Oral Assignment Why 'Pop Idol' corrupts society.

Anyway, ‘Pop Idol’ has lost a lot of its credibility recently; it’s just not cool to watch it. Real music is the ‘in’ thing now, and guitars are more fashionable than they have ever been. Bands like ‘The Red Hot Chili Peppers’, ‘The Darkness’ and artists like ‘Robbie Williams’ and ‘Dido’ are storming the charts and making a hell of a lot more money and fans then anybody from ‘Pop Idol’. All of the artists I just mentioned started from playing around with guitar riffs and vocal lines in their bedrooms as a teenager, and have made it big because of their talent as opposed to going on a poorly produced television programme. Also you might notice that most of the above artists are not particularly good-looking. They haven’t been made famous because they have toned bodies or defined cheekbones; they’ve made it because they are actually talented.

Now I’m sure for most of you your main concern is that when you are older you are extremely rich and never have to worry about paying off your mortgage or wondering where the money to pay your phone bill is going to come from. I am also pretty sure that the older boys in here want to have the attention of lots of beautiful women as well as cash. Well let me tell you there is one sure way of having both of these things…be a rock star. Male artists from ‘Pop Idol’ may get a few attractive girls and make enough cash to keep them going, but nothing compared to the dinero and women that cling onto rock stars. Back when your parents were young they might have gone and seen bands like ‘Led Zeppelin’, ‘AC DC’ and ‘Deep Purple’ and let me tell you the lead guitarist from ‘Led Zeppelin’, Jimmy Page, had a hell of a lot more women dying to spend a few minutes with him than Gareth Gates does now!

I bet a few of you girls would love to have posters of yourself smothered all over teenage boy’s bedrooms…you can assure yourself that position by getting into the music industry. Boys just love girls with proper talent that can sing and in no time you’ll have boys all over the country (all over the world if you make it big) dreaming about you being their girlfriend.

Do many of you read broadsheet newspapers? If you do you will know they are continually insulting ‘Pop Idol’, the contestants that release albums as well as the people that watch the programme. Do you want to be branded an idiot and a moron for supporting these weak programmes by watching them? If not, the answer is simple, turn off your television and do something constructive instead, like learning an instrument or playing in a band. In the future you will reap the benefits.