Saturday, August 02, 2003
Farce of Shame Academy (again)
BBC's Fame Academy is getting a pasting. According to The Mirror 'Seven of this year's 25 hopefuls have songwriting agreements with record companies - or have previously been in bands that had contracts with labels'. This seems to defeat the point of the programme - to take talented kids off the streets, coach them and let the public decide who they want to win a fat Recording Contract. It's not supposed to be a cheap way for Record Companies to break their acts with the public using weeks of free, top quality marketing.
The excellent popbitch newsletter writes, "Britain's cynical music industry is using the show as a focus group for their new acts, with the whole thing paid for by gullible voters (and of course everyone who pays a BBC license fee)".
Whatever next? "Celebrity Driving School" featuring Top Gear presenters? "What not to Wear" with Posh and Becks? oh, hang on, we may be on to something here.
BBC's Fame Academy is getting a pasting. According to The Mirror 'Seven of this year's 25 hopefuls have songwriting agreements with record companies - or have previously been in bands that had contracts with labels'. This seems to defeat the point of the programme - to take talented kids off the streets, coach them and let the public decide who they want to win a fat Recording Contract. It's not supposed to be a cheap way for Record Companies to break their acts with the public using weeks of free, top quality marketing.
The excellent popbitch newsletter writes, "Britain's cynical music industry is using the show as a focus group for their new acts, with the whole thing paid for by gullible voters (and of course everyone who pays a BBC license fee)".
Whatever next? "Celebrity Driving School" featuring Top Gear presenters? "What not to Wear" with Posh and Becks? oh, hang on, we may be on to something here.
