X Factor – Live Results 3 – VIDEO

I wish Idol was this erratic in the early stages of the game. It’s, what, the third finals episode? Cool for a presumed frontrunner to end up in the bottom this early.

I just wished the lead kelly clarkson look/sound/act a like from Miss Frank would have made it own her own. She was my favorite.

But the girls did horrible tonight. Surprisingly they sang the same song in boot camp for thir very first song together as a group and KILLED it. wonder why they held back soo much last night.

Danyl wont win. He doesnt have it if you ask me. ANd honestly his voice is very hard for me to listen too.

Right now im for Lucie and Jamie(whens he’s good haha). and for shits and giggles, those two horrible twins.

Okay, this is a serious question, how could Louis and Cheryl have let this go to deadlock. Is that a joke? The contestants are terrible on that show this season and Danyl is the only with any talent at all. Oh my. The public is insane, people have to stop voting for people who suck. This applies to DWTS too.

Just maybe…and we will see with Idol next year….the public is just tired of the premise of the show and either lethargy or downright manipulation will step in.

The Feeling Good curse continues across the pond. I believe that every AI contestant who sang it before Adam was eliminated, twice in one night (or something). And Adam barely survived singing it, like Danyl barely survived singing it last night.

But I thought Miss Frank was okay last night, I thought their strongest performance for them thus far. Same for Danyl who I had thought was tremdously overrated until last night, but obviously the rest of GB didn’t agree with me. That or they thought him too arrogant. Very possible.

The twins bring the lulz, but honestly? They really are horrible, so really they should have gone home last night. They are XFactor’s Sanjaya, only squared!

Well, since Danyl is my favorite this floored me. I still can’t believe that happened. Maybe I was wrong that John and Michael being there didn’t matter at this point because the good singers would stick around until they were gone. Maybe the people who would have been voting for Danyl thought he was safe and voted for John and Michael for fun. Hmm??

The first thing I could think of when I heard Danyl was in the bottom 2 was I hope they didn’t make him choose a side. lol. that song is definitely cursed.

Wow, Miss Frank got sent home. WTF, they’re my top2.

HEY SIMON HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HAVE THE BEST ALMOST GO HOME??
IT HURTS DOESN’T IT.

downright manipulation will step in.

What, then, exactly are we dealing with now?

The Feeling Good curse continues across the pond. I believe that every AI contestant who sang it before Adam was eliminated, twice in one night (or something). And Adam barely survived singing it, like Danyl barely survived singing it last night.

I’m taking this off the top of my head, but I think its prior victims were two season six semi-finalists (AJ Tobaldo and… um, she was a dogwalker?) who were eliminated on the same results show. It does seem to have something of a curse on it (though it’s not I Want To Dance With Somebody Who Loves Me).

Seriously who is voting for the Twins? Its a joke that they are still in it at this point. In this country there is no way in hell they would have made it on the show. IMO none of the contestants are that good or would even crack the top 10 on American Idol but wutever. Danyl has been overrated I think thus far but certainly did not deserve to be in the bottom 2…what are those Brits smokin’?

Definitely surprised by the Bottom 2. More than disappointed that Danyl sang his first audition song again to stay alive. Maybe he didn’t have anything else prepared since Simon thought he was the best of last night?

Bon Jovi next week? Anyone know the theme?

That was really surprising, I never thought Danyl was very popular but being in the B2 after only 3 shows is bad. I am not a fan of his performances but he is easily in the top tier of vocalists in this show.

The theme next week is rock week.

It’s not what we’re smoking .. it’s parents allowing their tweens to vote …lol

John & Edward can’t sing but I must admit I love them for pure entertainment .. Lloyd on the other hand can’t sing very well plus he’s as dull as ditch water but when they interview the tweens they’re all in love with him.

Danyl annoys me, I don’t like his performing style but he’s a better singer than quite a few of the others. He was head and shoulders above Miss Frank in the sing off.

