What's the Point of The "Sing Off"?
trec123
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Can someone clear up for me how this is supposed to work?
I'm sure in the first show of this series, Simon said that this year, the judges would decide who went home, purely on how the bottom two performed in the sing off?
Clearly, though, last night, they'd all decided that it was time for Daniel to go, and really there was no point in he and Rachel singing again, because it was obvious he'd be going home.
Yet, Rachel murdered her song - again - imo and according to the rules Simon set out at the start, surely she should have gone?
One thing last night proved to me was that Rachel is now a cert for the final, as I really can't see any of the judges having the nerve to vote against her, no matter how badly she performs...She could be in the bottom two every week from now on, and I'm sure she'll still survive - unless of course she's up against Diana, but if Diana wasn't in the bottom two after last night's performance then she never will be, imo.
So Rachel and Diana for the final?
I'm sure in the first show of this series, Simon said that this year, the judges would decide who went home, purely on how the bottom two performed in the sing off?
Clearly, though, last night, they'd all decided that it was time for Daniel to go, and really there was no point in he and Rachel singing again, because it was obvious he'd be going home.
Yet, Rachel murdered her song - again - imo and according to the rules Simon set out at the start, surely she should have gone?
One thing last night proved to me was that Rachel is now a cert for the final, as I really can't see any of the judges having the nerve to vote against her, no matter how badly she performs...She could be in the bottom two every week from now on, and I'm sure she'll still survive - unless of course she's up against Diana, but if Diana wasn't in the bottom two after last night's performance then she never will be, imo.
So Rachel and Diana for the final?
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It was battle of the headline makers last night! And Rachel get more tabloid coverage!;)
In Week 1 it didn't really matter because tbh, no-one cared about the girl groups.
In Week 2 it was a joke because even though Ruth was fantastic with "Purple Rain", Simon still went to deadlock.
In Week 3 Daniel *did* outsing Scott but I suspect Louis only sent Scott home to get one over on Simon.
In Week 4, I suspect it was tactical voting as well. IMO, Austin outsang Rachel.
In Week 5, Ruth outsang Laura so that was fair.
Last night, there was no point because it was obvious Daniel was going home.
Absolutely - they obviously think the viewers are ever so slightly stupid to try to sell us this concept of it being a fair contest!
It's nothing to do with the sing off performance, as has been proven many weeks.
His second performance though was mind blowingly awesome. It was far more superior to Rachels dull performance.
They should do the sing offs earlier and open up phone lines again.
Rachel will go next week, I'm sure of that. She's bound to be in the bottom 2 (if she can't avoid bottom 2 singing that whinehouse song then no chance of avoiding the bottom 2 next week) and I think the judges will save whoever she is up against (probably Ruth the way voting has gone).
As soon as Daniel was in the bottom two last night I knew he was gone, regardless of how well he sang or how poorly the other person sang. The judges wanted him gone.
I agree.
Rachel will be gone by the time it gets down to only public votes being counted though. I think next week is the last week that the judges decide who goes home.
This is just the reason why I preferred the Pop Idol format.
You can't always trust the public to vote out the worst performer, but at least we'd only have ourselves to blame if we do make a clanger.
There's too much vested interest with the X-Factor format.