X FACTOR- It's Friiiiiiight Night! (Not that you can really tell from the song choices)But..who will get to do 'Thriller'?

[Raahh]

Well, here are the song choices

GIRLS
Bella Penfold – In My Blood – Shawn Mendes
Molly Scott – Toxic – Britney Spears
Scarlett Lee – I Put a Spell on You – Annie Lennox (Iza version)
Shan Ako – The Sound of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel

GROUPS
Acacia and Aaliyah – Jump – Kriss Kross
Misunderstood – Thriller – Michael Jackson
United Vibe – Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis

OVERS
Danny Tetley – Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen
Giovanni Spano – Live and Let Die – Paul McCartney

BOYS
Anthony Russell – Demons – Imagine Dragon
Brendan Murray – Youngblood – 5 Seconds of Summer
Dalton Harris – Creep - Radiohead

So- Misunderstood get the MJ honours- and are about the only proper Hallowe'en-y song on there (apart from 'I out a spell on you').

How is the 'The Sound of Silence' scary? Or Kriss Kross, 'Jump'??

I will be cross if Dalton messes up 'Creep' - It's not going to be Wagner-esque, is it?

I will try to stay awake. I have had headache, and spent the afternoon asleep- feeling a bit better- but we will see.

Nobodies voting.

There is justice!

Nobody here votes anyway - do they???

Princess it is indeed a shambles.

But, there were far worse than Tetley, and TTT, even without the sound issues. So really it shouldn't be too much of a problem

This cock up will make the news I bet.
The fail will be all over it

No such thing as bad publicity for Simon

nancy no, of course not!

Thank you for keeping me company- my head feels much better.

Dh's won't when I've thrown things at him. He's still snoring. .

Brenda didn't have sound issues, he's just rubbish. He's OK on the songs when it's just his voice but the minute there is any instruments/up beat tempo/backing singers you cannot hear him.

Glad you're feeling better Raahh

How did the audience know to turn up early this week?

I just realised that will make tomorrow night's longer than usual. Oh great

Thanks Jane !

See you all tomorrow- did I hear right, that it's on at 8.30?

Anyone think the graze on Dermot's face was real? Seemed very odd for Halloween makeup. Maybe he's taken a tumble.

Surely Brenda was also affected by sound issues? It sounded like a strange echo was happening around him?

That was auto-tune to make his voice stronger.

Onecutefox can you explain how that works- to me it sounded like he kind of wasn't live but was singing over a prerecorded track? At times you could distinctly hear his voice as separate from the 'backing' voice?!

I can't believe the judges didn't comment on it. Feels like a farce sometimes.

Is it just me or does Gio look like a monchichi monkey with long hair?

@startingafresh1, that's probably how it sounds. Instead of back singers some singers get auto-tune especially those with week voices. You can hear it usually.
Brendon needs to be in a band or find his own style.

Here’s an article about the sound issues. I actually fell asleep after Tetley’s performance, did I miss much?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-46086895

Brenda didn't have auto tune, well he might have done but that's not what you could here. He just had a backing track with backing vocals on, well actually it pretty much had the lead vocal on, which he needed because he was so weak, but I think is unfair.

Which one is Brenda?

Brendan the pixie, Sinister.

My DC refers to Danny as Goblin, Brendan as Pixie and Tony as Troll! It's fantasy X Factor in our house.

I’ve been a lurker on here all season and have much enjoyed your pithy comments!
Just saying, I don’t see how cancelling last night and opening the vote tonight can make it fair on Danny, Anthony or indeed any of them. How many viewers switched over when the sound problems started and didn’t switch back?
If Danny or Anthony went, it would be an injustice.
In my view the fairest thing to do is cancel the vote completely this weekend, although goodness knows how they’d fill tonight’s show, or failing that give Danny and Anthony a free ticket through to next week.

That would probably be fair Paper but I don't think those two will go anyway even with the sound problems!

Can we round up the nicknames so that everyone knows who we are talking about?

United Vibe= United Shite/ United Vibrator
Danny Tetley= Tetley
ANthony = Robo-scouse
Brendan= Brenda
Geo = Chuckie

Are there anymore?

(Also, please note that these names are intended to be light-hearted! No malice intended. If people start getting nasty with them, then we need to stop using them!)

I still don't know what the third T stands for in TTT

I call Danny Tetley... Teabag... for obvious reasons

Probably can't be around tonight (not sure) but will look forward to catching up with your comments!