ALISHA - PUT YOUR RECORDS ON

ANDY-CHASING CARS

BEVERLEY-YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL

HOPE-BACK TO BLACK

LEON-DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT

NIKI-BECAUSE OF YOU

RHYDIAN-YOU RAISE ME UP

SAME DIFFERENCE-I DON'T FEEL LIKE DANCING


Thoughts.............

was there a theme this week? I missed the end and I cant work one out from that selection...

Me too....but i gather it's "Modern Classics"

Hows u Pebs? :hug:

hmmm...I dont recognise Chasing Cars out of that lot.

thoughts in a mo...

and I am doing okay thanks Styeffo, how bout your good self? :hug:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zxXwIIBlSgw

Snow Patrol.

Gud Gud ta...... :ok:

Have to say great choice of songs this week - loving it!!! Here's my individual run down :

ALISHA - PUT YOUR RECORDS ON - This should be a good song for her, should suit her voice well. Not one of my fave songs but I can see her doing this.

ANDY-CHASING CARS - Love this song!!!! Hate to be brutal cos I love the lego man but can't see him doing this justice. Think his days are numbered.

BEVERLEY-YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL - Think Bev will do a great vers of this, look forward to it :ok:

HOPE-BACK TO BLACK - Not a Winehouse fan, not a Hope fan - think this could be a wreck! Bottom 2 beckons once again.....

LEON-DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT - One of my all time fave songs but people always struggle with this one. Hope he does well :hug:

NIKI-BECAUSE OF YOU - Is this Kelly Clarkson? Again potentially difficult as it can get shouty. Should be good if she controls it.

RHYDIAN-YOU RAISE ME UP - Easy,easy,easy!!!! This will be a piece of p*ss for the Rhydmeister. Will be a good performance but won't stretch him.

SAME DIFFERENCE-I DON'T FEEL LIKE DANCING - Love the song again. Hope it is more successful than last years attempt (Eton Road) V difficult to pull off. Can't see SD having the Shears effect,sorry! Potential trainwreck here. :yikes:

Thanks so much for getting this up. I've ben looking on the site and could not find it. Where do you get it Styeffo?

My ill formed opinions! :D

ALISHA - PUT YOUR RECORDS ON - as WA says, it might be a good song for her. But IMO only because her voice isn't that strong, so she could coast through without too much ado. I can almost hear the way she will sing it now. Tbh I thought Corrine Bailey Rae was a great singer until I saw it live and thought 'snorefest' but she's a much better singer than Alisha. If she does the bigger high notes like Corrine it won't be great and this song is perfect for a naslly voice, just like Gabreille was.

ANDY-CHASING CARS - This happens to be a boring indie song that I like, not sure why. I think Snow Patrol get away with it as his voice is slightly rich - Andy' s isn't as rich and I know I will hate it. I can see him getting away with it in a drab Ok kinda way. The song is popular and for somereason folk vote for him, so even if he just sings average he'll get through I reckon. I hope not but being objective. I'm dreading hearing him sing "I" as he pronounces it "oi"!

BEVERLEY-YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL - This is really the song I did not want to hear, but I think it can be pulle doff - Maria did it well in 2005. There will be no room for Bev to go shouting though as she can do, it's a song that requires precision on every note or it's f*cked. Hope the arrangment is right for her. :pray: I'm sure she'll cope admirably.

HOPE-BACK TO BLACK - I love Winehouse. I fail to see how they can pull off a song that si full fo attitude and feeling and actually quite depressing. Then again if they jazz it up the audience might be fooled. I'm so thinking this is wrong though and I'm really not looking forward to it. It's gonna be awful I reckon.

LEON-DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT - I like Leon but HATE this song. he'll have to be really special on the vocal to make this drab thing shine. I can see his voice suiting it, but the song concerns me. And he's gonna have to look all jolly and dancy which he don't do very well.

NIKI-BECAUSE OF YOU - Hate this song too. Assume it is Kelly Clarkson? WA is right, it can get shouty. Nikki can control it though, but I fear for her, not necessarily this week, but mayeb long term, because I think she played her trump cards far too early and people won't recognise this so well. I'm sure it will be good but the audience will expect more after the Titanic number. It's also a bit nondescript soft rock-ish and I wonder what she's like at that? :shrug: And it's a very young person's song.

RHYDIAN-YOU RAISE ME UP - I hate this song but Rhyd will do a fabulous job on it. It's perfect for him to play it straight and just show off those brillaint vocals. Westlofe are gonna look stupid after this. As WA says it will be easy for him. I can;t see this going wrong, although might not be showy enough and that might affect hsi votes? But a cert I'd say.

