[benjo]

 HERE'S A QUESTION FOR THE TALENTED GUYS ON HERE


 have any of you thought about X factor or Britain's got talent
 just watched at the weekend and saw the two young lads on BGT
 the last act and they were amazing I thought

 any way I thought how many of you guys write sing play
 I've heard some amazing talent on here
 maybe its time you give it a thought, I'd love to see someone from here
 on the telly, and you'd get my support

                     tony...



 

[S.T.C]

Cooked for Stacey Solomon at the weekend..does that count

[benjo]

 hey,

 yeah I'd say it does she's great funny girl
 can you remember what you cooked for her
 and does she tip well
 

[Dutchbeat]

i think it takes a lot courage to go to these auditions....seriously

if these programs are the same as they are over here....trying to compete means they film the auditions, everyone gets something like...30 seconds (maximum)....and based on that the people in the jury feel totally free to make everyone who tries to look like an idiot (which in my case i will do for myself in these 30 seconds already, but then jury is also selected to be capable to humiliate the contestants as far as possible....well in the Dutch versions of these programs they are...)

i never would dare to try that, i seriously would not have the guts at all

and i have far too little talent to have any chance 
(and i am too old  )

[benjo]

 I thought there would be tons of you talented people

 I think maybe we're all a little bit shy when it comes to it
 it must be hard to do, I don't think I could do it
 if I could sing or play that is

 I'm just glad you share it on here

[digger72]

Someone i worked with went to an audition for X factor. She sat waiting for 3 hours then was ushered in to a room with 2 or 3 production workers, or whatever they call themselves. She sang 2 lines. They said, "sorry," and that was that. Never got to see the proper judges at all.
That said, she was a lousy a singer - even worse than me!

[benjo]

  hey digger you sing fine


 yeah I've heard that myself before
 but some of the guys on here really can sing

 and some of the lyrics they have written themselves
 I think its made for some of our guys on here

 is there no one tempted to have a go at it there must be

 could be a sobo or paul potts on here

[seriousfun]

I am with Dutch on this one. In my opinion the focus of these shows is to entertain and I don't mean musically. The focus is all on the judges and they make outrageous comments at times to achieve this. IMHO these shows harm far more budding careers than they help.

[benjo]

 yeah I understand that, its true

 it is all about the judges and they get on my nerves
 they do seem to make a fool out of a lot of acts

 so mmmmm I get that

     
 

[Paulski]

I think you need to:
A. Be young (under 25)
B. Have a VERY thick skin
That rules out many on this forum (including me)
Oh, yeah, and I suppose it would help if you are talented but maybe not so much with pitch correction

[Jess]

I think you need to:
A. Be young (under 25)
B. Have a VERY thick skin
That rules out many on this forum (including me)
Oh, yeah, and I suppose it would help if you are talented but maybe not so much with pitch correction

Plus pretty and/or incredibly marketable

[S.T.C]

'Plus pretty and/or incredibly marketable'

That's me to a tee.

[benjo]

 BGT HAS BEEN CRAP THIS YEAR

 to be honest if you think about it, look at Susan Boyle & PAUL Potts their not pretty
 but they became mega world wide artists,

 its a funny old game eh!!!!

[Jess]

to be honest if you think about it, look at Susan Boyle & PAUL Potts their not pretty
 but they became mega world wide artists,

But then again when was the last time you heard someone- barring my grandma- buy Paul Potts album? These people are around for a while but one of the biggest markets for downloaded music is my age bracket and I don't think you'd be surprised to discover I'm not a huge SuBo fan
But then again, I hate One Direction too, in fact I lose a lot of respect for people that go on talent shows because most of the time they haven't worked for it, they've just turned up for an audition and got lucky. They are musicians but not ARTISTS.

[BooBoo]

"Then again I hate One Direction too" this gives me hope that there are other teenage girls that have respect for the music industry and not how 'pretty' people look 🙌