Jamie’s still my favourite but at the moment he’s not showing the kind of star quality that I saw in Rhydian and Mr Lambert .. I’m pleased he’s through to next week though as it’s rock week.

Apparently the twins are going to sing Adam Ant’s Goodie Two Shoes next week … although how that fits into Rock Week I don’t know so Louis may come into some criticism especially as he called Simon out for picking a non Big Band song for Jamie this week.

Danyl is supposed to sing We Will Rock you next week … but apparently after the result this week an emergency meeting was called tonight and they’re going to change a lot of the songs for next week … probably so Simon can give his chosen one a better chance …lol

I am not sure if I have seen all the contestants but I think my faves so far are Joe and Ollie…
its kinda hard waiting for all the YouTube uploads…lol

Just watched Michael Buble. You know, in two notes you can hear that he’s just a much better singer than everyone. (And no dancers needed.)

Did anyone see the performance show? How did he do as a mentor? Lip service (a la Smokey Robinson on AI) or real substance (like Jamie Foxx)?

How does this show work, anyway? Why did Danyl sing Get By with a Little Help from My Friends instead of what he sang in competition? They just sing whatever they want to save themselves? (It’s big band night. How can he not be singing something big bandy. This is such a weird show.)

Haha, be nice MJ. Chris Daughtry has one of those voices I consider dime-a-dozen, so I like the boybandification. But then, I like Westlife and wish they’d make another attempt at the US.

Just listened to Westlife doing What About Now? It’s just like Daughtry’s version but with a smoother voice in the lead vocal. I don’ t understand the logic of covering a song that was a huge hit only one year ago. (Wouldn’t it just drive the sales of the original up?) But when I was listening to Westlife’s song on Youtube, I saw that they’ve got a video of Flying Without Wings from 2007. I clicked–it is the coronation song recorded by Ruben. But Westlife’s video has 7 million hits! Wow! Did they have the first recording or did Ruben?

Did anyone see the performance show? How did he do as a mentor?

He was ok I guess. He told Stacey to think of her little boy when she sang to draw on emotions; Lucy was told not to over-sing; For some reason he didn’t think Bewitched was a very well known song for Olly (or was that Simon who said it?); Joe was supposed to have fun with it; Lloyd was half his age; Jamie was out of his comfort zone…. Anybody else have better recollection?

OMG, talk about ott, overwrought, phoney attempts to put over a song! Including Michael Buble.

Did anyone see the performance show? How did he do as a mentor? Lip service (a la Smokey Robinson on AI) or real substance (like Jamie Foxx)?

How does this show work, anyway? Why did Danyl sing Get By with a Little Help from My Friends instead of what he sang in competition? They just sing whatever they want to save themselves? (It’s big band night. How can he not be singing something big bandy. This is such a weird show.)

Can’t really remember much about the mentor session as they tend to show so little of it .. the mentor bits are always heavily edited and put together all higglety pigglety so they could be talking about anyone ..lol

on top of what Butte09′s already said I think he liked Miss Frank and joked around a bit with the Twins ad he liked Rachel … like I say the mentor bits they show on X factor are mostely pointless as you don’t get to see long enough.

When you’re in the bottom two you can sing any song you want in the sing off .. you sing a different one from the one you sang on the actual performance night and it doens’t have to fit in with the genre. I think it’s so that they can showcase their voices to songs that suit them. One of the Queen’s of the sing off on X factor was Ruth Lorenzo last year who pulled off two of her best performances when in the sing of as she was a bit of a rock chick and the themes restricted her

Knocking on Heaven’s Door http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW91eaVJLQ0

Purple Rain http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x74i8b_x-factorruth-lorenzo-purple-rain-se_music

I posted on the headline thread that this story is beginning to get old fast. Twitter was going crazy today with comments. some could not believe Danyl was in the bottom 2, some thought it was producer manipulations, and some were proud that it would “show” Simon that he couldn’t push someone down their throats. Sounded toooooooo familiar to me. Who is the underdog in this one? You can probably start placing bets on them to win. Scripted Scripted Scripted.

