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Definitely do, lovely song, far more 'Matt' and he was so much more at ease than in the main performance!

So much hate, it honestly baffles me how he has seemingly ENRAGED so many people, there's posters there doing a complete jig of delight. Sad. :lol: I still think the album is going to do fine. Those expecting an epic flop there are going to be disappointed. I really love the B sides Chemical, Lost and Found. Did you see his acoustic performance of an album track at the end of the Xtra Factor? It was lovely.

I don't think his entire career can be written off on one single's itunes performance, the album is a million times better and last time I looked it was doing well on pre orders, the 3rd highest pre ordered CD behind Coldplay and Noel at Hmv, currently no 1 on Amazon pre release chart and number 4 in their hourly best sellers of all music current n future with just Adele, Cee Lo and James Morrison ahead of him. He will also blatantly pick up a lot of sales in the supermarket. He may well be beaten to the number 1 position by Noel, and will definitely be outstripped massively by Coldplay the following week but I expect he will get healthy album sales, the next single alone will help sell the album and there's plenty more potential singles, he's obviously not going to get record breaking sales but should sell comfortably despite an under performing single.

*humph* must have been regional ladies because I didn't get that here in Yorkshire :angry: I absolutely ADORED that performance, for me it was flawless, the vocals, the visuals, the GORGEOUS smiles to camera, one of the best TV performances I've seen him do for me!! Glad its given the album a nudge, would LOVE to see that performance on X Factor, and see how big it would boost the album, I know Grace had little impact but think Come On has broader appeal. Though I guess they couldn't have it on X Factor because it would really show up those 'amazing performance' soundbites from the likes of Louis and Tulisa for the bullshit they are in comparison. :lol: and show what a GENUINELY amazing performance was!

Oh absolutely check out Digital Spy X Factor Forum, "LIMPING in at no 4, R.I.P Matt Cardle's career." He is under performing by X Factor's massively high standards though and that is all the ammunition needed for his many, many detractors.

Hmm Matt's doing decently but not climbing as fast as the 'big sales' number 1s from the past few weeks I don't think, obviously One Direction were number 1 by the early hours but Dappy and Olly Murs also had much faster climbs I think and they cleared/almost cleared 100K? I think Matt's on course for itunes number 1 with the X Factor boost later if it manages to displace Rihanna, but can only see it having average-ish sales and not sure if that will be enough for a number 1 in the end. There were a lot of current songs on X factor last night, though it was a bit wrong for Gary Barlow to introduce Marcus as singing 'the current No.1' as I fully expected him to sing 'Loca People' :lol: perhaps Gary meant the Big Top 40 because I think Maroon 5 are number 1 on that, or he was just been presumptious that Maroon 5 would be number 1 tonight, because even at that point there were still a couple of hours sales left that might have made all the difference, he couldn't possibly know Maroon 5 would be number 1 on tonight's chart at that point!

I guess so, it makes it easier for the public to agree with his decision to vote him off, if he indeed does though because they'll think 'I don't remember that performance very well' and 'didn't he get bad comments?' so 'Gary must be right.' I think Gary will 'reluctantly' choose to lose James. I do think he genuinely likes him a lot, and made sure he was praised after Louis and Kelly were pretty lukewarm but ultimately prefers the other three, hope I'm wrong though because I think he has loads of potential.

I think perhaps the wrong autocue went up, I didn't know song choices so when Kelly said that I thought oh Sophie's singing Adele! So when she sang the opening to Teenage Dream, I was like huh!? BTW was it just me or when Kelly was all, 'Katy who?' , was Louis shouting 'She's on the show next week!' So I guess she'll be singing The One That Got Away? I don't envy Kelly's decision, but if she was 100% basing on performance than of the four girls, sadly Amelia was the weakest for me, in a public vote I couldn't see any of those 4 being in the bottom 4, seems harsh to lose a strong singer when someone like Johnny is blatantly going to stay in. The eliminations in the other categories seem more straight forward - jonjo, James, 2 Shoes though I could see Thousand. Perhaps eliminating Nu Vibe instead. I like James, I thought he did good but the fact the other 3 boys got current chart hits and although he got something that suited him, there's no getting away from the fact, it wasn't a memorable performance, and I can't help think that was deliberate, as has his lack of coverage so far, getting through on snippets so viewers couldn't get too attached, makes me think he was a 4th pick sacrifice. I think Gary definitely likes him and appreciates his talent but for some reason he is obsessed with Frankie and there is zero chance of him leaving, Craig was excellent and Gary clearly aforesaid him so that just leaves Marcus but I think his personality will carry him through over James who hasn't had chance to shine. Given something more current like I Won't Let You Go, with his guitar, he could have been a real threat. Early standouts for me Craig, Misha, Sophie, and surprisingly The Risk, masses of potential from Amelia, Marcus and Sami.

