Me agree too

As this is a competition with the prize being the lead part of a musical, why don't they give the contestants more show tunes to perform. Wouldn't that show us their suitability for the part rather than some pop/ soft rock tunes??

And definately no more Kelly Clarkson! , bah who am i kiddin, he could sing baa baa black sheep, and i'd still be mesmorised

One flash of that smile and im weak at the knees!

I give up!!!
Apparently this week it's a McFly song!!!!
When are they going to let Daniel show the TV audience what a great musical theatre voice he's got........

NOOOOOOOOO!!

Would love to see him perform Being Alive or Proud of your Boy

Is this how Maria worked last year?
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The song choices in Maria were quite random too.

One of the poor girls had to perform 'Crazy Chick'. She murdered it but she got through and improved as the weeks went on.

Oh say it aint so McFly???? What the hell has that got to do with musical theatre!!. I know i said i would be mesmorised by baa baa black sheep, but McFly????? Oi vey!

I'll be very interested to see what the other Josephs will be singing on Sat!

"Its all about you" by McFly?? It gets worse! I'm praying this is just a horrible rumour!

Hurrah the boards back!
He didn't do a bad job of another terrible song choice. And then they criticise him for smiling the whole time.

Give him a passionate musical theatre standard and then you might see the different side that the judges are all bleating on about.

I can't understand the judges who said that he didn't stand out/ had no star quality/had no charisma/was just too nice. IMO the only two contestants who HAVE star quality and charisma are Daniel & Lee - though I thought Lee's vocal performance was quite rough last night.

As far as Daniel only being 'nice' & smiling all the time is concerned, how can you expect someone to perform 'It's all about you' by McFly, and sing it in any other way than Daniel did last night with a smile on his face.

It set my alarm bells ringing last night when, at the beginning, they said it was not just about who was the best singer, while at the same time, focusing in on Daniel.

I just get the impression that they have decided Keith is their Joseph and are using the song choices and comments to keep his main competition at a distance. Though he has a great voice, I don't think there's anything they could do to persuade me he is Joseph - he is too young and 'odd' looking.

I would love to see Daniel sing Maria from West Side Story next week to show everyone how a song from musical theatre should be sung!

Keith can sing any song, last week he had Crocodile Rock do you think that was a song to suit him dont think so.He has been getting songs to test him that was the first song Daniel had to test him it was just ok

I have already said that Keith has a good voice but in my opinion he is just too young looking and immature to be right for the part of Joseph. Remember, although at the beginning of the show Joseph is young and fresh faced, he has to mature by several years by the end. I just don't think Keith can pull that off. It may be rather shallow to say so, but I also think his less 'conventional' facial features would make him a strange looking Joseph.
I think Daniel did as well as anyone could have last night with a bland and badly written song. How it was chosen to show a different side of Daniel's ability to perform, I don't know. Can you suggest how Keith would have performed or interpreted it in any better way? I'm afraid that if you choose a cheesey song for someone, then you shouldn't complain when you get a cheesey performance!

From the first live show which, let's face it, was the first time they'd at all concentrated on Daniel, it shone out like a Belisha beacon that he was the one with that certain indefinable something.

Lee's vocal was all over the place last night, far more than the week before when he hit a couple of duff notes. What struck me last night that I hadn't noticed before was how much Lee strains to sing with any power. You can see all the veins in his neck. I looked back at earlier performances to see if this was just happening because of his "problems" this week but it has been there all along in every performance, I just didn't notice until now.

Lee also looked very out of place and uncomfortable performing a song of that style and lyric. He looked equally wrong performing the Meatloaf song.

I was surprised Lee didn't get comments about not being "dirty" enough either as it did seem to be "Let's Bash Lee and Daniel Night" last night as far as the panel were concerned.



Daniel has pulled off the mood of all the very different songs he has performed so far (he certainly didn't look very "nice" or "smiley" during "Since You've Been Gone"), something that at least ALW seemed to have noticed.

So what if he is nice? Unfortunately, nasty seems to equal charisma in the media these days. If they want to see "mean", "dirty", "arrogance" and all the other words a couple of the panel used last night then give him the songs to do it. The ability to come across as something and someone you're not and be able to convey the part you're playing or song you're performing is what performing is all about (wake up call to a couple of members of the panel - that is what is called "acting"). Why on earth should an actor have to be anything but nice in his every day life to be able to play any character that is anything but?



I think they don't want this increasingly turning into a one or two horse race it has been since the first live show.

My money would be on Daniel and Lee having been way ahead in the voting since week 1 and that they both have enough "credits in the bank" with the audience to allow for a duff performance or two.



Keith was very good last night, he has a very mature voice for someone who looks about 12, but I couldn't get his cringeworthy rendition of "Crocodile Rock" last week out of my head



I can't stand that song



Were you watching the same show? I felt embarrassed for poor Keith last week.

