sandboX Factor 2011

he's used to it

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

#THENEWBORING ALERT

ffs why is everything Barlow does so fucking pedestrian?

i know, i know!

It was like a musical act on The Two Ronnies circa 1985.

"connecting with the girls" for Tulisa clearly meant "standing in the middle and having your vocals turned up louder than theirs"

robbed of a kitty/louis duet ;_;

He said he wanted to duet with Johnny!

what actually happens in terms of results? one act gets voted out tonight? then somehow they pad the results over two hours tomorrow night?

Yes, one act goes tonight.

Wait a sec, Louis' fucked off stage!

And that Kelly/Amelia joint was pretty good.

i actually really fucking love leona's version of that song

and i'd forgotten how amazing her voice is, because she hasn't sung a decent song since "bleeding love"

"A Roomba for Christmas Day" wtf? Bubbles really fucking up this song.

Amelolia

Catching up now. Really, Little Mix can't win because they have the worst name ever. Seriously, Little Mix? Really?

and tulisa keeps pronouncing it lidl mix :(

I've noticed that sometimes she does, other times she's careful to pronounce the double-t properly. Because of my accent, I pronounce it Lidl Mix all the time.

I couldn't call tonight's result though. It's the pensioner vote vs the young teenage girl vote.

me neither, it also feels weirdly like it doesn't matter at all b/c everyone's too attuned to the contestants' likely post-xf career trajectories and whether they actually win or not is immaterial to those

it keeps crossing my mind that they may have deliberately showcased a lower standard of contestant this year: last year was anomalous in that it gave us three viable long term pop acts (plus the winner lol), and i'd imagine it might be wise to be careful about saturating the market with xf contestants? you kind of want to give everyone a bit of a chance to breathe

lol I actually had to look up on Wikipedia who won last year.

This is the first year that everyone (contestants/audience/media/judges - in that order of realisation) has twigged that winning is irrelevant.

(maybe the order should be audience/contestants/media/judges)

Prepare for two hours of tedium followed by one minute of Dermot dragging out a dramatic pause before a moment of excitement more tedium.

it's almost like this came about b/c last year's edition was SO good - in that 2010 unearthed a real diversity of viable acts who forced upon cowell and co the belated realisation that popularity on the show and popularity outside it were v different things - whereas previously even the best non-winners were cut from much the same cloth as each other.

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.

I know it's bad to repost external comments, but:

It seems to me that most people seem to be missing an important point ,that is that an average of 11million people have watched Xfactor this series, which is nearly 20% of the UK population, so we are all moorons then!??.

coldplay forums have been particularly great since they announced they were doing x factor. x factor just aint AUTHENTIC enough for coldplay ya see.

I dunno, the audience seemed way more enthusiastic about watching the Colplays than the final acts and the winner and all that.

Two men who poured boiling water over a man's head during a row over last year's X Factor final have been jailed.

Brian Wade was badly scalded and part of his ear was bitten off during the attack at his Exeter home in December 2010.

Lee Stynes, 28, and Mathew Gannaway-Pitts, 18, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm at an earlier hearing.

Gannaway-Pitts was jailed for 16 months and Stynes was jailed indefinitely.

Exeter Crown Court was told Mr Wade was attacked after an argument between the three men about who would win the ITV talent show final between Matt Cardle and Rebecca Ferguson.
Public protection

Stynes and Gannaway-Pitts had been staying at Mr Wade's flat when the assault took place.

Although Gannaway-Pitts started the unprovoked attack, it was Stynes who poured the boiling water over the victim and bit off part of his left ear, the court heard.

Stynes admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent and Gannaway-Pitts admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm.

Stynes, a paranoid schizophrenic with a past history of violence, was jailed indefinitely for public protection.

Among his 42 previous convictions, two were for threatening to bite people's noses off and one was for throwing boiling water at someone.

Judge Erik Salomonsen told the men: "Regardless of who started it, you have been involved in a horrific attack."

Stynes will serve a minimum of three years and four-and-a-half months but will only be released when he is deemed not to be a danger to the public.

Gannaway-Pitts was released on licence because he had served almost a year on remand.

i missed the final because i was at atp and then we couldn't get it to stream at 5am :(. though we did instead spend two hours doing louis lines leading towards the kind of depiction of louis' life snoball went for upthread (YEER A TOOTHBRUSH, YEER IN ME MOUTH, YE PREVENT ME FROM GETTING CAVITIES, AND YE DESORVE TA BE IN THE FOINAL!), so it was a good x factor final night nevertheless. aside from the fact that YE DESORVE TA BE IN THE FOINAL has been circulating in my head ever since. YEER PHAROAH SANDERS, YEER PLAYING A SAXOPHONE, YE REMOIND ME OF A YOUNG LENNY HENRY, AND YE DESORVE TA BE IN THE FOINAL!