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I just watched Janet Devlin's audition(x factor 2011) for the first time


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Old 18-11-2012, 15:09
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She seemed to have such an amazingly unique voice that I wondered why she didn't go far.I hardly watched any of xfactor 2011 as I was away travelling a lot that year.Can someone who watched tell me why she didn't seem to have gone far in that series.Watching the audition, the judges and those in the room all seemed to love her.She got a standing ovation!
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:10
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she forgot the words too umm bop.

The words to um bop are "um bop".

and they dyed her hair ginger - bad move.
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:12
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She topped the votes for a lot of the weeks but as the live shows went on it was like she stopped trying and 'forgot the words' like twice, she got quite far though.
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:13
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She seemed to have such an amazingly unique voice that I wondered why she didn't go far.I hardly watched any of xfactor 2011 as I was away travelling a lot that year.Can someone who watched tell me why she didn't seem to have gone far in that series.Watching the audition, the judges and those in the room all seemed to love her.She got a standing ovation!
She made week 8 How is that not going far?
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:13
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What was interesting about her voice in her audition soon became boring and repetitive. People lost interest.
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:15
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she forgot the words too umm bop.

The words to um bop are "um bop".

and they dyed her hair ginger - bad move.
And styled her hair like Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons.
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:17
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She made week 8 How is that not going far?
I was away a lot and hardly watched it so I didn't even know she made week 8 Lol
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:18
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She topped the votes for a lot of the weeks but as the live shows went on it was like she stopped trying and 'forgot the words' like twice, she got quite far though.
Thanks for letting me know.What's she up to now.
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:42
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You should check out her rendition of Mmm Bop, no idea what week it was but it has entered folklore as "the day the music died"
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:43
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTY0AtqOhxU

Enough said
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:43
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She was given some of the most horrible song choices last year. But she still did really good!!!
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:44
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I think as the competition went on, Janet realised what kind of artist she didn't want to be and sort of gave up. I'm sure her original material will be better than her run on the show.
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:48
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Most dreadful performance I have seen... they should have just let her go there and then
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Old 18-11-2012, 15:57
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She was my favourite from last year.
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Old 18-11-2012, 16:00
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she forgot the words too umm bop.

The words to um bop are "um bop".

and they dyed her hair ginger - bad move.
Would be funnier if the words she actually forgot were those, it wasn't the chorus.

And, ironically, it's MMMBop, not um bop.
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Old 18-11-2012, 16:04
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She peaked too soon, I think her best performance was her audition and she never really met that standard again so she lost votes as others picked them up. A few bad performances in the lives took their toll and she went from topping the vote for the first few weeks to being overtaken by several others. She made top 5 though so still made it pretty far.
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Old 18-11-2012, 16:13
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She peaked too soon, I think her best performance was her audition and she never really met that standard again so she lost votes as others picked them up. A few bad performances in the lives took their toll and she went from topping the vote for the first few weeks to being overtaken by several others. She made top 5 though so still made it pretty far.
In a way Ella could be a victim of peaking too soon also. Her version of Believe was ace and we're all waiting for her to top it. I hope she makes the finals and gets the opportunity to perform it again.
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Old 18-11-2012, 16:19
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Thanks for letting me know.What's she up to now.
Completing her first album. Funding seems to be going pretty well (from the numbers it looks as though she's after raising around £25,000, and the project's only been running a couple of weeks or so) : http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/janetdevlin .
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Old 18-11-2012, 16:33
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I never really understood the whole "she's so unique! " argument about Janet. She was basically Aldi's answer to Ellie Goulding (with a little Dolores O'Riordan and Diana Vickers thrown in) proven by her complete carbon copy of "Your Song" at her audition.
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Old 18-11-2012, 16:52
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Liked Janet. She was unique.
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Old 18-11-2012, 17:12
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In a way Ella could be a victim of peaking too soon also. Her version of Believe was ace and we're all waiting for her to top it. I hope she makes the finals and gets the opportunity to perform it again.
Yeah I was thinking the same about Ella, I think her audition/bootcamp performances got so much hype. She reminds me of Janet in that way that she was favourite to win too early but her fan base doesn't grow at the same rates others do.
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Old 18-11-2012, 17:13
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She peaked too soon, I think her best performance was her audition and she never really met that standard again
Quite a few people do that. You have your whole life to prepare for the audition. You have a few days to prepare each song for the live shows.
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Old 18-11-2012, 18:18
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An absolute travesty that she never won, she was way ahead of everyone else last year.
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Old 18-11-2012, 18:22
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She got really boring after her audition and turned pretty awful tbh
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Old 18-11-2012, 18:22
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Song choice if you ask me and I really thought that Kelly gave up on her and maybe didn't even like her that much.

Also for some reason the public didn't warm to her much either.
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