What I'd do now if I were Lucy...............
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It would be a big challenge but if Lucy gets through and she could write a new song each week for the chosen theme I think that would work beautifully.
I mean one of her own songs in her own style that is linked to it in some way.
I mean one of her own songs in her own style that is linked to it in some way.
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I would hate it if she's forced to belt out classics that just aren't in her own style.
But audiences are falling and Lucy is popular. Is there a rule that says they cannot write their own material? They let that baby-rapper try on XF-USA. She would need to stick to the theme and occasionally that would force a cover, but not every week
If she stands up for herself then that won't happen. Last year's Idol winner refused to play along - he wouldn't dress up in the silly Tommy Hillfiger outfits and he didn't do dancing. He also had his guitar most weeks, He won by a landslide.
People who can do what Lucy does have a lot of charm and it's a long while since Victoria Wood was young and doing something similar, in her own way.
It doesn't fit the format but the show needs something new.
Oh Lord yes.............. save me from mega volume warbling of of songs which someone has "made their own" by not quite doing them as well as the originals.......................
Janet Devlin's time on the show fell apart because she looked like a conventional star in the making, and could sound like one, and there was pressure from the start on her to become one. Nobody's going to be daft enough to think that big production and shiny frocks will make Lucy Spraggan into the next Rihanna: they'll be looking for ways within the show's format to bring out the performer she already is.
It frustrates me that she didn't wait until January and go for BGT instead.
"This song's about Madonna
I think I'm a gonner
She sang in a basque
So will I if you ask"
*strum strum*
Crikey - I would have written something very similar. Are you me? Though the smiley gives it away, I don't smile much.
Completely agree about the exposure Lucy is getting. Following on from XF, I do now watch other shows, but only the American singing competitions; people's juggling dogs or people juggling dogs is not my cup-of-assam. So, if she'd not been on XF I wouldn't have seen her, but now I will go to see her as I note she plays the festival circuit.
People like Jake Thackeray- who she reminds me of in some ways- are never huge stars but they have a devoted following and their talent is not in doubt. Seeing her in the Pleasance bar up at the Edinburgh festival would be a joy.
At the end of the day, the whole point of the X Factor is singing ability. While in the real world credibility and writing your own songs is much better than X Factor rubbish, it misses the point of the X Factor entirely. X Factor isn't meant to be credible.
I'm not proposing changing the rules to accommodate her, but Brian on XF USA seemed to set a precedent here and it looks like you can write your own stuff - obviously not in Britney week, but in the more loosely themed weeks.
The other competitors would be free to write their own material too - but Brian proved it isn't easy, especially when they change themes at short notice. Of course Lucy has the disadvantages of being a little plain and not having a great voice, so it all evens out.
And it seems clear to me that what X-Factor is "about" is making money. I don't think there is some sort of contract with the viewers guaranteeing anything else. If we can squeeze a little entertainment out of them on the way then everybody is happy.
A truly great artist would make the show right.
I don't know if that is Lucy, but I'm in for the ride.
Yes. Promotional materials and judges' comments of course put a different spin on it and say that it's about finding new pop stars / recording artists, which is part of the way it makes money, the other part being attracting plenty of advertising to ITV at weekends, for which it needs big audiences. I've only been watching since 2010, but I've never heard it described by anyone involved as a singing contest. There's generally a wave of protest here whenever it's said, but sending a contestant home with "you're an excellent singer, but... or keeping them around because "you're not the best singer, but... is as near honesty as the whole thing gets.
Personalities, backstories, image, controversies, it's about all those. Oh, and singing too, but there's no meter to measure that any more than for those other things. In context, a good singer is anybody the viewers will vote to see more of. I'd guess Lucy being Lucy will do the show a power of good. Maybe even Rylan will, as Jedward and Wagner before him - the show needs variety, perhaps it even needs pantomime villains, to maintain its appeal. The Voice tried a bit harder to be a singing contest... viewers drifted away, tour cancelled. Just doesn't work.
As Edgar says The Voice tried to prove that truth wrong and it got them nowhere.
I think Rylan is an absolute hoot by the way! :-)
I'm sort of warming to him somehow myself. It's an insidious process, once it starts
I agree - he reminds me a little of somebody I worked with, also from Essix and he is likeable and pretty much aware of what he is and why he is there. I would prefer it if he did not go through though.
I think they might put him through David..................
She'd be better releasing a couple of singles with the Loveable Rogues tbh to get things moving.