Herbs

Been a busy week work wise. Will resume tomorrow with a probably unsurprising next placed song! Any predictions?

bloc party

Seriously I give up, clearly I don’t know what good music is when I regularly come near the bottom of the leaderboard and barely vote for what’s at the top So many people sent songs that I felt were similar to mine and they have given me nothing….

Thanks GD for getting me off zero But wow did not think I’d be bombing like this!

Interesting comments - I’d have said that a lot of the artists mentioned have much better songs.

Bad day for Herbilore votes - we’ve lost half of our votes… Thanks to anyone who voted for Mia though. And glad to see Valencia through (even if I still genuinely think my entries from her were better)

Momo Boyd :( Such a beautiful song. Sorry others didn’t see it

Oh wow Ennea not qualifying surprises me I will forever not understand BJSC voting

Have a real bad feeling I’m losing a podium finisher

I set the trend!

Damn I had a bad feeling Pagasa and Sandenia wouldn’t make it… And a couple of my 11th-15th also out

Thank you :)

Oooooooh! If I’m out please let me know early!

Honestly, if I’d have known First Aid Kit wouldn’t get vetoed, I’d have sent them myself! Hope you do really well with this :)

Poor Louise - love that song Bloc Party is my least fave

As per normal I have no idea who anyone is If I were to hazard a guess I’d say Portishead as a potential winner

Yeah it 100% was with Hope. Think if they’d gone down a joint vocal route they could have got something more out of the show

Isn’t David the new Karen?!

That was an epic finale So glad they both stuck together and took the crown! The realisation on the banished players faces when they realised was perfect tv

Let's get the next one out of the way as well.... 20 Leon Jackson When You Believe #2s held off #1: Soulja Boy Tellem - Crank That (Soulja Boy) Shouldn't be any surprises here. Should Leon Jackson have won X Factor? (especially after Shayne & Leona paved the way for credible winners). No. Do I blame Leon Jackson? No. I blame the British public? 100%. The public have a knack for keeping in mediocre male singers. Arguably it wasn't a stellar year for X Factor talent. At the time I took time to listen to performances from all of the finalists and I wasn't massively enthusiastic about the result. In saying that, I had a few favourites. Kimberley - I do subscribe to the idea that she was screwed over by a change to TV scheduling, meaning a number of people missed her one and only performance. She went out week one and we all saw the tantrum that Sharon O threw, having to be persuaded to come back a week later. Rhydian - would he have been a single's artist. No chance. But he could sing and had stage presence Same Difference - excusing the dodginess of a brother/sister combo singing certain songs together,, they were both way more fun and marketable. Hope - this band was actually my favourite act of the year. They leaned too much on having a 'lead' singer, who would go onto to form 1/3 of 'Girls Can't Catch', responsible for one of my fave pop songs of the era in Echo. I'd go as far as to say that Leon was in my bottom 3 of the final 12. I don't hate the song choice. I don't hate his voice on it, even though it does sound very 'karaoke'. I'm amazed it made 3 weeks at number one.

Would love to see Robbie not do a 1–Out but chances are high right?!

Herbilore votes sent

21 Kid Rock All Summer Long #2s held off #1: None (The Script's 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved' was #3 and would climb to #2 a few weeks later) I'm not going to waste much time on this one. I hate this song. I HATE the artist a lot more. Kid Rock is pretty much the antithesis of everything I stand for. He has a history of homophobia and misogyny, as well as many other controversies. He's also a staunch supporter of Trump/The Republican culture. This song interpolates 'Sweet Home Alabama' and 'Werewolves of London'. I remember at the time that people were raving about it. I think now it'd be considered a largely forgotten number one. He has never charted since and for me that is a good thing...... So yeah, I ranked something lower than Leon Jackson. But is there another song below Leon?!

It would be too easy to ‘Run’ away from that joke! But ‘The Promise’ I’ll make is not to!

Jade you’re a baby!