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X Factor 2009

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    #92
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Im not a huge reality tv fan but I've always liked the X-factor as it's very well produced.

    Live auditions are a big big mistake. The X-factor was always really in two parts...the audition phase where we were amazed by the great singers and sniggered at the delusionals and then the serious business of the competition. The whole point about the private auditions is so you can really connect with the auditionee and you can hear thier voice, auditioning on stage in a huge arena with a mic only highlights an amazing voice or a very bad one.

    The Judges really dont seem comfortable either, Cowell was nice as pie...even when he was trying to be nasty he was balancing a bad comment with something positive.

    Britans got Talent works as only a small % of people are singers, the rest are visual acts so thats why live auditions work. I reckon!

    Seemingly the ratings were down by about 500,000 and it's very easy to see why.


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    #93
    Flowertot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭Flowertot


    alan1990 wrote: »
    What is the song they just played?

    Went something like "......you are my mountain way up high....." or something similar to that!

    think you're talking bout the worlds greatest by R. kelly


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    #94
    Basq
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    Flowertot wrote: »
    think you're talking bout the worlds greatest by R. kelly
    It's "The X Factor - Stock Song #23" along with Take That's "Shine" and S Club 7's "Reach!

    :D


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    #95
    Handsome Bob
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    Don't forget All or Nothing by O Town. :p


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    #96
    phasers
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    And that Girls Aloud song that goes "no no no"

    In fact all Girls aloud songs :rolleyes:


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    #97
    lostexpectation
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    danyl johnson
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzj9z8QDTfU
    good but bit hyperactive wasn't he


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    #98
    Handsome Bob
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    lostexpectation wrote: »
    danyl johnson
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzj9z8QDTfU
    good but bit hyperactive wasn't he

    I've calmed down after being swept up by the hype. I think he did okay, it's hard to tell how much of a good voice he has because he was either doing (a) a bit of shouting or (b) letting the backing track do its' thing.

    Also, some of his moves were not charismatic, but cheesy. For example when he tosses the microphone from hand to hand, I can't see any serious artist doing that on stage. It's just a bit camp and lame!


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    #99
    Misticalz2003
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    Was very unsure of what i'd think of the new set up for it this year..... but i think its ok obviously funnier when it was just judges but i liked it ....

    THat young fella who sang Luther Vandross near had me in tears - Very good!!!

    And the hottie teacher - OMG!! so so so good.... - Looking forward to hearing more from him


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    #100
    JP Liz
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    Danyl Johnson, a teacher from Reading, UK, gave what Simon Cowell called, “singlehandedly, the best first audition I have heard” on Britain’s X-Factor talent show over the past weekend. Amidst the subsequent commotion from the press, Johnson talked to The Mirror (UK), telling reporters that he’s bisexual.

    How many best auditions have there been - every year Simon says this :rolleyes:

    This Danyl guy is also the talk of the US - he audition is getting loads of you tube hits


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    #101
    zeroonetwothree
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    What time is it on tomorrow, is it 7pm?


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    #102
    DancingQueen:)
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    just started :D


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    #103
    gerry28
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    x factor should be renamed the cringe factor.


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    #104
    Anonomyte
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    The stunners......:D


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    #105
    LadyJ
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    Anyone else think that "Sex on Fire" guy was kinda shít?


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    #106
    Anonomyte
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    LadyJ wrote: »
    Anyone else think that "Sex on Fire" guy was kinda shít?


    Yea it was karaoke, he was shouting and pandering mostly.


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    #107
    Show_me_Safety
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    yeah, i don't think he was all that good- altho, i'm not saying i'd do better!


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    #108
    DancingQueen:)
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    Yeah he was shouting it i'd have liked if they asked him to sing something else.


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    #109
    Anonomyte
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    DancingQueen:) wrote: »
    Yeah he was shouting it i'd have liked if they asked him to ding something else.


    Yeah playing the triangle is much better.:D


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    #110
    LadyJ
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    Nah, he wasn't shouting, just singing powerfully but I just found him to be out of tune a lot....


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    #111
    Namlub
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    That fella with the dead brother, yeah I feel sorry for him but ffs, enough of the sob stories. There's no way he would have gotten through if it wasn't for that....


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    #112
    DancingQueen:)
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    Anonomyte wrote: »

    Yeah playing the triangle is much better.:D

    I would have liked that :rolleyes:


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    #113
    anonymousman
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    I watch the show just for the OTT sob stories, and they hit the big time tonight. Wow.

    So far that girl group who sang Toxic, and the single mother from Essex are the only ones with real talent because they don't just sing karoke- they make the songs theyre own. And not by jumping around stage screaming over backing tracks.


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    #114
    LadyJ
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    I thought the Caribbean girl was good.


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    #115
    Handsome Bob
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    I'm getting sick of these sob stories. I mean just think for a second, imagine you were going for a audition on The X Factor and you told your Family "hey, I'm going to tell the entire British public about the tragedy we have been through." I know the reaction I would get from my Family if I told them that.


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    #116
    Anonomyte
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    LZ5by5 wrote: »
    I'm getting sick of these sob stories. I mean just think for a second, imagine you were going for a audition on The X Factor and you told your Family "hey, I'm going to tell the entire British public about the tragedy we have been through." I know the reaction I would get from my Family if I told them that.


    I agree, but its a big seller, if the judges turned them down after the sobs they would be classed as evil....


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    #117
    Basq
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    Sob story was bad enough.. until the kid ran out on stage. FFS! :mad:

    The "Sex on Fire" lad was simply a good showman.. not a good singer. Energetic and born-performer, yes.. but not a good singer by any stretch of the imagination.

    2 episodes in and I'm already sick of this year's X Factor. The auditions used to be the best bit.. now they're as bland and boring as the live shows.


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    #118
    Latchy
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    Namlub wrote: »
    That fella with the dead brother, yeah I feel sorry for him but ffs, enough of the sob stories. There's no way he would have gotten through if it wasn't for that....
    Now that I cant stand like WTF do they take the public for ? . Sure it's tragic about his dead brother but how can you use that in part of your act to get public sympathy votes ( and judges thumbs up ) .......I frigging hate that :mad:


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    #119
    Corb
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    I liked the Sex on Fire guy.

    Not a great one tonight though.


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    #120
    brummytom
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    Personally, I thought the young girl from Trinidad/Tobego (which was it? :/) was the best tonight. Not a note out of place from what I heard, did the song just as well as Jennifer Hudson in the film.

    The Sex on Fire bloke grated on me; the bloke who's brother died was decent.. but nothing more. He couldn't reach the higher notes, and I find it appalling how someone can use the death of a sibling to manipulate a talent show.


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    #121
    JP Liz
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    The Stunners :pac: disgraceful - Louis's face was priceless when they said their name

    The afro haired guy was good at the end


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