JAMES ARTHUR – JAMES ARTHUR

Can a career survive the stench of a gay slur swirling so strongly it makes everyone forget about your music? That’s the case for this 25-year-old who won last year’s X Factor in the UK. But the road to international stardom was promptly derailed by his homophobic rants on Twitter. James has the gift of a startling, hurt, burnt-coffee voice, but now even mentor Simon Cowell is worried it may be Impossible for James to recover from this. Let’s watch his career in 2014 and see if a pop star can redeem himself after committing career suicide, or if hating on the gays still doesn’t matter in the long run. Lest we forget Eminem.