Originally Posted by
brb:
“Will buy Honey G's single as a protest 
”
That I fear is far TOO dear a price!
I was sort of expecting it to work out this way - though hoping it wouldn't. It's extraordinary for somebody from a foreign country with a totally different language and set of traditions, a music market which does not cross-over with the UK basically at all and basically no support here outside Eurovision super-fans to get to the Final. A good voice and talent can only get you so far.
Looking at it objectively,
Matt Terry was very solid and
Saara was lucky to avoid the chop early on and then her luck ran out at the last hurdle. Realistically how pleased do you think ITV would have been for her to actually win? The foreign girl who beat the British boy is absolutely a harder sell. Had she won, inevitably, there would be accusations of voter fraud aimed at her Finnish support (and there already was on Thursday and Friday online) and an online fan petition to try to take her win off her, because that's just how people are now, they loose with bad manners and misuse the internet to push agendas.
In the end, when faced with the difficult choice, people usually back the conservative choice - the handsome, British boy who can be exploited for an album's worth before disappearing from view. No, I suspect
Saara will come out laughing in the end for three reasons - 1. it's done her no end of good not just in her own country and by extension Scandinavia but anywhere that cares to receive ITV, 2. the manner in which she has conducted herself throughout and in the loosing has earned respect without resorting to sob-stories which will pay dividends in the end and 3. when was the last time an
X Factor winner ever amounted to anything as a singer long-term? Talk about poisoned chalice!
Susan Boyle didn't with
Got Talent, very different sort of thing, but its not exactly a great loss to
SuBo in the long-run is it?
Best of both worlds me thinks - this way
Saara gets the career boost and somebody will sign her if SyCo doesn't want her anyway and she won't be forced to put out some half-assed crappy single out for a cheap Christmas No. 1 and then forgotten about when the rushed first album bombs....
I'm glad the search function will be back, it's worth the downtime for that alone.
Cue plenty of that!
but Jessika remains as desperate as ever with her three submissions 
Fun thing to pass the time.
