Monthly Archives: December 2010

Too cool for school: in defence of The X Factor

Believe me, I get it. It’s vacuous nonsense. Simon Cowell is the devil and is single-handedly ruining the music industry. They’re all terrible, untalented shills, radio-friendly unit-shifters. Except they’re not. Not really. Granted, I really dislike Cher, but Rebecca is clearly a pretty solid vocalist. And whilst Matt’s particular brand of whiny renditions of female