X Factor (UK) 2015

Yeah, Jennifer's Shackles in her first audition was immense, and I didn't see her do a thing wrong - I do not know what happened there.

& I just watched tonight's results. fuck that.

I was annoyed about Seann leaving before I watched the results show last night. Then I watched that sing off and I honestly feel like I'm done with this show. Mason was terrible, missing notes all over the place. If they kept Mason in because of his bad boy behaviour in the past they should realise people really don't seem to care. I watched the whole of the Sam Bailey year, I can take this show being poor but there's something about this year that really makes me want to give up. The whole black eye incident and Simon's sabotage of his category has been so blatant and just shows how stupid he thinks the public are.

They are making it obvious Louisa Johnson is the chosen one, I just don't think she's going to connect they way they want her to. She's very Amelia Lilly.

Mason's survival song was nearly as bad as the week Katie Waissel sat down at the front of the stage and stopped singing because she was convinced that the judges were going to vote her off anyway (they didn't). He almost makes me feel all rose-tinted those-were-the-days towards Frankie Cokehoser, because at least that lovable cheeky scamp total fuckwad had some tiny tiny amount of talent that he was genuinely wasting by caning it Robbie style. Mason can't even convince us that he's a bad boy - ooooooooh he threw down a microphone - and now he's stopped doing that there's nothing.

Wish Louis was here to say "that's not a song from a movie!"

Partly convinced that Wand split up to avoid having to perform on this show again.

― more side eye than a Picasso (snoball), Saturday, August 29, 2015 7:52 PM

OK so I was wrong...

Olly royally fucked that one up, eh?

That was worse than the time that Wogan said Cyndi instead of Scooch.

no matter, she went anyway.

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Simon's stuck with the one act in his category that he didn't really want.

WTF? A light pop shopping mall version of 'Yesterday'? The only way this could be worse is if Mick Hucknall were singing it. I was really hopeful that Ché would at least be an interesting contestant. But he's become so boring - Grimshaw is even more of a personality crushing mentor than Simon.

Never mind Olly, Grimshaw is the one who's most likely to not be on the show next year.

Anton's outburst was quite disturbing.

Ché reminds me so much of Jahmene Douglas. I think it'll be between him and Lauren in the final two. The producers/judges couldn't make it anymore more obvious they want Louisa to win but I don't think she'll quite get there.

I miss Seann.

• Ché - Grimshaw pulls the trick of getting him to sing the song for his dead grandfather, guaranteeing that none of the judges are going to criticise Ché and risk looking bad.
• Anton - his outburst was disturbing, but Grimshaw is a twunt.
• 4th Impact - Cowell's right, we still have no idea who these people are. There's a professional gloss over everything they do that's really off-putting. Cheryl's the worst mentor for them, because she's all about appearance over substance.
• Lauren - The bit in the VT where Rita was talking about crafting a 'moment'. It's all smoke and mirrors. She's got the best 'big' voice left in the contest after Anton, but there's nothing going on. Although I suppose that for XF a female singer trying to sound like Mariah is slightly less usual than trying to sound like Whitney.
• Mason - if they'd have just put him across as a normal guy from the beginning, instead of that whole 'attitude' act, then I might have been better disposed towards Mason. But even then he's still a boring stiff performer. Last night's song was a terrible personality free shadow of the original.
• Louisa - she has more personality than Lauren but the performances are almost as bland.
• Reggie 'n' Bollie - they're limited performers, in the sense that they're not going to go on and do 'Unchained Melody', but I like them. They're solid but I can't see the producers letting them win, for a start what would their winner's song be?

And I miss Seann as well. If he was still there I'd put him in the final three instead of Louisa.

ow key change

Ladbrokes Betting:

Louisa Johnson. 1/5.
Reggie n Bollie. 9/2.
Che Chesterman. 14/1

It's a knife edge.

X Factor: The Farce Awakens

That was a complete shambles. The Ben and Leona duet was one of the worst things the show has ever produced.

I'm not surprised that Ché got voted off. He committed the cardinal sin of performing a Phil Collins song in such a way that I wished Collins was there singing it instead. Then he fell into the same trap with 'Valerie'. I'm not a fan of The Zutons, and their singer wasn't that good, but he sounded like Lemmy in comparison to Ché. Then the duet with Rod Stewart pretty much finished it. When Rod came on later and did his solo number it became clear just how much he'd been holding back during the duet to try and make Ché look better.

Not only was the Ben / Leona duet terrible, but it was also a reminder that XF has served up far, far worse.

Yes, but Fleur & Little Mix stormed it.

I know this is an ugly show, and is only watchable with a strong dose of removed cynicism, but I still found Reggie 'n' Bollie's crack at the winner's single quite upsetting (as did they, and cheryl, it seemed): felt like a forced humiliation, and a real act of cruelty towards the contestants who'd most consistently cheered & entertained me. Just one quick vicious tackle from the producers to make sure there wasn't an upset.

Vote 1
Louisa Johnson - 15.9%
4th Impact - 11.2%
Anton Stephans -10.7%
Monica Michael - 9.1%
Ché Chesterman - 8.7%
Lauren Murray - 8.4%
Reggie 'N' Bollie - 7.4%
Seann Miley Moore -7.3%
Mason Noise - 6.1%
Max Stone - 5.8%
Alien Uncovered - 4.8%
Kiera Weathers - 3.4%
Bupsi - 1.2%

Vote 2
Louisa Johnson - 15.3%
Reggie 'N' Bollie - 13.0%
Ché Chesterman - 12.5%
Lauren Murray - 11.2%
4th Impact - 9.0%
Max Stone - 8.5%
Anton Stephans - 7.5%
Monica Michael - 6.3%
Mason Noise - 6.1%
Seann Miley Moore - 5.5%
Kiera Weathers - 5.1%

Vote 3
Louisa Johnson - 16.4%
Lauren Murray -14.1%
Ché Chesterman - 14.0%
4th Impact - 13.2%
Reggie 'N' Bollie - 13.0%
Mason Noise - 9.8%
Anton Stephans - 8.0%
Monica Michael - 6.1%
Max Stone - 5.4%

Vote 4
Reggie 'N' Bollie - 21.6%
Louisa Johnson - 21.5%
Lauren Murray - 14.8%
4th Impact - 13.8%
Ché Chesterman - 12.8%
Anton Stephans - 12.3%
Mason Noise - 3.2% (left after Saturday freeze)

Vote 5
Ché Chesterman - 22.2%
Reggie 'N' Bollie - 22.1%
Louisa Johnson - 21.1%
Lauren Murray - 18.4%
4th Impact - 16.2%

Vote 6
Louisa Johnson - 31.5%
Reggie 'n' Bollie - 27.0%
Ché Chesterman - 20.9%
Lauren Murray - 20.6%

Vote 7 Freeze
Louisa Johnson - 44.5%
Reggie 'n' Bollie - 35.2%
Che Chesterman - 20.3%

Vote 7 Final
Louisa Johnson - 53.9%
Reggie 'n' Bollie - 38.9%
Che Chesterman - 7.2% (left after Saturday freeze)

9 New FOREVER YOUNG LOUISA JOHNSON SYCO MUSIC

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