Is is music or karoke?

So yesterday I headed down to the local park as our council was putting on a free music festival. There was a stage with regular performances and local bands from around the town. There were some great people singing their souls out with their own songs about what they see in the world. I particularly liked the 15 year old boy on an acoustic guitar singing about getting wasted and boycotting the media. Some did their own covers which was fine as they did their own stuff in the same set as well. But what put me off the most about the set was the fact that people thought they could sing along to a backing track when they couldn’t. We had a whole adult choir that waded and wailed along in the background to another singer. We had a group of kids who we had to appreciate because they were cute; even though it wasn’t clear who was doing what. And there was a 17 year old girl who thought this was Glastonbury and tried to get everyone moving to songs she sung off the radio. So kudos to the ones that tried and made their own material, but to the singers; please go back to the X Factor.