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Original poster

to be rooting for Rylan on X Factor...

35 replies

gabbymum · 20/11/2012 20:29

I think he's fun, entertaining and I always look forward to his performance on a Saturday. Does anyone think he'll get a decent career out of his stint?

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TheMonster · 20/11/2012 20:31

Yanbu!

BadgersBottom · 20/11/2012 20:32

He'll get a career out of it for sure. One can only hope and pray it's not as a bloody singer!

cardibach · 20/11/2012 20:33

He might get a career in reality tv or possibly as a presenter, not in anything that involves singing! He is fun, though, and it would piss Simon Cowell off if he won, so, on that basis, YANBU.

Themumsnot · 20/11/2012 20:34

I totally believe Rylan should win the X-Factor.
Just for the look on Gary Barlow's face.

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gabbymum · 20/11/2012 20:35

I know he's not an amazing singer but he can sing and probably better than a lot of chart acts. I just love his energy.

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091972 · 20/11/2012 20:36

YABU! He can't sing for toffee and surely really belongs on Big Brother/ Towie or similar rather than X Factor so we wouldn't have to hear him attempting to "sing"....then again I guess he's not as bad as Jedward.

cardibach · 20/11/2012 20:38

He can;t sing, gabby. THere are some poor singers in the charts, but none as bad as him. His tuning is often poor and his tone is awful!

Themumsnot · 20/11/2012 20:38

Better than Wagner too.

Vivalebeaver · 20/11/2012 20:40

Yanbu.

I want him to win now Ella has gone. Will serve Cowell right to have to give him a £million record deal.

I agree that although he can't sing brilliantly he is entertaining.

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gabbymum · 20/11/2012 20:40

I just find myself rooting for him every week - I hope he does well out of it.

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Vivalebeaver · 20/11/2012 20:41

Apparently xfactor has never been won by someone who's been in the bottom two.

S who does that leave to win? I think only jermaine.......how about Christopher, please say he's been in the bottom two. Though I can't understand why he didn't get kicked out if so.

McTagster · 20/11/2012 21:46

Yanbu! Rylan is fabulous! I hope the X Factor isn't the last place we see him.

Spatsky · 20/11/2012 21:47

YANBU!! Not sure I would bother watching when he gets voted out. He comes across as a diamond.

Fairylea · 20/11/2012 21:48

Yanbu.

You don't have to win x factor to have a recording contract anymore. So it should be about who you want to be on for the weeks it's on and for me that's rylan for the entertainment value!

Spatsky · 20/11/2012 21:49

"He can;t sing, gabby. THere are some poor singers in the charts, but none as bad as him. His tuning is often poor and his tone is awful! "

Bet there are chart singers as bad as him when singing live. Also bet he can be made to sound absoluetly fine when sound engineered.

picnicbasketcase · 20/11/2012 21:51

YABU for watching the xfactor really. Tis bobbins.

spottyock · 20/11/2012 21:51

He's fame hungry, wasnt he on Jordan/Katie Price's model programme? I think he sums up the "shortcut to money generation".

LittleTyga · 20/11/2012 21:51

The novelty acts usually piss me right off - but I do like Rylan be great if he wins!

cardibach · 20/11/2012 21:54

Sorry, Spatsky, are you trying to suggest he can sing well enough for a singing career? I'm not sure why anyone would do that... I am aware of autotune, sound engineering etc, but few acts manage a career, rather than just an album, without being able to perform live. Perfroming live is, infact, how most acts get as far as a record deal in the first place.
Rylan is a very poor singer, not just tuning but also tone, breathing and phrasing. THese things can not be edited away as easily as tuning.
I have, however, already siad that he is entertaining to watch.

DontmindifIdo · 20/11/2012 21:56

Oh I think Rylan is lovely! Yes, hopefully he'll win, it'll piss off Garry Barlow, Simon Cowell and he seems like a genuinely nice bloke. Hopefully as well, it might be a sign they have to give up on X factor...

bureni · 20/11/2012 22:01

well since he is useless as a singer he might get a part in Dr. Who as some kind of weird alien thing, he has the looks for starts. If the X factor was a radio only contest he would not have got by the first hurdle, he is only there because he is a freak imo.

CreepyLittleBat · 20/11/2012 22:06

He came across really well in the last show, I thought. Kudos for the dancing on a treadmill thing. And the kids lurve him! He will have a career anyway, as will most of those still left (and Ella will have got a recording deal within minutes of being kicked out) I really want Christopher to win though, because it will be funny.

LadyBeagle · 20/11/2012 22:14

He'll have a career, first he'll be in Celeb Big Brother, then I'm a Celeb, possibly Strictly or Dancing on Ice and pop into Loose Women occassionally.
He'll just be another one that has no talent, but people will buy into it because he was so 'entertaining' on X Factor, and he'll end up a bloody millionaire.
Nanfucker will probably go the same way.

Spatsky · 20/11/2012 22:14

Read back what I wrote cardiblach. I said there are singers in the charts that can't sing and that Rylan could be autotuned to sound as respectable as other chart acts. It's not like I said he would be a grammy winner!

So yes, just an album, not a career spanning decades. Comment was only meant to be a bit of fun - jeez

Spatsky · 20/11/2012 22:18

Sorry cardiblch, jumped down your throat a bit there, but your post was a bit of a strawman and I seem a bit bad tempered today.

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