SAME DIFFERENCE-I DON'T FEEL LIKE DANCING - Love the song, it's what pure pop should be. I agree with WA abotu last year's Eaton Road doing it. Awful. It's hard to sing as high as Jake but they don't have to because they are strong vocally and can harmonise and that is the key. They are hardly baritone seither! I'm actually looking forward to seeing this more than the others! I might be dancing round the Tv with my tambourine (yes i do own one :blush: )but nto in high shcool outfits.

...you have to go into MY X FACTOR and then 'All Topics' in the Forum....usually someone has printed it up Thurs early Friday. We are on week 4 already !!

Haven't got time to comment much, except to say the one that jumped out at me was Rhyd' song....think that could be fab :clap: :clap:

http://forum.theinternetforum.net/index.php?board=88.0

There.........

ta :ok:

*runs in to declare*

I LOVE RHYDIAN!!!

*runs off*

My thoughts:

Rhydian by a mile the best tonight....

Is Niki starting to unravel performance wise, awful this evening i thought.

Same Difference: Cheesy but very professionally done.

Andy: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ never a rocker in a million lifetimes and is so weak.

Alisha: Another good week, but is it me or is Sharon just picking "safe" songs that Alisha can probably do now, although Alisha is still very weak.

Leon: Another good performance this week, but the dancing / Strut is just weird.

Hope: Should've gone last week, this week was worse than last week and i didn't think that was possible.

Beverley: Good performance again, better than Niki i felt, but a few screechy notes....

:o what on earth was Beverley doing in the bottom two???

tbf, Hope werent nearly as bad as I thought they were going to be - but who on earth is voting for these people?

Rhydian the best by a country mile - the guy oozes talent, seems sooo different from how he was presented before - that that they did that to him and deserves all the judges standing for him tonight.

Nikki - well, I didnt think it was that good - I was with Danni on that one and I thought Beverley was much better :shrug:

Leon... hmm... difficult one - hes sounding better but I didnt think he was that on top of it either... I thought he might have been in the bottom two tonight...

Same Difference - yuk - found myself warming to them tonight - what the f*ck is that all about??? Get rid of them before I like them!

Alisha... well, shes improving too but I dont see her lasting the distance.

And Andy.... awwwww bless him. It had to happen though didnt it?


Oh, and while we're in X Factor country - could someone please take Louis and shove something cactus like up where he talks out of.....

Incidentally why are the puke inducing rejects from the Adams Family aka Same difference still in this comp? Simon 'slip me one in the backside while no-one is looking' Cowell seems to have lost the little bit of ability to reason!
She has a three note range, he needs to grow bollocks.

they are Butlins at best really aren't they..

How do trisco,
they'd be Butlins if all the staff of Butlings all died of some horrendous tropical disease and there was nobody left to entertain the campers except these two sad bastards squawking there way through every awful song that's ever been written.
An acid bath would be to quick a way for these two anal irritants to die, any ideas as to what would be slow enough to do them justice?

:lmaao:

No love lost then BT?

I've only ever seen em a few times and have never managed to watch a full performance..

wise move,
did you watch from behind the settee?

I think its Louis Walsh keeping them in... he slags them off so much that everybody votes for them because we all hate Louis more!

Well interesting show - here's what I thought.....

Andy - Not surprised he left. Has been disappointing since the auditions, just couldn't seem to cut it in the live shows. Shame as seems a nice guy, felt sorry for him lastnight. Think it all started to go wrong when they messed with his hair :angry3:

Same Difference - Freaky!! Sorry that was TOO wierd! Didn't like the staging at all, what is Simon doing? There is something not quite right with this pair :wacko:

Hope - Only 1 decent singer and they rely on her far too much. Not sure why she didn't go through as a solo in the girls category, would have been much better than the ones they selected. Unremarkable performance, shouldve been bottom 2 again.

Alisha - Decent performance, thought this song would suit her and it did. Has made some improvement on the first couple of weeks but still pretty average.

Leon - I knew he would struggle with the song, looked awkward. Tried his best but this was never going to be great. Simon is right he has the likeability factor. Feel that his niche may be too narrow if that makes sense.

Beverley - Shocked!!!! :o Could not believe she was bottom 2, thought her performance was great, maybe I was watching someone else. Really like Bev and agreed with Louis for once, she should not have been in the sing off.

Nikki - Bad week for her. Didn't like her doing the song, thought some of it was out of time. Agreed with Danni on this one. Thought she was on shaky ground, surprised she went straight through.

Rhydian - Well as I said he made it look easy. Fabulous performance as usual. This guy is great. If he doesn't win this show something is wrong - head and shoulders above the rest, may as well finish the show early! By the way did anyone else read he auditioned for joseph but didn't get past the first auditions!!

