I had the pleasure or un-pleasure if that’s even a word of hearing the Joe McAlpine (I know that’s not his name…) uh… cover on Saturday night and it was terrible, purely terrible. Even taking an unbiased view, I thought O.K., this is a pop song and it’s from X Factor lets try to take that into consideration when listening to it. And it was still hideous. Miley Cyrus has a whiny voice anyway but to listen to a teenage lad try and emulate that was painful. Apparently he didn’t choose that song, he was just given it to sing and release. Doesn’t that somehow destroy the whole spirit and ethos of music?! What a joke.
So I’m hardly surprised that Rage winged it. I suppose in part I’m happy coz alot of my friends and Facebook friends are all like “fuck yeah RATM no 1!!” and stuff. So it was a public personal victory… and I out of the 2 songs, it is the better option.
Apparently Simon Cowell is gutted. And everyone is like “aww isn’t it a shame that Joe won X Factor but didn’t get a number one” well uhh, no it isn’t. He or Simon Cowell shouldn’t take the number one for granted like they have been doing. However short of a similar, and probably less successful campaign next year, one of his karaoke proteges will probably be there for 2010.
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