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I think she has a lovely voice, and could've done really well on the show if she'd had a better arrangement of The Winner Takes It All to sing on her semi-final episode. She could've had more publicity too. Funnily enough some of my other faves from S8 were on that episode, and of them, only Scott made it. I also liked Kristin and Nate. I did like their voices, especially Kristin's, but I also found them entertaining

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A few people. Not on this site.

I don't think there was anything wrong with the arrangement of the song. It's just not an easy song to sing at the best of times and even worse in a situation where unless you have a lot of vocal control, nerves are going to get the better of you.

I was going to say, I seemed to be alone (at least overall) in supporting her

The arrangement of the song seemed a bit clunky to me, but I agree, it is very hard, and doesn't' always work well lyrically in competitve circumstances, let alone vocally. I don't doubt she could've nailed it, but she should've let herself hit her stride first.

I sang the same song in my college panto (inspired by Arianna actually, the song choice not the panto lol) and did pretty well, but wouldn't risk it on a live AI show, and I wouldn't risk it if I wasn't feeling 100 per cent either

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Rosie Ribbons' performance in the first series of Pop Idol has to go down as one of the most disastrous of TWTIA in any show. She went from being one of the early favourites to being eliminated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJ1x7lVp84

She was my favourite, so I was very upset by that

I thought Arianna's version was miles better though

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Arianna's version was better than Rosie's version. But their vocals were both all over the place. Sadly, it was not surprising that they were eliminated afterwards.

Arianna tried to make it her own while Rosie stuck to the original arrangmenet. Unfortunately, it's not a song you can change up much, if you want to make it work

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