Only Nicole Scherzinger looked at ease on the stage with 70s disco music rambling in the background. Someone called The Legendary Niall Rogers got quite a lot of call-outs. Maybe I should know who he was but I didn't. Chic I did remember.
We then get something like the Stars on 45 performance with a bundle of hit re-runs from the period. Pretty good actually and sounding just like they used to 40 years ago.
Some of the acts this week have chosen well. Some haven't.
Luke starts the night of with Play That Funky Music White Boy, an annoying song but one that he gets all the notes right for and all credit is due to this guy for the huge effort he must have put in. Great stuff. I still woudn't want to see that again but I do recognise that he's a cool guy and a great performer. Well done.
Kingsland Road do the I Can't Control My Feet number and this was always going to be either really good or really not so good. Well, that's what I'd thought but they seemed to manage something in between. A less than enthusiastic start and Nicole was right in noting that they were concentrating on their moves and there was a spark missing. Once they'd got going they put on a good show and, like Luke, were excellent vocally and even managed to dance in time too.
Tamera with a huge set of curls put in her hair sings Wishing On A Star. Brilliant start and she is a very very good singer, in control and looking excellent. She is a potential winner but this was not a great song choice. She did well with this but I don't know how much the voters will appreciate the class of this performance. It wasn't that commercial. However, she ought to be safe.
Sam Callahan is surrounded by boxers and almost lost in the crowd for Take That's Relight My Fire. Without Lulu coming in and bringing it all to life this went on a bit. Again, this was a hard working effort and he did a good job of an average track. Nice lad and deserves a lot of credit. It was a boring performance in many ways. He is No.1 in Twitter followers so maybe he will get rescued by his fans. Louis thought the judges had been a bit hard and I think I agree. Part of the blame, though, is on Louis for choosing such a crap song and, presumably arranging the silly boxing theme. That might put Sam at risk this week.
Rough Copy should do well with September. They sure did. Clearly at home with that sort of thing and cruising around the stage confidently, the crowd hardly stopped cheering. Nice job. They deserve to stay. The younger singer took the lead mid-way and he really brought the song to life.
Abi has an extraordinary song to sing this week. How on Earth can she do I Will Survive? At the piano. This is the original Abi that we all loved at the start. A marvellously emotional interpretation with lots of shade and none of her recent weeks' nerves showing either. Excellent. A genuine surprise. I didn't expect anything that good with that song. She arranged the whole thing herself. So nice to see the judges giving her great reviews. She could have been in trouble. Perhaps, with grannies liking Gloria Gaynor so much, she could still be. If anything might save her, though, that will.
Nicholas probably can't do anything wrong this week. Odd start to this track, though. I think he was thinking too much about what he was supposed to be doing. In fact, he never got comfortable at all. This was in tune and well sung but really nothing exceptional and nothing like as good as I'd predicted. I think he'll survive but that was one of the poorer performances this week. Odd pronunciation of rock.
Hannah looked extraordinary in a tightly fitting mermaid outfit. Well made-over this week, the raucous Somebody Else's Guy suited her down the ground and she performed it extremely well. I hated it but that's quite irrelevant unless a lot of others who might have voted for her did too. She gets last year's winner, James Arthur's support and that won't do her any harm.
Sam Bailey is another beneficiary of the make-over team's talents. She should also fly through this week with a classic number that I can imagine her doing in her sleep. Will it be just a bit too karaoke? That's all. No, quite the reverse - that sounded better than the original and I actually got the meaning of those lyrics. What a performance! As Gary said, flawless vocals. Well done. She'll definitely appeal to the grannies but may also grab a few extra fans with that.
No Flash Vote tonight (or, I presume, in future at all). So It'll simply be the two receiving the lowest public vote who sing off tomorrow. I wonder whether the Flash Vote has been dumped. It did give quite a substantial advantage to the one who came last in one sense but also damned them too. Not knowing, unless, presumably, there's a draw, will balance that a little.
