X Factor

I tried my best not to cry like a school girl when that girl from Trinidad and Tobago came on, as my wife and 2 sons were watching.

But man has that girl got a voice !!

Yes, music moves me very much !
 
I miss the confrontations they used to get when the auditionees weren't in front of a live audience... does that make me a bad person?
 
Borats Baby said:
I tried my best not to cry like a school girl when that girl from Trinidad and Tobago came on, as my wife and 2 sons were watching.

But man has that girl got a voice !!

Yes, music moves me very much !
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I agree ..... she had some voice just closed my eyes and listened
 
Borats Baby said:
I tried my best not to cry like a school girl when that girl from Trinidad and Tobago came on, as my wife and 2 sons were watching.
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Not just me then:D she was great, I bet the $$$ bells were ringing in Simons head
 
We have it on because my wife is suckered into it every series, and the kids like watching it.

Me? I hate it, I hate everything it stands for.
It encourages and glamourises bullying and shows everyone that it's OK to laugh and point at someone who 'isn't very good' at something. How am I supposed to teach my children about self-worth and confidence and that trying to do something can be an extremely important thing for people, when **** like that is shoved on the TV.
Yes, lets all laugh at Simon Cowell the witty judge for his putdowns. Yes, lets all laugh at the ones who believe they are gods gift to music but sound like strangled cats. That's all well and good, but what about the ones who really do not know they can't sing, but aren't overly confident.

The whole show is a mishmash of badly edited cliches.
I can guarantee every week the formula is the same.

Tonight we had the same thing, with the very same cut sequences, the very same camera angles and the exact same direction as usual.

Bloke comes on, looks a bit nervous, judges smiling, he talks about his history...couldnt come on show last time, had to go to brothers wedding.
Just after the wedding though, uh oh, he got cancer and died, cue an emotional auditionee on stage.
{Keep the camers rolling lads, this will make a great sob story for TV!}
Cue shots of judges, close up....looking shocked, maybe a little sympathetic.
Music starts, bloke sings...he aint half bad.
Gets a standing ovation.
Cue the comments.......
{Play some cheesy westlife single in the background with lyrics which promote hope}
Judge 1, a tousand percint yis!
Judge 2, I didnt think you could do it, I thought youd be bad, but you so so so deserve this, yes
Judge 3, After all youve been through, to come here like this must be so hard, definitely yes
There's a natural lull in the well timed music.......
....fades out slightly.
Camera to simon
Camera to auditionee
Close up on auditionees face


Hold



Hold



Hoooooold


Simon : You've got 4 yes's.

Crowd erupts...music is faded back in, timed perfectly to be the most dramatic bit.
Simon smiles, he's just made another few grand for repeating this tired old ****.....why wouldn't he smile.

Auditionee runs off stage screaming to his family and friends.

OK, I've piddled about with exactly what happened, but I can guarantee, its exactly the same, week in week out.

I've tried explaining to my wife its not a talent show, it's a load of edited clips just bunged together...

"Oh look Cheryl's crying"

No, that clip of her dabbing her eye was probably recorded about an hour earlier, and edited in to now, to LOOK like she's crying.
She's so taken in by it all and it bloody annoys me.
The sad thing is, she's not the only one.....

So there, there's my x-factor rant :D
 
Marcel said:
We have it on because my wife is suckered into it every series, and the kids like watching it.

Me? I hate it, I hate everything it stands for.
It encourages and glamourises bullying and shows everyone that it's OK to laugh and point at someone who 'isn't very good' at something. How am I supposed to teach my children about self-worth and confidence and that trying to do something can be an extremely important thing for people, when **** like that is shoved on the TV.
Yes, lets all laugh at Simon Cowell the witty judge for his putdowns. Yes, lets all laugh at the ones who believe they are gods gift to music but sound like strangled cats. That's all well and good, but what about the ones who really do not know they can't sing, but aren't overly confident.

The whole show is a mishmash of badly edited cliches.
I can guarantee every week the formula is the same.

Tonight we had the same thing, with the very same cut sequences, the very same camera angles and the exact same direction as usual.

Bloke comes on, looks a bit nervous, judges smiling, he talks about his history...couldnt come on show last time, had to go to brothers wedding.
Just after the wedding though, uh oh, he got cancer and died, cue an emotional auditionee on stage.
{Keep the camers rolling lads, this will make a great sob story for TV!}
Cue shots of judges, close up....looking shocked, maybe a little sympathetic.
Music starts, bloke sings...he aint half bad.
Gets a standing ovation.
Cue the comments.......
{Play some cheesy westlife single in the background with lyrics which promote hope}
Judge 1, a tousand percint yis!
Judge 2, I didnt think you could do it, I thought youd be bad, but you so so so deserve this, yes
Judge 3, After all youve been through, to come here like this must be so hard, definitely yes
There's a natural lull in the well timed music.......
....fades out slightly.
Camera to simon
Camera to auditionee
Close up on auditionees face


Hold



Hold



Hoooooold


Simon : You've got 4 yes's.

Crowd erupts...music is faded back in, timed perfectly to be the most dramatic bit.
Simon smiles, he's just made another few grand for repeating this tired old ****.....why wouldn't he smile.

Auditionee runs off stage screaming to his family and friends.

OK, I've piddled about with exactly what happened, but I can guarantee, its exactly the same, week in week out.

I've tried explaining to my wife its not a talent show, it's a load of edited clips just bunged together...

