Article - Cheryl Cole

Why I'm not obsessed with Cheryl Cole

After another series of the X factor, my dislike for Cheryl Cole and the public obsession with her has reached new heights.

The show is meant to be about talent, finding someone with the potential to be a star.

But this latest season, all people have really cared about is Cheryl. What will Cheryl Cole wear this week? What will she do with her hair? Oh wow, look how amazing she was when she performed. Oh isn’t she such a nice mentor?

Well no, she isn’t. If she was such a nice mentor then she wouldn’t release her single one week after Alexandra Burke did. While JLS had the chance to stay at the top of the charts for weeks with their first single, Alexandra wasn’t allowed that luxury.

We all know that thanks to the nation’s undying love for Mrs ‘Oh she’s so perfect’ Cole, anything she touches will turn to gold. It was inevitable that her first single and album would go straight to number one. So the nice thing to do would have been to release her single weeks after Alexandra’s. Why make yourself the main competition for your own act? And now it looks like they will both be trying to break America at the same time.

I’m sure Burke is thrilled.

All Cheryl has shown me this year is that she is a hypocrite. She started this series by attacking contests, Kandi Rain, a group of former strippers. She said she didn’t like the way they dressed on stage, as they looked like slutty and that they should have dressed more demurely so that people would focus on their singing. She makes a slightly valid point.

However, I would just like you to think back to that ‘military’ themed outfit she wore when she performed ‘Fight for this love’ the following week and look at the ridiculous amount of flesh she was revealing.

Why did she get away with it? Some argue it is because she is already an established act but to me she just looked like a complete hypocrite. As my mother said, she was the one who looked like a stripper.

And this is meant to be the woman voted as most 11-16 year olds role model. She had to go to court for attacking someone in a club. How inspiring. Plus she has now revealed that she lost her virginity at the age of 15, after waiting a whole 3 months. She was really proud she waited so long because it allowed her to get to know the person first. The scary part is that girls will be saying, ‘If Cheryl lost it at 15 then it’s okay me for to do it as well’.

Everywhere we turn all you see Cheryl, on magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, bus stops. I know I’m not the only one who thinks her L’oreal adverts are really tacky. It’s so cheesy I physically cringed. Plus it’s not even her real hair anyway.

I’m so bored with people talking about how Cheryl is going to break America. I don’t think we realise just how little Americans care about a pretty northern WAG with no real singing talent whatsoever. America is full of average singers and even with the backing of Simon Cowell, the American idol winners find it hard to last more than 2 years before fading into the distance.

We all seem to forget that Girls Aloud could never even try to make a name across the pond and Cheryl wasn’t even the lead singer so you can’t argue that her ‘talent’ will help her break the States.

Unfortunately for me, 2010 is going to be an even more annoying year because the nation obsession doesn’t look like it’s going to be fading anytime soon. Great, her stupid song, ‘3 words’ has just come on the radio.