Not surprised at the results. I thought Danyl and Miss Frank were horrible last night, so they deserved to be in the bottom two.

Danyl is supposed to sing We Will Rock you next week ‘ ¦ but apparently after the result this week an emergency meeting was called tonight and they’re going to change a lot of the songs for next week ‘ ¦ probably so Simon can give his chosen one a better chance ‘ ¦lol

Emergency meeting…lol! You’re probably right!

its kinda hard waiting for all the YouTube uploads’ ¦lol

They’re all up already on YouTube on XFactors offical chanel. So check them out.

I thought Danyl and Miss Frank were horrible last night, so they deserved to be in the bottom two.

Worse vocally, or anything, more than John and Edward? Sorry, but much as I adore John and Edward for the epic lulz, their singing is more than vaguely horrific. It’s out of key, it’s off pitch, it’s baaaaad. Danyl was much better vocally than, I would argue actually everyone else last night (first time I would say that), but at the very least, better than John and Edward.

Jamie would be my second weakest vocally after the twins, Lloyd/Stacy after that.

Are you freaking kidding me? Miss Frank in the bottom 2 and eliminated? XFactor is a joke! Danyl, yes … he’s so arrogant and full of himself. They’ve been “dancing” around him since Dannii made that comment about his sexuality … before that ALL the judges (including Simon, until he was in his category) were calling Danyl on his crap! And those horrendous twins have NEVER even placed in the bottom 2? And Simon if you think for a second that Danyl is UK’s Adam Lambert … Adam’s talent is FAR SUPERIOR! Is Danyl going to perform WLL for rock week? Well, at least Jamie and Stacey are still in the running.

I was listening to Westlife’s song on Youtube, I saw that they’ve got a video of Flying Without Wings from 2007. I clicked’“it is the coronation song recorded by Ruben. But Westlife’s video has 7 million hits! Wow! Did they have the first recording or did Ruben?

Suzanne, Westlife had the first recording. “Flying Without Wings” appeared on their debut album in 1999. It’s their signature song, and Westlife fans were not at all happy that Simon gave the song to Ruben to massacre.

I was listening to Westlife’s song on Youtube, I saw that they’ve got a video of Flying Without Wings from 2007. I clicked’“it is the coronation song recorded by Ruben. But Westlife’s video has 7 million hits! Wow! Did they have the first recording or did Ruben?

Flying Without Wings is originally a Westlife Song .. it was #1 here in the UK in the late 90′s

Thanks for the answers everyone. Well, then, I’m sticking with my why-do-a-cover-of-a-recent hit argument. Are there no other songs in the world? And back then, Ruben said that when he found out that his single was going to be Flying Without Wings he thought “what am I going to do with this song?”

Regarding the show–what do you think of the dancers? I can’t imagine seeing them on American Idol.

Definitely a shocking results show, there’s should be The Duo and Stacey in the bottom 2, but whatever Danyl wasn’t going anywhwere.

Michael Bubl, awesome as always there’s no one better in Big Band.

Westlife was pretty good too, they really can sing (well at least the 2 in the center, the other 2 are just eye candy) and I like their voices better than Daughtry’s (I love many Daughtry songs, but I just can’t stand his tone and goaty-vibrato in the higher notes) so I’m liking Westfile’s version better.

Westlife are basically a cover band now .. they’re always covering other people’s songs as their singles .. they’ve already released things like Mandy, Seasons In The Sun, Uptown Girl, You Raise Me Up as singles and now the Daughtry one … which has just recenty been in the charts by them so I don’t know why Westlife are doing it as their comeback single after a year off .. Like you say Suzane it’s not like the world is running out of songs …lol

I quite like the dancers on X factor and think that they can add to the performance .. but at the same time they can also be very distracting and probably divert your eyes/ears from some pretty ropey car crash performaces vocally ….. lol

I agree that people are clearly getting tired of the talent show format and deliberately pick underdogs. It really pissess me off. In this competition, the x factor, this season, no one is particularly talented with star potential that it doesn’t matter. But what happened to Adam Lambert was so unfair. And Danyl is going to get a taste of the exact same medicine except he may not even make it to #2. Lol, I bet that Lloyd guy wins since the teeny boppers are swooning, a la Kris Allen anyone?

