“You made that song your own!” The most overused sentence in the judges’ toolkit gets its own theme week. Reinvention is the title – taking a classic song and making it your own. Cue reinventions that may not work, not having a classic song in the first place, or not reinventing enough. As always, the acts are at the whim of what they’re given.
Amid all the speculation about song choices in our comments section and below, phone vote statistics tell their own story. Those acts who just escaped the drop zone in the first phone vote are invariably involved in the scrap at the bottom next time.
The biggest drop from the first phone vote into the following week’s singoff has been three places – District 3, from 8th to 11th in 2012. They survived there against Melanie Masson, who at the time was the fifth act in a row to fall into the second singoff having hung one place above it in the first phone vote.
The initial singoff survivor has a mixed sympathy bounce record. In recent years, Steph Nala and Shelley Smith have joined Girlband and Rachel Adedeji in failing to escape a second consecutive duel, whilst Rylan, Frankie Cocozza and Katie Waissel bounced well clear. Which group will Kiera Weathers emulate? She’s favourite for next elimination, having survived last week’s singoff.
Counting against Kiera, logically she doesn’t fall into the successful group because she’s not a novelty act whom producers are interested in keeping around for longer. Her song choice – ‘Return of The Mack’ – isn’t promising. Even this version, which would suit her, feels a bit like ‘Crying For No Reason’ in lacking a big moment.
In her favour, she has to finish last in this double elimination, when presumably she will receive some sympathy from the public. She had screentime and some regional identity before the lives began. That didn’t count for enough in the first week, but she weathered some harsh criticism with dignity there, and managed a strong singoff performance.
Who do we think just escaped the drop zone last week? These will be the other candidates for next elimination based on those phone vote statistics. The strongest possibilities have to be Reggie n Bollie, Mason Noise and Max Stone.
Of those three, it seems likely that Mason Noise is the one producers are most keen on keeping around. That’s reiterated by pictures of his rehearsal on the show’s official Instagram account, indicating that his name will be up in lights on the backdrop. He sings the Womack & Womack classic ‘Teardrops’, which is a great tune, should suit him, and gives judges a chance to tell him he’s made it relevant.
Reggie n Bollie now have a mashup of One Direction’s ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ and OMI’s ‘Cheerleader’. That could well be an attempt to repeat last week’s crowd-pleasing ‘It Wasn’t Me’, though even that may not have seen them clear the drop zone by far. The judges literally drummed up support for the Ghanaian duo after a fun, if low-rent production. The show’s official Twitter account continued that positivity about their rehearsal last night.
Reggie n Bollie bring fun without being burdened by too much credibility, whilst it’s the other way round for Max Stone. The latter faced continued criticism for being uninteresting last week, with the distraction of reggae Adele to boot. But his vocals were given a chance, and praised afterwards. There’s some promise too in Max’s mashup of ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ and ‘What A Wonderful World’. Obviously two iconic songs, and less obviously, a medley that’s been done plenty of times before.
In the circumstances, I’d prefer to wait for tonight’s episode to see which of these acts is most clearly under the bus. Especially as last week’s show made its intentions clear from the VTs onwards, and sometimes even in the introductions to the VTs.
A double elimination means it’s not out of the question to see another act fall into the danger zone. The market suggests Monica Michael is most at risk. She was given every help for last week’s triumphant Wildcard return. The mood can often change soon after, and it’ll be interesting to see just how suggestively Monica is styled for what we’re promised is a “sexy twist” on Beyonce’s ‘Crazy In Love’.
The second week is a first opportunity to see how producers react to a public phone vote. The previous three years saw a deramp of varying degrees after strong first poll showings for Andrea Faustini, Sam Bailey and Chris Maloney.
The indications are that Anton Stephans may face something similar this weekend, after Popbitch suggested he was the winner of the first phone vote. He’s been given the least suitable song choice of all – a mashup of ‘Bang Bang’ and ‘All About That Bass’. We’ve already seen him struggle with both songs: the latter at bootcamp; the former on Thursday’s Xtra Factor. Still, it’s worth bearing in mind that sympathetic characters like Faustini and Maloney took more than one week to be brought down by such tactics.
Whilst I envisage the other acts being safe, quite how producers continue to treat them based on that first phone vote should be fascinating. Do keep the debate going below.
