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Old 21-02-2004, 00:02
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Simon Cowell, true to appalling form, wants to launch Jordan's singing career, according to The Sun, at least.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2004081480,00.html

Nevermind the quality, feel the wad
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Old 21-02-2004, 00:10
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Tragic thing is that people will go out and buy it.
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Old 21-02-2004, 02:38
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Yeah, and he knows it
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Old 21-02-2004, 11:08
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Jordan singing?

Can this get any worse?

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Old 21-02-2004, 11:57
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Cowell is a clever man and knows the value of this busty slag but this is one shithead to far.
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Old 21-02-2004, 12:06
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Tragic thing is that people will go out and buy it.

Whats worse is some people read the contents, believing its newsworthy material
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Old 21-02-2004, 14:11
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Don't blame Simon Cowell for making a good living exploiting people with no taste. If the great British public didn't buy crap like that he wouldn't do it.
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Old 21-02-2004, 15:07
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If the British public would buy the Cheeky Girls' CDs, they'll buy anything.
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Old 21-02-2004, 17:33
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But she can't sing, Simon should not be allowed in the music business. Does he not realise he is totally destroying it.
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Old 21-02-2004, 20:02
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It makes me wonder though, if he ever cares that he's probably never had anything to do with any decent music. Probably not, a man without soul.
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Old 22-02-2004, 00:44
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Originally posted by goody2shoes_23
But she can't sing, Simon should not be allowed in the music business. Does he not realise he is totally destroying it.
Is he? How, exactly, is he doing that?

For want of a better analogy, Simon Cowell is simply a messenger who should not be shot. The people who are "destroying" (if it really is being destroyed) the music business are the people who buy the records. And, really, there are two points to address here:

1. Is the music industry being destroyed just because it's being populated with music you don't like. If so, then that is a remarkably shallow view - taste is a varied thing and one man's shite is another man's gold. I personally do not think it's being destroyed at all, I think currently we have a far more varied chart than we did in, say, the beginning- to mid- nineties.

2. How can you write off the woman's singing career before you've even heard her first song? To me, a good song is a good song, and I don't care if it's sang by Pink, Jordan or Cherie frigging Blair, so long as it's sung well it is still a good song. It really doesn't matter whether she is a "busty slag" or a flat-chested virgin! People are way too quick to judge.

You cannot say Cowell has destroyed the music business any more than you could say The Sun has destroyed the newspaper business. Cowell, like The Sun, simply caters for lowest common denominator demand, just like any smart business man would.
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Old 22-02-2004, 12:41
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Originally posted by Manko
Don't blame Simon Cowell for making a good living exploiting people with no taste. If the great British public didn't buy crap like that he wouldn't do it.
Yep,your right there manko,like I've said before regarding the current P.I M. McManus chump "A million flies can't be wrong"...can they?
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Old 22-02-2004, 14:29
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If I believed everything that was written in the rubbish that calls itself the press, particularly the tabloids, then I'd hibernate.
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Old 22-02-2004, 16:22
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Originally posted by pi r squared
Is he? How, exactly, is he doing that?

You cannot say Cowell has destroyed the music business any more than you could say The Sun has destroyed the newspaper business. Cowell, like The Sun, simply caters for lowest common denominator demand, just like any smart business man would.
The music industry is in despearate need of a good few pop artists. Now I have no issue with pop music, hey sometimes i'm willing to except stars off reality TV. But the point is Simon Cowell has no intention of Jordan having a long career, he intends to see how many copies/money he can get out of her in the first single or so and then drop her. That is how the music industry is getting destroyed, people like Simon Cowell expect them to be either massive immediatly and have some future or they get dropped.
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Old 22-02-2004, 17:25
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Originally posted by MJS
If I believed everything that was written in the rubbish that calls itself the press, particularly the tabloids, then I'd hibernate.
Heh, I love the way everyone's totally turned their noses up at the fact the story is from The Sun, I did state "according to The Sun, at least", meaning it might not be true, but judging on Mr Cowells track record, on balance I believe it. Plus a few other sites are reporting it, and probably Digital Spy too, before long.

I should point out that I'm not a avid Sun reader, but if you treat it as a comic, it can have entertainment value for the occasional reader . Persh the thought of ever buying it though .
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Old 22-02-2004, 17:28
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Originally posted by goody2shoes_23
The music industry is in despearate need of a good few pop artists. Now I have no issue with pop music, hey sometimes i'm willing to except stars off reality TV. But the point is Simon Cowell has no intention of Jordan having a long career, he intends to see how many copies/money he can get out of her in the first single or so and then drop her. That is how the music industry is getting destroyed, people like Simon Cowell expect them to be either massive immediatly and have some future or they get dropped.
Pi makes some good points though, Simon Cowell can only survive, because the public buy into his crap, and if it wasn't him, it would be someone else filling the "crap gap". You can't legislate against the guy, we need a change of public instead .
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Old 22-02-2004, 17:31
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Please tell me it's just a joke.
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Old 23-02-2004, 19:30
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Originally posted by aka
Please tell me it's just a joke.
That is what I meant, in simplier terms.
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Old 23-02-2004, 19:49
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>> Simon should not be allowed in the music business.
>> Does he not realise he is totally destroying it.

He can't - Peter Waterman did it a couple of decades back ; )
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