean less for KISS and therefore lessening the chances of any more tours
• It gave Susan Boyle something to do
• It keeps Simon Cowell out in the open where we can keep an eye on him
• It means no one else has to be him
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Wait until he gets hold of this person
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/37640de2e7/horse-lady-s-got-talent
Dear God Almighty
That is the most bizarre thing I have ever seen! Nearly died laughing!
That's
one of the best blogs I've ever read in my life. You've made this website your own.
I can't honestly get angry over people liking what they like.
Despite all the opprobrium Cowell draws, I don't find anything more objectionable in what he does, or the artists he promotes, or the records he produces, than I ever did in that of the likes of Larry Parnes, Simon Napier-Bell, Mitch Miller et al (which, after all, is the lineage from which Cowell comes). Personally, I'm perfectly happy to spend a few hours a year a few months a year watching The X Factor and American Idol (infinitely more entertaining that its UK equivalent, incidentally - at least two first-rate singers by any measure in this year's crop). I can enjoy it for what it is and even if, in most cases, I've completely forgotten about most of the contestants within weeks afterwards, it doesn't interfere with my liking what I like. Moreover, despite what some might insist, it doesn't "stop real music from getting into the charts", a canard I've heard regurgitated over and over again since childhood, with only the names changing.
When all is said and done, Cowell provides at least one useful function - as the yardstick against which one can measure not only (the superiority of) one's musical taste, but also how one judges what constitutes "good" or "bad", "real" or "manufactured" music, etc. But until the day arrives where the mere knowledge of Susan Boyle's take on Wild Horses diminishes my enjoyment of the Stones version (or that of the Flying Burrito Brothers, for that matter), I'll continue to trust my own ears and my own judgement.
I hadn't quite looked at it like that.
You've made my day. I'll have what you're having.
As much as it pains me to say it...
Cowell is one of very few people generating large amounts of money from record sales and consequently is helping to keep the music industry alive and support bands with less chance of mainstream success.
He's still an utter pillock though.
agree with everything above
and also that as someone said he provides a reminder to me of what splendid taste in music I have.
And another thing, her indoors loves his show, gets irritated by my constant huffing, puffing and tutting away in the background. Result? I get sent to the pub. Now that is a result!!