On lorraine she said that the sad thing about x factor is that she had to sing covers and that she felt like a karaoke act every week and she'd have liked to sing her own stuff!

but surely she knew that's what she'll be doing right from before she auditioned!!?

Had she never watched the programme before?

The sad thing is, on two occasions she failed to remember the words to a song she'd been apparently rehearsing all week!

Of course she knew. It's doubtful she'd never watched X Factor before. They all sing covers and just get on with it. Trouble with Janet is, she sings (and I use the term loosely) in one style and one style only.

I don't think I could ever listen to a whole album of hers. For me personally I really don't like the sound of her voice.

Sometimes you think you will enjoy things more than you do when you actually experience it.

She said in an interview for UTV last week that she'd been watching the show for years. No doubt she knew that if she progressed very far she'd be singing covers every week, but still she probably wasn't prepared for the pressures the show would impose. Being an XF contestant is like having a child, folks who do that tend to say it's impossible to imagine how much it'll change your life until you've done it. Except anyone having a child would at least usually know they were quite likely to do so, whereas putting in an entry for XF only signifies a cat in h*ll's chance of a run on the lives...

Knowing what you're going to do and actually doing it are two different things though. She clearly found it much tougher than she thought she would and looked quite relieved to be out.

Already trying to pick holes in all her interviews I see. My understanding by what she said is that she realised that the X Factor wasn't right for her while she was doing it for this reason. As rebecca87 said, the thought of doing it was better than the reality. I think that's perfectly understandable, much like how I thought eating 24 jaffa cakes would be fun until I did it.

Yes - its one thing watching the show on telly. Its quite another experiencing the level of scrutiny, manipulation, tabloid attention and hate that gets directed at you.

Whatever their different tastes in music Janet and Misha fans can certainly agree on that.

These are only teenage girls pursuing a dream - and the X factor is one of the few routes they have.

Until you have been in the shoes of an X factor contestant you can have no idea how they feel!

Sounds a bit like she's trying to claw back some credibility before her first album - use x factor to get the fame and then imply it's beneath her because she's a real artiste.

As I've constantly said, at least she didn't sing Firework on yellow trousers.

Lol excuses excuses excuses.

The girl's a joke!

Since when did X-Factor do anything BUT covers. I half-decent artist can take almost any song and make it their own. Janet couldn't even remember the blimin' words to the songs.

And who wants to listen to her crap songs? She was given some great songs and made them sound bad.

If she's writing such amazing stuff, why didn't she take countless other routes into the industry. Oh right, cause her material is rubbish and nobody would give her time of day outside of the Joke-Factor.

Or potentially because she doesn't know what the other routes are? Lots of people don't, the music industry is very daunting and some people think the only way to get in it is X Factor.

It's Credible Cardle all over again.

Hopefully she won't keep going on about it for THAT long though ...

I'm no Matt fan, I have no idea what his songs sound like post XF, and I know he's not very popular on here, but at least he had put in the hours before going on XF. As hilarious as it is to call him Matt Cardle Credible Artist (TM), he was in a band, he can play instruments, he does write songs, and he had been doing that for years. It's the same with Steve Brookstein, another popular person to slag off, personally I can understand where these two are coming from. XF was a last gasp effort to realise their dreams, but they were probably too jaded to go along with it long term.
Whereas Janet is just a teenager, I'm sure she's been into music for a while but won't have anywhere near the experience of Matt Cardle, so her whining about singing covers and distancing herself from XF etc, is a bit annoying, as she had hardly slogged it out before auditioning. She knew exactly what she was doing and her attitude on the show was shit :sleep:

Stupid statement every artist has there own style that is how we know them, is edel going to do punk rock next or maybe the rolling stones will release a country and western album !

Now Janet has gone it's fair to say she wasn't happy in the X Factor bubble.Heard stories of diva strops, tantrums and notions of grandeur.
web • 11/27/11 9:01 PM

This was from James ingham , daily star.

As others have said, it's one thing watching the show, but another thing entirely actually being a part of it. Until you experience it, you don't know how you'll cope. Especially with the media scruitiny, which is at an all time high this year. Add to that the things that have happened in this series that haven't happened in previous series:-

* 4 people being voted off in week 1
* 1 person being booted off for breaking rules in week 4 (or 5?)
* 1 of the four week 1 bootees being voted back in

Of course Janet should have realised that she'd be singing covers, but perhaps she thought she'd have more say in the decision making process.

I find it odd that contestants are criticised on here for being bland and singing covers, yet when any contestant shows a bit of spirit and a desire not to go down that route, they're also criticised for it! I guess they can't win!

She's trying to make herself look 'credible'. She'll start dissing the whole concept of the show as soon as her contractual obligations are over.

Very poor show!

They can stop trashing Janet now surely - she has left the competition. Syco got their required result as per Mary last year - an early vote topper who they didn't want to win brought down.

A little sad that a Star journalist has little else to do than report hearsay about a teenage girl

Regardless of whether she knew what to expect — and I think she must have done — the point remains valid: a karaoke competition is clearly a daft way of trying to find the next big recording artist.

What I meant was.................they all have to contend with theme weeks and up to a point most manage to adapt their 'certain style' accordingly. If she watched the X Factor she should have realised this and if she didn't think she was capable of doing so, she should have thought twice. With Janet she has one style that she isn't good at adapting and seeing as quite a number of times SHE actually chose her song one would think she'd choose something that she may have a chance of singing.

Nothing stupid about it at all imo

btw! it's a moot point to give examples of artists such as The Rolling Stones, they aren't performing on X Factor, but I daresay old Mick could give a credible performance of a country song.

OK, a quick look at her YouTube account which contains videos uploaded before she went on The X Factor

http://www.youtube.com/user/janetdevlin

Sure enough, all I see are covers.

Silly cow.

Didn't see this. Did she really say "covers"? Or was it the choice of covers she had issue with? Her own YouTube channel is filled with covers--mostly just not the type that XF allows on air.

STILL surprised she never managed to get to Cee-Lo/Gnarls Barkley though. Must have been a clearance issue, since he works for a competing reality franchise.

EXACTLY!!!I have no time for her, a sullen, petulant arrogant little madam!!!