Just seen the advert for this, Jo speaks really passionately about the need for a show that is just about the music and what really struck me is the quality of the acts that are on Noel Gallagher, Friendly Fires and mentioning Will Young in between all these 'uber cool' critical darlings just seemed so Natural, tripped off Jo's tongue. I think he really would have stood a chance this year at getting the award he covets most if it wasn't for Ed Sheeran!! Annoying but there you go, think he's in with a shout for an album nomination actually. Can't wait for this show, it sounds like the kind of show the music industry is crying out for! Anyone notice the album chart show is still running? Kind of miffed he hasn't been asked to do this, he has in the past!

According to this article on Digital Spy about their next single, http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a34...-to-be-you.html The One Direction album is out November 21st. Going up against Rihanna is an interesting move.

Well I thought that might be the case and this was always going to be about eliminations but how silly of me to think that the public would be deciding this, of course we can't have that in case the public send home any producer favourites.I actually can't believe that ITV have agreed to any twist that involves no public vote though! Straight away you've got to say it now looks like James and Sophie who made it through on mere snippets aired to the public were chosen to be nothing more than sacrificial lambs. It's risky though for producers they say it is solely going to be decided on the live performances, and sure they can manipulate song choice etc but what if someone like Sophie gives an amazing performance whilst one of the girls crumbles? They'd have to come up with some epic bullshit to convince even the most placid of X Factor viewer, it was the right decision, they did say it was cruel and I strongly suspected 4 eliminations but didn't foresee a scrapping of the public vote!

I saw Invisible played twice in the space of an hour or so today, on the 4 Music Fresh Music Top 20 then immediately after on 'The 20 Biggest Artists of 2011', she was placed at 18 ahead of Lady Gaga at 20, if memory serves! (Adele, Jessie and Bruno were the top 3)

Finally got around to finishing my review for Amazon today, Miss X and Y :) Felt compelled to write something! This album floors me, it was played in HMV the other day and I couldn't leave until it had finished. Sounded gorgeous :wub:

I really liked the format, in the blind auditions the coaches have to battle for the contestants to join their team, when the contestants sing, the judges press a button to show they want them then the contestant must choose who they want (if more than 1 coach battles for them!) Basically they pick 8 contestants each to take to the battle rounds. Then they pit their own contestants against each other, (they should do that here, that Frankie abomination would be annihilated! :lol: ) in the ultimate sing off and the coaches must choose the winner of each battle so each coach then has 4 contestants going into the live shows. The live shows did seem to be over rather quickly, over the 2 quarter finals all 4 off each team performed and the public picked their top choice from each category. Then the coach picked 1 to save and sent the others home so going into the semi's each coach had 2. The way the finalist for each was picked was very interesting, a combination of votes from the public (including itunes sales) and a points score from the coaches who had to split 100 points between the 2. Most did it fairly but I think Adam went 60/40 to ensure the one he wanted got through. Interesting move. Anyway, I think the UK will LOVE the format for starters, all the ones that are invited to the blind auditions are handpicked for their TALENT, there was not one bad one/comedy one on the US one, just varying degrees of average to great to amazing but EVERYONE could sing, as much as people claim to love the X Factor auditions, I think the public will find this a refreshing change. And I really would just love it if Will was involved! :D I can see him on that swivelling chair now, talking round the contestants to join HIS team despite whatever 'superstars' he's alongside. :lol:

That 'theme' is such a cop out! Presumably they can pick literally anything by either an or artist? Going for wide themes then! How do you begin to choose from a theme as broad as that?

