I think this is pretty cool, because reality tv shows are so prevalent here. You can't walk into a magazine store without seeing no less than about five thousand different pictures of reality tv 'stars'. All of the redtops constantl have this shit as front-page news (mostly due to Murdoch owning most of them and ITV, so he wants to publicise it, like this is also the main reason why all the tabs are really vicious against the BBC when X-Factor is on, the BBC eat into Murdoch's precious audience) and all everybody ever talks about is x-factor. Like that jedwood thing a few weeks ago, I have like 100 friends on facebook yet it was filled with 300 different status messages about jedwood and x-factor.
The music on x-factor isn't just trashy bland pop music, it's far worse than like britney spears or justin timberlake. It's music just growned down to the point where voices don't have anything, the music contains nothing. It is inoffensive tedium. The musical equivalent of sitting in a dentist waiting room.

It's not a case of 'heh, wanna listen to some real music' but more a case of many people being fed up with it. And It's a pretty appropriate choice of song. Popular manufactured rebellion, which is exactly what this is. I don't give a toss about the charts, but I despise what the x-factor represents, so people saying they're fed up with it is cool.


 

*forgets most people dont buy music*