Paul McCartney confirms 'X Factor' talks

Friday, November 27 2009, 08:53 GMT

By Mayer Nissim, Entertainment Reporter

Source: digitalspy

 

Paul McCartney has confirmed reports that he is in talks to appear on this year's X Factor.

 

The ex-Beatle is rumoured to be performing in this year's final, with the show's remaining contestants also being given songs by his former group.

 

McCartney told The Sun: "It's something we are talking about. Dermot [O'Leary] is a lovely man who I know very well. He's full of energy and keen for me to do it.

 

"We're seeing if we can make it work. I've been watching on and off with my family. Sometimes it throws up someone brilliant like Leona Lewis. Other years have not been so good."

 

Regarding the recently-eliminated John & Edward, he added: "It's impossible not to like them.

 

"They're a great couple of lads. But let's be honest, they were never going to last much longer in the show. They had to go."

 

I have one word of advice to Paul .........

 

Don't

I think Paul really needs to get in touch with his fanbase on his official website, as the reaction to this news story makes Keisha's sacking from the Sugababes; and Take That reuniting with Robbie as a five-piece seem popular in comparison.

 

http://maccaboard.devstars.eu/phpBB2/viewt...asc&start=0

 

My goodness it makes marrying Heather Mills seem trivial .... :hithead:

I never thought he'd actully do something like this.. I wish he didn't, he doesn't need the x factor.

The only winner from this will be Simon Cowell, he must be rubbing his hands with glee. He will see it as some kind of rubber stamping it as the best entertainment show on tv.

 

Very bad move, I would prefer it if he worked with those bloody frogs again rather than this.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.... :(

 

http://www.xfactor.tellymix.co.uk/2009/12/...-for-final.html

 

You might want to comment in this thread on Buzzjack to express your opinion over Paul's ill judged decision:

 

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...p;#entry2846045

 

 

As that thread is locked, i will put my two cents on it here: i am bitterly disspointed if Paul is doing the XF show. It is bad enough that every star needs to promote his new single on it. But when an established artist like Paul is doing that is like telling everybody that XF is good quality. :puke2:

 

He can afford to fall in charts! :angry:

 

I was partial also not happy with Take That doing the show. Happy because is a guarantee for top 10, not happy as the show is only lie and hypocrisy. It is only about the money and manipulating those millions with sob stories and Cinderella syndrom. It has hardly to do with real artistic creativity but only with realising copycats success stories.

 

That Robbie or Gary have persuaded him: it shows why i am not a fan of both of them on how they are driving their career and the decisions they take to be popular instead of people with backbone, a thing both could afford very well actually. It is already a bad example when you hear all the music star (including Robbie and Gary) commenting that they watch the show and how they are rooting for this person or that person. For God sake, how is supposed to educate an audience in the spirit of good music and artistic creativity when you come after that and you speaks about reality shows? But Paul is a personality who should not let himself down and persuaded, so the main guilt is his!

 

He should be ashamed! :angry:

 

 

I think another problem today is that there is a serious lack of programs on Tv in the UK to appear and promote a new single/album. In years gone by there were Top of the Pops, The Tube, The Old Grey Whistle Test, etc. There were the kids shows on Saturday mornings, evening chat shows like Wogan, etc so there is certainly a limited opportunity for TV exposure nowadays.

 

Like it or loathe it unforunately the X factor is watched by the single biggest audience on TV at the moment. That doesn't mean I agree with his decision, but in a way I kind of understand it. It's also the reason you get Take That, Robbie,Lady GaGa,Beyonce etc etc. Their record Company tell them to appear as the exposure is huge on a Saturday/Sunday evening at prime time.

 

What is needed is another programe on TV to promote stuff, having Jools Holland on a late time slot on BBC 2 is hardly enough is it.

I'd be lying my head off to say I enjoyed these 9 minutes of Paul turning into a huge hypocrite and severely underming his credibility at the same time.

 

But here was that performance:

 

Paul McCartney X Factor Finals 2009

This review sums up Paul's performance perfectly ......

