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Were Rough Copy too leftfield/urban/edgy/street to be in the final
Peter E
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We all know the Xfactor is a family show manily watched by kids (especially tennage girls) mums, grannies.
I suspect the reason Rough Copy recieved the least votes on Sunday is becuase they didn't fit the ''nicey, nicey'' due to they're criminal pasts and edgy/urban style/attitude.
If you look at past finalists and the current finalists, they all fit the ''lovely / nicey, nicey'' mould that appeal to kids, mums, grannies etc,etc.
Does anyone agree that their street style and criminal pasts lost them a place in the final!!
I suspect the reason Rough Copy recieved the least votes on Sunday is becuase they didn't fit the ''nicey, nicey'' due to they're criminal pasts and edgy/urban style/attitude.
If you look at past finalists and the current finalists, they all fit the ''lovely / nicey, nicey'' mould that appeal to kids, mums, grannies etc,etc.
Does anyone agree that their street style and criminal pasts lost them a place in the final!!
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Most of this I do agree.
Personally they are decent singers individually but as a group it doesn't seemed to blend for some reason. But if they release material, I might buy it...they remind me a lot of the 90s R+B male groups which I was much more accustomed to...even B2K weren't the best vocally and nor was JLS for that matter
A combination of peaking too soon and terrible song choices imo.
Its as middle of the road as you can get.
They went out because they are a group who have been together for about five years and yet still cannot sing a single note in harmony if their lives depended on it.
Word. I came on here to post this and you've articulated it perfectly.
When I saw the title and thought of them murdering that (admittedly already awful) Boyz2Men ballid the last thing I would have described them as "edgy". More like "shit".
Have to agree.....thought this as they were singing away in the sing off last night. ....shame as I think that it would have been nice to see them in the final
.....but they need to do more work 1st
"Urban" is the show's polite way of saying they're black.
Absolutely, they weren't edgy enough. The show needed something really alternative but it wasn't Rough Copy.
Having heard material they've done prior to the show, it is a million miles from most of the dross they were asked to churn out for prime time tv.
I think it ended up not quite working as their image and style didn't fit with the songs they were performing. The few times they did do up tempo or showed glimpses of who they really are were their best weeks by far.
Hopefully, they'll get something out of this on a label who gets them more than the XF did
But when they had the right song, they were awesome.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This in a word ,they should've gone weeks ago
When was that? 1993?
When I read the OP's comment that was the first thing that sprang to my mind as well.