{"id":1280,"date":"2012-01-05T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/01\/05\/lydon-blames-x-factor-for-pil-record-label-struggle\/"},"modified":"2012-01-05T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T14:33:03","slug":"lydon-blames-x-factor-for-pil-record-label-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/01\/05\/lydon-blames-x-factor-for-pil-record-label-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydon blames X Factor for PiL record label struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/pictures\/160xAny\/e\/s\/c\/lydon.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"125\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>Former Sex Pistol John Lydon has cited X-Factor as the reason why his current band Public Image Ltd. struggled to find a record label.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The frontman told NME that the music industry is unwilling to take risks on artists that \u201cstrive to break barriers\u201d and that his band had found it hard to find a record label free from \u201cshenanigans or dictatorships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lydon called shows like X Factor and American Idol \u201cunimportant\u201d saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a shame that the music industry has been taken over and dominated by them. Particularly American Idol\u2026 You know, the way they love to award themselves every year, those institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt becomes like the way record companies used to operate,\u201d he added. \u201cIn fact, if you ever want to know why I\u2019m not on a record label, look at The X Factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s ninth studio album, \u2018This Is PiL\u2019, is to be released in the first half of this year. <\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sex Pistol John Lydon has cited X-Factor as the reason why his current band&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}