So the utterly hilarious Jedward have been dropped from their record label Sony after failing to be the huge novelty ‘sell my gran for a quick one’ cash in the label had hoped. Gutted.

Speaking out after the shock move a label spokesperson said: “We tried our best to make the lads credible recording artists but punters just weren’t that bothered…They are great lads but haven’t got the greatest voices, so they’re something to see rather than listen to… I’m sure Jedward will be able to make a buck touring as a novelty act.”

Yet another hopeful cast into the depressing sea of mediocrity that is the contemporary music scene. Sucked in and spat out by the machine that made them when they realised that the joke just wasn’t that funny after all. Game over. At least it should have been.

You see, one day later the annoying Irish lads were picked up by rivals, Universal Music Group and signed up to a reported three album deal. As the brilliant major label industry knows nothing quite says ‘hit’ more than two big haired massive headed ambiguously incestuous Irish twins doing Backstreet boys cover.

Tragically the public will probably eat this up. The boys already managing a number two single with the car crash cover Under Pressure will now embark on a national tour where they will hilariously rap and screech their way through covers and possibly a single called Jedward Time or Get Jedward. They will appear on programmes like This Morning and Loose Women where the daytime masses will coo and laugh at the luck of the fucking Irish as they make a fair amount of money being talentless nobodies. Eventually their musical career will drown and they will get TV jobs as the next Ant and Dec or at the very worse, Jed will die in a car crash and Ward will turn to heroin selling his, “My Hell and depression,” story to the highest bidder for the next three years. He’ll then pop up in sympathy roles in seaside pantomimes and make a tear jerking comeback on I’m a Celebrity... In other words the 18 year old twats are made for life and all it cost was their dignity and pride.

This it seems is what good old home-grown talent is all about. Exploitment and insulting attempts to capture the hearts of the nation with a joke rather than any true talent.

 Now for the really tragic part.

 The current big talk from major labels for their shockingly lack lustre efforts to ever sign any real talent is that they are cash strapped because of people like you and me illegally file sharing music. Taking money directly out of bands (vis a vie the record labels) pockets. At least that’s what they would like you to think. Yet no matter how poor a label will lead you to believe they are, there will always be a Zig and Zag, a Mr Blobby and a Crazy Frog. Not only that but these atrocities will undoubtedly do well because the music buying public is inherently made up of hypocritical morons that would rather spend £3 on buying a novelty CD rather than a new band that they can download for free on Limewire. Because of this, acts like Jedward get a three album deal that robs actual acts with integrity (like theses guys) a chance and we let them get away with it because it’s funny.

Public, you disgust me. Pull up your bootstraps before we have nothing left and stop buying into these cheap and intelligence insulting tactics. Start going to gigs, buy T-shirts, buy CD’s, bring back vinyl and for fucks sake stop talking about Arctic Monkeys and The Enemy as your favourite new band and discover something else.