Marc Almond thinks the public should not have to put up
with the Pop Idol losers releasing records.
He believes Will Young should be the only pop star to
emerge from the series.
The Soft Cell star says the other finalists can get lost.
He said: "It's very easy to be famous nowadays, but
it's also a lot easier to disposed of.
"Why do we have to put up with the Pop Idol losers
and runners-up releasing records? It's all very Saturday night karaoke. There's
room for Will Young because he won the competition, but the rest can f**k off.
Soft Cell have a new album scheduled for release in
September. Almond thinks the duo's new material will appeal to established fans
and the upcoming generation of music lovers.
"I'm nearly 45, so I'm going through a kind of
midlife crisis. That will be reflected in the album. But I think we've managed
to keep our mystique. At the first set of Soft Cell reunion gigs there were
older people mixed in with a lot of teenagers who've just discovered us."
Almond says he hasn't heard Marilyn Manson's cover version
of Tainted Love, which is currently in the UK Top Ten. "I like Marilyn
Manson and people have asked me about it, but I haven't heard it yet," he
said.
"I'm much more interested in completely different
versions of songs like David Gray's cover of Say Hello, Wave Goodbye. Of
course, we wrote that song so we get royalties from that one - maybe there's a
mercenary element to my attitude somewhere."
A Greatest Hits album has just been released, which
includes two new Soft Cell compositions.
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