X-Cuses, X-Cuses

I don't like ITV's popular television show The X-Factor. To me it's a glorified karaoke contest that only exists to draw in millions of mindless drones to call premium rate phone-lines to vote for which pathetic cretin they prefer.

Yet while the show itself is easy to avoid like a decrepit blind-man begging in the street the popularity of it and even more the 'controversy' surrounding it, isn't [easy to avoid]. It's splashed across the tabloid pages on a daily basis like a young teens jizzum (in this metaphor the young teen is unable to acquire real porn so his only porn outlet is Page 3 Girls – the metaphor works, I just have to explain it, therefore it doesn't). And people claim it's a fix, which gives clever newspaper editors the chance to use the shows “X” logo in the word 'fix' – they do this at any chance they can when a story relates to The X-Factor. I've seen it some many times I was even tempted to create a my own tabloid style headline for this post, incorporating the “X” into 'X-Cuses, X-Cuses'.

I obviously have something to say about this whole thing or I wouldn't have spent any of my precious time wasting time here. So here I go... The X-Factor is not a fix. Well not how you possibly think it is.

Firstly, people think that somehow the phone votes could not be counted correctly. That is absolutely fucking stupid. The X-Factor is probably ITV's biggest shows and after last years [I think it was last year] controversy surrounding numerous ITV shows relating to phone-in competitions, ITV would never risk the chance of that happening again. It would damage The X-Factor's reputation to a point were it wouldn't be able to recover. I wish that would happen, but sadly I think a few people up at ITV may have a couple of braincells to rub together to prevent such actions taking place as a way to save such a big money earner.

Secondly, when will ex-X-contestants [lol] stop complaining to newspapers once they've left the show? As I write this [Tuesday 7^th December 2010], the latest loser Big Fat Old Woman is on front of The Mirror claiming she was kicked off because it was a fix. Don't be a fucking sore loser Big Fat Old Woman! Just take the rejection, you're big, fat and ugly, you must be used to receiving rejection by now. Plus, how two-faced of you to claim such a thing? If it wasn't for the very show you are now slagging off you'd still be working at Tesco. Biting the hand that feeds you exposes you as the ungrateful bitch you are.

Thirdly, lots of people are wondering why Big Fat Foreign Weirdo managed to stay in the competition so long. It must have been a fix for that colossal fuck-tard to remain in for so long. There's a simple explanation to this; people voted for him. I know, it's a real shocker! Although the people that voted for him are probably those that feel disenfranchised by the Simon Cowell-driven tripe that is pumped into our televisions at a never-ending pace. The truth is, lots of people are starting to turn on The X-Factor and Britain's Got Talent and the puppets they produce. Rage Against the Machine having the Christmas number one last year is proof of that. People probably voted for Big Fat Foreign Weirdo in an attempt to highlight the fact that these shows are nothing more than a popularity contest. I personally wish he had won just so loyal followers of the show started to take note that it has ran it course.

Fourthly, will people get this idea out of their heads that the judges are always fighting amongst themselves. Please people! Do you think they really give a shit if their act wins in the end? Win, loose or draw, they are all laughing all the way to the bank. I'm tired of seeing headlines claiming that it's all war backstage. I highly doubt it. They're probably not BBFs, but they're definitely not enemies like newspapers and women's magazines claim.

Lastly, if The X-Factor was/is fixed, it'd be in a much simpler way. You see all reality show 'stars' are made or broken by one thing, it's not talent, it's editing. Editing the vital tool that makes or breaks careers in reality shows. That's why most people won Big Brother or I'm a Celebrity... because these shows are edited then presented to the public to consume. You see what they want you to see, you believe what they want you to believe, you vote for who they want you to vote for. These people didn't get themselves where they are today by mistake, they know how to manipulate the general public into buying into a singer using the media at their disposal, that's the only way The X-Factor could possibly be fixed, in my opinion.