Rachel actually did win a show! :o (proud mary I think)

 

Just goes to show the public didn't really dislike her, she just didn't get the right stuff.

This doesn't surprise me at all, at the time I remember saying how I wouldn't be surprised if she went from bottom two to top 5 for that week, at least. There was practically a campaign to keep her in that week, it worked. It ended up only being temporary inflation, however, and she left the next week. :(

 

I love looking at these, Danyl's votes are interesting, the clear winner for week 1 and then he fell to less than 7% the next week, bottom 2 the week after and then the clear winner of week 4. Jedward were never a real threat and Miss Frank did poorly every week. :(

 

I'm pleased that Joe has won as he was easily the better vocalist, but he's so dull. It really was a case of the voice vs the personality in this final, each of them was missing what the other one had. I won't buy Joe's single, but I think it's listenable, I just object to the choir treatment it's been given. :drama: I laughed and cringed at Rachel hijacking the final performance. :lol:

 

The highlights of the night were easily the performances from the former contestants, who really highlighted how average Joe and Olly were. George Michael was good, if a bit boring and, dare I say it, Paul McCartney is a bit past it now. Don't think he was looking or sounding too great tonight, as epic as "Live And Let Die" is. The less said about the first performance, the better. Leona's performance was a bit weird because (while she sounded superb) she was meant to be singing along to a recap of the series, so no one was really paying attention to her, they were clapping laong to the clips instead. -_- Alex and JLS were awesome, I loved the added lyrics to "Bad Boys" by JLS and she made "Everybody In Love" sound good, I usually hate JLS.

 

Overall, it was a bit of a dull night, too many adverts, too many recaps and not enough memorable performances by the contestants.

Miss Frank :(

 

Poor Rachel. Didnt for a second believe that she topped the week 3 voting, she deservedly did but she must be a bit gutted falling right to the bottom next week. At least she actually was higher than Rikki in week 2 though

 

Olly was bottom week 7 :o Jedward and Lloyd were never that much of a threat either...Im glad Lucie did fairly decently in week 3 and such though and that she wasnt like Miss Frank and narowly missing bottom 2.

This year could have been so good. Miss Frank and Rachel would have been a stunning top2.

 

Could you imagine a Graziella rap to The Climb? :wub:

 

STUNNING.

 

 

 

Instead we got $h!te. Olly is a cocky c**t and Joe, well he's a bit dull. Stacey was the only one in the top5 with a personality.

 

This year is going to be more Leon than Alex/Leona

Here's hoping to a much better year in 2010.

 

After the dire Leon year we did get the fantastic Alexandra/Ruth/Laura/JLS year so I'm hopeful!

Since Shayne Warne or whathisname won its been Male, Female, Male, Female, Male.... so I reckon next year we shall have a female winning.

So, who's auditioning for 2010 :kink:

I'd like to see a really good group win it next year. It'd be interesting, I reckon that's what Simon will want as well tbh.

Glad to see that Danyl did pretty well throughout (apart from week three/last week).

 

A shame Olly didn't win :( JLS/Alex were amazing though. Leona was okay, George was boring, Paul was great.

 

Susan Boyle wiped the floor with everybody though, imho, with her show afterwards :heart:

So, who's auditioning for 2010 :kink:

 

lol, I'm thinking of entering for a laugh and seeing how far I could genuinely get in the competition :lol:

TBH I really think Joe could do well if they took the time with him. Like took time to really push a unique style and image. It worked for Alexandra. We all thought she'd be a second rate Leona but she's found her own sound/image etc and does it extremely well. Sadly, I think Joe'll release an album of bland, covered ballads and fade into obscurity by the end of 2010...

I think he will have an album out for Mothers day. Teenagers won't be interested in him to wait until October.

I cant see simon sending joe of to work with top producers in america, i can see him going down the exacat same road as gareth gates, a few light weight pop songs, a few ballads and a few covers, and i wouldnt be surprised if we see an album by joe for mothers day as he would sell huge for that.

Right result for the final 2 although Joe hasn't got the talent of Leona or Alex.

 

Stacey should have gone through instead of Olly.

 

Olly well! All I can say is that I can dance better than him when I'm drunk.

 

Also I won't be buying the X Factor single. I already have the Miley Cyrus original which is better by miles.

 

My final 3 from the final 12 would have been Stacey, Lucie & Joe with Lucie & Stacey battling it out.

 

I didn't like George Michael's performance one bit (mind you I never really liked him) but Paul McCartney was brilliant and so was Leona.

