This is an odd bunch and, quite honestly, no-one stands out at all.
Relley C has not been impressive before and has an annoying Birmingham accent, made worse by the way she speaks. She made Judges Houses a few years ago but I really don't remember her. She is still a bit wobbly and tends to look for notes rather than hitting them first time. There's not much point putting her through as I can see her going pretty soon and she does not have much gong for her. Strangely, I think she's highly likely to go through, though, as she seems to have Sharon's affection.
Christopher Peyton is next. He has a fair bit of soul and possibly some passion in his voice but he's limited in any active range. He has worked hard but, again, is neither impressive nor memorable.
Adele's Make You Feel My Love is James Wilson's choice. He is a likeable character and has a decent voice. Pleasant personality and is the first of the Over 25s that seems to mean what he's singing. Nice audition. He could be popular on the show although I'm not sure he'd sell records. Best so far, easily.
Samantha Atkinson has some unattractive tattoos which may like fine on their own or close up but do not work at all well with a strange dress that shows some but not all of them. She just looks cheap, I'm afraid, and whoever made her up for this deserves the sack. Terrible. She looked quite friendly and reasonable before. She is a powerful singer, for all that, and produces a generally accurate performance.
Saara Aalto sings Abba's The Winner Takes It All and does so beautifully. Very accurate and quite serious. In past auditions she has been a bit over the top and 'theatrical' which, whilst obviously demonstrating excellent talent, doesn't work on the British pop show. This time, however, the accent actually helped! A very nice, well balanced, audition. However, Robbie said he got bored. Sharon didn't like her in the previous auditions so I guess she must be out.
Janet Grogan returns for another attempt too. I was expecting a lot more from her, though, and this was not a brilliant audition although she has probably been the best of he girls overall.
Honey G gets the spot that Ivy Grace had to give up due to making a small mistake on a visa application. Crazy, and you'd think that the money behind the people supposedly supporting talent in this country would have sorted that out pretty easily. Anyway, they didn't, She did remind me a bit of Melanie Amaro who won the first X Factor USA in Simon's category but then promptly disappeared without trace so perhaps it was just as well. In her place we get this weird woman who always wears the same ruddy style of baseball hat that looks 1990s and her hair looks 1970s. All in all this rapper girl is a good performer but I just don't like her style or songs at all.
In a very poor lot indeed, I would choose James, Janet and Honey G. Yes, the others really were that bad! None of these is likely to go very far anyway unless someone does something amazing with song choices and all the other nine contestants screw up badly. Even then I can only think of one of the other nine acts that may be worse and even they'll get more public support!
Sharon, however, goes completely for broke and a three week wipe-out by choosing Saara, Relly C and Honey G! I am amazed that she chose Saara. The girl is definitely a superb singer but I feel she will look completely out of place on the Live Shows. Having said that I am not at all sure how Honey G will fit in either. The Birmingham lass is needed to make up the numbers.
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