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Why do young pretty boys like Leon/Eoghan/Gareth always sing slow soppy songs? |
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Why do young pretty boys like Leon/Eoghan/Gareth always sing slow soppy songs?
Why can't X-Factor ever find a young man who can sing and dance, like Justin Timberlake? They have the energy to do so. Simon and Co always seem to want to dress them up in suits and sing nothing but soppy love songs.
Eoghan has never sung anything very uptempo. Even Deadwife sung something a bit faster on Saturday (Lady Is A Tramp) |
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Are my eyes going funny? Or did I just see the word 'pretty' and 'Leon' in the same sentence? OK so his spots have cleared up. But he's still not pretty.
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Shayne Ward can sing and dance...very well
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we havent really seen eoghan dance yet
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Oh come on, you know the answer
They (cynical hard-nosed music biz and tv prods) pick them because they have the 'sweet little boy' aaaahhhhh factor in order to appeal to the little old grannies, maternal types and 11 year olds! Duh.
Aim of show - find a type to fit every taste. Manipulate audience with sentimentality, sex appeal, hard luck stories, heart-string tugging, awful cliches (I am going on such a big journey) - and they will fall for it. It's about cash, emotion, greed and playing up to the overwhelming desire of a very large proportion of the population to be famous in order to be...well..famous. You get what you ask for. How can you possibly complain?
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I guess it's to tug at heart strings. If they do it well, like Gareth, it works. If they do it badly, like... some others... it's boring.
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Shayne Ward can sing and dance...very well
![]() Well yes, Shayne was supposed to be the UK's answer to Justin wasn't he? Although I'm not a fan, I don't think the XFactor will produce another male winner who ticks more boxes than Shayne and that could go part way to explaining why Leon hasn't taken off with his releases. |
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Leon makes Shayne look like a big star.
Him flopping could actually help Shayne!
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Why can't X-Factor ever find a young man who can sing and dance, like Justin Timberlake? They have the energy to do so. Simon and Co always seem to want to dress them up in suits and sing nothing but soppy love songs.
Eoghan has never sung anything very uptempo. Even Deadwife sung something a bit faster on Saturday (Lady Is A Tramp)
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Eggnog is not pretty, he looks like the village yokel.
They sing slow because it's a singing competition and ballads are melody-led and the best expression of that, plus they appeal to all types. It's true of all the performers - they all get a better chance to show their technical merits on slower, more traditional melody-based songs, such as you get with Big Band Week, that's when you know who can really sing. |
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Could say the same about Diana although I won't
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Well yes, Shayne was supposed to be the UK's answer to Justin wasn't he?
Although I'm not a fan, I don't think the XFactor will produce another male winner who ticks more boxes than Shayne and that could go part way to explaining why Leon hasn't taken off with his releases. |
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To echo previous posters Eoghan is not pretty
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Really? I don't think Shayne was that good Will Whats his face has been the biggest male star so far hasn't he?
Will Young is the name you're searching for I think and yes, he is the biggest male star to come from a tv talent show as yet. |
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Will Young is the name you're searching for I think and yes, he is the biggest male star to come from a tv talent show as yet.
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Why can't X-Factor ever find a young man who can sing and dance, like Justin Timberlake? They have the energy to do so. Simon and Co always seem to want to dress them up in suits and sing nothing but soppy love songs.
Eoghan has never sung anything very uptempo. Even Deadwife sung something a bit faster on Saturday (Lady Is A Tramp) Gareth actually had lots of up beat songs on all his albums, but Simon had the say what was released. When Gareth released Sunshine (the kind of sound which was on the cd he mostly co-written), and it 'only' got to no 3, Simon made him release a ballad again. Gareth then went away for 3 yrs to write the album he always dreamed off, lots of fantastic songs, very grown up and mostly up beat, but unfortunately after 3 yrs the public did not give him a chance. Shame 'Pictures of the other side' is brilliant.
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I quite like Shayne, but I think that Gareth and Leon are a lot more talented and have better voices.
I'm not struck on Eoghan. He's a nice lad and all that, but his voice is weak. |
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I guess it's just to make them look cute and vulnerable to the tweenies so that they will vote for them.
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I guess it's just to make them look cute and vulnerable to the tweenies so that they will vote for them.
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Are my eyes going funny? Or did I just see the word 'pretty' and 'Leon' in the same sentence? OK so his spots have cleared up. But he's still not pretty.
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Why can't X-Factor ever find a young man who can sing and dance, like Justin Timberlake?
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its becuase bosses want everyone to pant over them like love sick puppies.
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Him flopping could actually help Shayne!
