Simon Cowell - King of the Morons

[moon monkey]

Simon Cowell

I have to say I despise this man. He has created a cult of Saturday night and now Sunday night cult viewing for consumerist celebrity worshiping morons. Thousands of people are held mentally captive by this cattle market of imbeciles who want nothing more than to be famous whether they possess any talent or not ! On top of this, these imbeciles think nothing of being 'judged' by Cowell and his panel of self interested celebrity trash !

I have to leave the room if this comes on as it makes me fume !


Rant over !


:mad:

[dreamweaver]

Is it really Cowell's fault that so many people are braindead enough to lap up all this shallow crap?

I'm intrigued how Andy Warhol foresaw all this obsession with short-lived 'celebrities' way back in the 60s, I really ought to research him more.

[the moral man]

Dear moon monkey
kind regards
I have a split opinion on Simon Cowell.
I think that X-Factor is much like the Jeremy Kyle show in the sense that it exploits the idiots and dregs of society by parading them on TV so that people can laugh and the judges can criticize them.
I feel that the X-Factor system is flawed, fans cannot judge talent and therefore the judges should always make the decisions at the end of each week.
I think that Simon Cowell tells it like it is and is the most intelligent judge on the show.
I don't like Cheryl Cole and consider her to be a power hungry drama queen who is using the show to get more and more celebrity power, her mannerisms suggest she is a complete phoney.
yours thankfully
John

[grachtengordel]

Is it really Cowell's fault that so many people are braindead enough to lap up all this shallow crap?

It's not his 'fault' but he perpetuates the matrix of idiocy and profits from the foolishness and misery of the morons that tune into 'hex factory' and 'pap idol'. so he profits from misery

No one in this topic has blamed simon cowell (who claims that he is NOT a homosexual) for people being 'braindead'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf6HxmXuKBE

I'm intrigued how Andy Warhol foresaw all this obsession with short-lived 'celebrities' way back in the 60s, I really ought to research him more.

he was one of 'them'

[brainfreeze]

Before Cowel came along it was Ant and Dec, East Enders and Coronation Street that had the nation mindnumbed.

You don't like?

Don't watch.

Pointless pointing out the obvious. Unless you're trying to distance yourself from it and are doing so in a reactory sort of way as appose to in a "the dumb chucks" sense.

Your rage indicates reactory. Stop reacting and act instead. Change the channel and move on. You've just given it all your negativity in the way you're reacting. Where did it get you?

Peace :)

[drooh]

X Factor, Pop Idol et al are clearly entertainment for small minds. Then again, they're symptomatic of the banal environment that spawned them that we willingly perpetuate whether we all like to admit it or not.

It's not enough to blame Simon Cowell, though the man is not without blame as he's the figurehead that keeps the wheels of dementertainment greased. The man's not stupid though despite presiding over hordes of idiots - he's certainly shrewd enough to cash in on the masses boil in a bag, tune out mentality with his show.

We're all to blame despite our supposed efforts to 'wake people up'. Call me cynical but if you want a change of mass mentality, you suffer becoming the thing you hate as such a revolution of mental change would undoubtedly require the use of force to instigate and subsequently maintain. Call BS on this view by all means, but tell me how far you get politely and peacefully pointing out the folly of watching such crap to the people who do.

Such people (Cowell) and such concerns are low on the list of things that need erasing and/or changing if you ask me. It's enough that one ignores that such shows are aired, that one doesn't bother with TV and one lets others use their 'free will' in order to decide whether such shows are worth depleting their steadily diminishing supply of braincells over.

[moon monkey]

Before Cowel came along it was Ant and Dec, East Enders and Coronation Street that had the nation mindnumbed.

You don't like?

Don't watch.

Pointless pointing out the obvious. Unless you're trying to distance yourself from it and are doing so in a reactory sort of way as appose to in a "the dumb chucks" sense.

Your rage indicates reactory. Stop reacting and act instead. Change the channel and move on. You've just given it all your negativity in the way you're reacting. Where did it get you?

Peace :)

I am very peaceful, trust me.

I just don't buy in the 'celebrity cult' and fail to understand how it grips such a massive section of our society that is all.

As I said, I choose not to watch it or indeed anything of this nature including all of the 'reality' based drivel.

RESPECT:)

[the moral man]

I am very peaceful, trust me.

I just don't buy in the 'celebrity cult' and fail to understand how it grips such a massive section of our society that is all.

As I said, I choose not to watch it or indeed anything of this nature including all of the 'reality' based drivel.

