I NEED A PICTURE.
― aimurchie, Saturday, 30 August 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
of me eating Cheryl Cole in a tortilla?
― G00blar, Saturday, 30 August 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
(me too)
ANYWAY, I'm hooked already, which is way earlier than usual for me. Do the judges seem nicer this year? I'm really liking the addition of CC who seems, against all odds, to be sweeter and more person-like than the other three, easily.
― G00blar, Saturday, 30 August 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I really enjoyed tonight's episode. They obviously re-edited the entire thing after all the bad publicity this week, not just getting rid of all the sob stories but screwing up the usual order everything happens in every week.
― ‽, Saturday, 30 August 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh whoa! I didn't hear about the lying dude!
― G00blar, Saturday, 30 August 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Cheryl's gotta be the favorite now that she made the unprecedented decision to pick the three best contenders out of her six (it helps that her three are probably the best three of the bunch--save perhaps that punchable dude with the triangle face and the biceps--Austin, is it?).
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Sunday, 5 October 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to jump in and say that I think either Ruth will win, or one of the two girl groups. Everyone else is either boring (all the girls, most of the boys), has the stench of failure (Steve Brookstein II), or is, as you say, punchable (Austin - pull it together man, it's all over the street)
― snoball, Sunday, 5 October 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
all the girls
RONG
That said, I have zero track record in predicting these things. I think all three of the (younger) girls are actually awesome, which may not translate into will actually win.
― Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Sunday, 5 October 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think any of them really really stand out. There's not a Leona Lewis there, or even a Chico. This year it's really about which mentor is going to beat their contenders into shape, and I think it's going to be Louis. But it's not going to be that boy band, 4LS or FLR or whatever they're called. Walsh has already got they crossing their legs in sync (it was right at the end of tonight's show). He can't think far beyond Boyzone/Westlife, but with the girls he doesn't have his usual tricks to fall back on.
― snoball, Sunday, 5 October 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
The girl/woman that sang "Take another piece of my heart" is the only one I'd actually want to hear more from.
The others range from Good to mediocre.
I haven't seen who went through. So, tell me plz.
― Mark G, Monday, 6 October 2008 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I've not seen any of this current series nor do I wish to but enough of these dull proper songs. Dale played "Superman" by Black Lace yesterday; less of the sob stories and more shave, go for a walk, macho man and whatever the rest of the routine was.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 6 October 2008 10:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Cheryl chose:
http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081005_p_alexandra.jpgAlexandrahttp://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081005_p_diana.jpgDianahttp://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/images/imagelibrary/Judges%27%20Houses/081005_p_laura.jpgLaura
Simon chose:
ScottAustinEoghan
Dani chose:
DanielRachelRuth
Louis chose:
Bad LashesGirlbandJLS
― nate woolls, Monday, 6 October 2008 10:26 (fifteen years ago) link
For a minute I thought that was Bat For Lashes!
I knew the album didn't sell that well, but what a comedown!
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 6 October 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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.