Sting Slams Simon Cowell’s “The X-Factor”
Sting isn’t very impressed with Simon Cowell’s reality singing competition show, The X Factor. The Brit rocker recently told London’s Evening Standard: “It is a soap opera which has nothing to do with music. In fact, it has put music back decades.”
Although The X Factor has already produced an international sensation in singer Leona Lewis — whose debut album Spirit received three Grammy nominations –Sting doesn’t think the world’s next musical superstars can be found on British television.
And he has no problem telling Simon so. Read the rest of this entry »





