[Stu]

Nobody is forced but these acts are incredibly pervasive. The industry accommodates to style over substance, cheap music that is guaranteed to sell to the point where more boundary pushing, experimental acts are not given a chance on the big stage. This leads to lazy consumers - essentially the base audience for these acts and TV shows - only being exposed to these acts. Their minds not even given the chance to sample something different. They're not going to seek it out themselves because they are the lazy consumers who consume what is handed to them. So nothing grows. It's a sad state of affairs.

I really hate generalizing. Honestly, I do. It makes me feel dirty and pretentious. But I'm always taking the ten people who don't watch the X Factor and buy the end product on my pub quiz team.

I'm dirty and pretentious.