X Factor, Me and Dan have made you go wrong Options

[Shack]

Look, it's an X Factor thread.

Even though we're nearing the sticky end of the show, dump your X Factor thoughts here.

I bet the McDonald Brothers sing the music from Braveheart next week.

[NiteFall]

I see Ray standing too close to the 20 bajillion watts of lighting they have and having his plastic face melt into a goopy puddle, resulting in his getting voted off the show.

[gulfcoast_highwa...]

Do you think even Sharon Osbourne's family think she's a fucking twat?

[Zoe]

I love Sharon, she looked so stoned this week, it was brilliant.

[gulfcoast_highwa...]

Ok, she might have looked stoned, ok, it might have been brilliant, but you like the woman.

Just wrong Zoe.

She is less likeable than the Bedingfields.

[Serafina_Pekkala]

I love Sharon, she looked so stoned this week, it was brilliant.

"She sleeps with Prince Valium tonight!" I don't mind her - her revulsion over Steve Brookstein was always amusing for me.

I hate those McDonald hobbity-bobbity brothers and i cannot believe they are still in. Obviously the 'Michelle McManus memorial Scottish voting system" is still in force or some people just like child-men who cannae sing. Nae botha, my neighbours here but it is so farking true and Louis 'i look like a creepy priest' Walsh cultivates it.

Sefi x

[Zoe]

I've always liked her, she's a cheeky older woman who likes flirting with young boys.

She reminds me of my Mum.

[Ghost_862]

Shame Eton Road went because Anthony was very cute in his own way.

Ray is a chirpy chappy with a mediocre voice but a smile that will win over legions of girly wirlies. And nobody can ever murder swing music to as large an extent as Robbie Williams did, so worse things could happen than Ray getting a record deal.

MacDonald Brothers are so naff and the shorter one with the dark hair looks like he's not all there. He also doesn't seem to actually play that guitar he holds. Maybe it just occupies his hands so he can't have an episode and slap Kate Thornton, then run away guffawing with a crazed look in his eye.
The Proclaimers thing was alright but they sounded better in Friday's soundcheck. Their first song was abysmal as per usual.

Ben can't really sing if we're all honest, he either struggles terribly to hold a note, or shrieks like a war casualty trying to overcome the pain of some horrendous wound by reciting his favourite power ballads... neither really qualify as singing. He's just there to attact a rock fan type audience sort of thing because he's got long hair and shouts a lot. But he can play more than one instrument, so kudos to him for that. Unfortunately you can barely hear him over the karaoke backing tracks he's playing to.

Leona pisses me off. How they sent so many girls away telling them they were doing bad Mariah Carey impressions, yet let Leona through is something I will never understand [though I did read she used to date Simon Cowell - but this may not be true]. And her first song this week was utter shit, vocally.
AND they always talk about how the female X-Factor contestants have been consistently rubbish until Leona arrived, yet Brenda had a far more original and powerful voice, and bags of personality to go with it. Brenda shits on the chest of Leona and her twittering Mariah Aguilera bullshit.

This post has been edited by Ghost_862: Nov 27 2006, 03:20 PM

[m0r1arty]

I'm just posting in here guys to say

"Shame on you!"

Bloody hex factor, you would think you'd know better!

-m0r

[Sostie]

Does it really matter who gets the most votes...in the end its the British public that are the real winners.


Was it just me that thought Ray sung Jailhouse Rock at the same pitch all the way through. It was the singing version of Ferris Beuller's teacher.

[Chapman Baxter]

Was it just me that thought Ray sung Jailhouse Rock at the same pitch all the way through.  It was the singing version of Ferris Beuller's teacher.

I didn't notice that, but I found it impossible to distinguish a single word he was singing outside the chorus.

[Sostie]

I didn't notice that, but I found it impossible to distinguish a single word he was singing outside the chorus.

He seemed to be singing at a high pitch monotone all the way through. There were no words. It was "neh-neh-nehneh-neh-neh-neh-neh-nehnehneh..." all the way through" . The cheeky little scamp.

[maian]

I absolutely hated Ray's version of Jailhouse Rock. Possibly the worst diction ever from anyone on TV ever. "Waann thewww pareee unna couneee jayyy" is not the opening line you creepy little doll-child weirdo. Go away and take some fucking elocution lessons and learn how to pronounce things properly you lazy little shit!

Does it really matter who gets the most votes...in the end its the British public that are the real winners.
Was it just me that thought Ray sung Jailhouse Rock at the same pitch all the way through.  It was the singing version of Ferris Beuller's teacher.

I didn't notice that, but I found it impossible to distinguish a single word he was singing outside the chorus.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who despised his rendition of Jailhouse Rock. I couldn't pick out any of the words he was singing despite the fact that I know the song almost off by heart. I really, really dislike him and his lack of decent diction does no justice to the swing style that he has appropriated.

Also, I hate the MacDonald Brothers and am joining Charlie Brooker's campaign to start a war with Scotland if they win.

I quite like Ben, though i think I was swayed by the bug pyrotechnics this week which seemed to be much too close to the pretty backing singers' dresses. At one point one of them seemed very close to combusting.

This post has been edited by maian: Nov 27 2006, 07:18 PM

[Drifter]

By this time next year nobody will even remember who won anyway, one hit wonders two at a push but give them a good 2 months after the final and they'll disappear into the night thank fuck

[Chris]

The thing about X-Factor is: it seduces one into caring about acts that, in "normal" circumstances, one wouldn't give a toss about. I don't really care who can and cannot sing, who has the X-Factor (isn't this just a pseudonym for charisma? Which none of them really has) or which one of them is going out with a minor celebrity. If you heard any of these warbling on the radio without the supporting narrative of the "X-Factor" would any of you/us really care about them? For me, this is the point, the programme creates a cast of characters with whom we are supposed to identify, we begin to care about them, we hear their back story, we love/hate their mentors, we watch each week as the drama unfolds and it is this that sustains the programme.

The X-Factor is a successful brand. The most important part of the brand is the characterisation and narrative arc of the weekly "Show". The acts are - perhaps unwittingly - cast in the weekly drama. Brookstein, Shane Ward, McManus et al, once the series finishes, disappear, or at least, do not become or remain star turns, how could they? Whatever the relative merits of each act, (and I am willing to concede some of them might be brilliant...but it doesn't matter) their careers are absolutely unsustainable without the suppoting narrative. So we reach a point (this is a signifier of the contemporary version of capitalism) where things are sort of reversed. The apparent and advertised goal of the X-factor is the creation of "(a) star(s)" (previous incarnation was "Pop Idol" wasn't it?) but the actual goal, or at least the result is the perpetuation of the X-Factor brand....so the acts perform for us under the rubric of "becoming a star" then at the end, one of them "wins" but is soon forgotten - give or take a Will Young - and is left abandoned, ready to be recast in another Reality TV programme. So important is the brand that we reach a point where the actual winning acts and the songs they release act as a "Loss leader". In this regard, X-Factor is like the West End stage show of "The Lion King" ... the stage show, as opposed to being the actual product, is now a 2 hour advert for the Lion King/Disney brand. **

Anyway, that's my take on it. I'm slightly embarrassed, i've only posted on here twice since March. On my return now in November, I post about X-Factor.

**Lion King in the West End of London loses £1000's per month**
Chris

This post has been edited by Chris: Nov 27 2006, 11:33 PM