X Factor: Week 7 Results (George Michael & Wham week)
- Have I become desensitised or was the group performance of “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” not utterly hideous? It had all the ingredients of being so, but somehow hovered around bearable.
- Taking my cynical hat off for one bullet point, I like that Reality TV has meant someone as unlikely as Susan Boyle now has a chance at a music career. Even if it also gave her a nervous breakdown. [EDIT: With further thought I'd disappointed. How much better would it have been if she'd have come back with a "Bleeding Love"/"Bad Boys" instead of that cover.]
- I think we’d have all preferred it if Mariah Carey had sung “All I Want For Christmas”. In fact I’d quite like it if she re-released “Fantasy/Dreamlover” (double A-side) every summer and “All I Want For Christmas” every December. Mariah had everything for her performance: the golden waterfall, the halo light, a gospel choir, indoor fireworks. It’s just a shame she doesn’t have the songs these days to match her voice. I refuse to acknowledge that she was miming and instead insist she can actually sing that well.
- Can I ever forgive her for the below remix (and video) though? Why is her eye sideways?
- My shocking mathematical formula was spot on! Sod my flawed instinct. I’m all Derren Brown.
- Why on earth did Twin Peaks choose “No Matter What” as their desperation song? Did they genuinely pick this? A song with singing and leaps between notes? Is it paranoid to suggest the Puppet Masters made them do this to ensure they’d go this time and save the show a small amount of credibility/believability/relevance?
- Having said that, Cheeky Chappy was quite out of tune too. And yet despite this, I still prefer him leaps and bounds to “very in tune” Joe and “normally in tune but occasionally wildly off tune” Danyl.
- In previous years, a winner has never been in the bottom 2 before. Which means, according to maths (which is my sole guide now), the winner is either Joe or Stacey. Please god let it be Stacey. Please. If Joe wins it will mean we’ve learnt nothing since 2001. Nothing! It would invalidate everything that the important victory of Will Young over Gareth Gates symbolised. Don’t let it happen people!!
- I now have a mint tea and am calm.
-I love Dannii. She’s getting rebellious against the Cowell. I think he might fire her, but still. I love her attitude.
Mime mime mime. I was very disappointed there wasn’t a Mariah/SuBo collaboration tonight. That would have been worthy watching.
Joe to win. But I’ll settle for Stacey.
You be careful or you’ll be subjected to a run through the Mariah Carey back catalogue on youtube.
About bloody time is all I can say – thank god they are gone.
So how often has your mathematical formula been correct?!
ps. I thought Mariah was miming too…….
Not so much Joe love on the blog this week. I do think it will be a Stacey/Joe showdown and i’m not sure I am mentally equipped for Joe to win. Although i don’t mind an album of theatre standards just not from an x factor winner. Cos that would be shit.
Didn’t like the booing for Jedward. Most unnecessary!
I think this performance should go down as one of the greatest X Factor moments ever – with a particular shout-out to 0.22 and 0.36. Incredible.
Actually, the magic moment runs from 0.19 to 0.21 – apologies.
Becky: I’m about to go and work out the stats…Oh and you’re wrong about Mariah. Didn’t you love it when she hit the whistle register?
Paul: no one minds an album of theatre standards: we all love a bit of Daniel Boys or John Barrowman. However, (a) Joe is not attractive enough to be classed with either of those two and (b) even Daniel Boys/JB don’t sell with those albums.
The booing is also wrong: who do the audience think they are? A Big Brother crowd?
Louise: I’m so glad you pointed out that Twin Peaks sang “however they attack” at the audience. It adds subtle layers of depth to their performance and I now want them back.