Most of her "twists" on songs apart from Believe have been questionable.

If she is a big Adele fan surely she should do Rolling In The Deep as its quite uptempo

You can tell they are slowly trying to mould her into Adele with the styling and the stationary performances but she doesn't come close. What they seem to have forgotten is that as much as Adele is about her unique style and personal lyrics she also has a big personality. I find Ella boring and I don't understand the fuss about her voice which warbles.

Yes I know shes only 16

when is she due to turn 17 cause the only sixteen comments are doing my head in.

I would love her to do Mercy or Valerie she has that real motown 60's vibe and I think those song choices could really help her IMO

16 is her singing age she is 28 soon

January.

I really liked Ella early on but the formula with each performance is getting very boring. I don't really get the Adele comparison. She reminds me much more of Susan Boyle now.

It is getting a bit ridiculous. It's not as if she's the first 16 year old ever to get to the live shows - both Janet and Amelia from last year were 16, as was Eoghn in his year. Plus there have been plenty of even younger singers on XFUS, BGT and other TV talent shows over the years.

It's got nothing to do with not being allowed to do one, she'll do one soon enough, she just needs the right uptempo song.

And then you will find that is will be

warble, shout, growl, warble shout, growl - one high note and the studio audience goes wild.

They don't give her up tempo songs because she has proved that her singing has some annoying flaws when she does try them.

Ridiculous comparison but you know that

Then you'd better prepare yourself for loads of she's only 17 comments

I completely agree.

The girl needs to let go and have some fun instead of turning up-tempos into dreary ballads, written in the stars anyone?

You just want everyone to sing Karaoke. :yawn:

A bit like Leona in her series did almost all slow songs, aside from disco week when she performed Lady Marmalade uptempo.

But back then it was considered ok to sing them like the original and not have to twist every song to make it "their own".

If they want them to do their own songs, make them sing originals.

I find it interesting that Ella is allowed to do everything in her style, but Janet wasn't allowed to.

They made Janet dance to Mmm Bop, it's no surprise she forgot the words being so far out of her comfort zone. But nobody has challenged, or even hinted at challenging Ella.

very basic only limited sort of girl

It's a shame because she was my favourite of those remaining, but in the past couple of weeks I've got very bored and Jahmene has overtaken her. Plus, even though I don't like James, I actually enjoy his performances more than Ella's now.

She sent me into a comma last night! Awful rendition and arrangement of the song. It was as if it was a piss-take rendition a la Peter Griffin singing a slow rendition of "Bird is the Word" in Family Guy to his in-laws!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZLnt3fk0tg

Put her out of her misery and get rid of her.

The old format of the show when it was still good was to purposely force them out of their comfort zones at times by introducing categories like big band week, disco week, rock week etc.

They still have the categories but it still seems to be an "anything you want" week, every week.

They ruined Rhydian's chances of winning too by turning him boring in the last few weeks too.

Maybe if they dressed her like a 16 year old...and especially lay off the heavy lipstick they wouldn't have to keep reminding us. She looks like she's stuck in the 1940s.

No. There are ways of making an up-tempo song your own instead of turning them to yawn-festing ballads or karaoke as you claim.

OH and to answer the question OP, because she isn't capable of pulling off an up-tempo song...her trying to dance was a complete mess.

Alexandra Burke was 'only 19', yet she was doing everything from powerful Whitney ballads to full on uptempo performances complete with original Britney choreography....Ella is overhyped and just rubbish. She is not versatile and her vocals are mediocre.

From next week they will be doing two songs, so surely she won't be allowed to get away with two ballads

It doesn't mean she isn't talented because she can't dance.: