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Just watched some of Katies performances
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You know she is quite good. After the fact I can see what the judges saw in her.
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Still good though. Her manner was annoying I think that was the problem not her talent.
To be honest, she was fighting a losing battle from week one. If she hadn't decided to act like a complete knob during auditions, and insist on reinventing herself every week ("this is the real me, honest"), she could have come across much better and would have been far more popular.
With regard to her talent... she had a certain degree of presence, but in terms of singing ability she left a lot to be desired. I lost count of the number of times she built up to a big note and failed to deliver it. She wasn't powerful enough for the songs she chose.
My favourite performance of hers was when she did the song from The Jungle Book.
King of the Swingers showed off her voice very nicely, I thought.
She should of been eliminated when she was up against Treyc. Not her fault personally she got through, but that caused such a bad taste in peoples mouths. People didn't get over it in a hurry either. She was always better in her sing offs, but she still deserved to go pretty early in the competition. Regardless of her very annoying personality on camera, I didn't like the sound of her voice, but when she put her heart into it she was quite good at times.
BUT: The circumstances of everything about her appeaances on XF - from her first audition to the bizarre scenes at Cheryl's 'house' to the sod it moment in her sing-off showed that she was not suited to this sort of popularity competition.
I praise the judges for trying to help her to get herself across and to give her every chance, but it WAS at other people's expense on some occasions and that only worked against Katie. People like a noble loser, they don't like a judge's chosen one.
I agree. Thats some peoples taste, but not mine personally. I much prefer a voice with alot of range. She could sing but she was never going to make the hairs on your neck stand up.
This will place tight limits on the songs she can even consider performing. It'll also place a limit on situations she can perform in - in any less-than-ideal live gig situation her voice will tend to get lost in the mix (you can't just turn a vocal mike up to infinity or it will both pick up extraneous sounds and it will feed back).
I used to be a tour sound engineer, and any time I came across a voice like hers I'd know we were all in for a rough night...