Interesting quotes from Elton John. Can his thoughts on AI be very different?
Everyone makes all the money off “The X Factor” (2004) and sells the records but it’s the cart before the horse. What’s the psychological damage going to be when you’ve humped and dumped them, and the next one comes along? They’re a bit like products, to be honest with you. They’re products, and the record comes out at Christmas, and it’s always No.1, and then what happens next year? Why aren’t they touring? Who’s managing these people?
“The X Factor” (2004) is a cruise ship show. I’ve got nothing against the people who go on - good luck to them. But I hate how they’re treated. They’re given an awful sense of stardom and pressure straight away but they’re only successful until the next series. The record companies sell a lot of records and those people are gone. It’s cruel. Will Young is the best thing that’s ever come out of those shows. He has proved himself. But it’s no way to find talent. I want to hear new songwriters, people who are creating their own stuff, not just singing my songs every week.
Whoa, Elton! Tell us how you really feel about singing contest shows! He does have a point, though. Many of them win the popularity contest but don’t make it big.
Still, on AI there have been a few that made it. I think if Adam Lambert could have been more impressed by his smarts and talent and less by his homosexuality, he could have gone quite big. Maybe he still will. But when he was done with Idol he dumped his teenybopper girl and grandma fans in one fell swoop with that groping TV appearance.