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Old 13-10-2013, 00:17
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It appears Abi was put through to fulfill the 'quirky' role. Trouble is there are hundreds of thousands of young girls wearing plastic flowers in their hair and wearing non-prescription oversized specs who will think they sing better than she does.
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Old 13-10-2013, 00:34
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It appears Abi was put through to fulfill the 'quirky' role. Trouble is there are hundreds of thousands of young girls wearing plastic flowers in their hair and wearing non-prescription oversized specs who will think they sing better than she does.
wonder what props she has next week
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Old 13-10-2013, 00:39
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I like her, to me it was a terrible song choice. I'd buy an album of her own songs tomorrow. I think she's great and too genuinely musical for the show. And Diana Vickers was literaly my most hated contestant of all time, I loathe her. Didn't like Janet devlin either so I wouldn't say only people who liked them like abi.

It was a terrible night with only rough copy and sam b being any good, the rest were just karaoke and forgettable.
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Old 13-10-2013, 00:42
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Out of tune - are you guys having a laugh? It's called a different version? And are you so sure she's out of tune rattie because she stayed in the same key pretty much throughout that. Ridiculous comments (my opinion).
If you are going to do a different version, you have to still sing it accurately. She was under the note so much that it was clearly out of note.

There are technical ways of assessing whether someone is singing accurately - and she would fail such a test.

Your opinion is just that - the facts, when objectively assessed, would prove you wrong. She was flat. She got good comments. I wonder why...
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Old 13-10-2013, 00:48
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Catching up on +1 and again i think you lot are over reacting. It wasn't even bad, just different, clearly people don't like anyone but shouters on here.
It wasn't different....at all. It was Sophie's version from 2011....except with piano and a few changes.

It was so horrendously pitchy. Very, very, flat in places. It may not have been so bad if it was a more full sound production, but just with piano it sounded horrendous.
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:03
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It wasn't different....at all. It was Sophie's version from 2011....except with piano and a few changes.

It was so horrendously pitchy. Very, very, flat in places. It may not have been so bad if it was a more full sound production, but just with piano it sounded horrendous.
That's what I was thinking, I knew it had been done with that arrangement on XF before.
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:08
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She was awesome, Not 100 per cent her own version, cause Bon Jovi have done a stripped down version of that song themselves
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:14
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If she was as good as her defenders claim, I would have expected her to be getting far more praise here : I don't buy the theory that people are criticising her for not being a shouty karaoke diva.
I buy the theory that Melaine fans are still quite bitter about the fact Abit got picked over her. Abi will be in the competition for a very long time so get used to it.
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:16
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i liked it, and i usually hate the janet devlin types.
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:16
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I buy the theory that Melaine fans are still quite bitter about the fact Abit got picked over her. Abi will be in the competition for a very long time so get used to it.
A lot of the people criticising her on the threads tonight don't appear to be Melanie fans (and I've also seen some Melanie fans defending her).
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:21
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A lot of the people criticising her on the threads tonight don't appear to be Melanie fans (and I've also seen some Melanie fans defending her).
I don't even know who Melanie is. I just know when people are singing in tune.
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:39
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I buy the theory that Melaine fans are still quite bitter about the fact Abit got picked over her. Abi will be in the competition for a very long time so get used to it.
Melanie was up against Hanna not Abi. and Mel and Abi are BFF's. Melanie was rooting for her in her blog.
But Abi was poor tonight and thats it, maybe she will improve with the vocal training she clearly needs.
She does not sing as well as she plays the piano.
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:41
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It wasn't different....at all. It was Sophie's version from 2011....except with piano and a few changes.

It was so horrendously pitchy. Very, very, flat in places. It may not have been so bad if it was a more full sound production, but just with piano it sounded horrendous.
I bet next week, she will be having backing tapes etc to cover the bad vocals. Auto tuning would be a good idea too.
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:44
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It appears Abi was put through to fulfill the 'quirky' role. Trouble is there are hundreds of thousands of young girls wearing plastic flowers in their hair and wearing non-prescription oversized specs who will think they sing better than she does.
Most of them probably do sing better.
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Old 13-10-2013, 01:51
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I don't even know who Melanie is. I just know when people are singing in tune.
So do I actually and other than the slight hiccup in the first chorus and some of the versus's - everything else was fine! She got a few notes wrong here and there but she got the bits that mattered right, namely hitting those high notes in the chorus. She stayed in key for that!
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Old 13-10-2013, 02:16
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Melanie was up against Hanna not Abi. and Mel and Abi are BFF's. Melanie was rooting for her in her blog.
But Abi was poor tonight and thats it, maybe she will improve with the vocal training she clearly needs.
She does not sing as well as she plays the piano.
You should follow suit.