I take it by "the first song Daniel had to test him it was OK" you mean "Since You've Been Gone" . It was far more than OK, infact when you consider the b@ll$ up the orchestra made of the backing from the very start of the performance, it was absolutely outstanding. It would be interesting to see how Keith and any of the younger ones would cope with that happening to them, especially at the very beginning of the show as it was. It's coping with those type of unexpected incidents that separate the men from the boys (no pun intended ).



I don't agree that "It's All About You" is a badly written song, not at all, but I agree that you can't give someone that type of song and then criticise them for coming across as anything other than nice.

Daniel has always given a good performance and it has been different each week, but I agree with the panel that he needs to show his arrogant side in performance and hope Andrew will give him a great song for him to show it cos i bellieve he is a great actor. When he was singing the meatloaf group song he wasnt being "nice" and "smiley"

I agree - I'm more a Lee fan than a Daniel fan but I think he did the best he could with the song. It would have been weird if Keith had song it, to me he looks like the missing member of McFly rather than a potential Joseph!

Nurse Betty - I agree with most of what you say , but I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on the relative merits of Maria & It's All About You. By the way, have you listened to Daniel's rendition of Maria on My Space? Whether you like the song or not, I think he would be very impressive singing it on the live show!

Everyone kept saying how great Daniel was and how lovely etc. but i never saw the light until yesterday!

I always thought he was secretly as arrogant as seamus but in a quiter way but now i'm not so sure! Did anyone see him blush when Denise was talking to him? it was so sweet!

Nothing made me see the light i just did! Lol!

The song was hard to sing and i don't think he quite pulled it off but oh well my guess is he'll defo be in the final 3!

Daniel seems like a really nice guy to me - I never thought he was smug. He could only have come over sweetly in that song (are the judges slightly unhinged?) if they had given him Lee's song he could have been more aggressive - what did they expect? Who chooses these songs anyway? They were all pretty dire yesterday (song choices not Lee or Daniel )

ALW chooses the songs and you could see in his face he felt sorry foe daniel last night being critised for doing the best delievery of the song he was given...lets hope he gets a great song next week and blows the competition out of the water. I think they is still alot of him we have yet to see

I have to say i'm very puzzled with the judges critism of Daniel when the blame was down to the poor song choice.

I myself have critisied Daniel in the past for giving 'samey' performances, but if the judges wanted him to do something different then they have to give him a song where he can actually prove he can!

They did the same in the Maria show too. They critisised one girl for 'only being able to do big belty numbers' but if your given songs like Big Spender and Maybe This Time, then of course your going to belt them! Its completly stupid.

i thought daniel did a really good job, just as good as keith which they all go crazy about! and all about you is a great song anyway!

I felt sorry for Daniel when the panel were slating him because he is too 'nicey' and 'smiley'. And then they had a dig at him over poor song choice. Although it did make me laugh when someone in the audience shouted 'Give him a better song to sing then!' Classic!

I'm in mourning over this! I raced home from work to watch Joseph on my V+ but the craptastic machine hadnt recorded it!!

No biggie i thought, i'll just watch it on Teleport instead, so imagine my surprise when it wasnt on teleport either!!!

So i missed the show . The craptastic V+ did record the results show so i had to make do with that and the little bits that my sister told me about it.

I've since found it on his myspace and from what i understand he was slated for being too smiley???. Damnit i'm starting to smell a rat here concerning his song choices. How do they expect him to be "dark" if they give him cheesy pop!!!!!

[rant]And while i'm ranting, Damn the Beeb for not showing repeats!!! American idol is on loads of times and even Grease has repeats!! Its not like they havent got enough cable channels to repeat it on, or at the very least stick it on at 3am or summat!! [/end rant]

I know! I mean, ITV repeat pretty much their entire Saturday night schedule on a Sunday - it's not too much to ask. Just some highlights or something.

Also, I'm not sure how you can be anything other than "smiley" when singing McFly. Someone give him a freaky showtune already! (I say this every week, I know )

I've never suscribed to all these "conspiracy theories" but after yesterday's show I'm beginning to wonder.........the comments from Denise and John were so bizarre that I began to wonder if they were watching the same performances as the rest of us. How can Denise say that Daniel has been too "samey" in his perrformances - "Since You've Been Gone" and the Frank Sinatra number samey??? I can only imagine that she has just forgotten what he has done before, and I think he was absolutely right to disagree with her. (Now, of course, he will go from being "too nice" to being "arrogant and argumentative").

The only explanation that makes sense to me is that Daniel and Lee are so far ahead in the voting, that the Beeb thought they had better liven things up a bit by knocking them down and building up someone else. ( I'm not a big Lee fan but to describe him as "a bit rubbish" was very unfair).

I just hope that they both have the sense not to let this get to them too much.