General note - please no more sob stories!!!! This week we had Beverley and one of Hope sharing their misery - this is not what the comps about!!!

Can't wait for disco week!

I agree with almost everything Ace,
although i didn't think Nikki's performance was as bad as many seem to think.

I do think one of the factors with Andy was not getting him the right song.
I'm not saying he could have won, but he showed on some occasions he was better than he was being allowed to be.

Rhydian is definitely the front runner after that performance, he seems to be pulling away from the rest now.

:D Thought I would pop on and be predictable, :rolleyes: but had to say that Rhyd was absolutely brilliant on Sat...up there with my fave perforamaces ever....Shayne -Somewhere Over the Rainbow in the final, and Ben Mills - Smile :bow: :bow: :bow:

Think there were a few that could have gone this week besides Andy. just not made the grade since the auditons and agree with WA...messing with his hair gave him a serious complex. !
Same Difference - they are just so WRONG its becoming disturbing :yikes: Alisha, better performance again, but still too many bum notes for me. She is just not ready for this sort of comp....too young.
Nicki and Beverley were def under par, but just bad song choices. Niki sounded great with the lower sweeter notes but was a little out of her depth otherwise...think she was trying way too hard.
Hope :rolleyes: I enjoyed their performance.
Leon, nope, just doesn't cut the mustard and his crying and shaking in the Xtra Factor was just too much.

Louis is annoying me still. :argh: Still, suppose there is some saving Grace that Sharon has behaved sensibly since her 'sensational return' :P and has stopped calling people Mrs. :blink:

Here's my twopen'eth, was gonna do a thread but as the chat has started here .... Pretty much turned out as I expected in terms of who was good, bad in danger etc. and how they delivered their songs. But it was a crap week overall, only Rhyd and SD really stood out.

The HORRENDOUS

HOPE- how the hell they abvoided the bottom two i don't know! Murdered the song, it was out of tune mostly, like a weak karaoke. They have one half decent singer who isn't that great and only 15 - which begs the question WTF is Simon doing letting 15 yr olds dress like tarts and sing Hanky Panky? Oh dear :( They are still there cos they are being hyped up by the judges. Please sned them home.

ANDY- even I thought he'd do better than that, and before the show I thought he'd stay because he really is popular and I thought he was given a gem of a song ... But that was just dire. Sorry Andy, but you've had a range of songs and been dodgy on every one. So I don't blame the song choice, he wasn';t good enough. Thiiis what happens when liek Danny you foucs on eye candy rather than talent. As soon as I saw him lying down in that awful forced Rock T -shirt I knew we were doomed.

Not as bad as Hope and Andy but .... LEON - I knew that song was a bad choice. There is nothing to get stuck into for a singer, it wasn't right for hsi voice, and a 'backgound' song. It also requires fun and dancing and I was emabrrassed for Leon, he looked a right tw*t! Now I have praised Leon in the past but that did NOT work. Awful, really awful.

AVERAGE

ALISHA - as I thought the song wasn't too stretching and kind of suited her voice, although she was way off it at times! Got away with it as there were some shite perfromances. Still not good enough though.


VERY GOOD

NIKKI - was concerned about song choice, but she pulled it off. Not the best choice for her, but she is very versatile and sounded like she could be American country rock - quite Carrie Underwood that was, and she won Am Idol. :) I think the woman is fab, she can sing almost any genre and her age is no barrier. Good for her :clap: Needs to watch her song choices now as had the field not been so weak, she was in danger of bottom two this week as it was one of those forgettable perfromances.

BEVERLEY - wasn't a perfect vocal, but a lovely perfromance, had feeling and sincerity and it was nice to see her sing a quieter song. She handled it well, I wonder if it was the right song as far as the audience were concerend though? Maybe they are sick of it? Then again they seem to like other overplayed songs on there. Just wondering how she ended up in the bottom two? I just don't see it. :shrug: I thought she was one of the 3 who were certs to go through.

EXCELLENT

This will be contraversial by the looks of things but I'm going on perfromance, singing ability and professionalism .....

..... SAME DIFFERENCE - yes they are cruise shippy, yes they could be on stage in panto, yes they are cheesy but face it folks they are one of the most consistent, best perfroming acts in the field and have been since day 1. I love I Don't Feel Like Dancing - it's pure fun pop, and a great song choice for them. I don't think people realise how hard it is delivering a perfromance like that, with the singing and dancing at the same time, and they scarcely make a mistake. In fact their backing dacers screwed up! :D Danii credited them for that, and they certainyl do a better job of singign and dancing at the same time than her and her sister! roflmao Maybe it's not for the charts, but there's plenty in the charts that surprises me. :o Good luck to them, they deserve to do well and mayeb they will get something on stage rather than recording.

