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Stephanie - Could Have Been Fantastic
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It's so frustrating and they really did miss a trick with her. She could have been fantastic...she has everything. The issue is that Cheryl was a rubbish mentor to her. Anyone a bit different and this show just doesn't now what to do with them. Cheryl tried to turn her into a bloody reggae act, god knows why. She should have been singing songs that suit her voice, for example...Gabrielle, Eternal songs. Also, Cheryl's excuse of it being difficult for Steph to meet the themes due to her vocie being so distinctive is a rubbish excuse. For example, there are so many well known 80's songs that they could have trawled through, yet they decided to pick a Blondie Song that not only didn't suit her voice, but they also tried to make it reggae. It was just ridiculous. I feel sorry for Steph as the show has made it seem like she's useless and very basic, when really she wasn't. She was just lumbered with a mentor that didn't have a clue what she was doing and a show that didn't support her from day one...first audition wasn't even shown, only 30 seconds of her arena auditions and 6 chair challenge were shown. She was well and truly thrown under the bus and used as fodder.
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Both song choices she had and the twists she did on the songs were great. It was the complete lack of air time the producers had given her up to that point. Nothing could've saved her.
The problem was the lack of hype / build up for Steph and then her nerves, which made her performances slightly uncomfortable to watch. As much as I hate to use a judges' cliche, she didn't connect with the audience because she was scared stiff most of the time. I really liked her, remembered her from BGT and wanted her to do well. Although I really liked her singing and her style, her performances were underwhelming.
I hope she gets signed somewhere, I think she could do really well commercially.
Her lack of airtime as you mentioned is down to the producers.
I actually thought her song choices on both occasions were good.
She seems like a lovely girl and hope she does well in the future.
Coming into the live shows it was a case of Andrea is the one to beat...he was at the top and people expected brilliance from him every week and while he can deliver there or there abouts theres not much room for him to grow in the terms of he was ranked the best.
Then you had the really good but not quite there batch like Lauren, Paul, Ben, Only The Young, Fleur (Maybe Lola, Jack & Jay if their on form). The ones who have the room to get better so even if their not better singers than Andrea (Which they could be) in comparison it looks like they have improved so much more and could emerge as front runners to win the competition.
Then you have the novelty/quirky/headline magnet acts like Stereo Kicks, Blonde Electra, Chloe & Stevie who have reason to create interest in their stories but don't ultimately live up to the rest and usually the novelty wears by by half way through the live shows at the latest.
Then finally for this year you have the rest (With Steph included) who are decent singers when their on form but are just overshadowed by the higher tier talents in the show and are usually the early sacrificial lambs.
Its not that shes bad and last year probably would have done a lot better but in this years she just got swallowed up by some of the other acts.
Well that's my point of view anyway
That's my point too. The Illuminites, as they were called did quite well on BGT and were actually in the top 3 of the public votes in the semis but lost to another act to go through to the finals.
I think they should have audition for the X Factor instead of BGT - I'm sure they would have got through as a group to the finals and would have done better in getting votes.
This is all true, she just isn't a strong singer and she was just lucky to even have made judges houses I thought!
I agree, she needs others with her to support her voice. She can sing (not brilliant but OK) and she is pretty, but she looked like a bunny rabbit caught in the headlights a lot of the time.
She also failed to connect well with the camera and dominate the stage. In her first performance I was willing her to give a big confident smile at some point, but it just looked like she was focusing too much on her words and choreography.
True - but would also add
Rule Number Two - Some acts are not as good as the show wants them to be - Chloe being an example.
They were called The Luminites. They won their semi final and came fifth in the whole competition.
The producers obviously didn't rate Stephanie as highly as they did Rebecca. As someone said above an artist on this show will only shine if they're allowed to. If the producers want them gone they get awful songs that really don't suit.
For whatever reason the powers that be didn't get behind Stephanie, which is sad.
I do not think the song choices helped her and it is interesting to see that you rate her highly but for me she was not very good and I would not have taken her to judges houses. Sorry!