Only time will tell of how successful she is if she is still around after 5 years, 10 years or even 20 years.

OK so she's only 17 but if she said she just wanted a superstar life, fame etc I find that rather sad, it sounds like she isnt really that interested in the music itself. People like Ella and Misha were around the same age and very dedicated to what they did on the show and after. Janet Devlin was even younger.

Of course she has no interest in music, haven't you heard her sing/shout/wail?

The X Factor is about the quick route to success. It cuts out playing in the small venues, having to write your own songs, putting together demos, videos, producers, self-publicity, maybe managers, auditions...record deals etc. That's more like hard work. If you were really interested in music, would you do X Factor, I'm not sure?

At least we have a decent winner this year for a change.

Yes it really is about manufactured papstars with ready made fans with none of the hard work and grind of the older type of stars and legends from years gone by.

You have to remember that this is what she is being sold by the x factor itself. She's seventeen, being sold a dream. I think everyone is reading far too much into one comment on a night when shes just won the x factor.

It doesn't mean she wont work hard or that she doesn't love music (and it doesn't mean she will or does), its just part of the way the show hypes what winning means, and shes bought into it.

She has a great voice, plenty of potential, with hard work and plenty of training she could carve out a decent career as a singer, although she need some very good material to make an impression on the charts.

She shouldn't have said it it just looks like she's more interested in the glamor than the hard work - very naive but then she's 17, she should've waited a bit before going on XF Cowell will chew her up and spit her out like he does with the winners - the runner up contract is so much better a lot more freedom I only hope she will be okay because Simon is ruthless and she's so young and with no real experience with gigs and songwriting and muscality I'm not so sure how she will fare. At least with Ella she was a lot more mature and could writ songs and was very musically intellect for example the way she sang chers believe she connected with the song Louisa isn't there yet and I doubt cowell will let her find out hel just pigeon hole her as a Leona artist.

At her age you would have thought, she would have liked to do the sending of her material to record companys

On what she said last night, it has to be taken into context.

She had just one the show, a life changer, and to be interviewed after straight away, you havent really a clue what youre saying.

She would have had little to no. Media training, and remembef she is still a kid

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This!

It suggests to me that no-one at XF sits the contestants down to talk to them about the reality of popstar life (and how short-lived it often is). I'd have thought that Rita would have given Louisa a reality check (since she knows the downsides of the 'superstar lifestyle'), but obviously not.

I think every XF contestant should be made to watch the Big Reunion series, which really does show the dark side of fame.

I think people who are really interested in being musicians/artists wouldn't go on a show like the X factor anyway. Anyone who goes on TV probably want's to be famous and be celeb so I think what she is saying is pretty honest. There's nothing wrong with her wanting to be a celeb. Whether she can achieve it or not it another matter but I don't see anything wrong with what she has said.

I don't think she actually said she wanted this superstar life. It was more on the lines that she had been experiencing it over the past few weeks from what I recall which is of course true that she has been getting a taste of what it is like. I think we shouldn't judge her too harshly. She is an excitable 17 year old. She doesn't seem like a diva type to me.

She said something along the lines that she never wants this to end. Some people are being pretty nasty. She's having the time of her life, she's been living in house for months with people who share her dream and doing what she loves most every week. I don't see the issue, she's been pretty humble this entire series in my opinion. Doesn't seem overly confident or cocky as others have been.

I think at 17 she could probably go through the SYCO factory and still make a few bucks before her 21st but Superstar?? time will tell

Perhaps once she has been through things that help her connect with the songs she is singing

Problem is that with it all being handed to her now, what's the likelihood she's going to go through anything other than standard Syco production lines?

I think she will be fine

she isn't even sure to have the winner single at #1, (will just get it because there is no competition and the charity factor) so she hasn't any superstar status right now.

It's at number two just now, som think she has a decent chance

in fact she will get it,but for example Ben at this point was miles ahead

I don't see how anyone can doubt this girls voice, the only one on the show who looked like a superstar in the making.

Because when they're safely anonymous behind a keyboard, people love to bash 17 year olds who appear on telly and act like a proper 17 year old.

Thank you, that is exactly what she said.
She meant the way her life has been over the last few weeks, with all the interviews and photo shots, it feels like a superstar life,
She never said she wants a superstar lifestyle.

Now there you go using facts to try and confuse things!

The shallow resentments of this girl is going to be in overdrive, although I predict it won't really leave the online world. I do hope she's had people advise her to abandon reading tweets and boards and such, because it's going to be brutal for a while.

Some go on purely for the fame, expecting to be given massive contracts and have an easy life. Others go on through naivety, maybe it's all some of the younger viewers know as they've been brought up only knowing this route. Some of the older ones have gone on in desperation after years of scraping a living. And some really do go on for the music.


The other side of the story is that it's now so much harder to make a living outside the cocoon of the big labels. Media is saturated with the same old acts being promoted on behalf of the labels. There are now so few avenues for independent artists to receive media coverage, so they rely on word of mouth and social media.

Janet Devlin's Huffington post article explained how she used the show to help her make contacts in the industry. She then went away and co-wrote with people such as Newton Faulkner & Joshua Radin & has been doing all the graft of an indie artist with no media attention.
The article actually discussed her coming to terms with being on the show. I think she initially wished she hadn't as no one took her seriously as a singer/song-writer but has come to terms that the old videos still bring in new fans.

Well she'll need some guy to make her 'bad' like a Michael Hutchence type or that Blake Winehouse geezer. Being an "angel" will get her nowhere in pop. They want a demon seed don't they??