"Oh look Cheryl's crying"

No, that clip of her dabbing her eye was probably recorded about an hour earlier, and edited in to now, to LOOK like she's crying.
She's so taken in by it all and it bloody annoys me.
The sad thing is, she's not the only one.....

So there, there's my x-factor rant :D
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:clap: that was better than the show itself :thumbs:
 
It has become a formula, and has anyone noticed that we end on a *fantastic* singer to make us feel good about watching......

Your right about the putdowns, and if you watch when SImon comes out with the worst of them, he spends a few minutes looking at a peice of A4 paper. He has a list of put downs prepared and just crosses off the ones he uses so he doesn't repeat himself.

I, like Marcel, am trapped by the family who like it.
 
The girl from Trinidad was just awesome ......what a voice
 
Marcel said:
We have it on because my wife is suckered into it every series, and the kids like watching it.

Me? I hate it, I hate everything it stands for.
It encourages and glamourises bullying and shows everyone that it's OK to laugh and point at someone who 'isn't very good' at something. How am I supposed to teach my children about self-worth and confidence and that trying to do something can be an extremely important thing for people, when **** like that is shoved on the TV.
Yes, lets all laugh at Simon Cowell the witty judge for his putdowns. Yes, lets all laugh at the ones who believe they are gods gift to music but sound like strangled cats. That's all well and good, but what about the ones who really do not know they can't sing, but aren't overly confident.

The whole show is a mishmash of badly edited cliches.
I can guarantee every week the formula is the same.

Tonight we had the same thing, with the very same cut sequences, the very same camera angles and the exact same direction as usual.

Bloke comes on, looks a bit nervous, judges smiling, he talks about his history...couldnt come on show last time, had to go to brothers wedding.
Just after the wedding though, uh oh, he got cancer and died, cue an emotional auditionee on stage.
{Keep the camers rolling lads, this will make a great sob story for TV!}
Cue shots of judges, close up....looking shocked, maybe a little sympathetic.
Music starts, bloke sings...he aint half bad.
Gets a standing ovation.
Cue the comments.......
{Play some cheesy westlife single in the background with lyrics which promote hope}
Judge 1, a tousand percint yis!
Judge 2, I didnt think you could do it, I thought youd be bad, but you so so so deserve this, yes
Judge 3, After all youve been through, to come here like this must be so hard, definitely yes
There's a natural lull in the well timed music.......
....fades out slightly.
Camera to simon
Camera to auditionee
Close up on auditionees face


Hold



Hold



Hoooooold


Simon : You've got 4 yes's.

Crowd erupts...music is faded back in, timed perfectly to be the most dramatic bit.
Simon smiles, he's just made another few grand for repeating this tired old ****.....why wouldn't he smile.

Auditionee runs off stage screaming to his family and friends.

OK, I've piddled about with exactly what happened, but I can guarantee, its exactly the same, week in week out.

I've tried explaining to my wife its not a talent show, it's a load of edited clips just bunged together...

"Oh look Cheryl's crying"

No, that clip of her dabbing her eye was probably recorded about an hour earlier, and edited in to now, to LOOK like she's crying.
She's so taken in by it all and it bloody annoys me.
The sad thing is, she's not the only one.....

So there, there's my x-factor rant :D
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A thousand :plusone:'s!
 
Dangermouse1964 said:
The girl from Trinidad was just awesome ......what a voice
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my hearing must be shot through because I thought she was awful.

I agree with everything Marcel wrote, appalling TV.
 
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Marcel, spot on that man.:cool: Pathetic dross, it saddens me that irresponsible trash such as this and Big Brother (not to mention the seemingly endless stream of candy floss dancing shows) are actually considered popular in this country today. At least BB has finally died the death it deserved from day one. Hopefully X Factor and all it's ridiculous, pathetic imitations vanish sooner rather than later (although it won't, sadly). :gag:
 
I used to enjoy the "car crash TV" nature of the old series, I'd usually watch the qualifiers and leave it at that but ITV have somehow managed to suck the life out of yet another prime time TV show... They're trying to capitalise on the perceived success of "Britains Got Talent" :gag:

Carl
 
I was out for a curry last night with a mate who's a cameraman on one of the daytime shows on tele (not Jeremy Kyle :nono:). He has said that someone is filming a series with the 2 bloaters ejected earlier this series that weigh about 40st combined. They want to try and get them singing by Xmas.

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God help us :gag: :eek: :bat:
 
i think it was all ridiculously staged this year, the girl from Trinidad and a couple of the others that went through all had TRAINED singing voices, not good voices in need of training but readily trained, musically literate singing voices - you dont get voices like that stood in your bedroom with a hairbrush

to sing to a session singer standard, you learn tricks and ways of moving through your voice which is different to say, an operatic style of training

AT LEAST THREE that i can remember from that show were trained session singers, obviously previously hired by the production crew, told to look a bit nervous and then produce a show stopping performance with their skills

this is NOT a competition, this is very very false

its sad really because you do get gems of voices that people have never had heard before, people would just need a bit of help to hone their skills and get themselves dicsiplined, thats what i used to love about the X factor, Now its just gone to pot
 
Yar... If I hear yet another Leona/Whitney/Alexandra soundalike I think I'll scream! :gag:
 
The X factor has been around for ever ...

40 years ago we had Opportunity knocks, 2000 years ago we had the coliseum!!

The varient called the X factor is a success because of the genius of cowell.
 
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