From twitter: timminchin Rage Against the Machine campaign is a bit like going, "Stop McDonald's! Buy Burger King!" Hehe. Mc**** you I won't do what you tell me.
The thing is, it's not that X-factor is 'disposable pop'. I wouldn't have a problem with that. If kids want to buy N-Dubz or whatever, that's up to them. X-factor is different. It is weeks of marketing on an irritating reality tv show where the winner - usually a nice kid with a musical-style voice - will, without fail, get to number one in the charts with their bland cover of someone else's ballad. It's not about the songs. It's about the depressing inevitability.
And for whoever said it's not like you're forced to listen to it - maybe you get to live your life with your headphones in listening to your own personal playlist, but for everyone else who has to put up with the radio on at work, in a taxi, in a shop, including as someone else said everybody going on and on about the stupid programme for weeks, it gets annoying.
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