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Omg! Cher Lloyd, Rebecca Ferguson, Jedward, 1D and Little Mix have literally all decided to simultaneously drag Simon Cowell, X Factor and the music industry all at once and I'm living for the exposé.
Let’s start off with the obvious. Cher's latest TikTok stated how she was being pressured into a relationship with a star, rumoured to be Austin Mahone. She also says how if her record took of they’d just take the money, referring to her hit, Want U Back.
“the sold me the dream” also shows that Cher feels she was being sold the dream of being this big main pop girl but instead it was a lure for Simon Cowell and LA Reid to make big bucks out of Cher's talent.
In this interview in 2012 on This Morning, Cher says “the first single wasn't the way I wanted it to be” (first single meaning Swagger Jagger). This shows how Cher at the time didn’t even have control over what songs were going to be singles... which isn’t okay and is over controlling on Simons half as Cher should’ve had the final say on what her debut single is. she doesn’t have to “earn her place” for this. it’s her music. Simon can have an opinion and tell Cher what he’d rather the single to be but not getting the final decision shows the authority he thought he had over Cher.
Cher did an interview with The Sun last year. Here she confirms more so how she was pressurized into a fake celebrity relationship to boost her music and social status to make music bosses happy and gain from her.
In another interview Cher stated how being controlled and used in the industry over the years took away her “sparkle” due to ongoing pressure. She wasn’t allowed to be her organic self creatively or style wise.
On this day Cher was performing her single With Ur Love on the today show and later reveals in 2020 that she didn’t want to be in that tutu and the outfit was chosen for her. Cher was 19 here and she was being forced into tutus by older men trying to keep up this image of her being this child friendly big pop girl. which she didn’t necessarily ever want to be. she wants to be herself and not someone somebody else wants her to be.
On an instagram live on the release night of Cher's song ‘Lost’. Cher confirms yet again that decisions about what she was wearing was being made for her without her having any sort of say in the decisions of her outfits.
Also notice how Cher would dress casually in 2010.... and all of a sudden she’s wearing tutus and big fancy dresses the second other people got too much control over her.
I hope you’ve learnt something from this thread on how you might not be hearing Cher's name much anymore. She told them music bosses fuck you and she’s doing what she wants to. As she should.
Looking back on Simon Cowell saying "Britney couldn't talk", hits differently now, doesn't it?..
This is the downfall on Simon Cowell. We have all been waiting a long time for this. I knew there was something about Simon that rubbed me the wrong way!!
Simon Cowell is what happens when capitalism takes human form. As a 17-year-old when I read the stuff that was on Tumblr, I prayed that none of that was true. But now seeing all of this, I genuinely hope that Simon Cowell pays for every fucking thing.
Simon Cowell thinks he’s the Mafia leader of the music industry when in reality he’s nothing but a bad facelift.
This isn’t just about One Direction, it’s the way people like Simon Cowell, Syco and Modest got away with making millions off the blood sweat and tears of their artists, while the artists themselves are severely over worked and legally can’t speak out about their mistreatment. ITS FUCKED!
There are probably other artists who we don't even know of that are being exploited by the music industry.
The smaller artists come out and speak up about it because it’s like “look if I’m saying I was treated so badly by them, what makes you think their huge acts aren’t being mistreated too"
I genuinely believe that we don't even know half of the things that happens. It’s probably not ‘half’at all but it’s everything. We don’t know anything that happens between managers and their clients. No ideas what happens between record label bosses and their artists. It’s a fucked up industry and always has been. It’s not just Syco and Modest either. It could be every single management and record company.
It literally makes me so mad but sad at the same time to know that these people were used for making money from the age of what? 16?
It’s happened to so many artists. It’s happened to Britney Spears. It’s happened to George Michael. Little Mix. One Direction. The Jackson Family, etc. MJ was 6 when he got in the industry and spoke up when he was a adult about Sony and how they mistreat their acts. it happens 24/7.
It’s completely heartbreaking. there is no need to mistreat your artists like WHAT does that get them??? pleasure of being in control?? making your artists scared??? It’s so fucked up.
I want to watch simon cowell’s career fall apart while drinking champagne & screaming the words to copy of a copy of a copy is that really too much to ask for???
I hope artists continue to speak out against Simon Cowell and Syco even though it must be incredibly scary, because they deserve freedom! We need to listen now more than ever.
Justice for all the artists that were Simon Cowell's, Syco's and Modest's marionettes.
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