It seems futile to continually harp on about how Rachel Hylton was literally incapable of delivering a thoughtful and appropriate performance of any of her songs, so these notes will ignore her from now on. She’s gone anyway, so we can all breathe out a little bit. News that she intends to fully capitalise on [...]
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November 18, 2008
Notes On The X Factor #4
It seems, as Daniel Evans finally takes his forced leave from the competition, that PM’s predictions are becoming slightly more destined. After a severe backlash (also predicted) that saw Evans fall from slight student joke to washed-up pool cleaner with dubious familial entanglements, the Great British Public decided that enough was enough. Speaking of enough, [...]
November 10, 2008
Notes On The X Factor #3
PM’s predictions were, again, proven to be misplaced on Saturday night as Laura White shockingly was eliminated from the competition. While White’s performance was not as stirring as fellow sing-off competitor Ruth Lorenzo’s Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door and she deserved to lose, the fact that she was in the bottom two alone shows an interesting [...]
October 27, 2008
Notes on The X Factor
This Saturday’s X Factor live heat threw up two interesting and equally indigestible examples of the power of, respectively, the wrong attitude and the wrong approach.
Firstly, Rachel Hylton’s performance of the Nina Simone standard Feelin’ Good (above) was billed as an expected return to form for the reformed drug addict and [...]
