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Old 13-10-2013, 09:49
bettyboom43
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Only just watched last nights show and it was one of the worst opening nights of X factor ever. The theme was awful as most of them sung the songs as bad karaoke sound-alikes as opposed to changing them up and making them sound modern. Abi did attempt to but murdered the song, Thought she had potential in previous rounds and although her style is good, her voice is whiny and weak. What the judges see in that young Scottish guy, I just don't understand, he has zero stage presence and did a very bad Tony Hadley impression with dreadful cheesy production of people slow dancing - junior stars in their eyes yes, X Factor no! Obviously he will get the Scottish vote and make it to the final. Sam in the boys was terrible, why would you give someone with a pop voice a song by someone with a raspy rock voice, bad butlins version. Even Rough Copy who had potential didn't make much of the song, could have added come rap or something to make it more modern - seem to lose their swag. All the judges were over nice about average performance which made me want to fast forward through most of it. The cheesy production of awful dancers and Perspex boxes just made it look cheap. IMO the only acts that were passable last night were Kingsland Road and Tameera, the rest average and some appalling, 80's was a terrible choice for the first week as you need to get to know them as an artist in their own right before seeing if they are versatile in other genre's so the first couple of weeks should be broad enough so they can chose something that suits their voice and shows what kind of artist they are going to be. This just showed that they will fit in to a Butlins tour when they are booted off the show!
The first show already showed that Louis and Sharon have no idea of what songs work for their artists that are relevant. The prison officer can sing and is talented but who is going to buy her records? Very poor!
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Old 13-10-2013, 10:02
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Agreed!!
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Old 13-10-2013, 10:08
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Completely disagree - Sharon brought a really warm atmosphere to the studio, it was the most entertaining live show in a while for sure: plus the talent was great... I wasn't sure in the run-in, but now I am!
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Old 13-10-2013, 11:02
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I didn't say Sharon wasn't funny in the run in, although I thought she was irritating as she can't take criticism, what I said is they don't know how to make a contestant seem current. I can't see anyone buying a single now of the Power of Love, it isn't still the 80's! Music has moved on so you can make an old sound new. i.e. James Arthur singing a dubstep version of Hometown last year. A modern song sounding like it still could be a hit single. Most of the those songs last night particularly by Louis and Sharons contestants sounded like
80's songs sounding like they were sung in an 80's style, who wants to buy that now.
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Old 13-10-2013, 11:50
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Sharon clearly didn't know what she was talking about so waffled sh1te to cover it up, it was embarrassing!

I don't think 80's is a good category for the first week either, it takes a while to develop confidence in your own style and to expect them to make 80's songs current in their first week is too much, hence why we had mostly carbon copies of bad 80's songs.
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Old 13-10-2013, 12:07
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I thought 80s was a rubbish theme for the first week considering they want the acts to be current, but I actually thought most of them handled it really well and I enjoyed the show.
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Old 13-10-2013, 13:19
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I didn't say Sharon wasn't funny in the run in, although I thought she was irritating as she can't take criticism, what I said is they don't know how to make a contestant seem current. I can't see anyone buying a single now of the Power of Love, it isn't still the 80's! Music has moved on so you can make an old sound new. i.e. James Arthur singing a dubstep version of Hometown last year. A modern song sounding like it still could be a hit single. Most of the those songs last night particularly by Louis and Sharons contestants sounded like
80's songs sounding like they were sung in an 80's style, who wants to buy that now.
I was not impressed either. It was the 80's right? The song choices were mostly ballads, the 80's were Yazoo, Synthpop upbeat music, how disappointing . Sharon was a bit loud and kept butting in when judged criticised her act. I actually turned over and stayed on that channel.
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Old 13-10-2013, 19:25
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Agree it was a poor first show.

Its an insult to the viewers intelligence that the X Factor daren't not serve up anything more challenging than boring,predictable songs that stifled whatever creativity the performers may have shown up until this point.

The production was over-powering to the point where you could barely hear the contribution of the person you most wanted to hear.As has been said before the most musically pleasing performances on the show are the unmessed about with 'save me' songs that there isn't time to over-blow.

I know it was 80s week but they really didn't need to be so unambitious with the content and the creativity....it was little better than a karaoke contest.
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Old 13-10-2013, 19:28
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It wasn't terrible but it wasn't great either
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:01
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It was much better than last year's live show which was dirge and, arguably, the 2011 show as well though I quite liked that. There is some talent there and Kingsland Road, Rough Copy and Sam Bailey especially did really well.

There have been worse.
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:13
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Just a glorified karaoke session that just happens to be broadcast live on TV... which sums up the X-Factor live shows on a whole.
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:15
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It was much better than last year's live show which was dirge and, arguably, the 2011 show as well though I quite liked that. There is some talent there and Kingsland Road, Rough Copy and Sam Bailey especially did really well.

There have been worse.
This. I didn't think I'd be impressed but a few of them were much better than I was expecting.
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:18
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I thought it was good.
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:29
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going on a break before the judges give their comments(very annoying) then it comes back after the break then it feels disjointed , but some contestants are forgettable so coming back after the break we would have forgotten what they sung :yawn::sleep:

and a group song at the start gets traditionally murdered

twitter wheel seriously

and the judges should be banned from giving their opinion about their own contestants(you were amazing of coarse they were)
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:46
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I find the themes such as 80's week ridiculous. The acts have to sing songs totally unsuited to their voice or style. I know they need to show they can be versatile but singing something so far removed from what is in any way current does them no favours and we have seen over the years good singers go out because of this. They then criticize them for being dated or karaoke!
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