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Could Rebecca have won with a different mentor?
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It seems that a lot of people did not vote for the girl from Liverpool because they could not stand the idea of Cheryl having a hat trick win.
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Not sure how much difference it would have made, I guess that depends who they voted for instead, or if at all.
Her first uptempo number was during week 8 (Rock week) and on previous weeks, she's given 2 midtempo songs and 6 ballads. Any other mentor would've been better for her than Cheryl IMO.
I think that Rebecca may have won it had Dannii or Louis been her assigned mentor. It makes me wonder with all the posts on here of people voting for Matt because they wanted Dannii to win just how much of Matt's votes were down to the fact that Dannii was his mentor.
If you look at Leona (similar personality IMO) she didn't beat Ray by much of a margin and she was MILES more talented, I think there was perceived lack of personalit issues there too.
Charisma can carry people further than talent alone.
Leon? She beat Ray in the final?
Based on the voting figures, she started to close in on the gap during the final. Does it mean she's picking up floating voters' votes.
Yes Cheryl did not vary her song choices at all. Easily her best performances were Show Me Love and Sweet Dreams. Unfortunately, those performances came far too late in the series and Matt had built up such a support network by then that meant that Rebecca was never going to be able to catch him up in the votes.
Oops, edited. I always get those two the wrong way round. They blend in to 1 for me
She had a few shaking and rather dull slow temp performances in the first 8 weeks - she got her first proper up tempo in week 9 - seems like a mistake.
To be fair I think Rebecca was begging for up-tempo, I think she must have stood her ground for the Eurythmics track - was that a late change?
More people liked Matt. It is that simple.
And I don't actually think there are enough of such "strange" people to have given the win to Rebecca.
However what is more possible is that with a different mentor Rebecca might have been given more variety in her songs ( whle I did like her I wondered if there she had in fact more difference she could have shown, more to give ) and actually her stage confidence really improved to give much more meaning to the almost weekly rerfrain "I think my confidence is getting better"
i.e. maybe there was a mentor that would have dione better with her and rightly or wrongly we know many folk think Cheryl concentrated much more on Cher.
Although i did vote for Matt from the final 2 just on what I saw overall, I can't help feeling that we didn't overall see the best from Rebecca.
So, for that reason, maybe, not for being anti-Cheryl.
People could like her better than Matt if she was given better and more variety of songs.
- not getting really confident with her performances, and not always spot on song choices - another mentor may have served her better there
- a personal anti-Cheryl backlash (considered the favoured one by Simon, and losing some of her personal likeability this year)
- an anti-manipulation vote - the perceived hyping of Katie and Cher and throwing other acts to the wolves, the preferential order of performances - I know of some people who wouldn't vote for a Simon or Cheryl act because they hold them most responsible or benefitting
But i still think Rebecca has done fantastically and will have a career and in a way, coming second will give her more options and choices. Good luck to her
Matt topped the phone votes pretty much every week. On that basis alone I think he is an out & out XF winner whatever the others may or may not have done differently.
I post that as a Rebecca fan.
Dannii was also getting slated for giving Matt girls songs to sing. What if she had given him different songs to sing? He may well have won even more convincingly.
This argument can go any way. The facts are very simple Matt was the overwhelming popular choice to win. Fair enough.
I never said Matt isn't the most liked /popular contestants. Based on votes, he is -- even from the very beginning. However, people can change their opinion over someone especially during earlier weeks. People say she's boring and show no personality and that she's a one trick pony. Why? Because she's constantly been given ballads which made her seemed bland.
Matt -- even though he's given girl songs, he's given variety and more production on some of his earlier performances compared to Rebecca -- and also Dannii's been giving him more modern songs to sing (When Love Takes Over, Baby One More Time, Just The Way You Are) compared to Rebecca (Feeling Good, Why Dont You Do Right, Teardrops) and it made his fanbase grew.
I thought the same, seemed much more confident. I do have this feeling that they were trying to make Rebecca more of a classy performer yet a little dated. I thought I detected Rebecca moving her leg in a dancing fashion at one point while she was singing Sweet Dreams but stopped abruptly as if she knew she wasn't meant to move. Now I know people say you don't have to move but I do wonder if this is why they repeatedly gave her slower songs so it would take the temptation away to dance to the music.
I don't know if it's the Mentors fault or others behind the scenes giving Cheryl the wrong advice on how to bring out the best in her acts. Still Rebecca did well, she came second to someone that seemed to have a large proportion of the viewing public on his side from very early on..