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At the start of the lives I was very excited and really looking forward to seeing how Ben; Andrea; Paul; Fleur: Lola: Lauren: Only The Young and SK did.
Felt a couple of acts in Kerrianne and Janet should have made the finals also.
Over the weeks though I have been unimpressed and feel some acts have regressed. Themes are tired and so are the song choices, so now for the first time ever I do not care who wins really, anyone else sort of lost their enthusiasm and hope in the acts and ended up not supporting anyone?
I do see a lot of support for the remaining acts and that is good and fair play but I just wondered does anyone else, at the SF stage, not give a shit basically?
Felt a couple of acts in Kerrianne and Janet should have made the finals also.
Over the weeks though I have been unimpressed and feel some acts have regressed. Themes are tired and so are the song choices, so now for the first time ever I do not care who wins really, anyone else sort of lost their enthusiasm and hope in the acts and ended up not supporting anyone?
I do see a lot of support for the remaining acts and that is good and fair play but I just wondered does anyone else, at the SF stage, not give a shit basically?
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Andrea should have virtually won it by now, but has gone backwards, Lauren can sing well, but keeps getting hampered by bad song choices, Fleur has a poor voice IMO and Ben is probably the only one left who has a distinctive voice.
Good points, I think everyone has been hampered with poor song choices which has not helped them.
There has been a lot of tears and my guess is some of the contestants felt the strain of the manipulation, control and obvious bias. As Herr Scowell has made it clear that you have to be hardened to the core to withstand the regime and do what he dictates.
It is the first year I have felt utter relief for some of the nice people who were contestants and that were utterly exploited, as they were never going to win. They may go on to have some kind of a career instead of being a cog in the XF wheel.
That said, I think Fleur is as exploited as the rest of them. She is playing along and smiling for now, but we shall see what she does when Herr Scowell and the exploitation of his "loyal employees" gets too much for her.
I have no real favourite but liked Lola and OTY.
There is no outstanding act this year and certainly no one with the X Factor. ;-)
Would love to see fleur-ben bottom 2 tonight
Lauren and Andrea are good singers, but they've made zero progress through the series, they do exactly the same thing every week - over-singing everything in his case, standing (or sitting) like a statue in hers. Neither "connects" with the songs in the slightest, they just perform like they have on/off switches on their backs.
Ben is a good singer too, but he's proved to be shockingly inadequate when taken out of his middle-of-the-road soft rock comfort zone.
Which leaves Fleur - fairly weak voice, pretty good dancer, hot bod, funky hair, Janet Jackson teeth. She's not really very good but she's got better and - compared with the other three - she actually does have "The X Factor". A bit. So she should probably win by default.
I also find the overuse of standing ovations meaningless.
The closest I've come is Daniel Pearce and Nathan Gayle who both got knocked out at judges houses. I think both of those had more potential than anyone who has ever made the lives.
So, out of the 4 left, I prefer Ben and Fleur to the other 2 but I'm not really bothered and the likelihood of ever buying any music from any of them is about 0%
Tbh, I gave up on the series weeks ago and really don't care who wins as long The Dark Lord of Moobs & High Trousers comes a cropper at some point.
I agree a lot with you.
I didn't like Andrea much to begin with, obviously realised that he had a great voice but he really wasn't my cup of tea, but I really loved his Queen song and enjoyed Wrecking Ball last night, so he'll take over as my favourite when Lauren goes tonight. He's the only one I actually like more than I did at the start.
Lauren's been given terrible song after terrible song, she has a gorgeous voice and hasn't been allowed to shine. I'm really tired of the music constantly drowning her out, the dreary song choices, the blatant disinterest in her, it's cheap. She deserved far better treatment.
Fleur looks great and is a great performer, but her voice is poor and often ugly. But she's been given songs that make the most of what she's got - heavy backing vocals to support her, several songs (like I'm Every Woman and Uptown Funk for a couple of examples) that have her just singing a couple of words now and then and concentrating on the dancing and performing. I'm bored of her, bored of the unfair treatment, bored of the misplaced adulation.
I really liked Ben to start with but what a one trick pony he's turned out to be too, I'm beyond bored of him.
Ooooh rank
Worst ever series for me and at the outset I thought it might be a great season, XF input and meddling has killed it for me. There have been some shocking performances this year. Am not sure what' Herr Scowell patter' means but nice of you to bring it up, if it relates to those of us on the thread who have expressed disappointment then fair play otherwise I do not know what you mean.
can you not 'understand me'? typical anglo retort to scottish speak
to simplify, what you chaps would classify as "witty bants" or whatever nonsense, "patter" is another dialect's take on the same definition.
to repeat, this "herr scowell" patter is rank.
If, in this instance, your patter "rank" refers to the urban word for disgusting, nasty, ugly, gross, etc, then you need to explain what you have a problem with or explain your alternative use of the word "rank".
You are not making yourself clear.
Whereas I, with the use of the German salutation "Herr", am being very specific, but then I have quite some knowledge and experience of that heritage, history and outcomes.
Do you need it explaining? Can I help?