oh adverts already lol? but nothing happened in that section
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I pretty much think nothing is going to happen at all, except padding and then they tell us who wins.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 December 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
i'm crossing my fingers that nothing happens instead of coldplayandwestlife tbh. just a blank screen will do
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
Well Marcus sings 'Higher and Higher' again, so Louis can compare him to Jackie Jockey Wilson.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
ffs Olly is such a crap TV presenter, even Caroline Flack looks competant compared to him
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
no snark lidl mix's "don't let go" is properly fantastic
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
Well it's better than most X Factor groups could have managed - apart from Miss Frank ;_;
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
Olly is like a spare tyre on the back of a sleigh for all the use he is.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
kind of embarrassing how shaky marcus' vocals are :/
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
Marcus's performance of 'Last Christmas' is heading for Wet Wet Wet territory. I blame Gary entirely. lol at the cameraman falling over though
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I bet Denis Norden/Harry Hill will be playing that clip until the Sun burns out.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
"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?
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
All I Want For Christmas Is You Olly's head on a stick
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
kelly should've said her highlight of the series was doing her sick voice
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Westlife pish their last as the live backing music for an XF contestant VT montage, smdh/rmde/obe/phd/bbc and bar
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
there's still another HOUR left
kelly wants this to end and so do i
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ 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.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
"sex factor story" nice Freudian slip there Barlow
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
well, this is shit.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
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
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
this is absolutely dreadful
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
"If I fed everything into a computer" wtf Louis?piss awful, terrible enunciaation of crepe-y lyrics
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
oh god we have to hear that fucking song again
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
the length of time over this is ridiculous, are they pulling some kind of fiddle so the aggregate viewers beats Strictly or something?
― Ban (Julie Lagger), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
there are still 40 minutes left!
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Which includes a performance by Coldplay, so it'll seem even longer.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
If they wheeled on Matt Cardle for a song then time might actually start to go backwards.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Ban (Julie Lagger), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
"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?
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
xp his notable classics are pretty much nothing as well - I can't name a single one of his solo songs
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
i was thinking of the big Take That hits, i couldn't hum a G Barlow solo joint
― Ban (Julie Lagger), Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
"Never Forget", "Back for Good", "Pray" - those are tunes
― Ban (Julie Lagger), Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
but a lot of really anonymous stuff around them
gary's solo career was a notable flop wasn't it?
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
25 more minutes
"Never Forget" kind of ruined by continual repetition. Like 'Changes' is for Bowie, it's the video montage song of choice for TT.
Meanwhile, Marcus sounded like he was singing "It's not hard to fore, and I don't want the loo"
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
xxp if by 'flop' you mean 'sold so few records that he got dropped by his record company' than yes.It takes some mediocrity to make Robbie's early solo career ('Old Before I Die' etc.) look passable, but Barlow did it.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Mark Owen's solo career to thread.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
at the time i don't think anybody explicitly said it was cos the material was so weak, it was more implied that it was cos he was the least sexy/charismatic TT guy?
― Ban (Julie Lagger), Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Chris Martin desperately wants to be Bruce Springsteen here. Fails miserably. It's like bits of 'Born To Run' with parts of 'I'm On Fire' and 'Dancing In The Dark', mixed with that dun dun dun duh dun dun dun plinky synth line that appears on every Coldplay song.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 11 December 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link