There’s a story in the DM today linking Mason and Louisa. Presume that’s an attempt to give him some reflected glory rather than a deramp for her.
If it’s a deliberate ploy it smacks of desperation this early. It didn’t do Sam Callahan and Tamera much good and it is by no means certain how much glory she has to reflect. I read it as an effort to keep both names in people’s minds and / or make Louisa seem more interesting.
Yes actually I must admit I did wonder if it was an attempt to make her mildly more interesting!
Think Kiera will bounce off the bottom… the one that I like is Max at 6/1, but it’s a tough week to have an opinion on at the moment… running order, VT and staging will be massive clues today to intentions (as always)
Song choices, I don’t like Max, Mason or Kiera.
Is the producers dream scenario Max bottom
Mason v Kiera sing off
Easy to rid Kiera then and bounce Mason along for a few more weeks in that scenario
Oh poor Keira. While I think Return Of The Mack is a great song, and I like the version you linked to, it’s not a song for a talent show. It’s too downbeat, too niche, too miserable. It’s the sort of song that will get lost and forgotten amongst all the others no matter how good the performance. The vocal range is small and the essence of the song is a sort of straightforward matter-of-factness – as you say, there are no big moments.
Max’s songs have enough charm and popularity that a lot of people could end up throwing him one of their votes. Harsh criticism of Over The Rainbow and Wonderful World is a bit like kicking two puppies.
Just for fun…
From our collective wisdom the contestants “own” versions will be:
Lauren – Hold back the river (Ella Henderson Live Lounge) – same as original with a big finish
Monica – 50 shades of Grey soundtrack Crazy in Love, hence the sexy
Louisa – Chris Cornell/David Cook Billie Jean (slowed down and the lyrics are kind of weird for a girl to sing and they become the focus whe it’s slow)
Kiera – Lady Bee Return of the Mack
Max – Big Iz’s Over the rainbow/What a wonderful world
Mason – Joss Stone’s Teardrops
Che – probably stick to Phil Collins like Samantha Jade did in XF Australia
4th Impact – that’s the one that’s baffling me. Don’t know what they’re trying
Let’s see how many we get right…
Anton – whatever they throw at joke acts version
Seann – Sia’s California Dreamin
Reggie n Bollie – Radio 1 mash up of What makes you beautiful and Cheerleader
Mouthwatering isn’t it? The things we put up with to try and win a few quid.
HEH! When you put it like that I feel like walking up the road to the scout group firework display and chewing on a nice hot sausage.
It looks difficult for Keira to bounce clear of the bottom three, in which case one way or another she’ll probably be out this weekend. If she does that Lady Bee version that should just about seal it. The question is more one of whether she’s rock bottom or just bottom 3.
Looks like we know what we’re going to get from R&B and Max – but Mason I’m not sure about. Is the vocal arrangement from this version a possibility? If so he could be in trouble for the same reason as Keira – it just dampens down a well known and popular song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivqnIqdcNU
A week for seeing how the show pans out.
The previews are up on iTunes.
Che is doing a slow version of ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’. Can’t say I like it.
4th Impact are now doing ‘Sound of the Underground’ with the Clapping song not Boom Clap.
Max’s song sounds as we expected. Doesn’t seem like there’ll be a moment in it, but they could have given him something a lot worse.
Anton however, I doubt they could have, even in the recorded version it sounds strained.
RnB sound really good, the songs really suit this style.
No real surprises in the rest.
Playing catch up after hectic week. Great reading, heard LJ vote was not at races as they wanted. They had a girl that could have won last year! Is there one elimation tonight? Watching show, intrigued to see what they do tonight.
Was it me or did 4th impact sound terrible tonight?
Twas absolutely awful – the fact the judges haven’t picked up on that and are sticking to script of it sounds great is very telling.
I think the judges comments were deliberate. The Daily Mail does something similar, using an inaccurate description, pretending to be complimentary but inspiring dislike from the readers / viewers.
It wasn’t just you.
Big deramp imo. Colour vomit, floppy and uninspiring arrangement. Arguements between judges. Messy choreography. Yowsah.
Birmingham shout outs for Mason.
Why would they want Cheryl to be out of the competition so soon? Reggie & Bollie certainly aren’t making it very far.
Unless they did very well last week.
They must have done well last week, brakes on big time tonight.
Hot mess… wow!
