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So let me see if.....................
I've got this right.
If the thread is discussing Rylan it IS a singing competition. However, if the thread is discussing Lucy it is NOT a singing competition. Just wanted to get that straight.
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That's about right.
The truth is, Rylan has nothing going for him and can't sing. Lucy is extremely personable and can sing. |
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They are both limited vocally in their own way. Lucy can only do tragicomedy songs that aren't particularly melody-led and Rylan is all about Ibiza dance and couldn't sing a ballad convincingly.
Neither fit in to what the X Factor is about, which is to a degree versitility - able to adapt to themes. |
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The way I see it is Rylan is a charismatic popstar with a 6/10 voice. Lucy can write amazing songs but speaks while she sings...
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It's about lots of things, from pity through maternal feelings to desire and back again. Singing comes into it, and has to be done but needn't be good by any particular standard. Some will vote for what they think is good singing, others for what moves or pleases them. Divisive contestants stay around for a while but never win. Those are a few of the elements
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Can't see the fuss about either, to be honest.
Lucy and Rylan look like nice people but both are extremely limited. |
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The way I see it is Rylan is a charismatic popstar with a 6/10 voice. Lucy can write amazing songs but speaks while she sings...
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It's about lots of things, from pity through maternal feelings to desire and back again. Singing comes into it, and has to be done but needn't be good by any particular standard. Some will vote for what they think is good singing, others for what moves or pleases them. Divisive contestants stay around for a while but never win. Those are a few of the elements
![]() It's said a lot on the forum as a way of basically making fun of the show and wanting to take the piss out of it, but honestly I'd be inclined to agree the X Factor isn't really a singing competition, it's a show primarily geared towards viewer entertainment. The singing's obviously a huge element of it, but I think that people's favourites will be whoever can give them the most out of watching it, and while for a lot of people that might be vocally amazing performances, for others it might be ones that can produce a reaction from them emotionally, or ones that can make them laugh either with the performer or at them. |
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That's about right.
The truth is, Rylan has nothing going for him and can't sing. Lucy is extremely personable and can sing. he cant act.. either so he wont be no good in acting (fake shock at going through.. and poor attempt at fake cry) hope he falls off stage and the shock of it loses his voice.. forever... so never have to hear another word or attempt at singing again.. dont at all find him endearing.. find him rather annoying... in his group song at bootcamp i thought he was outshined in both singing and comedy value by bith his group mates.. so the comedy value people are talking about i dont see that either he just annoys me when i look at him.. and i want to smash me tv when he speaks.. other than that i suppose he ok!!!!!!
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It's said a lot on the forum as a way of basically making fun of the show and wanting to take the piss out of it, but honestly I'd be inclined to agree the X Factor isn't really a singing competition, it's a show primarily geared towards viewer entertainment... I tend to think the importance of versatility comes about by accident. Versatility of the kind X Factor can demand hardly matters for an established performer, or for that matter for the show's alumni as soon as the series is over. Cher Lloyd for instance surprised a lot of people with her version of Stay, but she's hardly revisited that territory since. Still the versatility thing hangs around because viewers need something a little different to look forward to week by week if their interest's to be held. The odd train wreck, the constant possibility of one, and the weekly promise of performers being taken outside their comfort zones, all help the show along. Just imagine a series in which the auditions shown were the best available, and contestants, until the public vote took over, were kept in or dropped in a single-minded attempt to find stable, disciplined individuals whose voice and image qualified them as possible international pop stars in established styles. There'd be hardly any headline fodder, next to nothing for people to talk about at work,. ratings would drop off a cliff. I'm not the greatest fan of the Simon Cowell machine - I don't despise it either for destroying music, I'm not persuaded there's much more bad music around than in any other recent decade - but it's done pretty well so far in designing formats that people in their millions choose to watch. |
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