What an upset then that Joe McElderry’s X Factor song didn’t get to the converted No1 position, but instead we end up with Rage Against the Machine and their offering Killing in the Name, thus ending Simon Cowell’s domination of the festive charts for the last five years. And what was the excuse served up for this failure then, arctic conditions kept the punters away.
Well never mind the excuses and the yarn spinning, the fact is music has taken a turn for the worst if it's not been on the slide for years. What’s not unique about our music these days says it all if this strumpet is offered up for our festive number one.
But having said that; there maybe some significance publically here, why did the public give support for this festive hit and to be quite honest, if you heard it on Christmas day whilst having a quickie down your local, that’s if you still have a local within a radius of say five miles, wouldn’t you feel like that guy in the film It’s A Wonderful staring James Stewart whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve gains the attention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers) who is sent to help him in his hour of need.
Jesting aside, was this vote holding or saying something more than just a rebellion against the Cowell control and packaging of a short-lived teenagers dream, we ‘knickknackery’ do wonder?
All of a sudden reality TV is the in thing then, a forum is now being lined up for our top political leaders to exchange bows whilst all intending to do the same thing if elected. Just how many people will bother to tune in is another thing, or how many TV set's get flung out, what with the party political broadcasts, this may prove to be a very unpopular move especially when you think about the fiddlers all. Maybe someone should start a face book page that impacts on the outcome of the general election?
Staying with television even Her Majesty is having problems, a recent poll reported that only 12 per-cent of the public were looking forward to her Christmas Day speech. This is some drop when you think that 28 million watched it in 1987 and only eight million last year, so what’s that say?
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=a61acb1b-22fc-42c5-9919-a3d0fd29688a)
No comments:
Post a Comment