 

As for the background - why did they have to play the rubbish Westlife version of What About Now - they should have played the class Daughtry original

Edited December 14, 200915 yr by Euro Music

Madonna reportedly turned down the chance to perform a duet with Stacey Solomon on Saturday night's X Factor.

 

According to The Sun, the pop superstar had been in talks to team up with Dannii Minogue's act for the final, but her team eventually rejected the offer because she does not have new material or a tour to promote.

 

A source said: "We were told she wasn't in promotion so it wasn't going to happen. It's a shame as she'd have been brilliant and given the show a real lift, especially with Stacey."

 

Saturday's episode saw Solomon perform with Michael Bublé. Meanwhile, Olly Murs sang with Robbie Williams and eventual winner Joe McElderry was partnered with George Michael.

 

The mother-of-one finished in third place at the weekend, leaving Murs and McElderry to battle it out in last night's final showdown.

I posted this in The Beatles forum but it is too apt to be just left there.....

 

This review sums up Paul's performance perfectly ......

 

X marks Macca's career low point

The X Factor Final TV3/ITV, Saturday and Sunday

MUPPET SHOW: Paul McCartney appears on The X Factor final as a special guest

By Pat Stacey Irish Herald.ie

Monday December 14 2009

 

Next Sunday, yours truly will be among the lucky thousands thronging the O2 in Dublin for Paul McCartney. There will be whooping. There will be cheering. There will be singing and screaming and waving and thumbs-up aloft, the likes of which you've never seen from a ripening father with a dodgy knee (that's me, not Macca).

 

There might even be manly tears spilled at the awesome wonderfulness of being in the presence of a living legend on what could well be his last full-scale world tour. Last night, though, there was only the soft, sad weeping of the soul as the great man took to the stage as the special guest on The X Factor final.

 

The panel -- Cowell, Cole, Minogue and Walsh -- were on their feet applauding. Forget the feet; they should be on their knees, bowing and scraping and pleading for forgiveness.

 

Especially Walsh, who laughably touts Westlife's karaoke covers sales as proof that they're nearly as big as The Beatles. In your dreams, you egg-shaped irritant.

 

vomited

 

Macca was predictably brilliant, belting out Drive My Car and Live and Let Die -- although there was something fathomlessly wrong about letting The X Factor muppets join in, bawling cluelessly. But still . . . why, Paul? Why did you have to do this?

 

Why, when there is no conceivable need, did the man who helped change the face of music -- who smashed down the boundaries of what it's possible to do on a pop or rock record -- appear on a show dreamt up and vomited out by the arrogant, talentless, flat-headed twit who, in less than a decade, has singlehandedly tried to undo the achievements of The Beatles and every other great artist that followed them?

 

What would John and George say? Has anyone asked Ringo what he thinks? For that matter, what went through McCartney's head when finalist Olly Murs took the classic Twist and Shout (one of John Lennon's most astonishing vocal performances) and minced it into bland, middle of the road gunk, while pathetically wiggling his hips as if something nasty had crawled up his trouser leg?

 

To be fair to McCartney, he handled the after-performance fawning with condescending aplomb. Dermot O'Leary asked him what he thought of the finalists. "They're both good. One of them's going to win." And then he was out of there as quickly as possible.

 

One of them did win: Joe McElderry, a pleasant teenager with a big but nondescript voice and zero charisma. Maybe he'll vanish within a year, like most of the other winners.

 

Or maybe he'll hang around a little longer, like Leona Lewis, a mannequin of a woman so passionless and motionless you suspect there might be a little man hiding under the folds of her dress, working her with pulleys, pedals and wires.

 

Whatever. Welcome to the apocalyptic future, where even living legends are sucked into the void at the black heart of Simon Cowell's three-ring circus. Depressing, isn't it?

Ouch. That was harsh.

 

A very good final actually in a way. Well done to all 3. They all deserved it. Joe definetly is a worthy winner. I thought the guests were all good some were fab some were just ok IMO. Crap winners song :lol:.

Love that article on Macca :lol: They make Cowell seem like the Grim Reaper or something lmao.

 

As for Joe. Apparently Cowell wants to ensure he has a massive selling male winner so is getting the typical Ryan Tedder et al to work on his album. :heehee:

lol :rofl:

 

 

I do like Joe......but this is still funny :P

Edited December 16, 200915 yr by Sabrewulf238

LOL yeah it's a bit funny.