Things are really not looking good for this show at the moment. After redeeming itself somewhat last week it descends again to some pretty boring acts as we start with three failures.
I don't know whether the producers are trying to amuse the 8pm audience but it doesn't work. Half-way into this edition we finally get a few good auditions. First is Gifty who reached the last round of Boot Camp last year but lost her voice. She looks good and you hope she'll sound good too after what has gone before. And she is. Excellent. I cam see her going a long way. As long as she doesn't lose her voice again! One to watch.
Now we switch time zones again as Nicole appears where Mel B had been for a while earlier. I suspect it is a group audition day too as the room behind the scenes where they wait is now full of them.
Girl Next Door are four young girls who look the part. They're modern, cheerful and you can imagine them having fun on the stage. They sound a bit amateur and the dancing is a bit like they'd do in their bedrooms in front of a mirror with a hairbrush but I like them. It's a good audition. Nicole's not at all sure, though, but they get through anyway. The girls are hoping that Nicole doesn't get the groups! (She doesn't).
5AM is another modern group with a fairly individual look and sound that is very modern. They improved as they got going and turned in a good audition. They seem pretty familiar with the stage so I am guessing they have some experience. Simon says they're the 'best group they've seen this year'. (But we don't know how many they've seen!) Ones to watch anyway. Louis likes them a lot.
Now it's back to individual auditions and this is dire. They're in Manchester where you'd expect some good acts but this lot are useless. Some actually get through but I have no idea how. I am not going to waste time writing about them as it was just some sort of comedy show with jokes that didn't work for me. Later Rylan does make a huge effort to make one of the acts a bit more interesting and the Friday Night guy is recycled but even that gets tiresome after a while.
With so little to report I didn't publish that lot, hoping that Sunday might bring some improvement in Part Two. It was a marginally better hour and we get to see a few that are potential Live Show contestants.
After a quite amusing time with Faye Horne who is actually quite good but makes Simon laugh and has that look that guys of a certain age can't resist. I can't see her getting far but she should get signed up by some advertising agency as she just has 'the look' and could sell the over 40s anything.
I'll skip the next couple of disasters. Suffice it to say an old bloke with pork pie hat and a woman fork lift truck driver won't be in the Live Shows this year. The Brooks probably will, however. They're 17 year-old twins who auditioned and reached Louis' Judges House two years ago. They were pretty good then and certainly deserve a place there again on what I've seen so far this year. Although this was not the best of auditions in my view, they're good looking and have bags of appeal and they can sing. Very marketable for a year or two too.
Two more chunks of nonsense and then we meet Ivy Grace Paredes from the Philippines. It seems that every year there will be someone from The Philippines getting quite far. It may be a while before anyone beats 4th Impact's success but this lady has a chance. She is a little older than the four youngsters but is attractive still and a good singer. Her audition had good bits and some not so good bits but I have a feeling she'll have quite a wide appeal, if someone gives her the right tracks to sing.
Again a couple of nonsense acts go by and we get Olivia Garcia. She has a great name for a start and looks lovely. Only 16 but she comes across as more mature and certainly sings with professionalism but without losing appeal as a pop star. I like this girl and she'll do well. Very talented and she even takes on the awfully difficult New York which Paloma Faith did and few can match. Nice.
Last up is Anna Lousie. I found her quite tedious and, yes, she sand OK but it was all the sort of act we've seem s often before. She gets rave reviews but i think that may largely have been at the end of a bad day.
That was not the best of weekend shows. I do hope these auditions don't last much longer . It seems to me that talent is thin on the ground and the sooner we get through to the later stages the better. There will, I am sure, be a dozen acts worth making the Live Shows well worth watching but the process of getting there may not be that great television unless the producers can start concentrating on the best and saving us from the worst and simply unamusing stuff.
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