This is the technically perfect highly trained voice live without autotuner. Other than being obviously below pitch and behind the t3rack throughout, she has no idea how to breath properly, hence the inability to sustain the longer notes lower in the voice.
I work "in the business" and have never heard any other professional singer, musician or director think that she is "brilliant". Not one. Any that said so in the media were paid renta quotes. Really, NO knowledgeable musician would think she is marvelous, really she just isnt.
I am not saying she it shite. She has the raw bones of a decent voice which could be refined into something that at least wouldn't make a joke of the hype. If she is trainable. Not eveyone with a voice is. Its the musicality and ability to communicate that make a good singer, not necessarily technical perfection. She lacks both of these skills as is all to evident in live performance.
I know nowt about ballroom dance or ice dance, so I think the rookys who win these shows are brilliant but the pros in those fields will probably be cringing , as they can see what is right and wrong. The same way that musical professionals can hear its wrong.
Who is better? Somebodyasked. Anybody on the back row of the chrorus or ensemble of any professional show. They will never be heard if, but they are generally highly trained highly talented performers. They have to be, the real version of "the profession" is hideously competitive. Unlike the reality show version, you actually have to be bloody good even to get through the door to audition. Nobody gives a shit about your back story.
Who else is better? Lots of am dram performers up and down the country who do it for the love of it but are quite highly trained and skilled too. Subo. Would certainly get into the chorus of an amateur show, she would not be cast as a principal. There are far better than her in the good am dram clubs. She would not stand a chance of any kind of casting in a pro show (unlikely to be able to take stage direction, follow the band, follow MD, be consistently acurate musically and spacially night after night, to avoid shafting everybody else on stage). Ditto live concerts.
Having said all that, I hope she makes a packet and that somebody with her best interest at heart is making sure she is set for life when the band wagon derails.