X Factor has just started an there’s a piece of music playing with vocoded vocals.

Can we throw these machines away now, please? They are like very bad photoshop filters, naff and overused.

All the vocoder does is make everyone sound the same. Why, If you have a good and distinctive voice would you want to make it sound like everyone else?

Glad to see the speedboats in the XFactor intro film. We saw them powering up the Thames at the end of July and figured that’s what they were for.