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(because 100 would be a cliché)

A humourous read - but again American-centric.

Rock clichés

For those young’uns with a games console, have a look at this article which gives a bit of history of consoles from 1979 to today, and also some of the adverts used to promote them. (Mainly from an American perspective.)

PCWorld magazine article

You can also see a similar article about computers, including the classic 1984 Apple advert.

PCWorld magazine PC article

So - the Christmas #1 song will again be hijacked by reality television, in the form of Leona, the latest winner of X-Factor.  What happened to the days when the Christmas #1 had that Christmassy feel to it, rather than just a cover of another song?

I guess the whole program is scheduled in such a way that they hit the Christmas market, and by dragging it out over a few months, the public get an affinity for the eventual winner after seeing them so many times over the preceding month(s).

I don’t think they’ll be able to get away from recording a cover of a previous song as they don’t know who will be the eventual winner.  Therefore, to suit the voice they have to pick a reasonably ‘bland’ song which anyone who can sing, can sing.

Maybe they should dig through the archives then and find a suitable Christmas song - there must be some ‘classical’ songs they can bring up to date…

What is it with people that play music through their mobile phones on buses?  A mobile phone speaker is not one of the best, so why do they choose to inflict their tinny music on everyone else on the bus?

And it’s usually hip-hop type music where you can’t understand the lyrics anyway - even if you could hear them properly!