RESPECT:)

Dear moon monkey
kind regards
In regards to the 'celebrity cult', it is to be expected that people bow to celebrities in the West.
When Jesus was throw out of mainstream circulation they had to replace him with something.
They replaced the Christian God with secular humanist gods known as celebrities.
Celebrities have great talents and get as much as they can in way of materialism from the fans who buy their products at the altars (mainstream highstreet shops).
I can't condemn Simon Cowell in the way that you do though because I have a certain amount of respect for him, he is the most intelligent and honest critic on the panel.
I feel bad for Cowell in one respect though because I am sure that a man like him could have come up with something better than X-Factor or at least improved the format.
X-factor has too many leeches and bums on that show to be thorougly credible.
yours thankfully
John

[brainfreeze]

Dear moon monkey
kind regards
In regards to the 'celebrity cult', it is to be expected that people bow to celebrities in the West.
When Jesus was throw out of mainstream circulation they had to replace him with something.
They replaced the Christian God with secular humanist gods known as celebrities.
Celebrities have great talents and get as much as they can in way of materialism from the fans who buy their products at the altars (mainstream highstreet shops).
I can't condemn Simon Cowell in the way that you do though because I have a certain amount of respect for him, he is the most intelligent and honest critic on the panel.
I feel bad for Cowell in one respect though because I am sure that a man like him could have come up with something better than X-Factor or at least improved the format.
X-factor has too many leeches and bums on that show to be thorougly credible.
yours thankfully
John


Nasty Nick came up with the format for music reality shows. I can't remember his surname though, he went on to do the survivor series. I saw him recently on another reality to show in the States, but I didn't stay on that channel long enough to take note what it was.

[eternalwheel]

I am very peaceful, trust me.

I just don't buy in the 'celebrity cult' and fail to understand how it grips such a massive section of our society that is all.

As I said, I choose not to watch it or indeed anything of this nature including all of the 'reality' based drivel.

RESPECT:)


Attach no emotional energy to it whatsoever.
If you are polarised to it one way (loving it) or the other (hating it), then 'they' have you.

[the moral man]

Dear Friends
kind regards
I don't think that X-factor will be highly regarded ten or twenty years down the line as it is flawed.
The show has judges give their opinions and then fans voting a winner, but how can fans (people with no musical insight) say who is good or bad?
Last years X-factor was a complete joke due to the public vote.
Laura White was the most talented singer and should have won, but Alexandra Burke won instead.
Furthermore the fans kept voting Diane Vickers in week in and week out even though she had zero musical talent, they voted for looks over the voice.
Now I only started watching X-factor last year and that show was flawed, it makes me wonder about all of the previous years of the show that I didn't watch it.
But it is likely that seeing as though they only one person (Leona Lewis) has actually gotten anywhere due to her success in X-factor that this has flawed public voting has been going on since the shows inception.
Eventually society will see the X-factor show for the overhyped and flawed show that it was.
yours thankfully
John

[goldenbear]

we know the shows a con. that danyl bloke has already got an album comming out after the show...

i just laugh because everytime i see him i cant help but think of some song from weebles stuff.

owls....

simon cowl the king of the beavers.

[grachtengordel]

Before Cowel came along it was Ant and Dec, East Enders and Coronation Street that had the nation mindnumbed.

You don't like?

Don't watch.

Pointless pointing out the obvious.

Pointless pointing out the obvious.

Unless you're trying to distance yourself from it and are doing so in a reactory sort of way as appose to in a "the dumb chucks" sense.

Your rage indicates reactory. Stop reacting and act instead. Change the channel and move on. You've just given it all your negativity in the way you're reacting. Where did it get you?

Awful, just AWFUL. Worst performance i have read this series.

is 'reactory' an suit-ethrican word?

Nasty Nick came up with the format for music reality shows. I can't remember his surname though, he went on to do the survivor series. I saw him recently on another reality to show in the States, but I didn't stay on that channel long enough to take note what it was.

nasty NIGEL (lithgow?) . 'nasty nick' was the 'plant' in the first series of 'big brother', more shallow, braindead, mind-controlling shit

[brainfreeze]

Pointless pointing out the obvious.



Awful, just AWFUL. Worst performance i have read this series.

is 'reactory' an suit-ethrican word?



nasty NIGEL (lithgow?) . 'nasty nick' was the 'plant' in the first series of 'big brother', more shallow, braindead, mind-controlling shit

Well, guess I'm pleased that the OP took my posts in the light they were meant, hey?

