The X Factor 2008

[danny la rouge]

Missed this at the weekend and, having caught some of the performances on YouTube, I'm actually glad. Rachel was so awful I couldn't even finish watching; Daniel should just leave quietly by any convenient side door. Diana surprised me by being quite good, Laura ok, Ruth blah. Didn't bother with the rest

Nicknames, please. This realname stuff isn't helping.

 

[electrogirl]

i fucking love kooky no-shoes. i don't care who knows it.

her red eye in the vt was quite alarming though.

 

[danny la rouge]

kooky no-shoes.

Very good. I like that.

 

[ChrisFilter]

and Girls Aloud can't sing. I can't believe that people attempt to justify this mediocrity. Bin. Ban.

Except they can sing. They've all gone through the 'X-Factor' process on live TV before forming the band, and there's reports from people here saying they can sing, and there was an entire THX Dolby Digital massive fuck off cinema show with them singing live.

Everyone can have an off day.

 

[moomoo]

Everyone can have an off day.

Even Daniel.

 

[ChrisFilter]

i fucking love kooky no-shoes. i don't care who knows it.

her red eye in the vt was quite alarming though.

I reckon they hit her until she cried.

 

[dodgepot]

Except they can sing. They've all gone through the 'X-Factor' process on live TV before forming the band, and there's reports from people here saying they can sing, and there was an entire THX Dolby Digital massive fuck off cinema show with them singing live.

Everyone can have an off day.

what chris said.

i'll happily admit that they are far from being perfect, technically faultless singers, and that kimberley has a certain, erm, flatness about her voice at times but they can all sing and their voices work well with the songs they perform. their voices may not be to everyone's taste but then neither are whitney houston's or mariah carey's (two examples of people who are technically-brilliant vocalists)

i get very defensive when it comes to GA

 

[tarannau]

what chris said.
but they can all sing and their voices work well with the songs they perform

This is the key point though, isn't it? They don't sing technically very demanding numbers, but are managed to know their limitations.

I was surprised to see/hear just how bad they sounded on the X Factor with that in mind.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

i fucking love kooky no-shoes. i don't care who knows it.

she just seems like a great big ball of gimmick to me.
Very annoying

 

[danny la rouge]

whitney houston's or mariah carey's (two examples of people who are technically-brilliant vocalists)

But no idea how to use them. Both are song-murdering taste-void no-marks with the vocal equivalent of Pat Metheny in their throats.

 

[dodgepot]

This is the key point though, isn't it? They don't sing technically very demanding numbers, but are managed to know their limitations.

I was surprised to see/hear just how bad they sounded on the X Factor with that in mind.

well obviously people have different tastes, cos i've watched their performance from saturday loads of times and really don't see why people think it's all so bad - yes cheryl struggles with her first solo, and kimberley is flat in her bit, but i really don't see why people are calling it "dire". oh well. maybe their voices are like morrissey's, an acquired tatse

anyway.

back to the x factor - is there a theme for next week's show? is it something a bit more exciting than the songs of michael jackson?

 

[PacificOcean]

back to the x factor - is there a theme for next week's show? is it something a bit more exciting than the songs of michael jackson?

"Big Band" week.

Yawn. Do they not want any viewers under 75?

 

[May Kasahara]

I'd like to see Death Metal Week. That would stretch them. Or World Music Week, can you imagine anything more excruciating?

 

[Tank Girl]

diana's alright, but that squeak thing she does at the end of most lines is irritating.

 

[Augie March]

"Big Band" week.

Drum and bass week would've been a better idea.

 

[Tank Girl]

"Big Band" week.

Yawn. Do they not want any viewers under 75?

what's wrong with big band?!

it's pension day tomorrow

 

[Fictionist]

what chris said.

i'll happily admit that they are far from being perfect, technically faultless singers, and that kimberley has a certain, erm, flatness about her voice at times but they can all sing and their voices work well with the songs they perform. their voices may not be to everyone's taste but then neither are whitney houston's or mariah carey's (two examples of people who are technically-brilliant vocalists)

i get very defensive when it comes to GA

That is an interesting point, your objection to Houston and Carey appears to be based on the style they sometimes adopt when they sing, the vocal histrionics which can make some people wish they would just sing the song without all the vocal flourishes. What you didn't say was that either woman can't sing. I suspect that Houston and Carey could sing pretty much anything you threw at them - no member of GA could possibly say the same.

 

[Voley]

Doom psychedelia week would be my choice.

Daniel singing 'Seasons In The Sun' ripped to the gills on K.

 

[1927]

Why can't we have a week where they all sing The Smiths?

 

[dodgepot]

morrissey would *love* that

 

[Gromit]

Why can't we have a week where they all sing The Smiths?

Nah. Status Quo week ftw.

 

[zoooo]

I vote Take That week!

With Take That!!!

Singing all the songs!!

The contestants can do dancing in the background or something...

 

[moomoo]

I love you zoooo.

 

[Hellsbells]

I missed the x factor this week - can someone pleeeease get me up to date.
Who got kicked off?
Who was good?
What did Diana sing?

 

[Voley]

Girlband got kicked off.
No-one was particularly good.
Diana sang Man In The Mirror. Diana's kooky no-shoes, yes?

 

[Looby]

I missed the x factor this week - can someone pleeeease get me up to date.
Who got kicked off?
Who was good?
What did Diana sing?

Girlband went. They were rubbish but a lot of that is down to the song choices, Louis is losing it.

Laura, Alexandra and Diana were all good. Cheryl's got it in the bag I reckon.

Diana sang man in the mirror and she was brilliant (don't listen to the haters).

I hate the themed nights btw, it's just shit. Fucking big band night is the worst. If they are going to have them they should shake it up a bit and make them really challenging. Smiths night, Pulp night etc etc

 

[Hellsbells]

oooh 2 groups gone already. Poor silly old Louis. Has he had a sulky temper tantrum about it yet?

 

[electrogirl]

did i mention i love kooky no-shoes? cos i do. love.

i like her natty walk aswell, she's just so cute.

basically i think she's the only one who i would enjoy listening to see what she's done with a song week after week.

wow that was good english.

emo hair boy is so boring and weirdo intense and i feel like his eyes are pleading with me.
dead wife guy is awful but will shamefully go quite far probably, especially if it's big band week this week.
bad past girl hasn't had a good song yet, this week was just hilarious. i wonder how much those half naked men got paid just to writhe around on fake motorbikes?


Laura has a bigger body than you'd expect, that's not an insult, just an observation. She's good but i don't like her 'jazz' voice because it sounds like Belinda off Big Brother.

Wow i managed to fit a big brother reference on to an X Factor thread. Pretty embarassing really.

 

[andy2002]

did i mention i love kooky no-shoes? cos i do. love.

i like her natty walk aswell, she's just so cute.

basically i think she's the only one who i would enjoy listening to see what she's done with a song week after week.

Kooky twee pants is on my list of hate this year - I find her enormously irritating, especially that little hiccup thing she does with her voice after practically every line. She's far from the worst though - that's a toss up between Pontins boy and that awful kid with the eyebrows and bird's nest hair. Oh, and dead wife bloke - how could I forget him?!

 

[tarannau]

Diana's fucking awful. Silly wishy washy, affected voice. Every song will receive her predictable speshial treatment - in the sense that she'll sing it badly with a touch of Phoebe from Friends style forced kookiness. Yuk.