A very messy opener, no surprise to see 4th Impact’s elimination odds come in after that. Problem was significantly better.
And Simon making distracting comments all over the place.
Judges arguing among themselves – that did not look good for the girls this week.
FI were all over the place, but a bit worried for Mason with that bit of nothing performance & going 2nd.
They seem quite confident with Mason to not pimp him this week. They’ll be hoping his vote is resilient.
Anton given an early slot as expected.
Not sure about Mason either. I would say the performance was quite dull, they put him on a pillar, the long shots meant he was lost at times, the judges didn’t really say much to motivate a vote… and he’s being memory-holed by John Lewis.
Mason was a little dull, but on the other hand, there was “that” wink. Bottom 3 contender, but I’d be surprised to see him prop up the vote.
Yep, maybe a save in the sing off
Are we supposed to find Mason sexy now? He looked like a refugee from the 70s. All that was missing was a medallion. Dressing like Simon is NOT a good thing, surely. All that was missing was the whiff of Blue Stratos.
Perhaps the plan was simply to wash the memory of FI away. It all seemed intended to be positive but personally I thought the whole thing was the very definition of meh.
Perhaps it was meant to be negative. I can’t tell anymore. I didn’t like it much and there was too much winking. One is enough.
I see the TalkTalk adverts are back this week!
Simon’s announcement of Anton was hardly warm – ‘risky’ followed by ‘good luck’.
Husband’s comment: OMG! They turned him into WAGNER! Hahahahaha
They’ve done a complete hatchet job on Anton.
Ouch this is hideous
Omg that was awkward, but is the deramp of Anton just too obvious though? Will it motivate sympathy?
I don’t think they’re looking to get him into the bottom three but they’re certainly looking to dampen his vote.
Probably not possible to get him into the bottom 3 in one fell swoop if he did as well as predicted in the vote last weekend, but that was more than a ‘dampening’ it was vicious- worse than Andrea in gold paint & horns b/c at least he could still sing the song well. That was a visual & vocal deramp!
Keira and Che announced as performing next… but Louisa and Seann just happen to also be in shot for no real reason…
Louisa looking likely to get the pimp slot. Doesn’t instill much confidence in how she did in the voting.
Nope. Looks like she did alright as she’s on next.
Kiera getting memory-holed by Ché then. Pretty much confirms they have no further use for her.
That was some hatched job on Anton, Mason styling etc.all moved him towards the door also. LJ for pimp slot the way they going?
VERY interesting show this week. Not sure if they’re trying to very heavy-handedly aim at little girls/kids with 4th Impact (the colour and shiny and dancers, and Cheryl’s fart noise to get Simon to shut up all suggested that to me), or if perhaps they’re trying to Janet them. That is, TPTB have seen four cute girls and cast them as such, when in actuality there might be some steel to them (remember, they are seasoned performers) and they might be difficult behind the scenes. Just an idea.
Anton – hatchet job, as expected. His smiles might have saved him though. I can see it going either way depending on who performs worse than him and who else they try and bring the axe down on this week.
Nice to see Grimmy playing Louis’s role more convincingly this week.
Interesting they name-checked Kiera as coming up after the break. Maybe being allowed to bounce after all?
EDIT: I actually enjoyed Kiera there. There’s the hair makeover I expected from coming up.
4th Impact: Let’s introduce you to the girls individually!
Kiera: Let’s introduce you to… the backing dancers.
My reading on Anton is they’re quite happen to have him around for a while, they’re building a narrative around him. Anton vs the others – makes it easier to dump him when the time is right
Why are they still pretending Cheryl/Fourth Impact had any choice, when the VT literally showed them being told what to sing?
smh
Keira the best of a poor night so far
Nala?
Ouch. Blandness and nothing particularly good for Keira either.
Is everyone going to get killed except Louisa? Perhaps the news about The Voice has prompted them to just not care anymore.
Not very keen on them I’m guessing? 😛
Not very keen on whom? I don’t understand.
Quite happy with my money on Kiera to go.
Can’t see Kiera avoiding bottom 3 after that? It made her voice sound weak and the dancing wasn’t fantastic even though it had been hyped on xtra factor. Also lukewarm comments suppressing a sympathy bounce.
I don’t invisage her coming bottom of the pile
but do you see her avoiding the bottom 3 altogether? And if she’s in the sing-off, I can’t see her staying over anyone.
