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It's confusing, for me. If someone spends years trying to break into the business, singing in pubs etc. and earning their keep by painting and decorating, and then enters a competition and wins a recording contract, are they manufactured, or did they help their own discovery, when others have been discovered by singing in the right place, at the right time, just not on telly?
It's a very tough question to answer. 'right place, right time' absolutely has a lot to do with it. More than any other creative endeavour the music profession is very harsh in that way. But Matt really does just sound like a busker to me. To be fair to him he has the odd quirky feature when he sings certain songs but the rest of the time he just sounds really dull.
He didn't get lucky, luck came and found him and he probably can't believe his own luck. He owes Lady Luck a huge percentage of his earnings but I'd rather he won than the Sade terminally dull soundalike or another boy band with limited singing ability all more interested in trying to outpose each other on stage than singing.
Cher had more to offer than any of them. She is an
amazing performer, horrible individual that she is nobody can deny that she sets the stage alight while the rest of them just stand there hoping the backing dancers will confuse people into thinking they are alive and moving slightly.
Sorry, went on a bit of a ramble there