She is the black girl that looked and sounded just like Whitney Houston.

Can't see how she didn't make the final 24. She was much better than the other girls - most of them really mediocre.

She just sounded utterly in a different league!

Um no? She didnt hit the notes in her song.
She went out of tune badly.

Alexandra, Laura and Joelle would've been my perfect line-up out of the girls.

She was exceptionally great at her first audition.
As for the second one: As usual we are being manipulated by the outrageous editing in which we are witnessing between 4-8 seconds of the song, not getting the full picture, and then having to rely on what Simon is saying and taking his word for it.
Well, I'd rather judge someone based on the time I heard him sing great for a full length of a song.

She's still pretty raw. Like Alexandra , she should work on her voice and come back in 3 years.

Ditto!!!! Thats always been my dream line up to but I had a feeling we would lose one of them and I kinda thought it would be Joelle as she was not 100% ready.

Im still hoping that we will get Alexandra (who im 99% sure on) and Laura. I don't care for the 3rd.. Maybe Hannah.

And PLEASE NOOO Spoilers!!

no joelle wasnt ready, her voice is out of control, she needs some lessons, best decision all round if ya ask me but i like the girl she just needs to learn to sing properly but her talent is very raw.

she was great at the audtions but wasnt impressed @ bootcamp

she has a myspace, looks like she has other irons on the fire so to speak. She could be the new Javine!

Agreed. They did her a favour. She has the potential to be incredible but at the moment there is a lack of control over her voice that needs to be calmed down, because sometimes her singing was quite erratic.

Hopefully she'll come back and try again in the future.