I think she’ll go this weekend in the sing off
I don’t normally get annoyed by Cowell or this sort of thing, but calling Rita ‘sweetie’ was a bit out of order.
I know he’ll do well in the voting etc., but imo Che is butchering a great song!
Che = Jahmene
Best part for me was Simon standing to give him an ovation before his own mentor, though. 😀
4 judge standing ovation? Really? It a a very good vocal but that John Lewis dirge wasn’t all that. Well, maybe taking the current standard, yes.
This has been a terrible show, hasn’t it.
What do we think of Che? I’m suspecting he came 2nd last week and this is the beginning of a deramp.
Really ? Can you expand?
I’m the opposite, I think they’re not threatened by him at all.
I thought it was the first performance of the night that was clearly meant to be positive?
Che has taste. Compare and contrast with gaudy Anton on his golden throne singing All About That Bass.
I wasn’t too sure before the live shows started but Che should be favourite for the win after that.
Thought that was a good performance from Che, very positive VT & staging. If LJ doesn’t vote well, then is he the obvious saver?
Red & black for LJ?
Also a bit oversexualised for a 17 year old?
No standing ovation from Simon though – even after an exceptional vocal
Given up on Louisa winning already?
Honestly looks it.
I think Kiera won’t be bottom, but I’m slightly concerned about her being B3.
Who else could it be? RnB, Max… Mason? I’m not convinced both of the second two will be B3. I’m worried for her.
Louisa shows everyone exactly why she is the run away favourite. Superb
Oh look. Louisa is the second coming.
:-$
It was a good, solid performance but Simon’s almost begging for votes is worrying. Sounded quite desperate.
Louisa and Che the best two singers – so says Grimshaw.
I really don’t know how that will go down with the audience? Vocal was good, performance not so much. Also, reinvention- red, black, dancing, 80s clothing??
And Ché gets pimped during Louisa’s comments. The new Plan A?
No way will che be plan A this early on in the competition. He would bomb as a solo artist. If anything there pimping che to deramp anton
To my eyes Louisa is clearly the chosen one.
Absurd as it sounds I can’t help wondering if Anton is being so thoroughly deramped as a sort of revenge for last weeks head clash. It was obviously an accident but they referred to it so much, calling it a headbutt, and Simon sits there with that tiny little bruise when it would be easy to cover up with make up.
It sounds so petty as to be unbelieveable except that this is Simon Cowell.
I think the headbutt is part of the deramp rather than the reason for the deramp
Are you suggesting that they persuaded Anton to deliberately clash heads with Simon Cowell?
And c’mon. It wasn’t a headbutt, it was an accidental clash of heads that turned Simon Cowell into a whining, snot-dribbling drama queen.
Nice demotivating suggestion that Anton stole the show.
“a whining, snot-dribbling drama queen” 😀
Looks like Anton won the vote last week and they’re unconcerned enough about Che to give him a pimping.
No I’m saying they’ve seized on the ‘headbutt’ storyline and used it as part of the deramp.
Yes. Sorry. I realised that almost as soon as I made the post but I was so pleased with the line about Simon that I let it stand.
I think I’m getting too involved. Mr Hamby is threatening me with an x factor moratorium.
There’s a great compare and contrast between Kiera and Louisa’s choreography.
Kiera was constantly lost in the middle of her dancers.
Louisa was dressed in a totally different colour from her dancers, always centre front and always in shot
Although I posted my comment on Che before the judges gave all their emotional comments on the song, I still feel it was to catch him. That is, the performance was meant to be remembered as impressive, but not as the standout of the night.
Louisa’s Billie Jean reminded me a lot of Diana Vickers’ Call Me as an attempted breakout moment.
Louisa superb????? I dont think so che the best by a mile louisa has the lineability off toothache 5-4 is the lay ov the century LAY LAY LAY
Just switched on so haven’t seen Anton’s performance, but most of the comments on twitter are supporting him & blaming Cowell for trying to ruin his chances.
Comments such as Simon getting his own back for the headbutt last week & Simon doesn’t want an over to win.
Also noticed Simon’s personal gimp Dan Wootton tweeted:
“MY EARS! One of the worst #XFactor performances ever from Anton here”
Ok, a bit late. Watched Anton and a lot of people on Twitter really do just repeat what the judges say
Seann gets a kicking. He’s wacky and he’s not a popstar. I fear for Lauren and Monica. Max and R&B will.presumably be fine because they’re not threats.
