Martyn Drake's Blog

Let’s get some things straight.  In terms of the X-Factor charity single, I don’t give a monkey’s bottom that it’s for charity.  I will not buy it.  I donate directly to charities without giving credit to anybody else.  That said, this is the only avenue for some people to donate or give something to charity.  In my case, I make it a point not to buy charity singles made by the equivalent of human Muppets who are being manipulated from underneath by greedy showbusiness agents and record executives.  If you were thinking, “well – at least the charity single gives the charity much needed PR!”  Well, unfortunately the majority of these charity singles are made for already well established charities. :\

What I don’t like about the X-Factor is that every year it’s poisoning the charts with utter nonsense.  For starters,  rarely do we see a winner who has not attended a talent school (Olly Murs being the only one in the final that hasn’t).   It makes me wonder if established artists who have spent years, decades even, in the business from even bothering to release a new single at Christmas because (a) most of the younger generation are buying the newly released  X-Factor single or (b) everbody is buying compilation albums of Christmas classics (of which are mainly made up of previous X-Factor Christmas singles).

Cowell, Sony and ITV are polluting the UK Christmas charts each and every year and I, for one, would like to see our music industry become a proper music industry again and not some form of evil experimental lab for Cowell and his cronies.  This year I’ll either buy Rage Against the Machine, or Rolf Harris.  Just because.

Speaking of currently competing X-Factor contestants, there seems to be a camel missing a toe.  Stacey, please give it back to the poor creature.  Or at least wear something a bit more modest forcryingoutloud.  Goes to show that nothing changes in Essex :\