Fuck you I won’t buy what you sell me!

I like Biffy Clyro. I also like their song “Many of Horror”, released in 2009. Those of you that know where this is going, you’ve been forewarned.

I have recently (literally past few minutes) been introduced to the musical talent of Matt Cardle. He was the X-Factor winner and Christmas number 1 for 2010. His song “When we collide” is brilliant. This is because it’s the SAME SONG!

Ranting and raving about the X-Factor is fairly commonplace when it is enforced upon me. I don’t watch it by choice and I am by no means an expert on the subject of becoming a musician (Steve will vouch for this I’m sure ).

However!* Surely it is at the very least morally reasonable to assume that if you are going to cover a song  that you at least call it by the same name. This to me makes it look like he** is trying to lay claim on the song as a whole, because anyone that has not heard the original and who searches for this is not even going to come up with the original artist.

It’s bad enough that they cover a song every christmas anyway, why not wait until you have actually written something yourself before releasing a record?

I’d love to know if there really is a proper reason why this is so often done, so if anyone out there knows, please enlighten this poor angry soul. Until then I am forced to assume it is just money grabbing tactics from the global enterprise fronted by Mr Simon Cowell.

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* and for those pedantic bar-stewards amongst you, that is a perfectly valid sentence when used to accentuate a point

** I say he… I know in interviews and such he claims that it was not his decision to change the song name, but let’s be honest, it’s his name on the CD so whoever is at fault I’m blaming him (and Cowell of course)

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