X Factor USA will become the first reality TV show to permit viewers to vote through social networking site twitter. The producers of the show announced the partnership with the social media network which allows viewers to vote for their favorite finalists. Voting will be open from November 2 after the live performanaces.
You will not be voting with tweets which will be very chaotic but through your account’s direct message feature. In addition XFactor fans can vote via Facebook, text messaging, the Xtra factor mobile application on Verizon Android phones and by phoning in.
“I think it’s fantastic that Verizon and ‘The X Factor’ are giving fans so many different ways to vote. Launching touch screen voting on Verizon’s The Xtra Factor App and the new voting on Twitter is really exciting, I love that the audience has more and more choice in the way that they can vote,” Simon Cowell said in a statement.
Only the votes sent via direct message to @TheXFactorUSA will count while publicly visible will not be counted as votes. Viewers who cast votes via TheXFactorUSA.com and Twitter are limited to 50 votes per account.
Everyone has favorite type of music but for many people it isn’t necessarily a genre of music but rather from a period of time. Each decade, roughly a span of 10 years, has its own identity and most people either love or hate music from each decade.
70’s musicis well known for and associated with disco music. This period is well remembered for John Travolta and the movie Saturday Night Fever. The Bee Gees’ soundtrack to that famous movie set the record for best selling album until it was broken less than a decade later. The Hustle by Van McCoy was an extremely popular song during this time.
The next decade of music, 80’s music, is best classified as the decade of Michael Jackson and Madonna. These two premier artists helped to replace disco music with dance and pop music. Some other popular artists of this time were New Kids on the Block R.E.M. the Violent Femmes and Cyndi Lauper.
90’s music can best be classified as the emergence of grunge, alternative rock and pop rock. While pop music continued to be popular, bands such as Nirvana, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Green Day came into prominence. Nirvana’s album Nevermind and their tremendous hit Smells Like Teen Spirit best describes the 90’s. This musical group created such an impact on the music scene that even today musical acts are still influenced by them. The death of the lead singer for Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, did however symbolically end the growth of the grunge rock genre.