Well, another Saturday night, another hour wasted in front of the television watching another group of monotonous hopefuls have their hearts and “dreams” dashed by a panel of judges.
I am talking, of course, about X-factor. The show where people who think they can sing attempt to make it big by entering nothing more then a glorified karaoke contest.
Countless numbers of people run crying from their auditions having been slated by so called Mr Nasty Simon Cowell. Good. The singers say it's something they've wanted to do all their life, X-factor is for them and they think they've got what it takes to be big and famous. Surely if it's something they've wanted to do all their life, why are they relying on a 2-bit TV talent show, when if they are as good as they think they are, they would be sending demos to record companies' everyday, wouldn't they?
I don't think there is a day in the year when there isn't a reality TV show on the box. We've just had to sit through 1000 days of Big Brother this summer only to find out that A) the producers screwed the viewers by putting evicted housemates back in, and B) the winner was the person everyone thought would win.
Something like 21 people were in this years Big Brother and it lasted for far too long. And yes, once again, it had the nation hooked. Hooked on people living in a house all summer. One housemate has already landed herself a TV show, im talking about Nicky. Unfortunately, I'm too polite to say what I really think about her, so I'll leave it up to your imagination. She even said on her audition tape that it's her dream in life to marry a footballer and live off his money. Well, tough luck I doubt you will girl, but she did manage to cling to the winner and will no doubt be living off his hard earned moolah.
Where has all the talent gone in this world? When you look at shows like X-factor and BB, you realise that everyone can get famous for doing nothing. Celebrity is something that has to be earned, not won, or even expected. When we were kids we all wanted to grow up and be singers or A-list stars and we were told to focus our lives on something we could actually attain. But these days it appears that we may have been right in our dreams, if not a decade or 2 too early.
You can read the papers and see peoples faces splashed over the spreads, people called Celebrities. People who just go to parties; make home made porn vids and are the daughter of a hotel franchise owner. It blows my mind that someone like that can get their own TV show and expect $350'000 for appearing for 5 minutes on a talk show. It's disgusting.
Thankfully reality TV shows wasn't the staple media diet of the 50's and the Baby Boomer generation or there would be so many Stars and Starlets we'd be drowning in them and TV and films would be outlawed.
In closing, I wish we could forget all the Love Islands , the Big Brothers, Castaways, Pop Idols and X-factors and sit and watch something half decent. Something that challenges our intellect and makes us think, instead of turning us into mindless zombies reaching for our mobile phones to cough up our hard earned money to some TV show just because we are told to.
Who goes? You decide.