I watched the US series Bev and from memory it's pretty short, I think it was less than 12 weeks for the whole run (but they had 2 hour episodes for the auditions) from audition to final so imagine they'll use the same format, though I know after the hit it was in the States, they're extending it for the second series. Blind Auditions - 2 weeks Battle Rounds - 4 weeks Live Show Quarter Finals 2 weeks Live Show Semi Final 1 week Final - 1 week There was only 4 live shows even though they had 16 contestants because they whittled them down furiously fast! I'd imagine the UK version will take the same format at first. Spring next year I think is the proposed start :)

I now she wrote 'Party In The USA' for Miley Cyrus, but I'm not sure on other stuff, think she got signed ages ago and took ages to record her debut album. Adele would again seem ideal for this but don't think she'd have the time (and as you say her vocal problems are shocking and worrying to say the least!) In the US they tried to keep it as representing different genres you had the soul guy in Cee Lo Green, country artist Blake Shelton, the big diva Christina Aguilera and straight pop in Adam Levine so wonder if they will try keep the diverse range here. I could see them trying to get a rapper maybe even Dizzee Rascal who's had a bite at talent show judging already. Lenny Kravitz is strongly rumoured to fill a 'rock' position, which is an interesting choice but still think there's room for a male popstar, if it came down to a straight choice between someone like James and Will, I still would hope they would go with Will, who's done a bit of mentoring (on X Factor) and judging (when he stood in for Dizzee) and whose personality just shines through. I honestly think he would be perfect at this because it's all about the mentoring, I have my fingers crossed anyway! edit: You're probably right Marguerite, I would like to think he's been asked though, it's not just us that think he would be perfect.

She's done quite a lot of song writing for others for just a little while longer I think, but agree I think it's too soon. However I do infinitely prefer her to any combination of Cheryl/Dannii so I'm reasonably satisfied in that respect. :lol: I still think Will might get this, he's absolutely ideal and if you look on the DS threads about The Voice, a lot of people who I don't recognise as 'Will fans' are suggesting him as perfect and would like to see him. :) Btw I'm just watching something on 4Music called 2011's Biggest Singers - Will is at 13 beating Rihanna and Olly Murs at 14 and 15. :D The impact Jealousy has made is just HUGE! It's really popular amongst young people :wub:

Two weekends in a row on ITV shows too, after last week's Jonathan Ross performance. Don't think too many people had him down in the 'Guess the X factor performances' either. I wonder if he still would have been given a slot, if he had been able to take up The Voice UK coaching role he turned down because it clashed with the US version? Looks like it's going to be really close between Rihanna and Maroon 5 then. Do we think Matt will be number 1 next week? I'm not too sure, think the X Factor performance will have a massive bearing, it's what killed Leon Jackson's single stone dead. I think it does appeal to the people who voted for him, so if they hammer home the point, it's out now it should have enough universal appeal. I don't see it racing to number 1 by midday on Sunday though, think it will atleast take until the X Factor performance for it to reach number 1 on itunes if it's going to get there at all.

Do you mean isn't that different Aphrodite? Because I have to agree I'm a little puzzled why James considers this to be so different? Many of the songs could easily sit on the last album so I'm a little bemused James thinks it so different, he does seem prouder of it tho and says that in the Virgin set, there's one song he wrote entirely on his own that made the album and how chuffed he was about it. I really like it too but not sure how it differs too much from the previous.

Hopefully the album will still perform well but if Run For Your Life does fail to top the charts you can already hear the stampede of people ready to scream FLOP!!!!!!!!! Most people seem to have already buried his career. I really like the sound of the album, so really hope it does reasonably well for him.

I think it might be a big ask just to shift Rihanna on Itunes let alone the charts! I don't think he'll get there before the X factor performance anyway. I thought that re the Univited performance, loved the beginning but he does tend to get a little too shouty at times I think. Hope he nails the X factor performance.

Yes! though it's incorrectly labelled as being a cover of a Freemasons song on some videos :lol: (which it is but you know it's an Alanis song first and foremost!) There's a few videos of it, this one has quite a lot of shouty fans on but its good quality.

This sounds brilliant. I'm almost certain even though I'm on Virgin, I have this channel because I'm sure it's what the Hard Rock Calling highlights were on, which I recorded for The Killers. Will have to make sure. I just noticed James Morrison has some special intimate half hour set thingy on Virgin and thinking how much I'd love Will to do something similar and this sounds perfect, one to mark in the diary for sure. It's clear how much Jo adores Will so this should be excellent :dance: The discussion element sounds really interesting too. I'm sure Will has a lot of thoughts on the music industry!

This sounds brilliant. I'm almost certain even though I'm on Virgin, I have this channel because I'm sure it's what the Hard Rock Calling highlights were on, which I recorded for The Killers. Will have to make sure. I just noticed James Morrison has some special intimate half hour set thingy on Virgin and thinking how much I'd love Will to do something similar and this sounds perfect, one to mark in the diary for sure. It's clear how much Jo adores Will so this should be excellent :dance: The discussion element sounds really interesting too. I'm sure Will has a lot of thoughts on the music industry!