I have no idea why people have voted for these people.


Another one who could dance but not sing


I blame those daft enough to vote for them.

Daft enough to vote for them? Well they got them to the final.. and they will more than likely be releasing something soon ( I don't recall a 2nd placed xFACTOR runner up not getting signed) not so daft after all.

Jess Glynne and Ebru have been tweeting about this tonight too, pointing out that they could have changed the arrangement but decidedly chose not to. The Guardian saying they were massively stitched up too. Also pointed out a tweet from someone who was there saying the audience had been told to use their torches for Louisa but not R+B. Can't wait to read sofabet's take on this.

For those arguing they should be able to sing anything, well I would like to see Louisa having a go at singing afrobeats or reggae.

The sad thing is they didn't need to do this. She was going to win anyway. I think the boys are too nice to say anything but I bet it has soured what has been a brilliant experience for them.

I think its fair to say they were let down a long time before the final. The only songs that suited them were their own song which they did in the audition and their version of Cheerleader that they picked for the six chair challenge.
The rest was just trying to jam a square peg into a round hole week after week.

Maybe they were voting for the act they liked and which entertained them.

Just because you like something different, doesn't mean everybody else is daft.

If we were talking about food, you would probably accept that someone likes things you don't. But people are so anal when it comes to music.

Do you even realise how patronising you (and others) sound?
Are you suggesting that the artists you are talking about can't sing?
That that type/style of music requires no talent whatsoever, neither singing, dancing or creativity?

Millions of people in the world can sing, that is hold a tune, sing in tune.
Millions of people can dance, that is move in time to music.

They can do neither, we saw them week after week doing neither.

You insult the genre by suggesting that complete lack of talent/craft doesn't matter at all.
You insult the artists succesfully making that kind of music by saying that two nobodies with no discernable ability can do the same.

They were a joke act because they have no talent.
People were laughing at them and encoutaging them because it is amusing, in a rather cruel way, watching people make fools of themselves.
"Dad singing and dancing" is funny, not so much when it's not your own Dad though.
But the public are b*stards sometimes.

if i could applaud a post i would

Same people that signed Jedward and Chico maybe?

I did feel sorry for Reggie 'n' Bollie having to do a cover version of Xfactor winners Louisa's song they didn't even get the luxury of Auto-Tune like she did.

I'm not a big RnB fan but the blatant bias towards Louisa this whole series and in particular the winning song was rather pathetic.

Cowell ruined any chance of having Louisa as a strong credible winner when he basically shot every other candidate in the leg for her to win.

If could applaud this post....i would!

Someone signed Olly Murs

In all honesty I actually preferred Reggie 'n' Bollies version of the song it was more upbeat and les dirge like.

Another article about this and another mention from a different source this time of them not letting the audience use the torches for R&B, only Louisa. Look's like there's definitely something rotten in the state of Denmark.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/x-fact...eggie-n-Bollie

And how obedient of the audience to comply, they must train them really well.

Louisa was the chosen one from the start, I doubt the outcome was based on the winners song, but what annoys me, and maybe a lot of people is the blatant bias and manipulation.

It was cruel to make them sing a song that was obviously not going to suit them, just as giving Louisa a song she couldn't do, dare I say something upbeat that she couldn't shout her way through.

As for them not being good singers, Cheryl can't sing, but people still bought her records.

They looked uncomfortable and obviously knew they were being stitched up. This is why the show is failing.

I don't think they were stitched up as such, but after 90 minutes of hype, flashing lights, ass-kissing and general bullshit it suddenly felt like the air had been let out of the room after their winner's song performance. The post-song interview was like watching witnesses at an accident scene.

Good point. Also, I think if she was up against any other contestant other than R & B she would have still won.

Is the theory that that close to the end of the voting Reggie n Bollie could have been in the lead, that significant numbers of people still hadn't made up their mind, and only did so after hearing the winner's song, and the late influx of votes was what turned it around for Louisa?

Ah, the post of reason! Sadly, you'll get some who are too dense to understand this concept.

It's a Bob Dylan song. He can't sing himself. RnB's version of the song was altered to suit them better, but it was still a ballad that required some basic singing ability and RnB have no singing ability.

The song obviously didnt suit R&B, thats true.
In Matt Cardle's year (I think), Rebecca and Matt sang different winner's songs - why couldnt they do that this year?

Spot on , it's ridiculous to think Louisa hadn't won it before the winners songs had been sung anyway

I thought that they did a better version than Louisa.

I bet if they had've won their version would be number 1 on iTunes right now because it actually sounds like a song and not someone trying too hard to showcase loud vocals that aren't natural.

Well Simon signed up Olly, Fleur, and One Direction.

And some label signed up Britney Spears.