Was "Let It Be" an act of sabotage by the producers on Jahmene?
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I'm surprised there has been more comment on the quite insane choice of "Let It Be" for Jahmene. Who on earth gets a 42 year old song which has been covered dozens of times by many famous artists on their albums as a winnng single on a talent show?
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The age of the song is irrelevant other than it being more familiar to a lot more people so helpful if anything.
The original version is amazing, I imagine you have a horrible, dated taste in music.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/james-arthur-crowned-x-factor-1482743
It's just that it was a really strange choice. The winners' single is supposed to be the flagship single for the entire X Factor franchise.....a karaoke standard from 1970 that appears on numerous different artist's albums seemed a bizarre selection.
Is this a joke? He thinks grunting and mumbling and the production company's addition of two-year old production tricks make it sound like he wrote Impossible, the song whose melody and lyrics he emulated wholesale?
Laughable.
To be honest if they convinced him to go on stage in the last half hour and launch into a hateful slur about everyone who watches the show I'm not sure it would have an affect at that point unless the voting was really really incredibly close.
Also I don't think there are that many voters who vote based on which winners single they like, by this point most people who vote probably have a favourite and are going to remain loyal even if they like the other song better.
Source: The Mirror.
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i love Jahmene but this was the worst choice he could have made but by this time James had already won.
This CANNOT be real.
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Truth is, Jahmene didn't sound very good on Sunday.
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He could well have said it humourously. I highly doubt he was being serious.
My guess is James has not learned yet that if you joke on or use sarcasm in interviews it won't always appear that way to everyone who reads it in print.
(Personally I assume he had to have said that in a joking manner).
Don't forget too Tulisa and Louis kept slating Chris for being "dated, unoriginal and not relevant to today's charts" and then they go and foist a Beatles song on Jahmene for his winners single.
That's how I see it too.
About Jahmene's songchoice: I was quite underwhelmed but it's all water under the bridge now, isn't it?
I would have loved for Jahmene to win and was gutted when he didn't, but I found it really nice to see how close those two seem to have become. I don't remember having seen that kind of companionship between the final 2 before, so I'm trying to see the bright side.
That will be a lot easier for me when Jahmene has signed a record deal, though.
Having said that it is my opinion that Jahmene had either peaked a couple of weeks ago or repeated dud song choices had stalled him badly. I felt his song choices were often uninspired or he was simply unable to energise them the way James usually managed with the exception of his cover of One by U2.
But the bottom line for me is Jahmene's LIB, for me, did not help his cause at all.I really would have liked him to try some more contemporary material other than Angels which he did very well.
The local radio station played it today. The presenter said (paraphrase) After 10 weeks of the Xfactor this is what was spat out at the end.
For me that sums up both the song and the artist.
Without the constant audience noise the performance on the radio was a lot worse than seen on Sunday. It was a drone with most of the words having there ending missing and with the music completely drowning out the vocals in the loud passages (probably deliberately to hide poor technique)