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Songs that should be banned from the auditions
Each year we hear the same dull song screeched, yodelled and downright murdered by deluded wannabees. For the sake of fairness, I think each post should contain only one song
I'll kick off with Mariah Carey's "Hero" The list could go on and on though........ |
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I Will Always Love You :yawn:
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That horrible song from Dreamgirls 'and I'm telling you'
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Without You has been sang by someone in the live shows every year (Cassie, Brenda, Leona, Beverley, Alexandra).
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Mercy has been sung by Hannah last year in the audition, bootcamp and possibly JH. This year that Duffy lokk-a-like sang it.
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Agree with all those mentioned. Plus Over the Rainbow :yawn:
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Angels. Never rated the song in the first place, but it seems all the audition renditions are terrible...
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Not so much auditions, but I'd ban Lady Marmalade, You Raise Me Up, I Have Nothing from the live shows.
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Rihanna Umbrella
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Agree with most of the above. Easier just to say any song ever recorded by Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, or Celine Dion.
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Agree with most of the above. Easier just to say any song ever recorded by Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, or Celine Dion.
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I wouldn't ban songs by these artists, as then we'd probably never have another female winner again, and lets face it, they are the only good winners we've actually had. But Mariah, Whitney and Celine have big catalogues, they could easily pick a song that isn't IWALY, I Have Nothing, Hero, Without You or All By Myself.
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Agree with all those mentioned. Plus Over the Rainbow :yawn:
I'm also sick of 'Fields of Barley' - Nadine Coyle was the only one who ever did it well. |
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Not so much auditions, but I'd ban Lady Marmalade, You Raise Me Up, I Have Nothing from the live shows.
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Especially when done in an affected Leona Lewis style with loads of trills.
I'm also sick of 'Fields of Barley' - Nadine Coyle was the only one who ever did it well.
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Ah, but I don't agree that those were the only good winners we've actually had, and I don't see that it would mean we would never have another female winner. If it meant we would never have that kind of female winner again, that would be just fine by me.
I think its a lot harder for women on these shows. If you avoid those big ballads people assume you can't pull them off, but if you do actually sing them, you're flogged for being predictable. |
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But even female contestants who aren't 'that kind' have sang those sort of songs. Cassie, Hope, Conway Sisters etc. all sang Diva Ballads, but weren't from the same mold as Alexandra and Leona.
I think its a lot harder for women on these shows. If you avoid those big ballads people assume you can't pull them off, but if you do actually sing them, you're flogged for being predictable. |
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When You Believe
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Hero and I Will Always Love You, most of the time those two songs are murdered.
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The song is called 'Fields of Gold' not 'Fields of Barley'
![]() The Eva Cassidy version of Over The Rainbow is heartbreaking
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Pretty much every Eva recording is brilliant.
I'd go with XF winner singles, particularly 'Against All Odds'. Ew. |
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I would have preferred Leona to sing OTR soft all the way through a la Eva myself
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