Options
Girl Groups: Is there any point in them on The X-Factor?
Syntax Error
Posts: 27,804
Forum Member
✭✭✭
I know a girl group won over a boy group on Popstars: The Rivals, but that was a different format, but I really believe that there is little point in girl groups entering The X-Factor.
OK, Miss Frank were a bit ropey in their sing-off performance, but in actuality, they did not deserve to be in the bottom 2.
How can it be right that 3 girls who have proven that they can sing are voted out & the likes of Lloyd & John & Edward, who've never sung well once, or Stacey, who was dreadful last Saturday are still in the competition?
It seems to me that there is little point in girl groups entering if there is no real fan base for them.
OK, Miss Frank were a bit ropey in their sing-off performance, but in actuality, they did not deserve to be in the bottom 2.
How can it be right that 3 girls who have proven that they can sing are voted out & the likes of Lloyd & John & Edward, who've never sung well once, or Stacey, who was dreadful last Saturday are still in the competition?
It seems to me that there is little point in girl groups entering if there is no real fan base for them.
0
Comments
Look at last year when Bad Lashes and Girlband left in first two weeks
Addictive Ladies left first in X Factor 2
I suppose Hope have done the best and then the Conway Sisters if memory serves me corrrectly..........
Hope were saved by the judges vote 3 times before they were finally ousted in 5th place. The Conway's were saved twice before being ousted in 6th place.
All that really shows is that the judges were desperate to keep them in the competition when it was obvious the public hadn't taken to them.
Voices With Soul - 6th (bottom 2 weeks 1, 3 & 5)
Addictiv Ladies - 12th (bottom 2 week 1)
The Conway Sisters - 6th (bottom 2 weeks 5, 6 & 7)
Hope - 5th (bottom 2 weeks 3, 5 & 6, out week 7)
Bad Lashes - 12th (bottom 2 week 1)
Girlband - 11th (bottom 2 weeks 1 & 2)
Kandy Rain - 12th (bottom 2 week 1)
Miss Frank - 10th (bottom 2 week 3)
So Hope have done the best, and that was with Simon really pushing them to do well. The Conway Sisters did surprisingly well for a girl band, they made it 4 weeks without being in the bottom 2 which is longer than any of the others. If I was a judge I wouldn't put a girl band through, I thought Miss Frank were really good but clearly there's no point.
Personally I think they should keep the groups but broaden the category - let them play their own instruments, etc - otherwise you're always going to have the identikit boyband/girlband/duo etc.
Good point, Maybe there should be a reality show to find a new girl band.
I think you might have hit the nail on the head there.
What you've said is brought into focus when they judges said to Lloyd that he'd be better in a group.
It's as if they acknowledge that they use groups to cover of deficiencies in individual singers.
I think that might be the only way you'd get a girl group out of a reality show.
I think people enter as a group knowing how rubbish groups are and that 3 acts have to be groups for the finals.. its a shame to have crap groups as opposed to the talneted overs that went out..
4 Staceys........... jesus
Groups like Sugababes (earlier incarnations!) work in the charts because people do at least bother to listen for quality before spending their money - hence Eggnog's 'career' of doom.
Established Girlgroups ie Saturday's, Girls Aloud, Sugarbabes, Spice Girls etc work because they have had the time and money invested in them. Harmonising vocals and putting together an image takes time....not a couple of weeks before the live shows starts. No wonder they are mostly crap.
I know! And the salt was added to wound with the fact that they were bottom 2 with Danyl.
I agree with that
It's obviously a bit pointless having the identikit girl bands. Notice how the 'novelty' acts like the McDonalds, Same Difference and John / Edward end up doing better than the 'proper' girl groups - says it all really