After watching the X-Factor this weekend and hearing all the controversay over Cheryl's decision not to choose between her two acts it makes me question whether the programme has gone too far now?
Right from the start this start this series has had a lot of media attention and a lot of hype ... not all the attention has been positive either especially for judge and supposibly 'the nations sweetheart' Cheryl Cole.
First it was Gamugate - which i will stick buy her and say she made the right decision, even though a lot of people disagreed Cheryl made her choice and we didnt get to see all of judges house because the editing so i feel that made Cheryl come off in a bad light.
After her Pierce Morgan interview i feel so got the public back behind her but then when she preformed her new single 'Promise This' live on a X-Factor results show she got more stick for parts of the song being mimed and the fact that the performace was pre-recored rather than actually being live. again i dont think she was in the wrong at all it was recorded an hour before the show which is hardly a big deal and she didnt mime she just had backing music which she sang to whilst dancing and looking amazing. her performance was still wayyy better than katy perry's shocking vocal .. and it got Promise This staight to number one in the charts.
So on to Saturday's performances 6.11.10 - American Anthems
when i heard the theme i was excited because theres alot of choices and varity (after apparently getting rid of big band week this year because it wont suit the likes of Cher and One Direction)
- first was Cher singing Empire State Of Mind - now i love Cher and i think this performance was great but she's no Alicia Keys .. her voice isnt at that level i also think the fact she preformed first meant her perfomance was a little bit over looked, also alot of people didnt like the fact she had returned to adding rap after her Amazing 'performance of the series' rendition of Shakespear Sisters Stay (which is now back in the UK charts at number 12)
- Mary then sang There you'll be and it wasnt great .. Mary has got a bit boring anyway after the first week where everyone loved her but this week she cracked and her voice showed it .. shes still there though honestly dont think her hearts in it.
- Katie sang No Doubt - Dont Speak, she had a lot of comparison to Gwen Stefani so this song was an appropriate choice, it was bad but it wasnt great so i dont think she won anyone over.. wasnt to the level of her Jungle Book cover of I Wanna Be Like You in Guilty Pleasures week.
- Adien sang Nothing Compares to You origanally written and preformed by Prince, he did intense but tried to have more fun, i like Adiens voice but i think ever since his first audition where he sang Gold digger he's never been as good.
-Paige was amazing this week with his mash up of I'm a Believer and Hey Ya, it did remind me of Shrek abit but i thought it was fun his vocal was good and he stood out abit more, kept him away from the bottom two
-Rebecca was next and she sang a cover of Make You Feel My Love .. i think vocally Rebecca is in the top two along with Matt and this song was brilliant but im still undecided about whether i would buy her album. shes deffinatley got the voice i just haven't really seen a personality yet.
- Wagner doesnt really even deserve the time of day
- then it was Matt who basically stole the show with First Time Ever i Saw Your Face which blew everyone away ... am in not gonna question how good it was because i love matt and think he will win the show but he deffinately sang this song at boot camp and when will he show us something different than a girls song?
- Trayc was okay but shes just boring shes the same as any other artist with an alright voice and no personality, maybe she was better than Katie but Simon was right in saying Katie is a more interesting perfomer
- One Direction were last this week and sang Kids in America and it was okay .. nothing special they alwasy have Liam mainly singing but i think this group could sing one word and they'd still get through because of all the teenage girls i dunno if thats enough to make them win in because a group never has but i see them doing a JLS doing okay on the show but then amazing after .
the Sunday results show was okay i think because Wagner has this facebook Campaign he'll be there a while so he was bout to be safe and i think Katie and Trayc were the right two for the bottom two, what i dont think was right was the way Dermot went too Cheryl second, they never do that on the X-Factor! if a mentor has two acts in the bottom two then they go to the other judges first then to the mentoring judge .. like in week one Simon had 2 acts in the bottom two and they went to the other three first but they all choose the same so simon didnt have to make a dicison i dont know why they suddenly changed it this week to make Cheryl look like the bad guy.
According to reports if Cheryl had voted for Katie and sent it to deadlock then Katie would have gone home instead of Trayc and i do think Trayc was better in the sing of but Katie is better to watch and i dont see why people are complain about Cheryl .. any judge in that position would not have chosen an act which is why they shouldnt have gone to Cheryl second .. are they just trying to mix the show up abit... are they trying to make Cheryl come across in a bad light .. is the show actually fixed? i just think its all getting abit too much because theres so many stories you just dunno what to believe ..
i feel sorry for the contestants and the judges this year because they cant seem to do anything right .. at the end of the day its a TV programme nothing more nothing less .. dont ring ofcom and complain just take it as it come cause lets face it no matter who went out of Trayc of Katie neither of them would ever win in any way so wats the big deal !!!
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