If I’ve missed a few X Blathers it’s because Gary Barlow’s scripted barbs are sending me to sleep. Rather than the usual dose of sarcasm and negativity, this week’s X Blather will actually list my favourite six auditions so far. Something positive? Yay! P.S. the people at X Factor won’t let you embed videos, so you’ll have to click through! My Top 6 are after the jump…
While the opening week of X Factor 2011 was all about the new judges, and showcased little or no talent, this week’s was…exactly the same. But rather than repeatedly highlight Gary Barlow’s scowl, they highlighted the fact that every man in the world loves Kelly Rowland. Yes, that came as news to me too! Sure she has great teeth, but what US celeb doesn’t? Her post-Destiny’s Child career kind of shows why she was chosen as a replacement for Dannii Minogue on this year’s X Factor. Forever in the shadow of a sister figure, who is more talented and more fancied (not by me, but in general). Kelly is Dannii Mk 2.0 if you will. It would be difficult for the show’s producers to highlight her musical talent as a reason for being on the panel. Go on, name one Kelly Rowland song without a featured artist. I’ll wait while … There’s more
There was a delay getting this week’s X Factor review up, as my mind was blown from all the fantastic acts we saw in week one. Yeah right. If you read any of the papers on Monday morning you would have seen that all the talk was about the new judges (only Louis is left from the original gang). That wasn’t because the new judges were so amazing, it’s just that Gary Barlow’s faux-Cowell performance, Kelly Rowland’s massive smile, and Tulisa Contostavlos’s urban inside knowledge were marginally more interesting than the acts. That novelty of new judges will wear off though, and next week, there better be actual decent talent.
Every music fan out there will be wondering what this week’s X Blather title is about - it’s what SyCo Music has renamed Biffy Clyro’s ‘Many of Horror’ for X Factor 2010 winner Matt’s single. Now that X Factor is over and we know the winner, you have two choices - in the UK, either John Cage ’4’33″‘ or ‘When We Collide’, and in Ireland Rubberbandits’ ‘Horse Outside’ or ‘When We Collide’. Those are the anti-X Factor campaigns for Christmas number one this year. What do you mean, you haven’t heard ‘Horse Outside’? A million people have watched the video on youtube so far. That’s ten times as many as Matt (when I checked there now…)
I thought the title Sweary Bails Out was much more current and hip than Sweary Bows Out. This is the last week the two of us will be reviewing X Factor 2010 together, but hopefully I can convince her back for the final. Meanwhile, enjoy Sweary’s wonderful lookalike picture involved Michael Palin in the Life of Brian.
This week, Aiden left the show after Deadlock and the people’s votes saved Katie. Seriously there must have been three votes total for the pair of them. Aiden getting the person who mistakenly dialled his number rather than Matt’s. But what did we think of it? Read on…
Last night was probably the most controversial X Factor Results Show yet, with Cheryl Cole refusing to participate in the Judge’s vote section - thus resulting in the other three judges having final say, saving Katie and sending home TreyC.
Another week, another act nobody cared about gone. But that’s how all the early weeks go. It’ll start getting good in a few weeks once Wagner is gone, we promise (well, we hope anyway). That said, who the hell is voting for Wagner?
Sepp Blatter is the Simon Cowell of FIFA, the world soccer governing body. This week (and last), his organisation has been involved in a bribery and corruption scandal. Similarly, it’s scandalous how Katie Waissel keeps coming back on X Factor from week to week. Now how tentative was that title? Soon, I’m going to run out of things that sound like Blather…Anyway, on to the main event.
You may have seen this already, but if not, it’s really worth checking out. It’s a video from Darren Dutton on Stephen Fry’s love of retired Brazilian PE teacher Wagner Fiuza-Carrilho, who has been setting X Factor 2010 alight with his theatrical performances.
Rather than have a big post-X Factor discussion like last year which we found entertaining, but no-one else did, this year both Sweary and myself (Ronan) are doing a joint post where we separately give our take on the previous weekend’s “entertainment”.