RHYDIAN - it was a great vocal of course, and Rhyd is my fave. And he's lovely too, no idea why folk say he's arrogant. But I hate the song, and they made him rather boring, but he sure showed Westlife up! :D . OK for one week but I seriously hope they aren't going to have him singing Westlife stuff in suits for the next few weeks or I might get bored of him. I'm hoping to see him do some more theatrical stuff, and I am havign thsi idea that he coudl do somethign form David Bowie? I've got him singign Under Pressure but it's a duet with Freddy Mercury so that won't eb possible. I can see him ripping that song up! :D

Bottom 2 - Hope should have been there with Andy. Next choice Leon, then Alisha. No way for Beverley, bad voting audience! :angry: Now that Andy who was weak has gone, and we've seen them put Bev in the bottom 2, god knows who will go next week. I bet ti will be someone good. :rolleyes: .

Hey Mo :D

I liked SD. I enjoyed ti the most, so did Geroge! In fact I was singing along :whistle: :D

Yes I agree with Leon, lots of women think he's sweet, my mate does. So did I. But he got on some folks' nerves after that - Geroge was callgin him a woos! I felt sorry for him, but I am a big softee. I even felt sorry for Andy, cos he was crying. :( He made me feel guilty for slagging him off every weak. Then again, after I see h was getting his arse out everyhwere with that tatoo and was Heat mag's torso of the week, the sympathy wore off roflmao

re: Leon....it was mentioned by one of the vocal coaches on Xtra Factor that Leon worries frets and stresses about EVERYTHING and that he needs to take a chill pill. You need to be of sterner stuff for a show like this.....live tv....remember Shaking Sean.

Bit concerned about Disco week, as not my fave to LISTEN too and vocally could be dire and frankly a mess for some if not most of them. Sure those weeks haven't fared well in previous years. :( Why do we have to have Disco week anyway :shrug: If we do have too, then I also went Reggae, Rap, Rock, Heavy Metal and Teckno.....(or however the heck you spell it) weeks.
B) Seems a good balance to me :P

I think there is plenty of variety in disco, and soem really good soul singers, but it won't suit everyone. Not sure what Leon can do! Unless they can do a swing version of I Will Survive! :D Will suit Sd, Bev, maybe Nikki - she can do most things - and Rhyd will pull something off. In fact i reckon sadly for the viewers, Hope and Alisha will get away with something disco and we could lose a good act. :rolleyes:

Just a small note but you raise me up has been done by a million people before westlife did it, they just did a version of it and of course it's different to Rhyds.Russell Watson does a pretty spectacular vers too - he's too cute!

Anyway I digress, do not understand how you can condone same difference!!!! I find it more wierd every week. It's like Si's going for a theme - whores for Hope and paedos for Same Diff. Really odd!

Agreed.
I find all these song themes each week bizarre.
Billy Holiday and Kate Bush have two of the greatest female voices ever, but i don't think either of them would handle disco very well (ok neither would ever have entered X factor, but you know what i mean)
I think they should let the contestants choose their own songs, and style so they can develop their own niche, instead of being forced into doing stuff they really don't like.

I have ALWAYS thought the contestants should sing their own type of songs, although, not wishing to contradict myself, I do enjoy some of the themed weeks, especially Big Band.

I get frustrated when I hear the contestants sing great songs (although brief I know) during the auditions, but frequently they don't get to air them on the live shows. :angry: :angry: If each contestant was able to keep within their own style, we would without doubt see far better performances week on week.

SB - sorry still not convinced on Disco week. :( but hope to be proved wrong. :D

Well I've tried to judge objectively - several acts on there are not my scene and that guy makes me laugh in SD :lol: And they can sing - not many of the act sare good singers this year.

Yeah I knew that You Raise me Up was a cover but had no idea who sung it first or anything. I guess it's an old song?

I agree to an extent. Sometimes you see an act who is really good but they go out early becuase of a theme. I don't think they shoudl just do their own stuff every week though, as some of them will cheat and pick samey easy stuff. I don't mind them doing non-themes as long as they stretch themselves and shwo variety.

Well on disco week, I think two of the weaker acts, Alisha and Hope will manage to bluff something - it will suit their style. SD will need somthing fun and maybe nto the best disco song ever, like white British disco - Liquid Gold or Tina Charles? Beverley should be able to coast it, shame she's already done a disco one though. Niki should too if they give her the right song. Rhyd will fidn something - Leon is the worry. :unsure: Good job And has gone - he proved he was crap at disco the other week! :lol:

...now now SB, its not good to gloat you know. :P

Well I'm not so sure - I'm throughly enjoying it! :lol:

What was that song? Staying Alive? More like Dropping Dead! :lol: