The X Factor 2008

[Chairman Meow]

Daniel will go next week, I don't think there are any disco songs about dead wives.

 

[zoooo]

Lucky it's not country week then.

 

[Augie March]

Daniel will go next week, I don't think there are any disco songs about dead wives.

Depends on how she died, because if it was in a fire...

 

[moomoo]

 

[kabbes]

Anybody else notice that Hero was mimed?

 

[Hellsbells]

hmmm well that was interesting. I like being suprised by people. Hated Ruth until the Purple Rain song, now I think I almost like Rachel Awful personality but she did that song really really well.

Diana is annoying me more and more each week. Everything she sings sounds the same.

The dead wife guy is freaky. Especially his twinkly white teeth. I bet the younger guy is kicking himself that he didn't make up some sob story and cry during his song - he'd no doubt have been saved then

 

[moomoo]

I think it's hilarious!

 

[Tank Girl]

I am soooo pleased that rachel did a great performance tonight - I had goosebumps

I hope that by next week someone will have stapled diana's arm to her side

alex did good with the christina track and she's normally my fave, but tonight it was rachel. laura was good too.

 

[Hellsbells]

I dont know about Alexandra tbh. She sounded almost identical to Christina Agueliro (sp?), which is impressive in a way I guess, but where's the originality? Plus the choreography was identical to the Christina video for that song aswell. I'm suprised the judges didn't comment on that.

 

[danny la rouge]

Anybody else notice that Hero was mimed?

Yes, and some of them we're very good at lip synching.

Hi De Hi Guy deserved to go; he was so bland and lifeless.

I'm very afraid that the Irish Cherub will be in til the end. With his Lena Zavaroni schtick. <vomits>

He should be next to go. But he won't.

 

[Hellsbells]

i don't get it though. Who is voting for the irish boy
He has a very weak voice, silly hair and isn't even particularly cute, apart from the fact that he looks about 12.

 

[danny la rouge]

Who is voting for the irish boy

Priests.

 

[lillia]

Priests.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I am soooo pleased that rachel did a great performance tonight - I had goosebumps

I hope that by next week someone will have stapled diana's arm to her side

Great minds and I agree with both comments. I even said someone should tie her twee little hand behind her back. b/f also said she's really irritating

 

[electrogirl]

why were spanisho bog boobs and dead wife guy not in the weirdo hero tribute mime act?

i still love diana and kind of hav a girl crush on her which makes me both lesbian and kind of noncey.

laura was well good, alexandra was goo dbut that song *is* christina's and t was odd hearing a carbon copy of it. Like, i know she did it well, and it's ahad song to sing, but it's so caught up in the persona of aguilera that it just seemed a bit like a cheap copy.

dead wife guy is fucking shameless. i mean, i thought it was bad enough when he said he was singing for his wife but then the song came on. sicko man.

i loved scott's stroppy reaction to be kicked off though. i would've found it hard to resist shouting 'what? is it cos i haven't got a fucking dead wife???'

 

[zoooo]

i loved scott's stroppy reaction to be kicked off though. i would've found it hard to resist shouting 'what? is it cos i haven't got a fucking dead wife???'

I genuinely, for one second, thought he was going to say that!
When he said, 'no wait Dermot, I have got something to say actually..' my heart stopped!

That would have been a.w.e.s.o.m.e.

 

[electrogirl]

I genuinely, for one second, thought he was going to say that!
When he said, 'no wait Dermot, I have got something to say actually..' my heart stopped!

That would have been a.w.e.s.o.m.e.

Me too! I was v. disappointed when he just thanked people.

I also really REALLY wanted to know what Simon was saying in his ear.

 

[Hellsbells]

Me too! I was v. disappointed when he just thanked people.

I also really REALLY wanted to know what Simon was saying in his ear.

i was watching this bit closely (saddo that i am), and it looked like he said something about Louis being to blame.

 

[kabbes]

Since the X Factor is my own exposure to pop music, being prematurely middle-aged and all, I had no idea that Alexandra was ripping somebody else off. That does put a rather different complexion on her performance. I can't stand kareoke -- do your own bloody thing.

I like Diana -- picked her out from the word go as a potential winner and she's got better and better. But Rachel gave the best performance last night.

I can't *believe* that the judges said that NIboy gave a good performance. His voice was all over the place! But I picked Daniel and Scott to be bottom two, because their performances were both so insipid and pointless. Who could be inspired by that rubbish to actually vote for them? Plus they were up first, which is the dead man walking slot.

But Daniel using his dead wife card was pathetic. My comment at the time was, "I'd just like to whore the memory of my dead wife now, please."

 

[Geri]

Since the X Factor is my own exposure to pop music, being prematurely middle-aged and all, I had no idea that Alexandra was ripping somebody else off. That does put a rather different complexion on her performance. I can't stand kareoke -- do your own bloody thing.

I like Diana -- picked her out from the word go as a potential winner and she's got better and better.

And she is definitely doing her own thing. She doesn't sound a bit like Dolores from the Cranberries, oh no.

 

[andy2002]

Diana kooky pants and Irish eyebrows boy annoy me more each week - and they're both overrated. I like Rachel, Laura, Alexandra and Ruth - the rest can fuck off.

 

[kabbes]

And she is definitely doing her own thing. She doesn't sound a bit like Dolores from the Cranberries, oh no.

Er, no. She doesn't actually. The Cranberries do their share of rotation on my iPod and I wouldn't bracket them together at all.

 

[tarannau]

Diana doesn't really impersonate any particular singer per se. She's more like a jumbled up facsimile of the most annoying kooky character traits and vocal tics from the most irritating recent singer songwriter types. She's like a Frankenstein-created feat of manufactured awfulness.

 

[rover07]

is diana the blonde on the swing?

 

[May Kasahara]

Er, no. She doesn't actually. The Cranberries do their share of rotation on my iPod and I wouldn't bracket them together at all.

actually she does, as i observed to my partner a couple of weeks ago.

*points and laughs at the cranberries fan*

 

[ChrisFilter]

she sounds more like sinead o'connor.

 

[Relahni]

I fear the one that got kicked off the show will now turn to class A drugs.

 

[PacificOcean]

why were spanisho bog boobs and dead wife guy not in the weirdo hero tribute mime act?

The over 25's door got stuck.

Hence Alex suddenly devopled a Spanish accent when miming Ruths bit.

 

[andy2002]

I fear the one that got kicked off the show will now turn to class A drugs.

Getting hooked on class A drugs would be preferable to going back to work at Pontins...

 

[Hellsbells]

Diana's voice isn't anywhere near as powerful as Sinead o'connors

Personally i think she sounds more like an inferior version of Bjork. I was convinced she was gonna sing 'it's oh so quiet' for her big band song.