Why is it always the same guest musical acts?
Mybelle
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Is it just me or does it same to be the same musical guests year after year?
We always seem to get Taylor Swift, Robbie Williams, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga along with the previous years winners. It's so boring seeing the same acts all the time.
I'd love to see something different and not the usual mainstream pop such as Bastille, Jake Bugg, Hurts or other up and coming acts. It's always the same ones who just plug their records and get the free publicity whereas the ones who would benefit more, don't do it.
I wonder if it's more that these acts don't want to do it or simply don't get asked as they're not "mainstream" enough.
What are your thoughts?
We always seem to get Taylor Swift, Robbie Williams, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga along with the previous years winners. It's so boring seeing the same acts all the time.
I'd love to see something different and not the usual mainstream pop such as Bastille, Jake Bugg, Hurts or other up and coming acts. It's always the same ones who just plug their records and get the free publicity whereas the ones who would benefit more, don't do it.
I wonder if it's more that these acts don't want to do it or simply don't get asked as they're not "mainstream" enough.
What are your thoughts?
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My point was there very rarely seem to be up and coming acts on there.
It's hardly in the show's interest to promote up and coming acts aside, of course, from present and past contestants
The guest spots are all about hiring the biggest available names who in the producers' estimation will help maintain the profile of the show and pull in a few more casual viewers. I suppose an argument could be made that new and different names would enhance the programme's credibility and bring in an audience who wouldn't be likely to watch otherwise, but I'm not sure how much substance such a case would have. Seems more likely to me that each time a lesser-known artist featured, their own fans might tune in for the occasion but would be unlikely to return the following week.
And Chic certainly haven't been on before have they?
But Lady Gaga I could have done without. Her performance was abysmal to go with an abysmal couple of songs.
I liked her when she first started cos she was different and I liked her songs.
Now she's turned into a joke of herself she's gone way beyond weird for being weird just for the sake of being weird.
I would jump off the nearest bridge if he did. Can you imagine him and Abi on the same stage..talk about a fun vacuum.
I caught a little big of Mr Bugg at Glastonbury this year and he was too dull for me - million times better than Abi though.