The X Factor 2008

[SpookyFrank]

You fancy her, don't you?

Sort of, although I suspect she has a horrible personality

 

[Geri]

Alexandra will win. Diana should win but won't.

I think it will be the other way round - Alexandra should win, but Diana will.

I know this because Alexandra is my favourite, and my favourites never win.

 

[SwizzleStiX]

I like Alexandra, but it would be good to see a band win, that would be a first for JLS

 

[marshall]

No way in the world is another dreary solo artist going to win it, it's sooo clearly going to be a band this year. Doesn't matter how good the others might be.

JLS, no competition.

 

[kabbes]

No way in the world is another dreary solo artist going to win it, it's sooo clearly going to be a band this year. Doesn't matter how good the others might be.

JLS, no competition.

So your response to a voting pattern consistently showing that the general public not does not vote for groups is... to say that this year they will suddenly start to vote for a group?

They'll do what the best group always does -- make it to the last 3 or 4 and then lose.

 

[dodgepot]

I like Alexandra, but it would be good to see a band win, that would be a first for JLS

but they are dull as fuck.

 

[danny la rouge]

JLS, no competition.

But they're entirely mediocre and unremarkable! Does the world really need another unremarkable boy band?

 

[danny la rouge]

but they are dull as fuck.

Better put.

 

[Hellsbells]

well to be honest, they're all dull. Apart from Rachel, who has a personality, just not a very nice one

 

[moomoo]

I'm struggling to come to terms with the fact that I've lost all interest in the X factor. I no longer care who wins (well, as long as it isn't Rachel). It's a bloody farce this year.

 

[zenie]

But they're entirely mediocre and unremarkable! Does the world really need another unremarkable boy band?

Nah they're just what teenage girls want right now, there's no 'urban' boy band at the moment is there? No Another Level, no East 17, no Ultimate Kaos??? o)

 

[dodgepot]

good

 

[moomoo]

Nah they're just what teenage girls want right now, there's no 'urban' boy band at the moment is there? No Another Level, no East 17, no Ultimate Kaos??? o)

Thankfully we've still got Take That.

 

[danny la rouge]

there's no 'urban' boy band at the moment is there?

I don't know, to be honest.

(Does "urban" just mean black, btw?)

 

[kabbes]

East 17 were black?

 

[marshall]

So your response to a voting pattern consistently showing that the general public not does not vote for groups is... to say that this year they will suddenly start to vote for a group?

They'll do what the best group always does -- make it to the last 3 or 4 and then lose.

Means nothing.

They may well be mediocre and crap, but there IS a gap in the market that TT are too old/classy/established to fill.

JLS to win.

 

[kabbes]

What's a gap in the market got to do with anything at all? The people that watch the X Factor and vote for their favourites are not the same people that buy singles. A subset, possibly, but they act as a group in a completely different way.

The people that vote on X Factor like young, individual singers. And the Scots always vote for the Scots, so it helps if you are Scottish too.

 

[danny la rouge]

East 17 were black?

I honestly have no idea.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

laura out in the same week that diana got a free pass....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[N_igma]

Eoughauqehan Queuueheeweeegg must not win.

If only because there will be no letters of the alphabet left.

Eoghain Quigg. How exactly is that a long name?

 

[Kizmet]

Eoghain Quigg. How exactly is that a long name?

It's not.. it's just funny the way the announcer says it.

 

[electrogirl]

Nah they're just what teenage girls want right now, there's no 'urban' boy band at the moment is there? No Another Level, no East 17, no Ultimate Kaos??? o)

I was quite a fan of MN8 back in the day.

'I got a little something for ya'

The voiceover man still makes me laugh, he's been so overexposed as doing comedy stuff that when he says the names it just seems like he's taking the piss the whole time.

Which he probably is.

 

[zoooo]

Oh is it the one that does all the Vic and Bob stuff?

 

[electrogirl]

Oh is it the one that does all the Vic and Bob stuff?

oh dunno, he's the one that does all the e4 trailers.

'she's sucking the face off that bloke from ghost whisperer! its a good job th ex isnt sticking her oar in.....oh
wait...she is'

 

[zoooo]

Yeah, I think that's him!
He is ace.
Better than that pretender Tom Baker...

 

[electrogirl]

Yeah, I think that's him!
He is ace.
Better than that pretender Tom Baker...

totally.

this is one of my faves http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHB5LhYez0

you go whitebread!

 

[LM17]

Rhydian for the win!

Whatever happened to him? I'm disappointed by the lack of real oddballs in this year's competition.

 

[PacificOcean]

Whatever happened to him? I'm disappointed by the lack of real oddballs in this year's competition.

He has an album out any minute now.

He said in an interview on Digitalspy that he is not an oddball in real life (he was a rugby player) but the producers wanted him to go that route and he was told what to say each week by the producers. If he didn't, he was out.

 

[zenie]

I don't know, to be honest.

(Does "urban" just mean black, btw?)

Nah I'd say Urban means 'street'

So, what do people think of Diana screaming at fireworks, when she's too sick to appear on the show?

 

[danny la rouge]

Nah I'd say Urban means 'street'

I don't know what "street" means, either! I'm 43, you know!

So, what do people think of Diana screaming at fireworks, when she's too sick to appear on the show?

If, as reported, she can't do this week either, then she should be out. One sick note is fine, but she can't go playing that all the way to the final, can she?

As for the fireworks: so what? There's nothing that says sick people can't enjoy themselves.