So far I wouldn’t be surprised to see the whole b3 from the first four performers – Keira out and then any two from FI, Anton and Mason.
They are basically de ramping everyone except Louisa. The Adele duet could yet happen. One.punter in.Essex has 100k on with one of major bookies. Still not convinced. The whole show is so off the rails tonight so far viewing.figures will be far from good.
No way did they deramp Ché. Far from it, that was a pimping.
Not sure what they’re trying to achieve with Monica here.
Monica’s performance could have been great, but it was just… wrong! I hope she stays because I like her…
Wow 4th impact out to 14s
Oh God.
FIRE!! FIRE!! FIRE!!
They’re giving themselves enough scope to save her in a sing off by criticising the song choice.
“Well done for not wearing black!” says a woman wearing black…
It’s not Reinvention Week… it’s Deramp Week.
They’re deramping the whole show.
It feels like that doesn’t it. The Voice is coming. Cowell’s got his money. Try and force Louisa to a win and walk away laughing. Sod the ratings.
They seem to be trying to keep Che aloft with Louisa but otherwise every act has been chucked towards a bus.
Here comes criticism for Max…
I’m really feeling for Monica right now, standing there in that dress getting ripped apart 🙁
Total bitchfest, wasn’t it. I think she’ll get a massive sympathy vote from that. It was hideous to behold and all she did was what they asked her to do.
It seemed to go on for ages and she looked so uncomfortable.
Simon: I’ve only got one contestant left…
The omission of the words ‘to perform’ could be deliberate there.
Agreed.
Yep, thought that comment stuck out like a sore thumb
Thought exactly the same thing.
Sorry for going off topic but I’ve just seen the news about the Voice. Looks like my prediction of next season being X Factor’s last with the Voice debuting in summer/autumn 2017 is looking good.
As for the show this week the deramps are ridiculous so far. TPTB need to careful because if they try and push Louisa to far to early then it could backfire on them. Like Jessica I also fear for Lauren and Monica.
Interesting that the crowd didn’t particularly react to Simon saying he hated Monica’s performance. Suggests that it was considered fair criticism. We all know that fair criticism does not motivate votes. And the fire will certainly have made Richard Betsfactor fall out of his seat!
Monica’s definitely in a spot of bother.
Nick saying that Max’s staging reminded him of Playschool didn’t get too many boos either.
I *hated* that, and it was NOT reinvention- it was an exact copy of a well known version, in a similar style to what he performed last week. He needs to go asap…
Max is honest. He is who he is. Unlike another contestant perhaps…. Also interesting to hear the return of Britishness from Grimmy.
That comment was clearly aimed at keeping critcism of Monica’s performance in mind, I’m worried for her now
She was very good last week. Killed her momentum.
Meanwhile Lauren is asked if she’s feeling nervous. Putting the pressure on, hoping for a mistake. I think she’ll handle it and the show has been so unpleasant I’m hoping they’ll want to finish on a happy note. The mood Cowell is in tonight there’s no guarantee of that.
I thought the ‘all of Sweden is behind you’ comments in Max’s vt were interesting, a twist on the usual plea for regional votes (to discourage voting?).
What was that Sweden thing about?? Lauren did well there, this week TPTB defintely seem to have decided she is beta girl over Monica. Wonder if an early pimp slot/moment for Lauren means they intend to let her have her moment til late in the competition and then will slowly deflate her?
I think that, despite their best efforts, Max is doing a great job as resisting the deramp attempts. Last week he somehow managed to stay, and his vocals this week were actually pretty great.
Unless something diabolical happens next:
Bottom: Reggie and Bollie/Kiera
Singoff: Reggie and Bollie/Kiera vs Mason
With Mason being saved.
Edit: Kiera last, Reggie and Bollie lose against Mason. Cute performance, OMI wants his instrumental back.
I just saw. (¬_¬)
Loving the Carly Rae Jepsen music being used this week. The music this year is on point, Coldplay must be pissed at the lack of The X Factor income though.
Reggie N Bollie introduced as our sunshine on a very cloudy day. Got me thinking. Did they seriously just deramp the entire show to keep Reggie N Bollie in?
The sad thing is, with the incompetence I think the producers have shown this year, I’m only half joking!
