islandhopper wrote:
I'm smart enough to know better, but I can't help but really enjoy the cheesy fakery of X Factor. I did enjoy my 2 hour dose of boot camp tonight.
I like the fact that they've been using the same bed music from when the programme first started as well. I am the Greatest (or whatever it's called) by R Kelly and Sigur Ros's Hoppipolla got they're usual airing tonight and I'm fully expecting Coldplay's Fix You to make its comeback for the 'driving back in the car to tell the family they didn't get to the live final' scenes next week.
They did actually have a new one this week though and it took me a while to work it out, but I finally twigged that it was, bizarrely, part of the This is England score.
Doh! You forgot 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol, the X Factor/reality talent show staple of the last couple of years (or whenever it came out). Someone even sang that for their audition last night, and then I saw Snow Patrol performing it on some live festival footage later in the evening, and remembered when they used to sound a bit like Sebadoh and have Richard Colburn drumming for them. Oh dear. The words of the song don't have anything to do with the sentiments they're trying to express with it, either.
Did anyone else think Louis' 'idea' was clearly planned from the start? I mean, all the borderline contestants appeared to have been shepherded into a room together rather than being allowed to go home or sob quietly in the toilets. And they'd been saying from the start that most of the groups were shit.
I haven't really been able to establish who I like and who I don't yet, such is the production-line process of the auditions and boot camps, but I quite like the hyperactive girl, just because she's got a bit of substance, even if she is hugely annoying (but I don't have to be stuck in a room with her, so I don't care). I can tell you who I don't like though - that smug opera singing bloke, and that duo, who are called something hideous like 'Same Difference'. The whiff of Butlins is almost palpable. And have you ever known a boy/girl duo to be successful, with the exception of The Carpenters? I haven't. Even same sex duos have a tough time of it, it seems.
Did that horrendous woman from the auditions who had to have a chair to writhe around in order to do anything make it? She was shockingly bad, a cross between a lap dancer (actually I think she may have BEEN a lap dancer) and a drag act, but amazingly made it past the first hurdle, to the unanimous decision of the judges. Oof.