 

X marks Macca's career low point

The X Factor Final TV3/ITV, Saturday and Sunday

MUPPET SHOW: Paul McCartney appears on The X Factor final as a special guest

By Pat Stacey Irish Herald.ie

Monday December 14 2009

 

Next Sunday, yours truly will be among the lucky thousands thronging the O2 in Dublin for Paul McCartney. There will be whooping. There will be cheering. There will be singing and screaming and waving and thumbs-up aloft, the likes of which you've never seen from a ripening father with a dodgy knee (that's me, not Macca).

 

There might even be manly tears spilled at the awesome wonderfulness of being in the presence of a living legend on what could well be his last full-scale world tour. Last night, though, there was only the soft, sad weeping of the soul as the great man took to the stage as the special guest on The X Factor final.

 

The panel -- Cowell, Cole, Minogue and Walsh -- were on their feet applauding. Forget the feet; they should be on their knees, bowing and scraping and pleading for forgiveness.

 

Especially Walsh, who laughably touts Westlife's karaoke covers sales as proof that they're nearly as big as The Beatles. In your dreams, you egg-shaped irritant.

 

vomited

 

Macca was predictably brilliant, belting out Drive My Car and Live and Let Die -- although there was something fathomlessly wrong about letting The X Factor muppets join in, bawling cluelessly. But still . . . why, Paul? Why did you have to do this?

 

Why, when there is no conceivable need, did the man who helped change the face of music -- who smashed down the boundaries of what it's possible to do on a pop or rock record -- appear on a show dreamt up and vomited out by the arrogant, talentless, flat-headed twit who, in less than a decade, has singlehandedly tried to undo the achievements of The Beatles and every other great artist that followed them?

 

What would John and George say? Has anyone asked Ringo what he thinks? For that matter, what went through McCartney's head when finalist Olly Murs took the classic Twist and Shout (one of John Lennon's most astonishing vocal performances) and minced it into bland, middle of the road gunk, while pathetically wiggling his hips as if something nasty had crawled up his trouser leg?

 

To be fair to McCartney, he handled the after-performance fawning with condescending aplomb. Dermot O'Leary asked him what he thought of the finalists. "They're both good. One of them's going to win." And then he was out of there as quickly as possible.

 

One of them did win: Joe McElderry, a pleasant teenager with a big but nondescript voice and zero charisma. Maybe he'll vanish within a year, like most of the other winners.

 

Or maybe he'll hang around a little longer, like Leona Lewis, a mannequin of a woman so passionless and motionless you suspect there might be a little man hiding under the folds of her dress, working her with pulleys, pedals and wires.

 

Whatever. Welcome to the apocalyptic future, where even living legends are sucked into the void at the black heart of Simon Cowell's three-ring circus. Depressing, isn't it?

I think another problem today is that there is a serious lack of programs on Tv in the UK to appear and promote a new single/album. In years gone by there were Top of the Pops, The Tube, The Old Grey Whistle Test, etc. There were the kids shows on Saturday mornings, evening chat shows like Wogan, etc so there is certainly a limited opportunity for TV exposure nowadays.

 

Like it or loathe it unforunately the X factor is watched by the single biggest audience on TV at the moment. That doesn't mean I agree with his decision, but in a way I kind of understand it. It's also the reason you get Take That, Robbie,Lady GaGa,Beyonce etc etc. Their record Company tell them to appear as the exposure is huge on a Saturday/Sunday evening at prime time.

 

What is needed is another programe on TV to promote stuff, having Jools Holland on a late time slot on BBC 2 is hardly enough is it.

Quite right. There should be a programme centred around the charts with artists performing live wherever possible. It could also have some new releases which are contenders to make the charts in the next week or two. Of course it would need a name. Just off the top of my head, how about Top of the Pops?

Quite right. There should be a programme centred around the charts with artists performing live wherever possible. It could also have some new releases which are contenders to make the charts in the next week or two. Of course it would need a name. Just off the top of my head, how about Top of the Pops?

 

Nah, it will never work. How can the show producer be a judge have the power to manipulate who appears if they have to rely on the charts because that way Westlife, Mariah Carey, Leona Lewis, Cheryl Cole, Alexandra Burke, Robbie Williams, Take That, JLS won't be able to appear every week. -_-