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Old 06-10-2012, 23:20
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I didnt like that performance at all. He may have a strong voice but Imagine should not be sung like that - EVER He completely oversung it, the keychange was unnecessary and the worst bit was when he went "IIIIIII hoooooope sooome daaay yooou wiiil JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIN (*really high*) UUUS YYEEE-EESSSS.."
He destroyed the song with overuse of vibrato/melisma (sp?) - it might have been all right if he kept it simple. With this song, less is truly more but his performance was shite and I just didnt like it
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Old 06-10-2012, 23:21
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What with that and the charity video thing someone posted I can't take him seriously at all.

He sings like he's sat on a washing machine during spin-cycle, and Imagine is the worst possible song to do that do.

Technically good but simultaneously bloody awful.
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Old 06-10-2012, 23:24
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There are some songs that should never be changed because of their simplicity.

This was one of them. But he was far from being the worst tonight.
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Old 06-10-2012, 23:29
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He sounded like a cat when someone trod on its tail and trapped it in a mincer
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Old 06-10-2012, 23:49
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I just find him all wrong somehow, he looks odd and he totally murdered a lovely song. Just don't know what to make of him, and that laughing after everything he says is just awful. Looks like a sack in his clothes as well, someone needs to style him. Worst for me tonight.
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Old 06-10-2012, 23:51
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Imagine is a lovely classic and should never be murdered like it was tonight
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Old 06-10-2012, 23:58
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I enjoyed his version. Made it his own.
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Old 06-10-2012, 23:58
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I enjoyed his version. Made it his own.
Should be arrested for theft then.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:00
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Screech screech screech nervous laugh screech screech wibble panic attack screech screech key change screech

That's him sorted for the rest of the season
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:01
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Terrible song choice but very impressed by his voice.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:02
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Have to agree, "head like a football" was terrible with all the squealing tonight
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:03
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Best male vocalist in the competition.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:05
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Jahmene is brilliant when he's just singing, so tonight during the first part of 'Imagine'. I hear too many singers ruining their performances with unnecessary and excessive thrills and riffs. It''s a shame and I hope he stops doing this because he's an amazing vocalist. The best male vocalist I've seen on the X Factor.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:07
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i didnt enjoy his performance at all tonight, imo imagine is just one of those songs you just dont touch, altho agree with lunar he is easily the best male vocalist of the competition
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:08
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He has been awful since day one. Can't understand his appeal.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:11
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This coming from a Wagner fan oh dear.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:15
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Blasphemy! Leave Wagner out of your rants
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:18
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It was horrid. I just don't get it.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:20
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Best male vocalist in the competition.
Yes he is. For me it is a two horse race - Jahmene and Ella and that's reflected by the betting. However, I really don't like Imagine and that was a rubbish song choice.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:24
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There's being able to sing, and knowing how to sing. He is capable of the first, and hasn't the first clue about the second.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:26
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He has been awful since day one. Can't understand his appeal.
This is why people should not believe what they read on internet forums.

He was one of the top performers tonight.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:26
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I love the style of singing he does. Big Mariah style notes, I live for them. But he doesn't do them right nor in a way that is enjoyable or relevant to the song. He has no musicality to know when to blow and when to hold back. Melanie was closer to the mark.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:30
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I love the style of singing he does. Big Mariah style notes, I live for them. But he doesn't do them right nor in a way that is enjoyable or relevant to the song. He has no musicality to know when to blow and when to hold back. Melanie was closer to the mark.
I thought Melanie murdered hers worse than Jahmene, nearly put me off the Wonder Years.

Both strip all emotion and meaning from a song though in an effort to impress with vocal gymnastics and in Melanie's case volume as well.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:35
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I wasn't a massive fan of Melanies, but my point is it fitted with the song. Her big notes really did have a part in being in the places where they were, they were put in in poignant moments and they either worked or didn't, but there was thought put into it musically. With Jahmene it was senseless butchering.

I also hate his vibrato, far to sheep-like.
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Old 07-10-2012, 00:41
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I wasn't a massive fan of Melanies, but my point is it fitted with the song. Her big notes really did have a part in being in the places where they were, they were put in in poignant moments and they either worked or didn't, but there was thought put into it musically. With Jahmene it was senseless butchering.

I also hate his vibrato, far to sheep-like.
Melanie just exaggerated the whole song for effect, there was no feeling in any of it. Turned it into some bizarre hippy stadium song.

Jahmene just put Imagine through his washing machine.

Neither song was intact at the end of it.
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