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" Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha has branded The X Factor &amp;quot;mildly entertaining&amp;quot;. Speaking to NME, the heavy metal singer - whose band pulled off a shock defeat of the reality show&amp;#039;s winner Joe McElderry to the UK Christmas number one last year - compared the programme to McDonald&amp;#039;s. He said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d be lying to say I don&amp;#039;t watch the show. It can be mildly entertaining, but for the most part The X Factor is to modern music what McDonald&amp;#039;s is to food: you take a few bites of your Big Mac and it tastes good and after the sixth one it tastes like s**t and you feel awful and you want to go and do some exercise.&amp;quot; The star added: &amp;quot;To me that&amp;#039;s what The X Factor is - it&amp;#039;s cheap, indigestible and flies in the face of what is interesting about culture.  &amp;quot;In the UK, it seems there aren&amp;#039;t as many choices when it comes to the mainstream. It&amp;#039;s not about Simon Cowell, but it&amp;#039;s about what he represents.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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