Okay, I’m a nerd, I admit it. While X Factor was on, I was on my laptop while the V+ box recorded it to watch later. I was on Twitter and a storm was brewing. Well, I say a storm, Steve posted this:
Is it me or do certain people on X-Factor sound like they have an auto-tune assist when they sing? :/
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But he wasn’t the only one. Looking a bit more into it loads of people noticed. So I thought I would give X Factor a watch and see what happens. For the most part, I was sure people were just hearing things, but then this one came on right at the end:
…and I’m sure even in between your bouts of severe vomiting and nausea you can tell the bits where it’s robot-tastic. And indeed it was. They admitted to using auto-tune yesterday to enhance the experience, and even to scripting the thing for, what I can only assume is to make another Susan Boyle moment. Sneaky little bastards.
The main argument against it is that the judges judged them solely on what they sounded like at the time, so there were no discrepancies there. That’s wonderful, but to be honest I don’t actually care about how well people do, I just want to hear people singing awful songs in a really bad way. It’s Saturday night entertainment, after all.
Understandably, people were outraged. We do that quite well here in the UK. Even people who didn’t make it the last times were outraged. But of course they would be. Any chance to grab some limelight and they will.
But now for my sarcastic take on it.
It’s a talent show (well, I say "talent" show…) and so surely you’ll want people to base their opinions on whether or not people can…urr… sing in tune. There’s people at home (not me, I’m not that sad) that have competitions between each other about who should go through or not. I dare say there’s a sad act or 50 who phone up to complain that "that bloke with the weird shoes" should have gone through "if you can put that bitch with the hair through".
So I’m going to be outraged. Partly because it’s funny to be at such a non-show as the X Factor, but also partly because it takes the whole purpose of broadcasting the show out of the equation. If they did it to a degree of awesome like the Internet can and make it go all T-Pain up in there, then I would watch it. Auto-tune the countless adverts they had after every audition. Auto-tune the judges. I’m sure there’s a viral video in there somewhere.
All in all, ITV’s a bit of a fail. You really can’t just do that and expect to get away with it. You’ve annoyed the internet, and so you must feel the wrath. Enjoy that.
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