X FACTOR- and it's Whitney versus Elton week. A.K.A 'Melisma' week...

[Raahh]

or' Shouting and over emoting week'.

And once again, no-one is doing 'Song for Guy'

Andrea Faustini
I Have Nothing

Lauren Platt
How Will I Know?

Only The Young
Something About The Way You Look Tonight

Stereo Kicks
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me

Ben Haenow
I Will Always Love You

Fleur East
I’m Every Woman

Stevi Ritchie
I’m Still Standing

All the usual suspects, song-wise, are present. Even managing to shoe-horn 'I'm every woman' in, even though it's a cover.
Looking forward to Lamenting Lozza, making HWIK sound like a funeral march.

Despite the theme, I am disappointed 'Don't let the sun.' isn't the Nik Kershaw song 'I won't let the sun...' Wouldn't be unusual for Louis to completely mess up the theme, after all.

And it's a double elimination. Will Melty 'still be standing' by Monday? Will the fact OTY are doing something grown up and serious for once , be their downfall?

See y'all later. I am in homework hell. Is it too early for ?

[Raahh]

And now we get the shouting.

He just sounds like he needs to cough up the phlegm, really.

DD1 is now doing dancing eyebrows faces at me.

[KateeGee]

This is awful

I only watch X Factor because of this thread

[AWholeLottaNosy]

Well this won't be the Xmas No1 that's for sure.

< still would tho..>

[squoosh]

His totes emosh face is hilarious.

[BOFster]

The eyewhites thing make it look like he's about to fall foul of the flashing lights warning.

[Philoslothy]

I much prefer Dolly's version of this and as it started with a slight country twang I was hopeful. It was utter shite though

[chockbic]

Fingerings omg

[dillite]

As long as your hamster stick to burrowing up your pyjamas fairy, you should be fine. As long as he doesn't attempt to burrow somewhere else.

[Giraffeski]

Squoosh- think we must be a similar age as I remember this being the last dance at a few school discos!

[Raahh]

is it a rock voice?

What would Mel B know about light and shade- everything she did was on one shouty note.

[Honeydragon]

That was educational, I now know what a cat sounds like when stuck in an elephants spinchter.

[snice]

please please PLEASE can we have 'Family Week' when each contestant has to bring along a family member and incorporate them into their act. A chorus line of Nans, a bevy of cousins, people doing balloon modelling.....

[BOFster]

He's going nowhere, that much is true.

[CalamitouslyWrong]

Yes. Doing it as full on country would have been way better.

Even better if he'd done it in a dolly wig while sitting in his van.

[TheFairyCaravan]

dillite he's gone back to sleep now!

[Raahh]

The Whitney version was number one the week i turned 21, Christmas 92. I had stayed behind in uni to start finish my dissertation. Ahh, the memories.

[RudolphUcker]

Those bodies with poppers, specially the velvet ones. Boob flattening.
Girls, Dermot? I can't see any under-tens on the friffing stage.

[chockbic]

He could have done a rocky horror version in his sussies.

[TaliZorahVasNormandy]

She cant talk, she butchers every song for her acts.

[squoosh]

Cheryl is being a bit weird. And she's clearly just learnt the word 'iconic' this week.

[Raahh]

snice- that would be great, but scary at the same time.

[BOFster]

More 'business end' from Dermie. Is he getting broody?

[dillite]

I am amazed at your hamster sleeping on you. Mine never did that. He would attempt to run for his life whenever let out of his cage.

[LittleBairn]

I like how Simon slipped up admitting he chose the song when in the VT it pretended it was Ben.

Seriously they need to tell the gobby families to pipe down.

[RudolphUcker]

Family Week is genius. Oh, but I mourn the lost years of Nans. Nanfucker Nan. Bo Selecta Nan. Oh, and Verucca Lily's Tennis Dad. So many missed opportunities.