Reasons You Probably Hate Katie Waissel

Look what Katie Waissel did next – she appeared on the Alan Titchmarsh show. As we noted with One Direction he’s become the interviewer of choice it seems, most probably due to the fact he has a reasonably open schedule and will pull every single punch in favour of a big old grandad hug. He’s a gardener turned day time TV interviewer whose audience mostly watch on analogue TV. Nothing could go wrong. Except for bloody Twitter of course. Now even throwing an act into the cotton wool of daytime TV for a bit of gentle exposure can result in a hurricane of piss, and this is exactly what happened.

Katie performed her song which was OK. The 1920s haven’t been dusted off for a while and accusations she’s ripping off Cindy Lauper, Lady Gaga, Madonna and Gwen Stefani at the same time are pretty unfair. It would be hard to think of a female artist doing a non rap song these days without the accusation applying equally. It was even suggested she ripped off the Libertines. Here’s the track by the way:

OK – Maybe we do see the Gwen Stefani comparisons.

So why does everyone hate Katie? It seems to basically fall down to this:

1. She seems terribly affected. We’ve all met a girl like her before,whose voice oscillates depending on the company she is keeping. Usually it ends up with them leaving us for company they perceive as cooler and you vow never to give anyone like that the benefit of the doubt again.
2. You’re free to slag her off. The Waissel Warriors don’t number anywhere near as much as the Cher fans, so you can throw a Twitter stone without anyone shouting “Oi, what you doing?!”
3. She sings like a little girl looking up to the camera. Being a boy this doesn’t quite hit home with me – but I’ve observed this sort of behaviour will enrage the average female twitter user.

Now this is all well and good if she’s a huge star, but she’s not even close. We’ve pointed out before she’s had to go through the most embarrassing incident imaginable (namely finding out your nan was a prostitute when the media did some digging into your family). Then she found herself seemingly hated by the public for staying in The X Factor, when it was ultimately their decision that kept her in (remember it went to public vote when she was against Aiden Grimshaw). Finally she got pretty much left on her own after the show. We presume this because if Cher is saying Cheryl hasn’t picked up the phone to her, we doubt she’s beating down Katie’s door.

Despite this though she’s putting a brave face on it. Even in front of the most avuncular chap in Telly Land she seemed to be bricking it.  Have you never thought to yourself ex post a particularly insipid moment how affected you came across when really it was down to nerves?

When Charlie Brooker pointed out how harsh Twitter was to Rebecca Black, at least, we thought, she has enough time to start over and she’d made a million quid in the process. Now shame on you. Shame on you all!

Post Script: We’d really prefer you not to look through our Twitter feed as this article is littered with hypocrisy. Just today we felt like defending someone.