sandboX Factor 2011

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

gary's solo career was a notable flop wasn't it?

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"

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.

Mark Owen's solo career to thread.

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?

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.

and with the new AOR respectable-music-journalist-friendly bollocks comeback stuff, Gary hardly has a solo writing credit at all as far as i can tell

THIS IS SO BAD!

It's like every lame songwriting cliche put into one song!

chris martin's sweat :/

:D i like a lot of Coldplay's empty yearning music but let's not have that fight here

ok so i have some Facebook friends wailing about X Factor ruining a Damien Rice classic? dunno if i've actually heard Damien Rice but i assume i'd hate him so good

His is the original version of the winner's song.

(I haven't heard the original either, but based on the lyrics that I could make out Marcus and Little Mix actually singing, I think I'd hate Rice as well)

yeah i gather that now, but i'm assuming the original is horrible anyway

With lines like 'stones taught me to fly' how could it be any good?

okay, come on Little Micks

fucking finally!

I'd like to think that Olly was deliberately quoting Obama there with his "Yes they can!" as some kind of comment on the whole importance of the XF business in relation to world politics. But he probably wasn't.

YAAAAY 180 quid for Lorraine :D

Well congrats NV, your mate has won £180 (minus tax)

:)

u don't pay tax on betting wins nowadays ;-)

haven't done for near 20 years iirc

OIC

(to skint to ever place a bet these days)

i'm kinda glad for them as well, i don't think winning wd've helped Marcus' "career" in any great way and the burden of being another Cardle might actually be worse

What's the smart money on for the anti-X-Factor Christmas number one? Because this really is shite.

Marcus will be starring in Jersey Boys or somesuch before long. I think Little Mix might do OK out of this.

bonus: RIP the saturdays' career

wait, the Saturdays have a career?

Actually they've done better than I expected. Their logo has a half formed swastika and the word 'TURD' in it. By rights they should have been the Northern Line of early 21st century girl groups by now.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8f/The_Satz.jpg/220px-The_Satz.jpg

that show was rank. the irish guy from the IT crowd is being surprisingly sexy and funny on the extra factor.

I'm not masochistic enough to watch ITV2. Ever.

I watched the first five minutes, enough to see Louis zinging Caroline Flack for shagging Harry Erection.

I guess it's too much to hope that the Walsh-ster's zing was "Harry Erection? Moer liek Harry Premature Ejaculation amirite?"

sadly it was just 'I'm too old for you' which he kept repeating like Bruce Forsyth does hoping that someone would twig and laugh.

To the tune of the "Friends" theme?

I dunno you lot, moan moan moan

week by week stats - always quite revealing:

The Final Results
Little Mix: 48.3%
Marcus Collins: 42.8%
Amelia Lily (carried over from before the freeze): 8.9%

The Final - vote freeze
Little Mix: 39.0%
Marcus Collins: 34.5%
Amelia Lily: 26.5%

The Semi Final
Little Mix: 34.4%
Marcus Collins: 24.0%
Amelia Lily: 21.4%
Misha B: 20.2%

Week 8
Amelia Lily: 23.8%
Little Mix: 22.4%
Marcus Collins: 21.0%
Janet Devlin: 18.3%
Misha B: 14.5%

Week 7
Little Mix: 26.1%
Misha B: 22.5%
Janet Devlin: 14.8%
Marcus Collins: 14.4%
Amelia Lily: 11.3%
Craig Colton: 10.9%

Week 6
Amelia Lily: 27.4%
Janet Devlin: 17.4%
Little Mix: 15.3%
Marcus Collins: 12.9%
Craig Colton: 10.6%
Kitty Brucknell: 8.4%
Misha B: 8.0%

Week 6 vote in:
Amelia Lily: 48.8%
James Michael: 26.7%
JonJo Kerr: 13.2%
2 Shoes: 11.3%

Week 5
Janet Devlin: 18.0%
Marcus Collins: 16.0%
Misha B: 12.2%
Little Mix: 11.9%
Craig Colton: 10.1%
Frankie Cocozza: 8.7%
Johnny Robinson: 8.3%
Kitty Brucknell: 7.6%
The Risk: 7.2%

Week 4
Janet Devlin: 14.7%
Little Mix: 13.7%
Craig Colton: 13.0%
Kitty Brucknell: 12.9%
Johnny Robinson: 12.2%
Marcus Collins: 10.1%
The Risk: 7.2%
Frankie Cocozza: 5.7%
Sophie Habibis: 5.4%
Misha B: 5.1%
Week 3
Janet Devlin: 17.2%
Johnny Robinson: 17.1%
Misha B: 11.8%
Marcus Collins: 11.2%
The Risk: 8.3%
Little Mix: 6.0%
Frankie Cocozza: 6.0%
Craig Colton: 6.0%
Sophie Habibis: 5.8%
Sami Brookes: 5.6%
Kitty Brucknell: 5.0%

Week 2
Janet Devlin: 23.6%
The Risk: 10.9%
Sophie Habibis: 8.9%
Little Mix: 8.7%
Misha B: 7.8%
Craig Colton: 6.9%
Marcus Collins: 6.8%
Johnny Robinson: 6.5%
Sami Brookes: 6.2%
Kitty Brucknell: 5.9%
Frankie Cocozza: 5.2%
Nu Vibe: 2.6%

Week 1
The judges vote out 2 Shoes, Amelia Lily, James Michael and JonJo Kerr

after week 2, misha came either 2nd, 3rd or last every week.

Am I right in saying only Craig went from a sing-off when he was bottom, the lowest-placed act was saved every other time?

Apart from the one time it went to deadlock?

(xp)
The same thing happened to No Vibe in Week 2.
The Risk got the lowest number of votes in Week 5, but it was a double elimination week, so they were eliminated entirely on the public's decision.

xp and it was Craig who went as a result of that deadlock