X Factor

[mockney piers]

You forgot "you're a real recording artist" *bob*, protesting too much that they wont end up in musical theatre honest.

[Loz]

Or Louis' standard "your definitely gonna be in the final" to just about every contestant.

[*Bob*]

How could I forget.. the phrase of 2010..

"You put/didn't put - your stamp on it.."

[mockney piers]

Lol. Quite. Celine Dion 'puts her stamp' on things, enough said.

[DJKillaQueen]

Here we go again.....what song will Wagner murder tonight? lol

[aquarius moon]

That performance by Matt was amazing!

[DJKillaQueen]

Him and Rebecca have to make it to the final surely.

[????]

*Bob* has ruined Matt for me. He has got a whiney voice.

Wagner marches on majestically. The Brunmmie bird will go this week.

[DJKillaQueen]

You mean Cher? I tihnk she has too big a following.

I think it will be Katie that goes.

[woofmarkthedog]

???? Wrote:

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> *Bob* has ruined Matt for me. He has got a whiney

> voice.

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He was great, anyway what does * Bob* know ? it's not like he qualified or anything anyway !

* hums some cook show tune *

W:));-)F

[????]

No I mean the black girl with the big thighs from brum

[TillieTrotter]

Oh my, just watched Matt on Iplayer......pure class. I could fall in love with him JUST for this.

[citizenED]

Matt: sensational. Key to it is the clarity of voice at low volumes. Tillie, you can't have him, I swooned already.

[The Minkey]

That boy can hold a mean tune. Lovely performance.

[Pickle]

Fantastic performance from Matt. I think TrayC will go... good voice, but far too arrogant and not different enough. Wagner, oh dear, but I fear the "voting public" (whoever they may be) will keep him in. He is funny, I'll give him that.

Is it wrong to fancy the lead singer from the boyband when I'm well and truly old enough to be his mother?

[DJKillaQueen]

Matt reminds me of Shane Ward and like him, his appeal will be limited to the uk. Rebecca may well do well internationally. She reminds me of a young Billie Holiday...who also was painfully shy.

Treyc's problem I think is that she doesn't engage with the audience. She's not the only one but with a voice like that she could have a great career if she knew how to 'perform' better. They need to give her a song in which she can get the audience in the studio involved....

For me Beyonces performance of 'If I were a Boy' on the show was the ultimate masterclass on performance. She used the walkway and camera and told a story. Treyc needs to do that instead of singing to 'air'.

[mockney piers]

Yaaay. The panto continues.

[RosieH]

DJKQ, Matt reminds me much more of Gary Jules than Shane Ward - altogether different style of music, and one which I think would have more international appeal than a third rate Justin Timberlake.

However, I enjoyed this evening's photo montage of a half-naked Shane Ward immensely.

[Ridgley]

Is this the way, the music business is heading what happen to the days of being discovered by busking or forming a band at school writing your own songs. I understand things have to move on and maybe this is the only way you can get in the public eye.

But there longevity is very short.

[DJKillaQueen]

The music business has always had a combination of artists from different platforms. Some bands/ artists are manufactured/ packaged or 'managed', others are their own creation. And the majority of performing artists have never written their own songs.....and that's true for any decade going back as far as you like.

[Ridgley]

Is this the way, the music business is heading what happen to the days of being discovered by busking or forming a band at school writing your own songs. I understand things have to move on and maybe this is the only way you can get in the public eye.

But there longevity is very short.

[Ridgley]

I find these days that they are very few, good bands and music that are coming through maybe I am just old

[felt-tip]

there are loads! you wont find them watching X factor though.

[DJKillaQueen]

I agree with FT...there are lots of great bands and also lots of great individual performers. And you will see some of them watching X factor, artists like Beyonce and Rihanna.

Ultimately, the truly talentless aside, taste in music and artists is subjective for most people, and generation does come into it too. There is no doubt that Beyonce Knowles is one of the most talented artists ever, and her music is good but her style of music is not for everyone.

It is total snobbery to think that only generic bands that write their own songs and play their own instruments have any value or talent. Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Elvis Presley, I could list hundreds who never wrote a song, but were elevated into greatness because of their vocal talent, and whose music was of it's time.

[Ann]

Very good point DJKQ ,your posts on this thread make a lot of sense. I'm old enough to remember the Beatles on Top of the Pops singing Hey Jude, I must have been about seven at the time but I remember it clearly, not knowing what an iconic moment it was.

Times have changed and we've had generation of 'manufactured bands'. At the end of the day we choose what we buy to listen to. Flippin heck I've recently downloaded Best of Slade onto my I-touch, there's a bit of T Rex in there too; I also have some classical all the way down to Lady GaGA!

It's better Saturday nights' entertainment than Noel's House Party or even The Generation Game! Trust me.

I enjoy X Factor, it is what it is.

Strictly Come Dancing IMO is in a different league!