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Fleur East gives her opinion on X Factor finalists
Fleur East has written a comment piece for the Evening Standard, which you can read below:
http://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/...-a3412711.html She thought Matt had it in the bag, but now thinks Saara might win. In other news: Just figured out that Fleur is the second highest educated X Factor finalist with an undergraduate degree. Honey G is the most with a master's degree. It's a strange world. |
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In other news: Just figured out that Fleur is the second highest educated X Factor finalist with an undergraduate degree. Honey G is the most with a master's degree.
It's a strange world.
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Who really care what she thinks.
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Who really care what she thinks.
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What, you're surprised that she's not the wannabe hip-hop star she always claimed to be
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Yeah she's their XF columnist this season there are articles for every show!
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It will probably the scariest thing they’re going to experience because nothing is guaranteed except for the winner.
I thought Ben (who,now?) won, not her.
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Yeah that's what she is saying she wasn't sure she was going to get signed at all - winner is automatic that's what she saying
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I doubt Fleur wrote this. Awfully convenient her 'opinions' happen to line up with the message the judges and VTs give us every week.
Really this is more a summary of what happened in the show this week if you missed it. |
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-Fleur, what do you think about this year's finalists?
-Sax. -Who is your favourite to win? -Sax. -Any advice to Saara? -You better play that sax. -Thank you Fleur. |
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-Fleur, what do you think about this year's finalists?
-Sax. -Who is your favourite to win? -Sax. -Any advice to Saara? -You better play that sax. -Thank you Fleur. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This must be true |
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-Fleur, what do you think about this year's finalists?
-Sax. -Who is your favourite to win? -Sax. -Any advice to Saara? -You better play that sax. -Thank you Fleur. ![]() ![]()
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The fact she made the final was a joke. Her voice is below average and Sax is even worse. If you are going to rip off Uptown Funk, at least do it properly.
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I doubt Fleur wrote this. Awfully convenient her 'opinions' happen to line up with the message the judges and VTs give us every week.
Really this is more a summary of what happened in the show this week if you missed it. |
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The fact she made the final was a joke. Her voice is below average and Sax is even worse. If you are going to rip off Uptown Funk, at least do it properly.
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It's stupidly obvious these aren't her opinions at all, she just writes what she's told to. I've read most of them and they all just read like press releases. They really must think we're a bunch of morons.
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-Fleur, what do you think about this year's finalists?
-Sax. -Who is your favourite to win? -Sax. -Any advice to Saara? -You better play that sax. -Thank you Fleur. |
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The fact she made the final was a joke. Her voice is below average and Sax is even worse. If you are going to rip off Uptown Funk, at least do it properly.
It's all subjective of course, but for me, Fleur was the only remotely interesting contestant in 2014. So it was a given for me that she made the final. Yes, the likes of Andrea and Lauren were better vocally, but they were as dull as ditch water. And yes, she certainly benefited from being Simon's favourite, no denying it, but she often topped the favourite polls on here and other sites from the very start of the lives, and her performance of Uptown Funk reached #1 on iTunes, so it's not exactly surprising she reached the final. |
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The fact she made the final was a joke. Her voice is below average and Sax is even worse. If you are going to rip off Uptown Funk, at least do it properly.
Here is her highest note live so far c#6 https://youtu.be/FSN2sUzGe7Y She can sing, she has a wide range NOW and she stays in tune through her live performances and having heard her live she can sing, you might not like her voice but to say she is average without the actual knowledge to back it up - just no Here's further proof she can sing well https://youtu.be/H4v1OTkO5mU And if you go to her old YouTube you can quite clearly hear she's actually a good singer I don't understand people who say she can't sing when she quite clearly can! |
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I've never agreed with the slating her voice got. It's not the most powerful granted, but it's not as terrible as some suggest.
It's all subjective of course, but for me, Fleur was the only remotely interesting contestant in 2014. So it was a given for me that she made the final. Yes, the likes of Andrea and Lauren were better vocally, but they were as dull as ditch water. And yes, she certainly benefited from being Simon's favourite, no denying it, but she often topped the favourite polls on here and other sites from the very start of the lives, and her performance of Uptown Funk reached #1 on iTunes, so it's not exactly surprising she reached the final. She has a fine voice, but she's almost become a caricature with the incessant promotion she was getting and Sax being played on X Factor/BGT almost every week. Fleur also got the overbearing backing track treatment, which doesn't help quell the criticisms of her voice. |
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Nice to hear that Fleur is smart as well as beautiful and talented
![]() Also, Fleur's voice is not average. I would agree with Eva, around 3 octaves, and her tone is unique and marketable. She is also one hell of a performer. Props for being able to dance like that AND sing! |
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Nice to hear that Fleur is smart as well as beautiful and talented
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Fleur was incredibly lucky that Mark Ronson didn't release Uptown Funk a week later, she's probably still riding a bit of a wave from her performance. Whilst she probably would still have come second without it, it's become somewhat associated with her.
She has a fine voice, but she's almost become a caricature with the incessant promotion she was getting and Sax being played on X Factor/BGT almost every week. Fleur also got the overbearing backing track treatment, which doesn't help quell the criticisms of her voice. Sax, I agree, was overpromoted, and still is (although she's not the only Syco act that's overpromoted). I don't agree that she's a caricature of herself, as most people probably haven't picked up on Syco's slight obsession with her. It's mentioned a lot on this forum, but on the Fleur threads on the likes of popjustice and buzzjack, it's never mentioned. Considering it's two years since she's been on the show, and that she's only had one hit single since, I'd say a lot of people wouldn't remember who she is. She's not famous enough to be a cariacature of anything. |
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It was clever of Simon to give her uptown funk it's an instant song and really suited Fleur so much so it felt like her track it obviously wasn't buf she performed her ass off to it and should get credit and yeah in my view she helped the song become that big to Aswell as it being a great song - Bruno brought out his new stuff and it's same kind of route and hasn't been as big - people brought fleurs version because they liked her version!
Arthur is right she isn't so famous at this point to become a caricature it's only on this forum that people are so over sensitive about Fleur and Sax |
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