Are you worried about the xmas number one? Well don't worry because corporate TV has it all sewn up months ago. The most loved song this xmas is by Leona Lewis from X Factor. And if you are desperate to have this must have tune then Simon Cowell has arranged for you to download it, buy in the shops, or get the DVD for the series and anything else thatw will make his company lots of money.
This is a guy who once went on Top of the Pops dressed as a dog to promote one of his early attempts at music.
How have we come to this? How have millions of people been brainwashed into making some bit of tat into the Xmas number one?
Simple.... Great Marketing!
Now they have their greedy hands on the web they can manipulate another medium. The X factor format is just so clever. For example a record company big wig joins forces with a TV company, to develop a fake talent show...Yea its fake. There are people at the start of the show who have no chance because they are really crap...They are paraded and made idots out of to attract the public. We all love watching the sad show-off who can not sing making an arse of their selves. Then the real singers are paraded, each one with their very own little drama to tell us about. Its understandble that the public become engaged, when tears flow and emotions are manupulated. Eventually the public vote for a winner, and now the record company big wig really cleans up since he signed all the best acts at the start. Sometimes the press are recruited to cover a fake battle between the winner and the runner up. What is really sad and unforgiveable, is that within a few months the winner, the runner up and all the losers usually fade in to obscurity. Mr Big Wig is ok though, he only has to worry about what to buy with his enormous profits...No wonder he has a permanent smirk on his face, so would you if you were him. The big question is when will the public wake up and reject this nonsence?
Most of us know their is something extremely smelly about this whole insestuous idea. Why should record producers be making a show with television companies?
So what can we do about it?
Well we say, if you must buy music: go and download something no one has heard of. Give some new band a chance. You never know: if enough of you rejected this nonsense it might go away. Probably better still go to one of the many music sites offering free music...Some of them even let you remix the tracks. Most of all reject corporate music. If they wnat money, tell them to get lost.
Happy Christmas
Mai, Polly Jessica, Ricky, Chelsea, and professor farnsworth. All involved in A CHIMP CALLED HAM
