All I want to do is sing

People pour scorn on The X-Factor* (and Frog - even though he doesn't pour scorn - won't watch it) but I love it.

I love the chance that you might come across someone with real talent. The frisson when someone sings from their soul. The characters (both sides of the judges’ bench).

I like watching people develop (or not). I find it fascinating seeing time and again that talent is not about perfection, it’s about honesty. That audiences respond above all to emotion.

And I identify with every one of the clichés that spring from the contestants’ lips: ‘When I sing I forget my troubles.’ ‘I can't do anything else.’ ‘All I want do is sing.’




* A television talent show