5AM singing Uptown Funk & Emily singing Human will both be absolute torture. Poor choices for Matt too, not expecting great things this week tbh.

 

Honey doing MC Hammer tho :lol:

X Factor 2016 song choices - Week 8 - Christmas / Semi Finals songlist

 

Matt Terry

 

Silent Night

Jessie Ware - Say You Love Me

 

Emily Middlemas

 

John Lennon - War is Over

Gary Jules - Mad World

 

Saara Aalto

 

Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas is You

Sia - Chandelier

 

5 After Midnight

 

East 17 - Stay Another Day

Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)

 

Exactly what i wanted for Saara, absolutely perfect! Liking Emily'a choices too.

Those are the two songs I wanted from Saara. All I Want.... is going to be a Christmas explosion of madness though isn't it?

Emily to do Christina Perri's version please. Say You Love Me *.*

Two massive songs for Saara, vocally! I hope she kills it. Great to see Jessie Ware getting another performance, that song seems to have been come a bit of an X Factor staple.

Great choices all round tbh. Just NO at 'Mad World' in general though. I really hate that song lol.

 

5AM surely going home?

I really feel as though it's more likely Emily will be sent home.

Perfect songs for Saara, exactly the Christmas song I wanted and then a huge ballad she can slay *.*

 

I really like War Is Over for Emily, but I agree she's probably more likely to go than 5am.

I thought Emily was coming 4th for sure but looking at those song choices I think 5AM might be in trouble.

 

We saw how bad they are with ballads last week in the sing off so 'Stay Another Day' could be a disaster. I feel like both of Emily's song choices are good, especially 'Mad World' which might actually give her another 'Creep' moment.

Excellent choices for Saara, it would be wonderful to see Saara make the final. Based solely on song choices 5AM could be in trouble.

Saara's choices are spot on tbf, hopefully they should see her through to the final!

Loving Saara's chances!

I think Emily could do very well with 'Mad World' if they give her this version

 

Stay Another Day is the perfect song to hide the fact 5AM can't sing well though, the backing vocals are SUPPOSED to be very loud and high in the mix so they'll probably sneak through. The choices do make me feel like Emily is the one they've given up on, but who really knows.

 

Saara to SLEIGH AIWFCIY though, I hope she does the EXTRA FESTIVE one and adds in loads of pointless ad libbing just because SHE CAN (she won't)

Really hope Saara slays, 2 fantastic choices for her it would be so amazing to see her in the final even if she probably doesn't stand a chance of winning !

Saara has captured the imagination at the right time. She will win.

Saara singing 'Chandelier' has potential to be moment of the series.

I presume Saara will open the show as she has the only uptempo Christmas song, but thankfully there is no Strictly overlap! :cheer:

Any clues on who the guest performers may be?

Saara will be performing a Eurovision classic (!) that "all of her European fans wanted". This could go one of two ways, Rise Like a Phoenix was rumoured a couple of days ago which would fit but be strangely inspired. The other is that Saara said two of her dreams are coming true at the weekend - could it be that her dream is to perform an original? She performed No Fear in Helsinki on Monday, preparing it for Saturday perhaps?

 

Not sure this is the best plan for her victory chances, but Rise Like a Phoenix is a proven vote grabber - it wasn't just Conchita herself even if she played a big part in its success.