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Note the use of the word ‘talent’. These shows exist as much to display lack of talent as they do ability. And the sight of the ‘judges’ – dull, scripted people who are only there to scrape a bit of money out of the soon-to-be discarded husks of the performers – telling the hopefuls that they are no good is appalling. The judges’ sole qualification for the job is vanity and the ability to talk in clichés that someone else has written for them. Artificial, stiff, egotistical and dull, they make the manufactured groups they represent look organic and thrilling.