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Just listening to some Katie's performances
GibsonSG
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Why did she receive such dreadful treatment form the press and public. She is clearly talented and has a nice tone to her voice. If it is her 'theatrical' manner I would ask you to watch Paloma Faith who is over theatrical. Katie pales in insignificance. I like Paloma Faith by the way.
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She was clearly not a rock chick, yet she kept being given rock songs.
She also got songs that didn't showcase the strong points of her voice, She has, IMO, a very good recording voice (her parts in the group songs sounded great)
Cher got crucified pretty badly by the press, so by no means was she the chosen one.
She was an indication that the show was being rigged
As others have said,I believe she was put through as a hate figure by the producers and to deflect attention away from how dislikeable Cher was (much of what we read in the tabloids about Katie was propaganda from the X Factor PR machine).
IMO part of the problem though was Katie's desparation for approval and not just in terms of her performance. I liked the huskiness of her voice and loved some of her performances but her needyness was offputting.
I don't think that she was a bad lass at all but her behavour was at times ill judged eg when she pushed herself of Aiden for mutual support when they were in the bottom two when he didn't seem to be comfortable with it,
Which probably applies to every single XF act : it's not a talent show,but a soap opera with a cast of characters.
That being said she didn't deserve the crap she got from the media/public and I wish her well. Just glad I don't have to watch her week after week in all her different guises.
LOL. Don't try to apply logic or reason to that embarrassing theory.
Absolutely! And I wouldnt have it any other way.
So why didn't Treyc receive the same venom? Same situation with the recording contract, and maybe the judges were saving her over the others because they saw potential in her, and the others were dull as dishwater? And the one time that she was up against someone who they thought also had similar potential, the public dismissed the other act.
The whole "fake" business was rubbish from the start as she was always herself but just choose to show different sides of her personality.
Prior to the show she bleached and damaged which is why she was wearing the space helmet and head dresses as it covered the damage. As the series continued she just went back to her natural color.
People judged her on anything but her voice it seems.
I know,it's complicated : I honestly think Cher was the chosen one this year ie. the person Cowell most wanted to win.But he was fighting a losing battle from Judges' House onwards.I do think Katie kept Cher in until the end.....had there been no Katie,Cher would have been badly exposed and probably would have been the hate figure of this series.
And the producers were fuelling all this : much of the negative stories about Katie in the press were clearly coming from the XF PR machine.
I'm not saying she deserved to be turned into a national hate figure. Of course the response was OTT. But it's always going to be with TXF. The whole show is OTT.
Have to say though I wasn't impressed by her voice on the whole. I liked 'I wanna be like you', but other than that.
Cher turned in mostly very good performances, save for one or two off nights. It's not like she wasn't without merit, and the public generally kept her in the competition pretty long.
Her personality issues seemed to be the creation of a media blitz to create drama out of nowhere (i.e. SpoonGate, not being on stage to congratulate Matt). I have no doubt that she threw tantrums, but it seems they were directed at herself (frustration with her practices) rather than others. The sign of a perfectionist...hardly satanic behaviour.
Cher got the 3rd most negative stories behind Katie and Wagner, from what I could tell.
Everyone seems to have forgotten what Mary said which was:
" I just want to sing. I just want to a legend like Shirley Bassey".
So it wasn't just Katie wanting be a legend
I never understood and never will understand why it is considered wrong for a singer to want to be a legend
I think Katie was also a victim of class bias. A lot of people just saw Katie as a 'privileged stage school girl'. So you can see how similar things said by Mary From Tesco might sound quite different to a lot of people compared to how they sound when said by Katie.
The papers wrote a lot of crap about Katie, when she left one paper went with the headline - "Cher is the new Katie Waissel" It was obvious to anyone they were looking for someone else to drum up hate for after Katie left.
Once Katie left the competition many people stopped hating her and like a mindless herd started hating Cher. Neither of the girls deserved to have the bullshit written about them that they got. Their only crime was not being deemed 'likeable' by the general public / sheep who need pantomime hate-figures.