Anything of value is predicated on a good idea. We have talked before about the toxic culture of the X Factor. The X Factor is supposedly about discovering talent. But discovering talent and discovering someone who will do exactly what you tell them to do are very different things. It is the latter that our friends at the X Factor are interested in.
They have no interest in discovering talent as you or I might recognize it; in the sense of someone having the vision and ideas to deliver something interesting and worthwhile.This is an intrinsic part of what you or I would call talent. But what the X Factor is trying to unearth is the opposite of this, the opposite of talent. What they are trying to unearth is a meek (X Factor translation “ambitious”) personality with a voice who will never disagree with them on anything.
Nick Cave is one of the most talented people in human history, he wouldn’t get through the first audition. Him and his pesky songwriting genius, and his humour, and his deep artistic convictions and his big ideas. Sure where would he be going.
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