X Factor 2007, painful showoffs, blah blah blah

I know you guys secretly love moaning, but it's meant to be a soap opera, isn't it?

What, and we're not allowed to moan about soap operas?

No, by all means moan away, I just figure it's like criticising Can't Cook Won't Cook for being camp.

Leona Lewis really is amazing, isn't she? i love that single.

Yeah, I really like it too.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/xfactor/a78157/x-factor-singer-makes-suicide-attempt.html

I was very underwhelmed by Leona's single, but it sounds like it could be a grower.

Yeah it is, definitely.

brother and sister mentalists have not gone.

Yes, I noticed that. Though apparently Sharon has, which is good.

(but she'll be "convinced" to come back because the show's not the same without her yadda yadda)

The backstories on X Factor are less convincing than WWE.

That cyborg guy Rydian really makes my skin crawl.

He looks like you could shoot him in the chest repeatedly and he'd just keep coming at you.

He makes the show worth watching because he's so fucking weird.

"a source said he hadn't made any effort to bond with anyone else: 'He keeps going to the shed and has become a bit of a loner. All the others have bonded well.'"

making x-factor contestants sound like so much glue

He was good in Virtua Fighter, though:

http://www.virtuafighter.jp/vf4ps2/world/img/jacky/img_jac_main.jpg

http://scribble.com/uwi/br/brfaq/batty-black.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/5/56/Streetfighter_guile_illust.png

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/xfactor/a79071/shamed-emily-withdraws-from-x-factor.html

Zombie Emily has been chucked off for happyslapping

She was crap anyway.

what song(s) did she sing recently?

Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting

Last week was I'm Not A Girl Not Yet A Woman

And they always dress her up like Jennifer Aniston in Office Space.

First week it was "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me [To Kick The Shit Out Of You]"

Also that means Sharon only has one act left - Alisha, who has been in the bottom two for two weeks running. So she'll probably be eliminated if she's in the bottom two again this week, leaving Sharon with no-one.

Alisha's the only reason to watch it. Not because she's good, because she's incredibly hot.

I'm sure if she did "milkshake" one week, a lot of people would be like "um, isn't she actually famous already?"

But Emily would have been better doing "I Hate You So Much Right Now"

Maybe Alisha will get some pity votes? And she is definitely the contestant who already looks the most like a star. Too bad all the songs she's been given have been terrible.

yeah i agree she's hot but she's be hotter if she toned down the make up a bit. she was totally over made up in the heats too. i really don't like her voice but they're all shite this year so she doesn't sound too bad relatively.

I want Alisha's dress.

jed otm re this year's quality. there's nothing to get upset or hot under the collar about. none can sing.

Rhydian should win, the rest are just massively inconsequential.

I think it's between Rhydian [big voice, different] and Beverley [big voice, conventional]. The question for me is who will be the third act in the final, and I think that'll be between Niki or Alisha.

That one guy from Futureproof is just frightening.

who, chucky?

I liked the one who looked like Will Young :(

I think Simon needs to tone down the campiness of Hope...their performance was much more Spice Girls than Girls Aloud, which is more the direction I assume they'd want to go for?

i think hope are extremely poor, the worst of a bad bunch. futureprroof were better. also, yeah, i thought all of them bar chucky were cute. all the male talent is gone from the competition since daniel went last week too... as i said i can't get too sad about any departure considering how poor most of them are. Rhydian last night was insane, magnificent, terrifying, deluded and, vocally, completely talentless. him to win.

Charlie Brooker described Andy's singing as having all the emotion of a graphic designer choosing a typeface from a drop-down menu. I think that applies to pretty much all of them.

if you had any real talent, you wouldn't go on one of these shows in the first place.

that rhydian fella is um...interesting i 'spose.

pc user, i agree with you for the most part but for the fact that Leona Lewis had and still has a whole lot of real talent. i think she's fantastic.

Simon Cowell was interviewed on Jonathan Ross's chat show last year and he was asked what he would do if a young Marilyn Manson [who was also a guest that week] turned up to an X Factor audition. Cowell's answer was that Manson wouldn't even audition, because he's too talented. Which reveals quite a bit about Cowell's thinking on the kind of acts they do get. Leona Lewis is a bit of an exception, but XF isn't about finding the next Elvis or even the next Robbie Williams.

Cowell's answer was that Manson wouldn't even audition, because he's too talented. Which reveals quite a bit about Cowell's thinking on the kind of acts they do getcomplete fucking cluelessness.

Leona being an exception:

I got the impression that there was a big buzz last year in the line of"hey, there's someone actually good on here!" from some serious people.

Never underestimate the working class white teenage lad with moderate good looks, dark hair, a regional accent, no discernable personality and no remarkable qualities whatsoever. I should have learned this from Shane Ward/Liam BB8/Anthony BB6.

I know the obvious expanation is teenage girls, but I was a teenage girl a couple of years ago and I still don't get it.

