23.12.09

Mercury madness

Posted in News, People at 4:42 pm by alby

This needs no comment from me.  Here’s a letter from today’s Leicester Mercury.  OMW.

I enjoy all forms of music from heavy rock to punk, garage, hip-hop, disco and even classical. Every Christmas from the very early 1960s I have bought the Christmas No 1 song and have never been disappointed.

Over the many years they have all been relevant to the season and most have contained in some form the spirit of Christmas. They were all able to be enjoyed and understood by the whole of society.

The current Christmas No 1, to be brutally frank, is the worst piece of music I have ever heard. It has not one solitary thing to do with this time of year and was apparently composed and played by a group of talentless and mindless youths who have engaged the “power” of that other waste-of-space, society-destroying junk, Facebook, which they have used to rally an easily-led and seemingly mindless section of our society into making some form of protest.

Rage against the “whatever” gives the truth to the story. Exactly what that protest is about I dread to think.

Even as I briefly watched the so-called performance of it, I could only describe that as being performed by a group of seriously demented individuals who had no idea of how ridiculous they looked.

Hopefully, this will be their one and only entry into the music world and they will disappear. Any DJ who gives this “music” airtime should be suspended – thankfully, some DJs have already stated that they will not play that piece of auditory torturous junk. Those are the ones I will listen to – and my extensive collection of CDs of past No 1s, too.

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