If you want a classy Christmas Number One, look no further than these guys.
I wasn’t going to write about this story but it’s still bubbling away and after reading a few articles and blogs I’ve been compelled to add my bit.
“He doesn’t deserve to be stuck in the middle of this fight. A campaign aimed at harming his chart position is unnecessary.” Simon Cowell
“He put his heart and soul into every single week of The X-Factor and I cannot bear to see him lose out to a mean campaign that has nothing to do with his efforts.” Cheryl Cole
“He’s just some kid with a career ahead. I’ve got nothing against that. But it would be kind of funny if Rage Against The Machine got it instead.” Sir Paul McCartney
Forgetting about the Facebook campaign, the choice of single to battle against the X-Factor machine, and whether it succeeds or not, the fact is the likes of Cowell and Cole seem to think that the X-Factor winner has a God-given right to go straight to a Christmas number one with their debut single. They don’t. There are no rules against a campaign trying to get a song to number one for whatever reason. If a campaign has enough backing then so be it. The motives for it may not be decent, but this sort of thing has been done before with little complaint (Mysterious Girl, anyone?).
Joe McElderry has done really well to win the over-sentimental national karaoke competition. He seems like a really nice lad with plenty of years ahead of him to get corrupted by life when it finally chews him up, spits him out and squishes him to the pavement like it does to everyone. But this Rage Against The Machine campaign isn’t directed at him. Some fans think it’s a form of mass-bullying – but the same thing would have happened if Stacey, Olly, Larry, Curly, Moe, or God help us, those disgusting Irish twins won the show. The X-Factor bigwigs should know how the charts work.
Cowell is pissed that there’s a fight for number one. Shouldn’t there ALWAYS be a fight for number one?! It’s no fun if there’s an obvious winner to anything in life. Cole is irked that Joe’s been working really hard for the past…three months during the live shows. That’s almost as much hard work as bands like Rage Against The Machine have had to put in, in their…18-year existence. Yes.
Whether you like the campaign or not is irrelevant to me. I haven’t joined the Facebook group, because I don’t really care about the campaign itself. The charts have been pointless for years. My granny could have been number one lately and I wouldn’t have known about it. Nope, I join more important Facebook groups such as ’A line has been crossed when Space Raiders are no longer 10p’, ‘Claudia Winkleman is crap‘ and ‘Girls, stop flicking your bean to Twilight and go make me a bacon sandwich‘.
So on Sunday afternoon when the radio will be playing utterly dire tracks from the likes of Tinchy Stryder and Well.I.Suck, I shall sit cross-legged next to the fire with my Santa hat on, raiding a selection box while listening to cassette-quality recordings of REAL Christmas classics such Earth Song, Stay Another Day and 2 Become 1.
On second thoughts, I hope I can’t find those.
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