Dunno why those links didn't work..
http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081003_scottjhportraits.jpg
Scott
http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081003_austinjhportraits.jpg
Austin
http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081003_eoghanjhportraits.jpg
Eoghan
Daniel
Rachel
Ruth
Bad Lashes
Girlband
JLS
― nate woolls, Monday, 6 October 2008 10:40 (fifteen years ago) link
3 images max per post, dude.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Monday, 6 October 2008 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Keep goin...
― Mark G, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Fair enough.
http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081003_dannyjhbootcamps.jpgDaniel
http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081003_racheljhportrait2s.jpgRachel
http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081003_ruthjhportraits.jpgRuth
― nate woolls, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081005_p_BadLashes.jpgBad Lashes
http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081005_p_girlband.jpgGirlband
http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081005_p_JLS.jpgJLS
― nate woolls, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Alexandra ftw
apart from Alexandra (who will win, hopefully) Cheryl made some really terrible decisions. basically she chose Winehouse wannabes who are too celeb obsessed to realise you have to have it before you can fall apart. Diana is 17 but looks like a 35 year old who has just had a drunken shag in the bushes. Laura (19) looks like an 45 year old alky who still looks fairly well preserved for her age.
i reckon Louis' group is even worse, though. I'm guessing that Girl Band will be first out. and his next two groups will follow fairly rapidly behind. he might have had a chance had he picked, 4 instinct, the family group.
Mark G, Hannah, the one who sung "Take another piece of my heart" did not get through. probably the worst decision of all.
― jed_, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Yep, Hannah was far, far better than Diana or Laura.
― nate woolls, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Does anyone else think that Daniel looks a bit like Ricky Gervais? Maybe the choreographers could work that in and get him to do that dance.
― snoball, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, she was so good on that Dreamgirls song that I sort of wished that I was watching it with Surmounter.
xxxpost fair enough with the Winehouse comparisons, but both of those girls can flat-out SING. I was totally rooting for 4 instinct, but I can see the logic that their disastrous boot-camp performance shows a lack of readiness for the 'big time'.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Monday, 6 October 2008 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
p.s. that Hannah girl was awful.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Monday, 6 October 2008 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I wish I remembered who were the scarce few from the auditions who made me go "ok they've actually got something"... I'm not sure that any of 'em are in this final lot. Sad dad certainly wasn't one of them.
― shoving leopard (ledge), Monday, 6 October 2008 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Have we had sad Elvis impersonator yet?
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 6 October 2008 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
More questions:
The group who sang "umbrella" like their nan just died.
The lad who sang "She's out of my life" that Simon described as a 'life changing performance"
Both out, right?
I take it the old Saw Doctor guy was shown the door before boot camp....
― Mark G, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't think either of them can sing.
xxxxpost
― jed_, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
It was Austin who sang "She's out of my life" (still in).
"Umbrella" I think was Desire, who are out.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Monday, 6 October 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh fuck he didn't cry at the end of it did he?
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 6 October 2008 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
He's cried at the end of every one of his performances, iirc.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Monday, 6 October 2008 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I really fucking hate Austin.
― chap, Monday, 6 October 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Hannah out?
Right, officially not interested.
― Mark G, Monday, 6 October 2008 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Props to Hannah for striding straight past Dermot O'Leary with a muttered "Yeah, I'm fine", rather than collapsing into his arms for the statutory weepathon.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 6 October 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought Cowell was clamping down on weepathons, and specifically on Cheryl-originated weepathons, this series.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 6 October 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently cheryl's place on the show was originally intended for charlotte church.
― jed_, Monday, 6 October 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Last night's show was basically an hour's worth of more or less uninterrupted weeping. If reality TV = emotional pornography, this was where the medium went gonzo. Skip the set-up, let's get to the cum shot!
― mike t-diva, Monday, 6 October 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Does anybody remember "Boys will be girls", a reality tv programme from a couple of years ago where they found 3 boys from failed boybands who were so desperate for fame they let the crew turn them into a girlband?
Austin does.
― ‽, Monday, 6 October 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) Max Hardcore should be out of prison in time to do X Factor 2010...
― snoball, Monday, 6 October 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I bet Austin tearfully recounts the whole 'ordeal' in about six weeks.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Monday, 6 October 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
The stench of desperation is even higher this year.
― snoball, Monday, 6 October 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Tonight, should you wish you can watch continuous X Factor content from 7:15 to 11:30.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Saturday, 11 October 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
At least an hour of that will be people crying.
― snoball, Saturday, 11 October 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I knew I recognised Austin, I had him down as being part of a boyband in a previous year.
― aldo, Saturday, 11 October 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
really really overdoing the Old Spice theme
― snoball, Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
OK this girl needs to stop doing this start-the-song-in-Spanish thing.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Saturday, 11 October 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it wrong to want to punch the Irish kid in the face?
― Poll Wall (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 October 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
No, although by now there's a long queue, with John Lennon at the front of it. Ono sued a filmmaker for using 15 seconds of "Imagine", she do something with that Eoleeurgh too.
(xpost) I thought they screwed up and put on a tape of the Eurovision cong contest
― snoball, Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
...which is a pity because Ruth was my favourite to win.
I don't care what he does to "Imagine" since it's a Top 5 worst songs ever written candidate. What's really depressingly predictable is that JLS, because they are waaaay the most talented guys on the show, will be lucky to last 4 weeks.
― Poll Wall (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Well Eoleararagh has taken a bad song and made it badder
― snoball, Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Me and my wife trying to figure out what we didn't like about Laura tonight--she says, "the problem is that she looks like Super Nanny."
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah JLS definitely do not deserve Louis (or this country, tbh).
Deserve to go home after tonight's perfs: Daniel, Scott, Bad Lashes.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I really think that Bad Lashes deserve to stick around for another week, because despite their tune free performance, they have something, a real personality, rather than the "sing in a fake American-ish accent" thing that most of the others are doing.Maybe Yoko could punch Eoghan in the kidneys until his balls drop?
― snoball, Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess I see that, but it's pretty clear that they have zero chance of going far in this competition.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
For me, it has to be Austin to go. During his performance I caught myself thinking "I wish Sting were singing this instead". Which is a very very bad sign.
― snoball, Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Only caught a bit of the JLS performance, the arrangement seemed pretty poor, a lot of dull unison singing. Mrs V confirmed that it wasn't v. good.
― Poll Wall (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought it was a shitty song choice, but apart from the beginning, they showed that they're just miles ahead of most groups on these shows in terms of harmony singing.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I think their harmonies are great, and I love the Boyz II Men version of that song, I just wonder who's responsible for working up the arrangements and I suspect it mightn't be the band.
"With Every Heart Beat" was a terrible choice, I like the record but it isn't much of a song.
― Poll Wall (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, but--in contrast with Scott, Austin, and Diana--Rachel actually made it work, I thought. I think she's smart enough to know that that narrative (she may not agree with her mentor, but she'll soldier on, keep her head up, give her all anyway) will keep her in for a while.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"a twist... it'll be really good" TRANSLATION "a twist... it'll be really shit"
― snoball, Saturday, 11 October 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Leon is either desperate for a piss or he's about to have an epileptic fit.
― snoball, Saturday, 11 October 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link