so yeah, as this year comes to an ends, what have we learned about pop music?

we’ve learned that the same people complaining about the X Factor winners single being a Miley Cyrus song because it wasn’t credible will complain when this years X Factor winner releases a Biffy Clyro cover, because it was by a band ‘too credible’ to be covered for an X Factor’s winners single.

we’ve learned that ‘da club’ is the place to be.

we’ve learned Oli Murs song writing skills are ‘a bit shit’.

we’ve learned that people will say ‘but Matt Cardle writes his own songs, he must be better than the rest of the contestants’, when 99% of people haven’t heard Matt Cardle’s horrible attempt at writing songs.

we’ve learned Diana Vickers is still fantastic.

we’ve learned a lot in 2010.

Winning every week of voting since week 3, The X Factor was pretty much ‘The Matt Show’. Now here is the problem with Matt winning the X Factor…

Matt Cardle is famous for three things. Singing emotional songs mainly tailored to women, wearing a hat, and crying. Three things that will not appear on his debut album. Matt Cardle is a fan of rock music, shit rock music at that, but still rock music. Citing one of his favourite bands as ‘Boy Hits Car’, a psychedelic rock band with a lot of screaming present, also has a singer with a voice very similar to Matt Cardle’s.

Recently we’ve seen the X Factor talent release albums that are more than the usual 10 boyband covers and a coldplay song, which means Matt Cardle will be releasing a lot of songs he’s wrote, which sounds like a good thing, but he has shite taste in music so it will probably amount to shit crap-rock songs, and because you cant see him wearing his trademark hat or crying while listening to his songs (which he will be doing), it’s going to be pretty hard to believe Matt Cardle is a massive star.

His lack of personality isn’t going to help either, out of all 16 acts, he has the least striking image to set him apart from the people buying the album. Cher had her swag, Aiden had his hair, F.Y.D had that guy with the glasses. Matt did have his hat, but after week 1 the hat pretty much disappeared forever.

Well done X Factor, well done British public, WELL DONE EVERYONE. Here is another pop star to be completely disinterested in.

His single sleeve is fucking shit as well.

So this is Frankmusik’s new single, it sounds a bit like if you took a Hurts song and mixed it with a Frankmusik song, which is at least a 50% accurate summary since it is in fact ‘a Frankmusik song’.

It’s a pretty brilliant pop tune and it’s already an improvement from the first frankmusik album, which was also pretty brilliant. But his first album was missing some of the fun and spontaneousness that was present during his earlier demos. Hopefully being on the same record label as Robyn, LMFAO, La Roux and Ellie Goulding has sorted this out, which going by the first single, it’ almost 100% most certainly has.

The video isn’t really anything to be excited about and can only be described as something that would happen if you mixed the scenes from the movies ‘Big’, ‘Rocky’, ‘Ghost’ where people just walk around, the music video for ‘The Zepher Song’ by ‘The Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ and the music of ‘Frankmusik’ and put it all in ‘Black & White’. Which is at least a 33.32% accurate summary since it is in fact in ‘Black & White’ and features the music of ‘Frankmusik’.

It’s not the best song this year but it’s pretty much better than 90% of the releases in 2010.