Christmas Number 1

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

As mentioned earlier abut the same record company, RATM used to be on Epic records (I worked for them and so loved doing the marketing for RATM), but they have since been bught out by Cowell's record company so if you buy Killing... you give Cowell a nice fat Christmas bonus and I'm sure he's chuckling all the way to the bank. Better would have been to choose a song by a band on truly independent label but they are hard to find these days.

So Simon Cowell dug so deep he bought Sony Records BMG did he ? As far as I knew the last people to own Epic Records was Sony . Cowell actually sold his "SyCo" studios and record company to Columbia Records and Sony BMG so they own HIS studios and not the other way around . So Simon would not benefit from this record getting to number one , Only Sony benefit no matter what you do .

Channel hopped the xfacter final.

Who the hell chose that song? It's dreadful... it might even be worse that that George Michael Xmas number they inflicted on people.

Urgh, much as a would like to spoil Simon Cowell's best laid corporate plans, I can't think of a more overplayed and annoying alternative song! I purposefully boycott RATM now as it has become the X-factor of the metal club dance floor. Boooooo.

I bought it, Rage at number 2, gotto love it, got to get the bugger to number one though grrrrr!

X factor should DIE, money making racket that it is

Originally Posted by ArtyLady

I just happen to appreciate the talents and efforts of fellow musicians

Yea but they arnt musicians... The whole show just annoys me, people say "they are nice people" How the hell can anyone tell? I've been put through a couple of episodes and its all just staged crap, none of them seem to have personalities of their own, they just seem to be what they are told to be.

Its so american, it just makes me feel sick watching it.

Oh and look at those two idiots that did pretty well...

Sorry if im being offensive Arty, it just winds me up that people just seem to buy crappy music because it was on the TV... sigh.

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

Yea but they arnt musicians... ...Sorry if im being offensive Arty, it just winds me up that people just seem to buy crappy music because it was on the TV... sigh.

But they are musicians - the voice is an instrument! Okay they may be told what to do but one day they will branch off on their own and hopefully have a good career from it all - if they want to sell their soul to get there then good luck to them I say!

No offence taken I certainly wouldn't buy it either! I thought the song was pants and was engineered specifically for the bloke who won and the other guy, Olly, didn't stand a chance - that annoyed me very much!

PS it's nothing new - in the 60's many famous people shot to fame from Opportunity knocks and in the 70s/80s it was New Faces

[the_lone_wolf]

Bumping

Simon sounds ****ed off - more people need to buy RATM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8413557.stm

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

Bumping

Simon sounds ****ed off - more people need to buy RATM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8413557.stm

Woo hoo. Common people get this done! Id love to see this enterprise of money making crap come crashing down (for at least one year anyway ).

[Binky]

Does anyone know what RATM have said on the matter or anyone related to them?

Has anything been said?

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

Yea but they arnt musicians...

Don't think you could argue that wossername (senile moment alert)- who won a couple of years ago isn't a musician - she was/is an amazing find. And the Welsh bloke who sang lloyd webber. And the woman (going back further who took up residence in the West end doing "Chicago".

This year I hardly watched. Uniformally mediocre. Lad that won has a good voice. Gives a reliably (the only person there who could) good performance & I can picture him on stage in the West End, Broadway etc.

'Bout as far as it goes though.