Max will be forgotten after that mother of all pimpings!
Kiera, Monica, Max, and Mason are the candidates to go – with Fourth Impact as an outside chance.
Reggie and Bollie red and blacked but given a four judge standing ovation…
Surely they’re just messing with Sofabet now?
Monica deramped, Seann deramped, Anton hatchet job, 4th Impact colour vomit, Kiera colour vomit, Max deramped…wow.
Red, black and white is different to just red and black. Contrast Little Mix Cannonball in the final vs a classic red-and-blacking such as Sophie Habibis singing Bang Bang (Shot You Down)
Mason the only one I’ve backed for next elimination so far, 6s
Hopefully Kiera gets a big enough bounce, although Monica threw a spanner in the works with her awful performance.
Did anyone know Lauren used to work in a dentists? Shades on Ben Haenow’s van driving.
All this show needs now is for Lauren to forget the lyrics.
That’s probably what they were hoping for but she won’t do that again.
At this point i would say plan B is Lauren
Agreed, she’s got a great voice and she’s awfully likeable.
THAT’S MY GIRL.
LOVE YOU LAUREN!!!!!!
Having said that, they dressed her badly and the VT set her up to fail but she used it to prove the vt wrong.
No the VT set her up to look even better when she didn’t fail. Used many many many times before.
Well if so, good. I think as her control and confidence grow she’ll keep getting better too.
This show is really bad….
That finger point where all the dancers fall over in Anton’s performance… they had the same choreography for Christopher Maloney, during I’m Still Standing.
So Louisa, R’n’B and lauren get pimped, everyone else de-ramped to variouys extend. Was it a coincidence that they payed the original of ‘hold back the river’ in the Talk Talk ads just before Lauren’s segment ? Don’t think so…
And what was the whole ‘Sweden is behind you’ in Max’s VT ? Looks like being ‘forrein’ still works as a vote deterrent, see also 4th Impact (Thank you British!) and SMM (travelled around the world to be here).
It was Sweden? I thought I must have misheard and it was Swindon. :-$
I am really ashamed to admit that I googled him, and his real name is Max Pahlsson, and this is what his bio says on his official site:
“Max grew up in Devon, England before moving to Stockholm, Sweden, where he formally studied songwriting.”
I haven’t watched the earlier stages of the programme, but they seemed to have kept that one quiet, no ?
Yes, I can’t remember them mentioning that little fact. I wonder where ‘Stone’ came from? Maiden name of a parent?
They should have gone the whole hog and called him Max Power.
Is it reaching too far to pick up on SMM’s “I’d be safe and warm if I was in LA” lyric? Read: America is better than here.
In my personal opinion…
Yes.
😉
That was crap. I could survive 2013 but this was just embarrassing.
I was impressed by Raggamuffin Adele. That’s how bad this week was.
I’m gonna vote for Kiera and Max, pray for Monica’s demise, and fume on Twitter.
Love R&B!!!! Thank you!!!!
Reggie and Bollie – on Britain’s Got Talent, the joke act; on The X Factor, stars of the night.
That’s how bad tonight’s show was. All the deramping was killing it.
Yes. It was awful. Mostly quite unpleasant to watch.
Happy for Lauren. I like her too!
Dan Wootton, one of Simon’s stooges at the Sun seems not to have enjoyed Anton’s performance:
https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/663091426339758080
Disgraceful treatment/deramp of Monica. She was perfectly fine. Loved Max, RnB and Anton, they all knew they were in the firing line and foiled the dastardly plot. I thought Anton was brilliant, loved the swagger, tongue in cheek. He’ll survive this for sure. Seann performed as I suspected. Bottom three tomorrow night. Louisa – masonic pyramid flashing behind her, singing a totally unsuitable song but praised regardless – she’s Plan A but they’re getting desperate. Lauren much better. Mason, Seann, Monica or Kiera – bottom three tomorrow night.
Who goes in a sing-off between Mason and Monica/Kiera. Before it might’ve seemed like an obvious save the villain sing-off, but has Mason served his purpose now?
I’m pretty sure Kiera goes against anyone. Monica vs Mason would make an interesting sing-off choice, could make an argument for either.
Bit of a Louisa de-ramp from Cheryl, bringing attention to her nerves and critisising her dancing.
Louisa still looks good amongst all the dreadful arrangements they gave many of the others, especially Anton and Monica who probably both topped the vote last week.
