X Factor - the final straw ..

[andy-hughes]

I have always enjoyed the X-Factor auditions, and skated through the last stages with fast-forward past anyone remotely 'cute', or anyone crying.

But having recorded the first two because i was away, I sat down last night to watch the first episode, and it's going to be my last.

First of all, Cowell Cole and Minigue are gone, new judges of no interest, and Walsh is still there!

But if that was not enough, some weird Chinese woman bent over with her back to the judges and the camera zoomed in on her nether regions. WHY???

That was it!

I decided that looking at a blank screen would be better use of my time - i deleted all episodes and cancelled my recording schedule, and I feel a lot better now.

Anyone else think this show is running on empty?

[exdc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drcvM-yiKTU

[237SJ]

I`ve enjoyed X Factor in the past. I used to watch it if I was here and record it for when I`m not (although I did tend to speed through the recordings). I haven`t bothered this time. I think I only watched it to hear Simon Cowell`s vitriolic (but amusing) remarks to people and without him, I`m not really interested.

[emu777]

I agree...however this might change your mind!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dnp6N9jsLo

[sara3]

I doubt it, emu. she was good but blimey, not *that* good.

[joggerjayne]

Outside The Sussex pub down here, or down on the Esplanade, or in the square outside the shopping centre, almost any lunch time at this time of year, there are people singing with waaaay better voices than anyone on X Factor.

[alan-r]

call me old fashioned but i like the auditions with a panel and NO audience or backing tracks

[emu777]

aw sara i thought she was brill! brought tears to me eyes!

[joggerjayne]

Although, to be fair, past X Factor winners have included such chart topping, global superstars as ...

Steve Brookstein

Leon Jackson

Joe McElderry

... err ...

[andy-hughes]

emu777 - it doesn't at all.

This is another 'Nessun Dorma' - almost anyone can sould good singing this song because it's the song, not the singer that makes the impact.

If you listen in isolation - without Gran weeping, and the audience whooping, and the 'sad story - and just listen, what you hear is a wonderful wodnderful song sung not particularly well by an also-ran singer.

Compare it to the Adele version - where every note is nailed totally on tune, and the motion seeps out bit by bit - and then listen to the judges weeping all over this woman in an outpouring of cod emotion that is really not deserved.

It's great TV - but it's not great singing talent - one lasts a few weeks, and drops away, and as Adele proves, talent lasts.

[Tizzi24]

emu - She was good, but not great and I don't understand the judges getting tearful over her! I agree with andy.

[Maggoty]

I have it recorded on Sky plus each week and then watch the recording. Often there is only one 'performance' between ad breaks and if you fast forward thru all the crowd shots and the cute/sad/slushy bits it only takes between 20-30 mins to watch it.

Tho to be fair that is now starting to seem longer......

x

[andy-hughes]

Maggoty - I think that's the only way to watch it, there is so much dross with very little meaningful content.

I always FF through any part where Louis Walsh's lips are moving - there is never ever anything that man says that I want to hear.

[wolf63]

I have never seen an episode of the X Factor - but I admit to watching the really bad auditions on You Tube. I feel guilty laughing at the people but it really is true entertainment.

I am a bad person!

[EvianBaby]

I agree about the judges. I never like Dani, was never really sure why she was there. But I have that problem with the two current ladies. Particularly Tulisa. Louis is busy spouting out the same old lines and trying but failing to be edgy.

I do like Gary so far though. And as a man with a real talent in that field, I think he was a good choice.

Ive started watching it from record on a Sunday and my recording automatically cuts the adverts out. Makes it quite short vieiwing.

The original format, where they sung alone in front of the judges with no backing track would be so much better then it is now although there aren't half as many sob stories as there used to be, thanks god!