Although, lol @ the digital spy forums

Louis Walsh to fuck off with the "Scotland needs to vote for Leon" "Wales needs to vote for Rhydian" leading Simon to plead for England to vote for brother and sister mentalists. ARE THESE PEOPLE INSANE? Yes, I'm going to vote for bland boring average dude just because he was born in the same country as me...oh wait, no I'm not BECAUSE HE'S SHITE.

Rhydian will sell bucketloads more albums anyway, and Same Difference will do children's telly forever.

Also, Kylie's outfit when duetting with Leon = several different kinds of EEWWWWWWWW.

leon is rub. rhydian's got a long, long career ahead of him. the best man did not win, but leon will be a cross between g gates and s brookstein.

jeez.

I'm still distracted by her hair...

I never want to hear her version of Hallelujah ever again, so might have to throw my telly and radio out of the window.

Alexandra is determined to throw ALL of her dignity away tonight, right?

And Alexandra has won. She can't form any words at this moment in time.

She is actually unwell, I think.

it's like she's NEVER SEEN A CD BEFORE and this one has her face on it and THAT'S BLOWING HER MIND

She can sing and cry at the same time, nearly! That's a talent right there.

...oh, maybe not.

Last chance for the twelve finalists to get their mugs on TV...
This is what they call "cognitive dissonance" - it looks like something big is happening, but really not much is happening.

Well hopefully I never have to hear anything about this ever again.

Cowell thanks everyone from the bottom of his wallet...

who will join me in applying to enter this yr???

There's a interview that John Peel gave in 1986 where he said "If people are any good, they're going to become public property eventually anyway, so all you can do is either accelerate or retard that process". The problem with X Factor is that it gives an enormous boost to people's careers, that most of them then can't follow through with because they've been put in a position where the expectations are much higher than what they can achieve in a reasonable amount of time. What goes up slowly comes down slowly, because a foundation is built underneath it. But this is the opposite.

Cheryl's breasts are making a break for freedom on ITV2 just now.

This was playing - silently - on every pub that had tellys this evening. I thought theat the Ewok had won at first, but a number of girls squealing later on told me the girl won it.

Shock X Factor voting patterns revealed

Sun Dec 14 12:05AM by TV Editor

Now that Alexandra has been crowned this year's X Factor champion, ITV has revealed the voting results for each week of the show - and it's a shocker.

The votes reveal that Eoghan Quigg, who finished third last night, won six out of the ten weekly live shows while Alexandra had won only one of the weekly heats before last night.

During the first four shows Eoghan had won comfortably with over 20% of all votes cast while Alexandra had trailed behind many of the other acts with less than 10%.

However, Alexandra's popularity had grown so much over the past few weeks that she triumphed in last night's final vote with a comfortable 58% of all votes cast.

Here is how the final 12 scored in each of the weekly votes...

Show 1
Eoghan Quigg 21.19%
Scott Bruton 19.48%
Laura White 16.99%
Diana Vickers 7.35%
Daniel Evans 7.21%
Alexandra Burke 7.20%
JLS 5.03%
Rachel Hylton 4.77%
Austin Drage 3.63%
Ruth Lorenzo 3.47%
Girlband 2.17%
Bad Lashes 1.51% (Deadlock)

Show 2
Eoghan Quigg 26.77%
Diana Vickers 16.24%
JLS 9.21%
Laura White 8.99%
Austin Drage 8.98%
Daniel Evans 8.23%
Alexandra Burke 7.15%
Rachel Hylton 5.01%
Scott Bruton 4.17%
Ruth Lorenzo 2.95%
Girlband 2.30% (Deadlock)

Show 3
Eoghan Quigg 20.73%
Diana Vickers 15.13%
Rachel Hylton 12.21%
JLS 10.81%
Ruth Lorenzo 8.93%
Alexandra Burke 8.83%
Laura White 7.53%
Austin Drage 6.22%
Daniel Evans 5.94%
Scott Bruton 3.67% (Judges)

Show 4
Eoghan Quigg 19.81%
JLS 17.00%
Diana Vickers 15.24%
Daniel Evans 10.83%
Ruth Lorenzo 10.25%
Alexandra Burke 8.82%
Laura White 7.38%
Austin Drage 6.86% (Judges)
Rachel Hylton 3.81%

Show 5
Eoghan Quigg 27.39%
Alexandra Burke 18.35%
Daniel Evans 13.77%
JLS 13.26%
Rachel Hylton 10.39%
Laura White 9.90% (Judges)
Ruth Lorenzo 6.94%

Show 6
Diana Vickers 31.30%
Eoghan Quigg 19.56%
Ruth Lorenzo 13.91%
Alexandra Burke 13.31%
JLS 9.91%
Daniel Evans 7.53% (Judges)
Rachel Hylton 4.48%

Show 7
Eoghan Quigg 31.79%
Diana Vickers 18.94%
Ruth Lorenzo 16.07%
Alexandra Burke 14.97%
JLS 11.75%
Rachel Hylton 6.48% (Judges)

Show 8
Alexandra Burke 24.53%
JLS 24.34%
Eoghan Quigg 19.58%
Diana Vickers 16.32%
Ruth Lorenzo 15.23% (Public)