Poor Seann. I thought his performance was really good but that criticism was such that the performance is lost. Shame.
It’s really easy to tell him to take risks and be a pop star and then avoid giving specific exames of how to do that.
Still can’t believe they did THAT to Monica. The dress, the dancing… she looked like a hooker! So so sad…
Yes. VT, comments and performance were all excrutiating. She was so good last week. The voting figures will be fascinating.
Also putting Keira in white tennis pumps completely ruined her look. It’s such a small thing but each time I see that performance the shoes um….. stand out. Wrongy wrongness.
I didn’t like much of Kiera’s styling at all, there were so many elements of the performance that made me think they didn’t want her to bounce. After the emotional sing-off & blatant nuking last week, I thought there was a chance they would give her a chance to stay until next week but it seems not.
Noone is mentioning Fourth Impact. Is that because you think they’ll be fine or were they so effectively memory-holed that you’ve forgotten them? For me it is the latter. If it’s the same for others they could conveivably b2.
To me they were memory-holed, but because they were on so early and followed by a succession of weak performances it might work in their favour- i.e people will forget just how awful they were.
This is certainly an early test of their core fanbase. I believe they’ll be fine on a night where so many other acts misstepped, but it’s far from inconceivable to see them in the bottom 3.
I think the stories about outside UK votes may have been true, and they pulled the brakes on them quite a bit. First a VT that screamed FOREIGN FOREIGN FOREIGN, then Simon doing a really nasty turn pretending that he can’t possibly remember their names (/tell them apart), and generally lots of conversation about song choice etc. Plus they were not very good, out of tune and screechy IMHO. Let’s see how their support holds up…
I wouldn’t rule it out but they’re still alpha group even after tonight so I think their deramp means that they probably polled well last week.
I think 4I were on first as TPTB knew they were safe there. TPTB still want them to go far in the competition. I dont think Lauren being in the pimp slot was any sign of favouritism either. She could do with that slot in later weeks so to be given it now is meaningless. She did a good performance of what I thought was a great song choice for her and ended the show on a high. I still think that is her place in the show, as a likeable singer, and don’t believe for a second Cowell would want her on his record label. TPTB want her to stick around but they wont let her win.
Overall I think Daniels predictions are looking good. Che from Lauren is a distinct possibility if they know Lauren has no chance of spoiling the party with a win.
Some serious changes in the odds.
Lauren now 3rd favourite for the series win. R&B now outside Anton for elimination while Keira, Monica then Mason are the favourites.
Poor Daniel and Andrew have got so much to digest. I wonder if they’ll get an article out tonight.
You anticipated our second paragraph 🙂
🙂
TOP 3 performances tonight: Che, Louisa and Seann.
Lauren was an attempt to manufacture a moment, but didn’t happen.
Louisa is impressive but she aint got soul. It’s like she thinks singing a song is about being impressive rather than communicating. Lauren tells you how she feels. That’s soul.
Agree. Louisa has no soul. On top of that, it’s daft giving a young woman a song written in the first person for a man denying he’s the father of a child from a one night stand. But then, gender doesn’t matter anymore. Does it?
I’m sayin nuffin darlin.
*parks up truck in M23 service station*
*waves to guys who say “hello Dave”*
This was a joke about gender fluidity. On reflection I don’t think it worked. Blame Mr Hamby and his liberal hand with the Jim Beam. I thought it was hilarious.
I think Louisa has a soul but she doesn’t sing it.
Here are a couple of tracks from a guy whose vocal ability is comparable to a tramp drinking meths in a car park, but who has more soul in his little finger than most of us have in our whole body.
First a tune that Simon would excoriate Seann for performing…
http://youtu.be/p6BJLjTDtXo
Second an evocation of childhood that lyrically makes no sense but still somehow breaks your heart.
http://youtu.be/GvZK8Wl7RQ8
Hi guys. Here is my honest opinion. With regards to this weeks running order, 4th impact was on first which makes me think they done really well last week and I think right at the top. Also with the rumours with anton possibly near the top, he was 3rd in the running order with a possible sand which with mason in the middle. 4th impact was called last in last Sunday’s results and I’m going to say 4th impact are doing really well. The running order has a massive say, but with mark soda way gone as the producer and lee and Amelia taking over there might be different tactics this year. Does anyone agree?