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Old 21-11-2010, 00:10
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Were they a hit or miss?

Are metal stairs/steps the new X Factor black, replacing the usual elevation of podium or perspex steps?

Should decorator Matt sing his next song from the top of a set of stepladders?

During this series most of the contestants and guest performers seem to be getting higher and higher, elevated up on a 'stage on a stage', so might trendy metal stairs and steps be the way to get them right up into the studio ceiling during their performances, up where all the abseiling rope dancers live?
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Old 21-11-2010, 00:28
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Hit and miss. Nice and simple, but she could have started at the top and walked down. Song would have suited a Diana Vickers-style swing
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Old 21-11-2010, 00:43
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Diana's swing was like a 'freedom' scene from a tampon advert.

Cher could have had a pair of angel's wings and flown from the top of the stairs on the final verse (with a guide wire, of course).
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Old 21-11-2010, 04:08
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seeing she announced a surprise for this perfoamnce, one has to wonder if that staircase was it? obviously we knew she cannot sing if her life depended on it before she started raping the song. perhaps she was meant to fall down those stairs to add soem drama and screwed that up as well.
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Old 21-11-2010, 04:11
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They had to do something to try and distract us from arguably one of the most boring live X Factor performances - of any series. She could have sat on a tiger and I think I would have still nodded off a little.
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Old 21-11-2010, 04:11
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She could have fallen from the bloody thing, that is what my daughter and I were hoping for
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Old 21-11-2010, 04:26
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all fair n square, but what the heck was the big surprise? i mean, yes, the staircase was pretty big. what did i miss?

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s103/...-surprise.html
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Old 21-11-2010, 04:28
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She could have fallen from the bloody thing, that is what my daughter and I were hoping for
What a twisted family you have there...

Defo miss, looked a little blah
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Old 21-11-2010, 04:29
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I would have preferred a trapdoor.

One that opened just as she went to sing her first word.
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Old 21-11-2010, 04:33
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Just finished watching it - my favourite bit was Cheryl's justification... "It's like a stairway to heaven!" for a song whose opening lines invite us to imagine life without such a place. She's such a numpty.
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Old 21-11-2010, 04:34
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Just finished watching it - my favourite bit was Cheryl's justification... "It's like a stairway to heaven!" for a song whose opening lines invite us to imagine life without such a place. She's such a numpty.
Hahaha. Missed that one.
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Old 21-11-2010, 04:38
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Just finished watching it - my favourite bit was Cheryl's justification... "It's like a stairway to heaven!" for a song whose opening lines invite us to imagine life without such a place. She's such a numpty.
it's the same t*t that said she "wasn't familiar" with Crocodile Rock.
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Old 21-11-2010, 06:14
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Cher did look a bit daft with her spindley little legs dangling but it did sort of suit the song I thought.
She was in the middle of nowhere imagining.
I loved her performance this week and I never thought I would be saying that about Cher, the rapper.
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Old 21-11-2010, 06:34
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She reminded me of a little girl whose feet don't touch the floor when she sits on a grown-up chair.

And yeah, I caught the Stairway to Heaven reference.
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Old 21-11-2010, 08:34
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I thought it was nice - a bit heavy on the symbology though with Cher dressed in a white angel style dress without her usual drag queen makeup, sitting on a stairway to heaven, but it was a nice change to see her just sitting and singing and performing rather well too!
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Old 21-11-2010, 08:36
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Terrible

she reminded me of scooter from the muppets
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Old 21-11-2010, 08:37
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and I thought the song was about imagining there was NO heaven
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Old 21-11-2010, 08:47
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They were just a prop. No better or worse than the perspex podiums Simon has his little elves standing on.
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Old 21-11-2010, 08:52
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Am I the only one questions whether "Imagine" is even a Beatles song...since it was released on Lennon's solo album (1971) two years after they split (1969).

Or is this another piece of music history has slipped by Churl?
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Old 21-11-2010, 08:53
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It's categorically not a Beatles song but since they have been very liberal with all the themes this year, at least this one had a definite link to The Beatles, as painful as it was.
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Old 21-11-2010, 08:58
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Just finished watching it - my favourite bit was Cheryl's justification... "It's like a stairway to heaven!" for a song whose opening lines invite us to imagine life without such a place. She's such a numpty.
She reminded me of a little girl whose feet don't touch the floor when she sits on a grown-up chair.

And yeah, I caught the Stairway to Heaven reference.
and I thought the song was about imagining there was NO heaven

Missed the show last night and am gonna whiz through the highlights later - am now looking forward to this for all the wrong reasons.
So, to Tweedy's list of attributes - bully, chav, aggressive, dreadful singer, musically ignorant (Elton John ) we can now add incomprehensibly, astonishingly STUPID
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Old 21-11-2010, 09:09
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I wish I had some stairs
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Old 21-11-2010, 09:15
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I think the idea was to make her look vulnerable.

It didnt work.

If she'd been duetting with Robin the frog singing halfway down the stairs it would have been appropriate, but for 'Imagine' , not really.
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Old 21-11-2010, 11:14
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Am I the only one questions whether "Imagine" is even a Beatles song...since it was released on Lennon's solo album (1971) two years after they split (1969).

Or is this another piece of music history has slipped by Churl?

you would be right! My BF who never watches XFactor and who is a big John Lennon fan mentioned this to me last night.
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Old 21-11-2010, 12:04
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Those stairs were a perfect metaphor for the girl ..... temporarily elevated and leading absolutely nowhere.
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