Wow. It's not like Elton John to say it like it is... much. All the time.
In an interview with The Word (the magazine, not the 1990s show in which people drank their own vomit, licked hairy armpits, worse the faces of the toothless and willingly endured a washing machine spin cycle), Sir Elt said:
"Frankly, they all sound the same."It's hard to tell Girls Aloud from The Saturdays. And then there's Cheryl Cole... It's all crap. British pop music like that is the worst, it's just awful. It could have been made by anybody (mainly the Swedes). All lip-synchers should be shot. Only drag queens are allowed to lip-synch. Bands who fly in vocals - f**k off! I want to kill them. Go and see Take That or Westlife and how much of that is live? I know Gary Barlow can sing - that solves that one. I think they genuinely do sing their stuff, but 99% of the other f***ing Herberts out there can't sing a note."
Then he gleefully moved on to reality TV: "Who the f**k is Kim Kardashian? Some stupid, old tart from somewhere or other... Video killed music. Reality has killed talent. Can any X Factor people cut the mustard?"
Oh, Sir Rantsalot, indeed we are drowning in a murky sea of homogenised mediocrity, in which you have to have either, A, starred in porn, or, B, look like you want to, but you can't get it get you down. Stick on Crocodile Rock and bounce around the mansion with the new babog, that'll cheer you up.
