Shayne singing Cry me a River to me is a bit ametuer for such a big competition,watching it i'm sure will remind me of school days watching the school talent show. It just doesn't work. I mean the song is not really testing him vocally. Shayne should be original and try and avoid the whole justin timberlake tag or for his career he will constantly be remembered as the British Justin Timberlake and that can be a very bad thing as it can get quite boring. If your to be compared to someone all the time, it would be better if it were someone GREAT, like Aretha Franklin, Lionel Richie, Abba, The bangles; People that have really left a mark in music history. Not JUSTIN!-COME ON!

I nearly started a thread like this one last night.
Tomorrow night i expect Shayne to come on saying:
"Tonight Matthew, i'm going to be........JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE!!!!!"

No shock seeing you in another anti-Shayne thread. I thought you promised to leave him alone.

hehe very funny! And very true. ''I chose to be Justin because my work mates told me i sound like him and look like him, so i thought, hey!-why not give it a go''

I was going to but i feel really strongly about the Justin rip off thing. I think this is poor by his own standards. If i was a Shayne fan, i would be disappointed.

I am thrilled actually. He was great in the soundcheck and will be a revelation tonight. If I were you I would be more worried about Journey South.

I definitely think he sounded better singing a more modern uptempo song, but it was just TOO Justin...do you not think so? I think it looked like a good Justin impersonation.
Just FTR, i'm not fond of Brenda's choice either....

Obviously I dont agree but will wait to see and hear the full performance tonight. I sadly expect that the haters will be out in full force though with comments already written before the show. Brenda should do well in my opinion and she will get great praise from the judges either way. Journey South are an act at most threat with their song choice as the song can sound too karaoke at the best of times. Still sticking with my bottom two prediction of Maria and Conway Sisters but the public never cease to leave me puzzled.

I reckon the Conways and Nicholas will be at the bottom tonight.
People are always going to dislike one or two of the acts because if we all liked the same, there would be no program! I try and base my opinions on what i've seen of the person so far. I'm not a 'Shayne hater' as such-if he suddenly started performing good songs really well, i would change my mind.

Shaynes performance this week really IS a Justin copy!

I think you are all over analysising this.

He looks like Timberlake a bit, he can hit the notes, the 'ladies' will love it, and as long as he does not mess it up badly, it will make him an even stronger favourite.

I am looking forward to Andy's rendition of the Boyz to men song as I love that, and I think he will do it well. However, i cannot see how Shayne cannot fail tonight, unless he messes the notes up, and whats wrong with being compared to Justin. I know I wouldn't min it........

another comment about clones and immpressions

Well, i hate to break it to you, but that's what it is!
What do you expect people to say-"That's so original and he makes it his own"?!

While Poodledoodledoo's posts this week will just be copies of their slagging off Shayne posts from last week!

Poodledoodledoo is a one trick pony!

Oh, but i've only been putting Shayne down for the past week....i thought i made the subject my own....

Then you must be just jumping on the other "We hate Shayne poster's" bandwagon!



(So DS forum members: If you don't want Poodledoodledoo to go tonight, text "Poodledoodledoo" to your best friends number!)

But i put 100000% into my posts.....
I don't want to leave..... .*cries*.... i need this chance so much... *cries more*.... i don't want my husband to have to spend his retirement on the streets of Staffordshire...*sobs*....just give me one more chance....*sobs lots*.....i'll do better next week....

I thought he sounded great in the sound check - refreshing to see him doing a contemporary tune.

As for it being easy - it is actually a very difficult song to sing well due to the changes between head and chest voice which need to be spot on.

Let's face it though - alot of people are so down on Shayne that even if he came on and did the best performance every seen on British TV - they would still say it was karaoke.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...520599,00.html

i agree with you , but to me shayne and the others seem to do what simon, sharon and louis tell them well some of the time , i am not happy he had his hair cut just to look more like justin but im sure he will do a great job

Agree which is why few people attempt to sing the song. All sorts of difficult notes in there. Glad he is doing something different.

i wonder if brenda sings like dione warwick, what make anyone think she hasnt the same moves

And Jouney South will sing like Bon Jovi and Nicholas will sing like R Kelly and Chico will sing like Chico.

The problem is that Justin Timberlake has a really distictive style of singing and dancing so when someone else copies that, it really looks like an impersonation.
I think if Shayne put a different dance style in, it would look more original and 'his own'.
I do prefer Shayne with the more uptempo song though, so that's a positive.

i dont think people realise that their favs look like copies sometimes