🔗 Daring Fireball: The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand
.. now there’s a headline I wasn’t expecting!
🔗 🎙️ Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth - talking with Sean Illing.
// @Denny - right up your street.
I’m sorry he’s gone. But that is not what this is about.
It’s that phrase … ‘the UK version’
WTF … I never watch the show - not my cup of tea - but I do get pissed off about things like this. Original things do happen outside of the U.S.A..
The X Factor is a UK show. It ran from 2004 to 2018
🔗 It actually has several versions throughout the world. - that are all franchises of Cowell’s original show.
The US show started 7 years after the UK show started .. in 2011, lasting 3 seasons. It - like all the other shows around the globe .. were licensed courtesy of Cowell.
Better phrasing?
first formed in 2010 after each member appeared on the original X factor (reality competition show) in the UK.
The really sad thing about this posts is that I am writing it at all and then finding myself standing up for Cowell’s show which was essentially a latter day ‘[🔗 Opportunity Knocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_Knocks_(British_TV_series)' 🤯
🔗 Nice to see ‘Disrupt’ ‘growing’
… not by size - it has been a big show for a long time - but in terms of thinking.
To my mind the revolution that drives tech startups is disruption - yet too …
I know I know - but yes only just discovered Mike Dawes - thanks to Rick Beato …
Translation - I’ve moved to Substack.
🎵🔗 Music To Massage Your Ears (🍎Essentials)
Listen to the start of track 1 - not your vibe - click to next track - not your vibe - repeat
Its ONE ‘band’ from the UK that I had never heard of until a week? ago.
They have produced a LOT of albums.
They are extraordinary.