I know about Nasty Nick, but Nasty Nigel came before Nasty Nick with the first series of Pop Idol. Simon Cowell copied the format for X Factor, was the point I was making.

[pureheart]

I'd rather watch X Factor than Eastenders. At least nobody gets murdered.

:)

[grachtengordel]

I'd rather watch X Factor than Eastenders. At least nobody gets murdered.

:)

ACTUALLY EASTENDERS (oops caps ) is pretty good IF you watch it with added 'canned laughter' at the appropriate (or not) points

its a bit like an episode of 'only fools and horses' on methodone

[carlperkins]

http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jj1//2009/01/seacrest-jetski/ryan-seacrest-simon-cowell-jetski-07.jpg
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[steevo]

It seems that the so called "X" factor that Simon Cowell is looking for (he is just a puppet btw) is a someone who looks good and sound good, but is willing to "sell their soul" to get where they want to be. Leona Lewis sold her soul IMO and that is why her "beautiful" voice doesnt resonate with me. I feel sorry for her cos if you look at this interview, you can see that see is really unhappy and pretty messed up (Watch from 3 mins onwards and especially see her face at 3 mins 40 secs when she says "especially when there is negativity surrounding you as weeeell", she almost loses it :-

Leona Lewis - Access Hollywood Interview (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkvHFN7pUrk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkvHFN7pUrk

[song_of_susannah]

I'd rather watch X Factor than Eastenders. At least nobody gets murdered.
:)


Just a few tunes :)

[song_of_susannah]

I've watched this on and off since it started and this has to be the worst yet.

It's a singing competition with no singers.

And what the hell was that monstrous Jedward thing? or Dedward as they're known in our house.

I feel like I've taken crazy pills when I'm watching, it's like the Emperor's New Clothes, everyone whooping and clapping, dire performances and the judges bigging up obviously lacklustre crap.

The contestants have zero charisma, and definitely no X Factor.

I hardly watch now cos the sheer shiteness of it all is doing my head in, I can feel my brain trying to crawl away and curl up under a cushion.

[wildhorse]

i look after a lady over the weekend, i stay over and its company for her and me...but....she watches Shit factor. All the pre introductions of the 'acts' are just like some kind of narcissim worship on roids...these are ordinary peeps made out to be some kind of cult. but then mason cowell would know all about that.

yes he tells it like it is, but his smug face is the stuff of dartboards

then when the latest pick of that years crop have sucked satans cock, roll on new year for britains got talent....urgh....

i really do feel like nauseated when its on, and i have cotton wool in my ear, and the audience piss me off....

but looks like Jedward are all set for being on their knees quite a lot, judging by the new film parts and other hollyweird shit flung their way :rolleyes:

just glad i dont watch tv normally....

[muddyleopard]

Cameron wants to use Cowell's methods in politics ... and Cowell wants to use TV for deciding political issues ... the lines are getting blurred ... apologies if anyone posted this already ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/15/david-cameron-simon-cowell

[armoured_amazon]

Simon Cowell

I have to say I despise this man.

+1

[justnotsure]

It's the Tesco of the music world and he is the chief exec. Sometimes I like dipping into Tesco but mostly I like Waitrose, grass fed organic meat and my box delivered organic veg. Mostly I like novels but sometimes I have been known to read Hello magazine.

See it for what it is. He hasn't got any taste though!!!

[velma]

Practically every TV show involves 'judgement' by self-appointed "experts" with the deciding vote left to the brainwashed public, once the judges have narrowed the contenders down to their final choice, and shattered the hopes and dreams of thousands of delusional people seeking fame and fortune. The real winners are the ones sent home to lead a normal life.

"In order to succeed, others must fail." - Mandy ('Grim & Evil' - Cartoon Network.)

Simon Cowell has joined forces with one of the richest men in the country, Sir Philip Green, to produce a political programme, (based on the 'X Factor') where staged televised (auto-cue) debates between THREE select candidates, (as in the US) allow the vegetative electorate to press a button on their remote control, from the comfort of their sofa, to pick the new "Leader."

The result will be arranged in accordance with Big Brother's plan.

[Mo0n5tar]

I would hate to be moonmonkey.

[loveoverhate]

Attach no emotional energy to it whatsoever.
If you are polarised to it one way (loving it) or the other (hating it), then 'they' have you.


Exactly! Although I'd rather be on the "hating" end in this case! :D
But you're totally right. I've given up TV watching long ago except for my dvds.

[moon monkey]

I would hate to be moonmonkey.

Go away sick NONCE.

Nonces like you should be dealt with Sharia style.