I predict Sam Callahan and either Kingsland Road or, shock horror, Nicholas, for the bottom two. This could be farewell Sam.
We then get something like the Stars on 45 performance with a bundle of hit re-runs from the period. Pretty good actually and sounding just like they used to 40 years ago.
Some of the acts this week have chosen well. Some haven't.
Luke starts the night of with Play That Funky Music White Boy, an annoying song but one that he gets all the notes right for and all credit is due to this guy for the huge effort he must have put in. Great stuff. I still woudn't want to see that again but I do recognise that he's a cool guy and a great performer. Well done.
Kingsland Road do the I Can't Control My Feet number and this was always going to be either really good or really not so good. Well, that's what I'd thought but they seemed to manage something in between. A less than enthusiastic start and Nicole was right in noting that they were concentrating on their moves and there was a spark missing. Once they'd got going they put on a good show and, like Luke, were excellent vocally and even managed to dance in time too.
Tamera with a huge set of curls put in her hair sings Wishing On A Star. Brilliant start and she is a very very good singer, in control and looking excellent. She is a potential winner but this was not a great song choice. She did well with this but I don't know how much the voters will appreciate the class of this performance. It wasn't that commercial. However, she ought to be safe.
Sam Callahan is surrounded by boxers and almost lost in the crowd for Take That's Relight My Fire. Without Lulu coming in and bringing it all to life this went on a bit. Again, this was a hard working effort and he did a good job of an average track. Nice lad and deserves a lot of credit. It was a boring performance in many ways. He is No.1 in Twitter followers so maybe he will get rescued by his fans. Louis thought the judges had been a bit hard and I think I agree. Part of the blame, though, is on Louis for choosing such a crap song and, presumably arranging the silly boxing theme. That might put Sam at risk this week.
Rough Copy should do well with September. They sure did. Clearly at home with that sort of thing and cruising around the stage confidently, the crowd hardly stopped cheering. Nice job. They deserve to stay. The younger singer took the lead mid-way and he really brought the song to life.
Abi has an extraordinary song to sing this week. How on Earth can she do I Will Survive? At the piano. This is the original Abi that we all loved at the start. A marvellously emotional interpretation with lots of shade and none of her recent weeks' nerves showing either. Excellent. A genuine surprise. I didn't expect anything that good with that song. She arranged the whole thing herself. So nice to see the judges giving her great reviews. She could have been in trouble. Perhaps, with grannies liking Gloria Gaynor so much, she could still be. If anything might save her, though, that will.
Nicholas probably can't do anything wrong this week. Odd start to this track, though. I think he was thinking too much about what he was supposed to be doing. In fact, he never got comfortable at all. This was in tune and well sung but really nothing exceptional and nothing like as good as I'd predicted. I think he'll survive but that was one of the poorer performances this week. Odd pronunciation of rock.
Hannah looked extraordinary in a tightly fitting mermaid outfit. Well made-over this week, the raucous Somebody Else's Guy suited her down the ground and she performed it extremely well. I hated it but that's quite irrelevant unless a lot of others who might have voted for her did too. She gets last year's winner, James Arthur's support and that won't do her any harm.
Sam Bailey is another beneficiary of the make-over team's talents. She should also fly through this week with a classic number that I can imagine her doing in her sleep. Will it be just a bit too karaoke? That's all. No, quite the reverse - that sounded better than the original and I actually got the meaning of those lyrics. What a performance! As Gary said, flawless vocals. Well done. She'll definitely appeal to the grannies but may also grab a few extra fans with that.
No Flash Vote tonight (or, I presume, in future at all). So It'll simply be the two receiving the lowest public vote who sing off tomorrow. I wonder whether the Flash Vote has been dumped. It did give quite a substantial advantage to the one who came last in one sense but also damned them too. Not knowing, unless, presumably, there's a draw, will balance that a little.
I predict Sam Callahan and either Kingsland Road or, shock horror, Nicholas, for the bottom two. This could be farewell Sam.
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