X factor

[Logger]

And a lot of them aren't even amateurs. Leona Lewis had been a drama school poppet for years, and that opera singer Paul Potts had done concerts in Italy! So where's the 'surprise discovery' of talent? The most distinctive sound this year has been that of the barrel being scraped.

The contestants have to pass through 2 auditions before getting to appear in front of the celebrity judges...why is this never mentioned? 

Certain contestants are invited to audition and do not have to go through this preliminary stage at all. 

Last year, at least one of the contestants at the boot camp stage was invited back from the year before and didn't even audition.

It's a load of old tosh that anybody can turn up to the auditions and win.  The open auditions are mainly used to film the 'funny' and 'bad' contestants...some of which have been invited by the makers of the show through casting agencies.

 

There...got that off my chest

[loulou]

Sharon Osbourne said she was leaving the show. She spat her dummy when two of her acts faced being voted off. 

I thought last nights show was terrible. Surely better people turned up for the auditions than this lot.

[smurfboy]

Dannii picked all the wrong acts in my view, and Saturday night showed her limitations as a mentor. The other judges are experienced managers - Dannii is a performer, which doesn't necessarily qualify her to manage someone else's career.

[smurfboy]

And a lot of them aren't even amateurs. Leona Lewis had been a drama school poppet for years, and that opera singer Paul Potts had done concerts in Italy! So where's the 'surprise discovery' of talent? The most distinctive sound this year has been that of the barrel being scraped.

 

But as WJP said, there is only so much talent out there. If anyone who has so much as sung a carol at their school concert is disqualified because 'they've had their chance' there would be a serious shortage of auditionees. The truth is that undiscovered singers are usually undiscovered for a reason...

[oldspice]

I feel this show exists entirely to deliver a number one Christmas record to gullible audiences.  Most of the songs candidates sing are drivel and the production values are vulgar and shallow. 

 

I saw about five minutes of Saturday's show, during which four or five perfectly nice girls were turned into virtual sluts for the male audience to drool over. I was therefore totally shocked to hear female members of the panel tell them how gorgeous they looked. I would not like my daughter being dressed by that lot. I've seen more respectably dressed women touting for business on street corners.

[naxos]

 

[loulou]

I think the show would have been better if smurfy had entered.

[smurfboy]

I think I'm more X-rated than X-Factor

[loulou]

Even better.

[loulou]

Watched this last night and there's a brother and sister group that freak me out. They are on the wrong show and should be on Rainbow or some other kids tv.

[smurfboy]

I can't stand them. I'd like to beat them to death with a ripe marrow.

[loulou]

Louis Walsh  looked a bit disturbed all through their performance.

 

That poor girl wearing pink in the group Hope . How could they let her go on stage with a camels foot.

loulou2007-11-18 20:24:56

[oldspice]

I can't believe Beverley has been dumped in preference to Rod, Jane and No Freddy (the frightful Same Difference).

 

She was a winner in my eyes (and ears).

 

Louis Walsh  looked a bit disturbed all through their performance.

That poor girl wearing pink in the group Hope . How could they let her go on stage with a camels foot.

I don't watch X factor so not sure what this is about.  I'm curious about the reference to a camels foot?  What's that, other than being the foot of a camel?

[Logger]

I think lou meant camel toe.  If you go to google images and type in the words 'camel toe', you'll soon know what it is.  I don't like to post a link