ElectroBoy

Seems to be picking up on Spotify - took a big climb today.

I think the programme kinda showed that Simon was out of touch with how things worked now - even to get people to audition for the band stalled initially well unless that was just for the documentary 🤣

Blink is a great episode, even on rewatches. Great debut for the Weeping Angels too! Plus Sally is a great lead.

I do love Emma... but she seems a bit over-exposed in the Reality tv world as a presenter - Big Brother/ Celeb Big Brother, The Voice, The Circle, Love is Blind UK

Spotify (10.02.26) 01 [01] Bad Bunny – DtMF (605,138) 02 [02] Olivia Dean - Man I Need (592,009) 03 [03] Dave & Tems - Raindance (442,271) 04 [05] RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! (352,858) 05 [06] Djo - End of Beginning (351,060) 06 [04] Bad Bunny – NUEVAYoL (339,988) 07 [07] Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall in Love) (336,932) 08 [08] Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In (336,919) 09 [10] Zara Larsson - Lush Life 10 [09] Bad Bunny - BAILE INoVOIDABLE 11 [12] SIENNA SPIRO - Die on This Hill 14 [22] sombr – Homewrecker 18 [16] Bruno Mars - I Just Might 19 [17] PinkPantheress & Zara Larsson – Stateside 20 [20] Harry Styles – Aperture 21 [19] Bad Bunny – EoO 22 [34] Bad Bunny – Titi Me Pregunto 24 [21] Taylor Swift – Opalite 25 [23] Noah Kahan - The Great Divide 29 [33] Dominic Fike - Babydoll 40 [30] Bad Bunny – VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR 48 [48] Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun 63 [67] Bella Kay – iloveitiloveitiloveit 95 [109] Dominic Fike - White Keys 98 [74] J Balvin & Bad Bunny – LA CANCION 103 [169] Myles Smith & Niall Horan – Drive Safe 136 [142] Ella Langley – Choosin’ Texas 148 [110] Bad Bunny – VeLDA 157 [154] Milky - Just the Way Your Are

So should we disregard the avatar changes?

Apple 01 Bad Bunny - DtMF 05 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In 10 Bad Bunny - Tití Me Preguntó 11 Bad Bunny - BAILE INoLVIDABLE 16 Bad Bunny - NUEVAYoL 23 sombr - Homewrecker 26 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide 30 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas 39 Myles Smith & Niall Horan - Drive Safe 40 Bad Bunny - VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR 41 Bad Bunny - EoO 77 Calvin Harris & Kasabian - Release The Pressure 84 Bad Bunny - MIA (feat. Drake) 136 Bella Kay - iloveitiloveitiloveit 144 Bad Bunny & JHAYCO - DÁKITI 147 Bad Bunny - MONACO

From these second set of auditions, it defo goes Groups-Boys-Girls. Thankfully the Girls have Kelly!

Views from the Electro Jury 01 Kelly Clarkson - Gone 02 Michelle Branch - You Set Me Free 03 Chappell Roan - Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl 04 Delta Goodrem - Sitting On Top of the World 05 Kesha - Blow 06 LiSA - Gurenge (紅蓮華) 07 Nelly Furtado & Tiësto - Who Wants to Be Alone 08 Toni Braxton - You’re Makin’ Me High 09 Lily Allen - Who’d Have Known 10 FKA twigs - Glass & Patron 11 Nadia Oh - Taking Over the Dancefloor 12 ROSALÍA - DIABLO Well this is Kelly's to lose! Some of these are pretty bad, I was expecting the Nadia song to go somewhere, given its length but it just didn't. Its saved from the bottom spot though by ROSALIA.

Views from the Electro Jury 01 The Corrs - I Never Loved You Anyway 02 Ace of Base - Beautiful Life 03 The 1975 - Love Me 04 Florence + the Machine - Queen of Peace 05 Atomic Kitten - If You Come to Me 06 Blondie - Hanging On the Telephone 07 The Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice 08 Erasure - So the Story Goes 09 Girlicious - Over You 10 Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama 11 HAIM - I Know Alone 12 ABBA - Hole in Your Soul A strong-ish set of songs. I think this is making me realise that I didn't really like any of the Scissor Sisters' big hits. Girlicious was actually surprisingly ok. I'd forgetten about that Atomic Kitten song... and also that Corrs song too!

I just meant from an obviously first out POV 🤭 I remember them being vocally pretty bad... but then I just remembered that was Jedward's year. Also Lloyd Daniels and Rikki Loney... maybe you're right 🤣 But still Stacey Soloman, Rachel ADEDEJI, Lucie Jones, Joe McElderry, Jamie Archer, Miss Frank etc were fairly good.

Girlicious very much feeling like the Kandy Rain of the Groups Saying that Over You is a bit of a bop

Views from the Electro Jury 01 Troye Sivan - Strawberries & Cigarettes 02 Ruel - Not What’s Going On 03 Conan Gray - Killing Me 04 Markus Riva - Forever 05 George Michael - Freeek! 06 Shawn Mendes - Lost in Japan (Zedd Remix) 07 Fred again.. - Berwyn (all that i got is you) 08 Eric Saade - Every Minute 09 The Weeknd - A Lesser Man 10 Guitarricadelafuente & Troye Sivan - midsummer pipe dream 11 David Bowie - Young Americans 12 Nik Kershaw - Gone to Pieces Felt the top 3 were well in front of the rest this time! I do prefer the original Lost in Japan Hadn't heard that George Michael song for about 20+ years! Remember it being panned at the time and deemed a flop as it was released the same week as Gareth Gates (IIRC).

OloctreBey?

I forgot that Lily Allen sampled Take That