'X Factor' changes the way we look at music, says DJ Annie Mac
Published Oct 25 2011, 15:29 BST | By Mayer Nissim
Annie Mac has said that the success of The X Factor has changed the way people look at music.The BBC Radio 1 DJ told Digital Spy that she finds it hard to trust in artists who have come through the reality show.
Mac said: "It changes the way things are done. It changes the way people look at music, it changes the way people look at making a career out of music.
"A lot of people think that that's your path - to go on a talent show in order to make it. I think it would be silly to sit there and say The X Factor does not have an effect on the music industry at large. I think it really does."
Asked if she is a fan of the show, Mac said: "The X Factor's very, very addictive. I don't watch it for being a music show. I watch it for being an entertainment show, which is what it is.
"It's like pantomime. You have your baddies and goodies and they try to make you cry from everyone's sob stories.
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"It's not really about music and the music that comes out of there [is] not music that I get excited about or will spend my money on. "
Mac added: "When you know something's manufactured, literally from day one, it's very hard to believe in it. Music's about believing in it and trusting in an artist.
"If you know that an artist has gone through the X Factor machine, it's hard to trust that everything that they do has come from them, rather than a vocal coach or a marketing man or something."
Mac released her latest double mix CD Annie Mac Presents 2011 this week and tours the UK later this year.
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Writing your own songs is such a false measure of talent. An actor doesn't write their own scripts, why the big need for a singer to write what they perform. Some of our most beloved singers didn't write their own songs and loads of classic songs have been performed by people who didn't write it in the first place. It's really not the be all and end all. Someone who writes their own songs can still be dull as dishwater whereas there might be someone out there with a massively intriguing personality or amazing voice who doesn't write their own songs but makes a much better 'star', so to speak.
October 27th 2011 at 11:18am
Carlos Barton thats a load of ****.. i hate the way your instantly credible if you write a song, i can write a rubbish song, would that make me credible? Oh wait your one of those people who only classes rock music as credible music i guess? Ridiculous
October 26th 2011 at 7:14pm
Antonio Aniello true with cher. i go by what the artist says ie leona + alex on their new work. and rebecca is co-writing, as said by herself and has been saying it for some months now.
October 26th 2011 at 2:44pm
Isaac Eloi - Dont always believe what the labels say about their clients I can believe Matt co-writing and Leona coz they've been doing it for years well before x-factor. But with people like Cher Lloyd who I know cant write rap poems to save her life, record labels love lying about their artists credentials as lyric writers to promote them through tenuous media hyping. I noticed that Savan Kotecha did a lot of this in defence of cher Lloyd and the reality is a lot of the x-factor alumni have very little input in the creativity of their albums especially Cher Lloyd whose only contribution to her album was Swagger Jagger.
October 26th 2011 at 2:21pm
on their new material i mean. and you dont always get a choice. youre a product and products still have to sell.
October 26th 2011 at 9:54am