X Factor 2007, painful showoffs, blah blah blah

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

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