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A Stinging Attack On TV Talent Show Singers
by The Editors @ SoundUnwound 15 November 2009
The singer of The Police, Sting, has decried the British TV talent show The X-Factor, the Simon Cowell-led equivalent of American Idol. He told London’s Evening Standard newspaper that it was “televised karaoke” and that Cowell, who earned $75m last year, had “no recognizable talent apart from self-promotion.” Can we call that a “Stinging attack” on Cowell? “It is a soap opera which has nothing to do with music,” he said of the show which is currently in its sixth season, after replacing the original Pop Idol series. “In fact, it has put music back decades. Television is very cynical. They [the contestants] are either Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston or Boyzone and are not encouraged to create any real unique signature or fingerprint. The X Factor is a preposterous show.” Both “Fields of Gold,” which was a solo hit for Sting in 1993, and The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” have been performed by X-Factor competitors. Its most successful winner, third season champion Leona Lewis,releases her second album Echo on Tuesday.
