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I Think Next Year I'm Going To Try Hard Not To Watch - Here's Why
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Every week I watch it now, I seem to get more and more infuriated by it 
We have the judges ridiculous overhyping of a boyband who are incredibly average singers, who can't harmonise and are helped by god knows how many recorded autotuned backing singers. We have(or had) someone who has been put through to the finals(Cowell and the producers had a big hand in it, I'm sure) being made to feel like he shouldn't be there and his very presence is 'derailing the show'.
We have an arrogant little madam who is in actual fact too young, immature and inexperienced to be in the position she is in, yet the inflated praise she gets from the judges only makes her feel she is entitled to be some kind of superstar. We have a karaoke singer who is extremely limited barely receiving a negative word about her tuning and lack of versatility. We have a guy who seems to think he is entitled to win, and who is too good to ever go back to a 'normal' job. His attitude towards the others is questionable and it doesn't seem as though he truly appreciates the opportunity he has.
We have a vocalist with incredible potential not being guided and mentored properly. Her mentor is unable to get the best out of her and allow her to demonstrate more passion and versatility. Said mentor clearly prefers her other act.
I can't take anything the judges say seriously any more, as it seems every word out of their mouths has some kind of agenda behind it. Instead of enjoying watching it, I find myself annoyed and bemused at it. Yes, I know it's 95% an entertainment show and 5% a talent show, but still The fact I know how the audition process works(it's not pretty) after accompanying my wife there last year doesn't help either.
It's going to take a monumental effort not to watch it next year, but it has become such a farce that I feel I need to
Anyone else feel the same, or similar?
We have the judges ridiculous overhyping of a boyband who are incredibly average singers, who can't harmonise and are helped by god knows how many recorded autotuned backing singers. We have(or had) someone who has been put through to the finals(Cowell and the producers had a big hand in it, I'm sure) being made to feel like he shouldn't be there and his very presence is 'derailing the show'.We have an arrogant little madam who is in actual fact too young, immature and inexperienced to be in the position she is in, yet the inflated praise she gets from the judges only makes her feel she is entitled to be some kind of superstar. We have a karaoke singer who is extremely limited barely receiving a negative word about her tuning and lack of versatility. We have a guy who seems to think he is entitled to win, and who is too good to ever go back to a 'normal' job. His attitude towards the others is questionable and it doesn't seem as though he truly appreciates the opportunity he has.
We have a vocalist with incredible potential not being guided and mentored properly. Her mentor is unable to get the best out of her and allow her to demonstrate more passion and versatility. Said mentor clearly prefers her other act.
I can't take anything the judges say seriously any more, as it seems every word out of their mouths has some kind of agenda behind it. Instead of enjoying watching it, I find myself annoyed and bemused at it. Yes, I know it's 95% an entertainment show and 5% a talent show, but still
The fact I know how the audition process works(it's not pretty) after accompanying my wife there last year doesn't help either.It's going to take a monumental effort not to watch it next year, but it has become such a farce that I feel I need to
Anyone else feel the same, or similar? 0
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Cant tolerate another year of her and Simon thats for sure
If I didn't support and have money on Rebecca, I think I may have stopped watching this series to be honest. I actually didn't watch much of the auditions, and none of bootcamp. It grabbed me at judges houses stage though :mad:
Prima donnas, poor acting, in fighting, tantrums, insults etc etc, & that does not include the acts themselves!
Well we are in pantomime season
The mentorship bit especially does my head in, Rebecca needs some serious guidance/support and Paije could have been really good if he was given some propr advice and coaching.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there
Yes, totally agree.
If anyone watched this with any degree of seriousness, they'd go utterly crazy.
Maybe that's it, OP, in that you mention that you accompanied your wife to the auditions which, as you say, is a horrible process in itself. I can well believe it. You're possibly looking at it and thinking: "In other circumstances that could be her and me". Stories in the tabloids, hurtful comments about her appearance and personal history, criticism - boos and cheers - regarding her talent. I find it astonishing that anyone would want to go through that particular mill. But, oooooh, that dangled carrot of fame and fortune is so tempting!
So, will we see you there in the audience next year??;):D
Which is al very well for the already fanous personalities on the panel but these people are desperate to furhter their careers on a show which is, at best, a pantomime and at worst a nail in the coffin of anyone who doesjt make the final 3 or 4
The same with this year . i didnt watch the auditions or bootcamp or jh or the first few shows. this pissed me off so much cos i like missed like most of aidens performances and everyones like development .
So dont do it
actually do i wouldnt mind missing all that if aiden was still in which he would be if it wasnt for the manipulation
Yeah, I think that is part of it. No, we both decided not to go back this year and will probably not next year either. It's more the 6 hours of standing around being told to jump around that we can't be bothered with than anything else. Plus, we know how fickle and inconsistent the whole thing is from the very first auditions right the way through to the finals.
this.
I just saw your link on another thread. Is that your wife's voice?
If so, I do think she has a lovely voice, really I do, so good luck to her. Maybe she'll have the strength to apply some other time - as we know others who get through have applied in previous years. If she's writing her own material too, then even better. That original song was good but ,yikes, please tell her to cut out the croaky thing at the beginning of notes which I noticed on that track. Other singers have that affectation and she doesn't need it!:eek: No offence meant!:)
Yes, that's her - thanks for the kind words
Thanks
The constant backing of a contestant the public rejected on a weekly basis, the enormous set-up to avoid a RATM-style campaign to have Wagner win the programme, the way One Direction are being pushed to the forefront. It sits really uneasy with me.
I got a bit sick of it after the Jedward/Lucie Jones incident last year, but for me this year has been like the Christmas you found out that Santa doesn't exist, after a few years of having your doubts. In previous years I've been able to play along with it, but this year the pre-planning of the whole programme has just left me cold.
What's even more sad is that's just from live shows - until the end of October I was repping in south-west Europe and we had a flight come in on Saturday nights (which, being operated by Monarch "We make Ryanair look like Emirates" Airlines, was always delayed of course) which finished the week before Live Shows kicked off. (Thanks to the expat boozers I did see the Live Shows.) I hate to think what auditions were like - so bear in mind I totally missed all the shit with Gamu and her family being sent to have Robert Mugabe "sort them out."
But it was just the same crap over and over. They'd already decided what they were gonna tell the acts. You sometimes wonder if they were watching a different show.
Here's why?
Oh please, you'll watch in 2011 and love it!