Show 9
JLS 35.03%
Alexandra Burke 31.04%
Eoghan Quigg 21.14%
Diana Vickers 12.79% (Public)

Show 10 (Final) – At vote freeze
Alexandra Burke 44.02%
JLS 30.65%
Eoghan Quigg 25.33%

Show 10 (Final) – Final Result
Alexandra Burke 58.34%
JLS 41.66%

so glad tht little freak didn't win

too crepey

with his bubble face

http://www.lepconnie.com/pics/starwars/swi62c.jpg

interesting that Burke polled mostly midtable until the final weeks

her constant blubbing has softened me up - the Beyonce bit was awes

yeah, we were welling up at her all night

hadn't watched more than a moment of this this year but the blubbing was v OTT and seemed v v put-on and was v v v annoying and v much put me off her. having not seen the earlier stages she seems quite boring and mediocre but far and away the best of the final three and the only one that makes any kind of sense singing hallelujah too but only because the others were much more annoying and weird

her signing the fourth the fifth the minor fall the major lift was well rubbish though

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"but you don't really care for music, do you" LOL THE IRONING HAHA DO YOU SEE COWELL, DO YOU?

cannot believe that this appears nowhere on this thread:

JACK THE LAD SWING

JACK THE LAD SWING

JACK THE LAD SWING

JACK THE LAD SWING

so i didn't watch a single minute of this season, but i'm watching some clips on youtube and i rather like diana's voice. i can see how she could be irritating if you had to see her week after week, i guess. and from what i heard the fact that "hallelujah" was the coronation song must have made people resent her as being the chosen one?

anyway, well done, wish i had watched this season instead of last season.

I was pleased to see the right singer winning.

The British public had a gradual onset attack of common sense and realised that Cabbage Patch Choirboy wasn't going to get anywhere.

It was interesting looking through his previous clips and he would actually have been better sticking to just singing songs rather than being shoehorned into all this High School Musical nonsense.

But Alexandra was the right choice - much more personality and real talent than Leona, and unlike Leona's catastrophic misreading of Snow Patrol she was able to grasp and inhabit "Hallelujah"; unlike JLS, she seemed to be actually listening to and interpreting what she was singing.

It will be nice that Laughing Lenny finally gets a number one single in the UK.

Beyonce's "Boy" - totally dynamic and brilliant, sung through the fourth wall as though it were her last testament.

She just keeps getting better and better.

Saw bits (was having a company do), but saw that O-en's "I wish it could be" was just "I have no idea what to actually do with him, please don't make him win" Simon. He looked visibly relieved on the third place exit.

Saw bits of the duet, Alexandras looked the only 'meeting of peers/equals' as opposed to "arr sing along with us lads", but as I say, saw only bits so maybe that's not right.

Yeah, the only winner that makes sense. JLS will do OK, posibly. O-en straight to panto.

hey I agree with everything Marcello said!

beyonce and alexandra facing each other and hollering "MORE THAN!" "MORE THAN!" was incredible. beyonce, generally, was incredible.

i quite liked alexandra's 'hallelujah', extraneous melismania and all, though the overegged arrangement drowned it by the end. really weird seeing it positioned as a xmas hymn thing.

But Alexandra was the right choice - much more personality and real talent than Leona, and unlike Leona's catastrophic misreading of Snow Patrol she was able to grasp and inhabit "Hallelujah"

yeah i'm still v much pro-leona but to date she has ONE good song - a modern-day classic of course, but still just the one. though to be fair i don't think anyone could have made 'run' compelling, it's such a poorly crafted piece of sludge.

hoping alexandra is given good material - don't think she'll be able to carry subpar songs - and that rachel and ruth are picked up by people who know what to do with them. hope i never have to see eoghan's face again.

you will, every time you peel a potato...

hahah!

Unfortunately the Credit Crunch has probably put paid to our ever hearing of any of the other finalists again, except maybe JLS.

The thing about Leona's "Run" - apart from it being a daft idea to begin with - is that she doesn't even bother with the last two verses which actually contain the tag to the song (if you can call it that; it's such a sloppily written song that I'm doing it undue justice) so it just becomes bland sub-"You'll Never Walk Alone"/Frog Chorus "togetherness."

beyonce and alexandra facing each other and hollering "MORE THAN!" "MORE THAN!" was incredible.

i can't stop watching this one youtube, then when that part comes i skip right back to see it again.

it's absolutely amazing the way beyonce slinks on stage and puts her arm around alexandra then casually lifts the mike to BELT out her first line. the whole performance is my TV highlight of the year. alex has had virtually no voice training and, although she's no beyonce, obviously, she holds her own easily. she's going to be great with the right songs and the right coaching.

i think Lewis and Burke should hook up for Brandy/Monica style shock and awe at some point

it's absolutely amazing the way beyonce slinks on stage and puts her arm around alexandra then casually lifts the mike to BELT out her first line

so OTM

also beyonce's "SING IT, GIRL!" <3

<3