Abi did very well tonight agree few notes were bit off here and there. Its only week one though no point peaking too early.at this stage.
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Old 13-10-2013, 02:59
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Unfortunately, in the lives they can't fix their voices in post. Abi has never been the best singer but you could tell that all her earlier performances were saved by a little vocal tuning here and there. The judges houses vocals (for all acts) had plenty of production on them. You get to the live stage and they can't do that anymore, so anyone who actually struggles to sing in tune will suffer!
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Old 13-10-2013, 03:05
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Unfortunately, in the lives they can't fix their voices in post. Abi has never been the best singer but you could tell that all her earlier performances were saved by a little vocal tuning here and there. The judges houses vocals (for all acts) had plenty of production on them. You get to the live stage and they can't do that anymore, so anyone who actually struggles to sing in tune will suffer!
And that's why she is third favourite in the polls. Dream on. Her voice is fantastic.
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Old 13-10-2013, 03:07
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And that's why she is third favourite in the polls. Dream on. Her voice is fantastic.
She's third because of little girls 'relating' to her, not because she can sing! It's unfair that she gets to hide behind the piano. The week she is made to stand at the mic and she'll be gone in an instant.
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Old 13-10-2013, 03:13
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She's third because of little girls 'relating' to her, not because she can sing! It's unfair that she gets to hide behind the piano. The week she is made to stand at the mic and she'll be gone in an instant.
Abi wasn't hiding behind her piano she's third on the poll because people liked her performance,

She has plenty of fans who will vote she won't be going home anytime soon.
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Old 13-10-2013, 03:24
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She's third because of little girls 'relating' to her, not because she can sing! It's unfair that she gets to hide behind the piano. The week she is made to stand at the mic and she'll be gone in an instant.
How patronising - I'm not a fan of Abi but she wasn't that bad. She hasn't got the strongest vocal no! But did Bob Dylan have a strong vocal? Arguably what makes singers like Florence and Birdy so popular is their unique baroque pop way of singing...so in the same way...Abi has her own indie thing going on. She's in no way the best at what she does but she miles more interesting than some of the contestants.

Ella and Jahmene were arguably better vocalists than James last year for example but James was edgier and had his own thing going on which was interesting!
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Old 13-10-2013, 07:40
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nope... she didn't murder it...
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Old 13-10-2013, 07:48
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Live I thought it was pure butchery, but after rewatching it a few times I'm not as annoyed as I was initially.

I still don't like it, but I wouldn't go as far to say she murdered it anymore. I think it was more a poor song choice,but either way, it wasn't much cop.
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Old 13-10-2013, 07:52
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Unfortunately, in the lives they can't fix their voices in post. Abi has never been the best singer but you could tell that all her earlier performances were saved by a little vocal tuning here and there. The judges houses vocals (for all acts) had plenty of production on them. You get to the live stage and they can't do that anymore, so anyone who actually struggles to sing in tune will suffer!
Oh my dear, they can tinker with live performances these days very easily. Overly loud backing tracks were evident last night for one thing, watch Sam take out his ear piece at one stage and ask yourself why he did that.
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Old 13-10-2013, 12:57
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Just to be clear, I did like what Abi did with it (I didn't [i[love[/i] it, but there were FAR worse acts last night) - I was just seriously pissed off with the way that they were trying to pass it off as an original version that Abi had come up with herself to show how music she was, when really it was a carbon-copy cover of something that Bon Jovi have done themselves.

See also: the judges praising Kingsland Road for "modernising" I'm Your Man, even though it was exactly the same as the original and one of the little bastards was actually dressed as f***ing George Michael!!!!!!!!!!
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