X Factor!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Has anyone else been watching the X Factor? With Saturday nights in having become my default mode (thanks to toddler) I've ended up watching more this year than ever before and now require the POPTIMISTS to tell me who should WIN.

So - Who should win?

To jog yr memory the remaining contestants are:

ALEXANDRA - Londoner (I think) who always looks a bit miserable and seems to be at home on fierce soul ballads. She is the best singer remaining and has been for a few weeks I think. Not a lot of presence tho.

DIANA - Skinny big-haired scouser who has a weird highly intense Kate Bush / Dolores O'Riordan witchy warble thing going on, quite unlike anyone else I've seen on an X Factor/Idol style show. I like her because she pushes herself (and the arrangers) to do something different with familiar songs, BUT whether it actually works or not is incredibly dependent on the song.

EOGHAN - Scary man-child with a weird mask-like face which looks 16 (his actual age), 10 or 100 depending on how the camera catches him. I am desperate for him to be sent home as he unnerves me deeply, except when he's performing when he's just rubbish mostly.

JLS - Who I always call JSL - they are a very smiley and innoccuous boy band, my wife's favourites. I like 'em and would be happy if they won because I think on the whole it's good for the balance of pop to have a boy band around, but they have as much chance of making un-bland records as I have of being picked for a Mars mission.

Does anyone else care?

Comments

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Diana: NO NO NOOOOOOO FUCK OFF NOOOO ew oh g0d I hate her, her "kooky" image, her wandering hand and her awful awful voice and WORSE diction. She pronounces things like Chewbacca in Star Wars does. UGH x10000.

Alex: is the best and must win.

Eoghan: MUST be pronounced Eog-Han! I agree with all Tom's summing-up above (and apparently he is sh@gging Diana EWWWWWWWWWW) WHAT was with all that High School Musical bollocks this week??!

JLS: I call them JSL too. They're very boring, aren't they? I am always captivated by the lead singer's ears for some reason - they are so sticky-out and full of BLING.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha how had I forgotten her scary hand!

I like her weird chewie diction! I especially like how her actual voice is more like Sonia.

I think I am leaning to Alex FTW but I still can't really remember any of her numbers - the judges were turning cartwheels over some performance this week which seemed completely forgettable.

(I liked how this week ALL the singers were RUBBISH at doing Britney songs, except Ruth doing "I Love R'n'R" which is a cheat anyway. It pointed up what a strange body of work Britney has and how weird the idea of people treating her songs as, well, SONGS is. Then she herself was feeble sadly.)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The Mariah week was weird too - I think MOST of them chose Mariah cover songs rather than Mariah originals!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Actually I just looked it up on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X_Factor_(UK_series_5)#Week_5_.288_November_2008.29) - those Mariah song choices are so incredibly poor, it's almost an insult to her discography. 'My All' is the only one of those that I'd consider a Mariah classic! Why no one chose 'Fantasy', 'Heartbreaker', 'Vision Of Love', 'Emotions', 'Can't Let Go', 'Always Be My Baby' etc I have no idea.

Rachel should have done 'Side Effects' - and I bet she loves that song - but obviously wouldn't have been allowed to, because it wasn't a single and we must play safe at all times :(

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I think the shagging Diana thing is just the X-Factor press office and rumour factory going into overdrive as always.. I doubt there is any basis in fact at all.