Parallel Reality

These competitions somehow manage to get less and less relevant every week.

'Cheating' is such a grower, but I still find 'Love Me Again' better.

'Summertime Sadness' definitely outperformed my expectations of how it would do in the chart. Still sounds so good as well!

Glad 'We Can't Stop' is now heading out of the top 40. I never got into it at all.

Yes, I thought the start sounds like a mixture of 'Never Leave You' by Tinchy, as well as 'Change Your Life' by Little Mix. There are both good and bad things about this single. Nathan's vocals on the first verse are really great but the rest feels a little limp.

They look really good in the video and the song is quite good too!

When I heard 'Venus' I thought it was a joke. :lol: - I have warmed to the chorus a little a couple of listens later though.

Excited to hear the Paloma Faith feature, but I'm a bit unsure as I loathed 'Trampoline' and 'Children Of The Sun' is alright.

I hope Avril can scrape top 40 but maybe that's more wishful thinking than anything else. :(

I hope either Sam C, Kingsland Road or Abi are bottom in the flash vote tonight.

Alexandra :wub: That was such a great year for X Factor finalists.

Looning aside, I imagine that's a really difficult song to sing and I think she did a good job. 5.5 - Rough Copy 3.5 - Sam C 6.5 - Hannah 8 - Nicholas 4 - Abi 6 - Miss Dynamix 9 - Sam B 3.5 - Kingsland Road 6.5 - Luke 8 - Tamera

Ha! I'm a bit stingy with my scoring, but it probably helps I don't loon over anyone.* *Except Tamera. :kink:

Not bad. 5.5 - Rough Copy 3.5 - Sam C 6.5 - Hannah 8 - Nicholas 4 - Abi 6 - Miss Dynamix 9 - Sam B 3.5 - Kingsland Road 6.5 - Luke

Awful. Awful. Awful. Awful. CRINGTASTIC. *Waits for all positive feedback* :manson: 5.5 - Rough Copy 3.5 - Sam C 6.5 - Hannah 8 - Nicholas 4 - Abi 6 - Miss Dynamix 9 - Sam B 3.5 Kingsland Road

Sam is such a good vocalist, it makes some other people in the competition look a bit like a joke! 5.5 - Rough Copy 3.5 - Sam C 6.5 - Hannah 8 - Nicholas 4 - Abi 6 - Miss Dynamix 9 - Sam B

Pretty average performance tbh. 5.5 - Rough Copy 3.5 - Sam C 6.5 - Hannah 8 - Nicholas 4 - Abi 6 - Miss Dynamix

At least it's better than last week! A bit of a ropey but intriguing performance. 5.5 - Rough Copy 3.5 - Sam C 6.5 - Hannah 8 - Nicholas 4 - Abi

That just made me laugh out loud! :lol:

I'm not even a fan of Nicholas but that was a strong performance. 5.5 - Rough Copy 3.5 - Sam C 6.5 - Hannah 8 - Nicholas

Not a bad performance but it sounded like she was struggling a bit. 5.5 - Rough Copy 3.5 - Sam C 6.5 - Hannah

Nicole working behind the counter in Greggs! :rofl: :rofl: DEAD

This performance is SO weak. Why does he always get so much praise?! 6 - Rough Copy: 3.5 - Sam C: EDIT: perhaps not so positive this week... :lol:

IMO, it's a school based drama, and the overall theme will always be relevant and will have people interested in it. I.e. people who go to school. I think going to Scotland has caused some damage but that can change as it's all about the storylines, and characters, for WR anyway which is only on once a week. It's the predictable characters and boring plots that have severely contributed to the demise IMO, which is largely the responsibility of the writers. I don't think the majority of viewers are particularly bothered about the location. I do agree about them needing a committed team though.

A really great track this! Hope it can do well!