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Post by Admin on Nov 7, 2019 23:56:05 GMT
You have heard of K-pop. Now, tune in to UK-pop, with Simon Cowell set to unleash new boy and girl groups to take on an army of Korean rivals, from BTS and EXO to Blackpink and Twice.
He will draw recruits from a show called X Factor The Band, he told The Sun, adding that the talent quest will start next year.
"K-pop is ruling the world. This is a show to find a band to launch UK-pop," said music mogul Cowell who has made a name with such contests as American Idol and Britain's Got Talent.
"It's more than winning a record contract, it's starting a new music wave," he added. "Every group will be put together by us - just like One Direction, Little Mix and Fifth Harmony. It's people who represent Britain's version of K-pop."
Cowell masterminded the careers of boy band One Direction as well as girl groups Little Mix and Fifth Harmony, after they caught the public's eye in his show The X Factor.
While netizens note that what he wants to do now is not revolutionary since the term Britpop has been bandied around for a long time, they feel that the music industry can only benefit from his injection of fresh ideas into existing formats.
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Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2019 3:23:01 GMT
K-pop fans across the world united against Simon Cowell after he announced he planned to form a music group to compete with K-pop. Fans of K-pop groups spoke out against the announcement of Cowell’s new show, X Factor: The Band. At the core of the controversy, K-pop fans were upset by the imperialistic tone of Cowell’s announcement.
Simon Cowell announced he wants to compete against K-pop In a video posted to the SYCO Entertainment Twitter account, Cowell announced the launch of the TV show X Factor: The Band.
“You may have already heard about this but if you haven’t, we are launching… X Factor: The Band this December. We have weeks to get this together. Very simply… We are going to find either the biggest boy group in the world… Or the biggest girl group in the world. And you’ve got days to enter. We’ve done it before. We’re going to do it again,” Cowell says in the video.
He continues, “Right now, K-pop you could argue, is ruling the world. Now, it’s time for UK-pop.”
K-pop fans reacted to Simon Cowell’s announcement Fans immediately took issue with the connotation of the video. The word choice and tone of the video comes across as imperialistic. K-pop fans also accused Cowell of being racist and xenophobic.
“Imagine being so racist that you can’t stand a non white group being the biggest in the globe so you try to appropriate their culture and music…,” one Twitter user wrote.
“Simon Cowell announces his new show ‘X Factor: The Band’ with a slightly imperialistic tone,” Jeff Benjamin of Billboard tweeted.
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Post by Admin on Dec 8, 2019 18:48:41 GMT
“America’s Got Talent” executive producer Simon Cowell has set his legal representation for an investigation into the NBC competition series, which was announced by the network this week after a lengthy meeting with ousted judge Gabrielle Union.
Cowell has hired Larry Stein, a longtime litigator in Hollywood and media spaces, multiple individuals familiar with the matter told Variety. Stein is expected to advise Cowell and participate in a probe regarding complaints of a toxic culture at the show, raised by staffers including Union. The complaints included numerous accusations of racial insensitivity and excessive critiques of the female cast.
Cowell’s banner Syco, production company Fremantle and NBC all expressed a desire to learn more about Union’s issues a week ago, which resulted in a five-hour meeting on Tuesday — though sources said Cowell was notably absent for this exploratory meeting, as was any representative from Syco. The meeting included an NBC staffer who took notes, Fremantle’s North American COO, Suzanne Lopez, and a third party counselor hired by the network.
Cowell is currently shooting “The X Factor” in London, and felt that Fremantle was sufficient to represent the company in the room, another insider said. Yet another individual with knowledge of the matter said that the third party was representing all three companies, and was primarily interested in hearing Union. The investigation will result in many more such meetings across the production, the insider added.
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