They genuinely thought Ella would win in a canter, but it seems the judges and producers know Sweet FA about talent

I don't buy the idea of 'deserving' to get through or even to win.
It's all just opinion. Most of us aren't qualified to determine who is the best singer technically, I know I aren't.
I just go by what I like, what sounds good to my ear and what entertains me.
There have been many very successful artists over the years that have questionable vocal skills.

She has been overhyped from the start, the voice is not the best and she has been standing still doing one ballad after the next, as exciting as watching paint dry and last night was dreadful. If she had done an up tempo version and just been allowed to be a fun 16 year old for once it might have been different.

Looks like she failed to connect with the public at any point (rumour has it she has struggled in the voting for several weeks).

I agree. She doesnt sing songs you expect a 16 year old to sing. So she will benefit from a few more years.

I think the judges' overpraising of Ella was her downfall. The public realised she wasn't as good as they were trying to make us believe.

i think this is probably quite true. i've said from the start that she's got a fairly good voice but certainly not great or particularly special. i think a lot slowly realised this and also got bored of her performances.

Because her song last night was brilliant.....except she didn't sing it, she sang some mutilated version of it

This result was 'a result in the making'......plus she had Tulisa as a mentor....WELL DONE TULISA!!

Ridiculous version of the song.
Same schtick every week.
Too boring.

Stacey Soloman (Yeah exactly! - not exactly tearing up the charts is she???)




Could someone post a link to the official voting percentages?

Is there weekly updates?


thankyou kindly

YK

Tulisa was pathetic after Ella and James were in the bottom 2.

It was obvious she was having a dig at votes for Christopher.

But the reality is that Ella was boring and forgettable every week, and her sing off song was no exception, just pure dross.

James sung a very emotional performance in the sing off, and has always thrown emotion into his songs which is why he has gone forwards.

Good result and the correct result at last this week.

Are you a puppet meerkat or do you just like imitating 'em?

It's not reality, it's merely your opinion. An opinion I don't subscribe to. The girl has an incredible singing voice.

I think its because she took a well known song, slowed it down and ruined it.

Ella was in the bottom 2 because of several factors, none of them being the X factor ...

She's a girl. All other females were removed from the competition in previous weeks. Yes, I know girls can win the X Factor and do well, but it does seem harder for them versus boys and men.

She was probably too sophisticated for a tweenie audience and for an older audience had we not been told she was 16 I'd have thought she was 23. So I think she fell between 2 voter bases.

Wrong song choices and arrangements. She was singing unknown songs (to the ITV viewer) or edgy or depressing, downbeat versions of popular songs. Song choice is absolutely critical. When people say 'she could sing the phone book' they don't actually want to hear her sing the phone book, they want #1 hit songs sung in the version they recognise or a version that lifts them up, not drags them down.

She was badly styled. She's 16 and was dressed like a 45 year old half the time.

She went off the boil for 3 weeks in a row with dull songs. I thought she sang brilliantly this week but the song was a dirge and I agreed with Nicole, I was waiting for it to kick in with a sudden rev up into being a huge, fun dance number. Instead it dragged. Anyway, her momentum was heading down for a month when, for example, Jahmene's and Rylan's were heading up.

The judges overpraised her and I guess a lot of people felt they didn't need to vote for her with all that praise. It seems criticism inspires people to pick up the phone, not praise - look at Chris and Rylan.

Joe McElderry (sp?) won actually. xD Stacey came third, but I guess she got her fair share of publicity through advertising & IAC. Joe has kinda faded into obscurity though, minus that opera show I guess? :s

The song choice and rendition was awful, and she is styled and looks like a 45 year old as previous poster has said. Why do they do it/go along with it?

Hear hear!

In answer to the original question about why Ella was in the bottom two? One reason - Tulisa/the producers. Ella has an amazing talent and it says something that her best performances were her audition and boot camp before the producers got properly hold her!! I mean honestly what the hell was that version of Written in the stars they gave her with the daft lyrics that bear no relation to the chorus?! They ruined her!

Last week some ella fans on here said they weren't going to vote for ella again because they dislike Tulisa so much. It's understandable really.

they said that??

This is the only bottom two appearance ever I want to put down to complacency. Everybody loved Ella, everyone tweeted about Ella, talked about her. But how many voted?

I would think it didnt help that she looked like a middle aged woman and not a 16yr old . Ì have never seen a 16yr old teenager look lor dress like her, and because of this it seemed that the producers , and the stylists and tulisa seemed to forget how young she actually is so give her songs that were way to old for her and the nonsence of changing the song ruines it even more... Original songs have been a hit because they have been sang the way they have meant to be ,once they mess with it it ruins it for the singer and ruins a good song

And it looks like teenage girls never connected with her (very few other people for that matter).