Originally Posted by Sidespin Nid:
“The previous male winners haven't had a massive impact on the music scene and even though I don't think Austin will either , I think Simon may want him to win just to get a male artist out there. Plus he's sharing so much with David Cook , the AI winner this year. He's singing songs similar to him and David Cook got a drastic makeover when he got to the live shows too.”
Good point. Shayne has had some decent success, in the UK at least but no, I guess he's not had a huge impact yet. As for the makeover, it doesn't seem to be permanent because Austin only had the "goth" black hair for Every Breath You Take.
Fact is, is that out of the four series' of X Factor there's been three male winners and one female winner. Simon and the others are always hyping up the girls and they've gave the popular newcomer (Cheryl) them. Alot of decent male singers were turned away at the audition stages while awful male singers took their place. I think Simon delibaretly picked Scott as fodder and I think he knows Eoghan won't go very far once the compitition heats up. Austin is a good singer, but he's been completely overshadowed by the females.
Ruth, Rachel, Laura, Alex and Diana are all very popular and their performances have far outshone the men's performances, IMO.
I also think JLS might be a back-up incase the girls do badly/Simon changes his mind.