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Olly Murs is no puppet
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 25 November 2014
“Thirteen million sales, six platinum discs, six number one records: Is it time to take @OllyMurs seriously?” asked the BBC entertainment news team on Twitter this morning. Though let’s assume that’s a rhetorical question, shall we?
But however seriously or not you’re choosing to take your Murs this fine day, will you all stop calling the boy a “puppet” please. And don’t go saying you never did. I saw you. I heard you. “God that Olly Murs, what a puppet”, you said.
“I’m not a puppet”, Murs told Digital Spy, having heard you say it out loud. “I think that’s always been something that almost all the ‘X-Factor’ acts have to battle with when they come off the show. It’s ignorance and a bit of snobbery, but it is what it is”.
He goes on: “You have to get over that and I think the only way you can get over that is by having success and good music. I think that whether people like my music or not, there’s certain people that do like it and it’s done really, really well and I’ve had success from it, so that sort of answers all the critics or anyone that sort of doubts you or puts you in that bracket”.
(Olly Murs) has a new record to sell, by the way. But, alas, no puppet.
