sandboX Factor 2011

coldplay and fucking westlife? why the fuck am i watching this?

it keeps crossing my mind that they may have deliberately showcased a lower standard of contestant this year:

I think it's more that they've squashed the individuality out of the contestants much harder this year...

a real diversity of viable acts who forced upon cowell and co

^^^ for this reason

weirdly it's actually how limited last year's lot were that makes them such viable pop stars - rebecca/cher/wand basically do what they do and are incapable of doing anything else - and in the pop marketplace that translates into having a rigorous and coherent aesthetic

whereas misha is versatile and talented enough that you CAN squash her individuality, if that makes sense

bloody hell how many songs are they going to ruin in this group number?

"X Factor finest" more like Tesco Basics...

i think i've heard kitty do "the edge of glory" more than gaga herself now

oh adverts already lol? but nothing happened in that section

I pretty much think nothing is going to happen at all, except padding and then they tell us who wins.

i'm crossing my fingers that nothing happens instead of coldplayandwestlife tbh. just a blank screen will do

Well Marcus sings 'Higher and Higher' again, so Louis can compare him to Jackie Jockey Wilson.

Coldplay are pretty much a blank screen anyway. And then sometimes Chris Martin pumps his arm in the air. Does anyone know what this 'Westlife's farewell performance' bobbins is?

ffs Olly is such a crap TV presenter, even Caroline Flack looks competant compared to him

oh another commercial break

Tulisa concentrating so hard on getting her gimmick comedy 'little muffins' accent right that she pronounces their name 'Lidl Mix' again.

no snark lidl mix's "don't let go" is properly fantastic

Well it's better than most X Factor groups could have managed - apart from Miss Frank ;_;

Olly is like a spare tyre on the back of a sleigh for all the use he is.

kind of embarrassing how shaky marcus' vocals are :/

Marcus's performance of 'Last Christmas' is heading for Wet Wet Wet territory. I blame Gary entirely. lol at the cameraman falling over though

I bet Denis Norden/Harry Hill will be playing that clip until the Sun burns out.

"ha ha" (touches corner of glasses) "and here. we. have. a-a-a very funnee clip" (smirks)

No comedy accent Tulisa? What's wrong, blood sugar running low?

Or maybe she's just taken a look at the sales for N'Dubz greatest hits album.

what the fuck is this? they could've done mariah!

All I Want For Christmas Is You Olly's head on a stick

Those gold leggings have to be the worst of the worst of the clobber that they've worn. The stylists must have reached the absolute bottom of the hamper they stole from that charity shop.

kelly should've said her highlight of the series was doing her sick voice

Westlife pish their last as the live backing music for an XF contestant VT montage, smdh/rmde/obe/phd/bbc and bar

there's still another HOUR left

kelly wants this to end and so do i

^^^ yeah I just looked at my watch and o_O wtf

And someone will surely get their P45 first thing tomorrow morning for allowing that microsecond clip of the Cokehoser in there.

"sex factor story" nice Freudian slip there Barlow

well, this is shit.

And the winner's song isn't a Barlow joint - guess he couldn't get his mojo working. It's a cover version of a song first released in 2003 - ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Factor

this is absolutely dreadful

"If I fed everything into a computer" wtf Louis?
piss awful, terrible enunciaation of crepe-y lyrics

oh god we have to hear that fucking song again

Except it'll be even worse because it's a song for a solo singer.
Tulisa doesn't seem very excited - perhaps she thinks she's back introducing The Risk.

the length of time over this is ridiculous, are they pulling some kind of fiddle so the aggregate viewers beats Strictly or something?

there are still 40 minutes left!

Which includes a performance by Coldplay, so it'll seem even longer.

If they wheeled on Matt Cardle for a song then time might actually start to go backwards.

Am currently thanking every deity I can think of that we have been spared the ordeal of listening to Janet mimsying her way through that. And being glad Misha didn't have to do it either.

Gary Barlow is a pretty hit and miss songwriter y/n? Like for his handful of notable classics there is a big pile of nothing there too?

"Get ready to tech santa" - as a 'suddener' I'm not really in a position to complain, but wtf is up with people on telly not talking properly?

xp his notable classics are pretty much nothing as well - I can't name a single one of his solo songs

i was thinking of the big Take That hits, i couldn't hum a G Barlow solo joint

The problem is that the best Take That songs are covers, imo. 'A Million Love Songs' gets a lot of acclaim but he wrote it when he was 15.

listening to Janet mimsying her way through that

If she'd have developed her thousand yard stare performance technique a bit more, Janet would have had the best chance of pulling off those lyrics.

"Never Forget", "Back for Good", "Pray" - those are tunes

but a lot of really anonymous stuff around them