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REVIEW
It is better to be talked about than not talked about, isn't that the saying? Even if it isn't praise that's being heaped upon you.

No-one is talking about X-Factor darling Stacey Solomon and instantly forgettable Olly Murs only popped last week because he had some pictures taken in a new hat. As for 2009 winner Joe McElderry, could you pick him out of a line-up?

So Jedward score one star for standing out and another for getting an album out ahead of these three X-Factor fly-by-nights who trumped them in the show.

It would not be hard to assassinate Planet Jedward, the Dublin duo's appalling album of karaoke covers. So bland are the 12 tracks they sound like one long song.

But are they really any different from Alexandra Burke who ruined Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah? As with Jedward's shameless sabotaging of Teenage Kicks the production has had to be ramped up to give the boys an illusion of melody.

Their only selling point is their blatant disregard for the fact they can neither sing or rap but have the courage to get on stage.

I blame the music industry for allowing X-Factor to destroy the charts track by track with its pop by numbers nonsense. Jedward are just playing the game and while they continue be dealt a good hand, why fold?