6 Reasons Why The Australian Music Industry Is Currently The Worst In The World

5. "The Voice" And "The X Factor" - Seemingly The Only Source For Australian Music

Now to an extent, this stems back to when Australian Idol was doing the rounds, but as it is today it is these shows which is polluting the culture to the point where we simply don't have a unique sound anymore. And unlike Idol, both the X Factor and the Voice really go all out to showcase the fact that all they want is clones of what came before. Reece Maston, the winner of season 3 that I mentioned before. Well, his sister is a contestant of season 5. The inaugural winner of Australian Idol, Guy Sebastian, well his brother got a place on the Voice (and was even too rubbish to make it past that). And the latest winner Samantha Jade, had an already accomplished career to which she should've have been deemed ineligible. You are not really an X Factor if you are already known, that is an oxymoron right there. Did I mention Jimmy Barnes got his daughter Mahalia a spot on the Voice also, whom has also already achieved a significant career thanks to daddys influence with the Tin Lids as a child and should not have even been allowed to enter? This is just off the top of my head folks, the select few I have mentioned are but the tip of the iceberg. On top of this they don't give many new people a go, instead bringing back runners up from the previous series who lost. Now correct me if I am wrong, but didn't these people lose? Did they not fail the auditions, were they not sent home? No they weren't, they were just repackaged for the next season. And it is these who are representing us around the world. Once we had AC/DC, now we have these people. The irony being is if AC/DC were doing the pub circuit today & auditioned for X Factor, they wouldn't have even got past the sign up at the local shopping centre. The powers that be would take one look at Bon Scott and say, "no way." Do you think Peter Garretts frenetic frontman style would not have been part of the outtakes, the ones they put on air for people to have a laugh at? Tell me I am wrong. Actually, let me ask you, go listen to the finalists of these shows and their Aussie equivalent (if you can without suffering an embolism), then compare them to ANY of the major Australian Icons I mentioned previously in the intro. Now tell me, would any of those bands I talked about earlier even get close to television via the X Factor? Highly unlikely.

I think Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden put it best. "I don't understand these kids auditioning for X-Factor claiming they just want to make music. CUT THE CRAP! Let me introduce you to the kid teaching himself how to play guitar, the busker in the train station. The guys and girls recording their own demos and playing the small venues. The unpublished songwriter with countless books full of lyrics. The people who just want to be heard, who want to express themselves, their creativity and their artistic worth. THEY are the ones who just want to make music! THEY are the "real" artists. Anybody auditions for X Factor it's because they want to be famous, period. Otherwise, they'd already be out there making music." But as horrible as it is now, the massive flow of regurgitated sewerage that is called Australian music nowadays seemingly starting flowing without restraint from the mid 90's and a certain Nirvana cover band.