Lol, I bet that Lloyd guy wins since the teeny boppers are swooning, a la Kris Allen anyone?

THAT’s a BAD comparison..

Suzanne:

Thanks for the answers everyone. Well, then, I’m sticking with my why-do-a-cover-of-a-recent hit argument. Are there no other songs in the world? And back then, Ruben said that when he found out that his single was going to be Flying Without Wings he thought ‘what am I going to do with this song?’ 

Then perhaps you’d be more suprised to know that Clay Aiken’s “Invisible” is also a cover from another (more obscure) boyband, D-side. Both D-side and Westlife are Irish, though by that time Westlife was several months ahead of D-side in terms of popularity and has a few hits out already (including Flying Without Wings).

Clay’s version sounds remarkably similar to D-side, so I was ok with it but not impressed. And Ruben’s version was horrible compared to Westlife. But what boggles the mind more was “2 cover songs of similar-timed hit singles?” “from 2 Irish boybands?” “for both winner and runner-up of American Idols?” One would think that AI was drawing from a really shallow song pool.

A quick note to add something which hasn’t been mentioned and may add some light to the Danyl surprise visit to the basement. The tabloids have been having a field day this week about Danyl being a bully in the Xfactor house and having a go at Stacey. Danii made that cryptic comment about her having a bad week and being in floods of tears. Allegedly it was because of Danyl’s cruel comments to her in the house. They are painting him as an arrogant bully so maybe that was the backlash. It’s all over the forums here, our own Danylgate. The media have been slaying him. He said something unkind to the stripper act when they were eliminated too along the lines that you weren’t going to win anyway, or something like that.

I think Simon is kinder here because he isn’t that popular here in a positive way. He is popular because he is hated, bit like Gordon Ramsey! So I think he has to reign it in a bit, there is backlash at Simon a lot more than in the US. The dire twins are a good example. Everyone knows Louie chose them because he knew Simon hated them and the public would keep voting for them to annoy Simon. Simon creates his own VFTW.

Cute teen boys and girls always do well on this show regardless of talent. The show airs on a Sat night when older people are out so there is a lot of tweenie votes. AI is at least on during the week.

And yea, I agree with MJ, not many of those songs were big band. It should be a theme of sing anything with a big band arrangment! And Cheryl Cole is sweet but not the brightest candle on the cake. Her picks are awful, and Sway has been done so many times in the past here and it has ALWAYS bombed!! Mindy is the only one I have ever seen do it justice. Joe has such a sweet voice and should have nailed this week, that was painful.

Simon creates his own VFTW.

He actually kind of does in the States (see season 1 in particular, actually, but you’ll see it in the voting in plenty of other places). But the effect does seem to be more pronounced here than we typically see on Idol. And, you know what?

I agree that people are clearly getting tired of the talent show format and deliberately pick underdogs. It really pissess me off.

The problem, I don’t think, is the “talent show format”, as much as it is respect for that very same format. People allegedly should be able to choose the acts they find the best, and even in the UK it seems to be the case that people don’t like being told overwhelmingly who that is independent of performance (whether the performer lives up to that reputation or otherwise). Honestly, I find it hard to argue with the impulse, because, inevitably, the people who then get voted for usually are competitors in terms of performance quality.

Cheryl Cole is sweet but not the brightest candle on the cake. Her picks are awful, and Sway has been done so many times in the past here and it has ALWAYS bombed!! Mindy is the only one I have ever seen do it justice. Joe has such a sweet voice and should have nailed this week, that was painful.

And even with Melinda, it wasn’t exactly her shining moment on the show, by any stretch (still, “not shining moment” from Melinda is heck of a lot better than most performances). That said, I find it hard to single out Cheryl, because the picks here have been universally abysmal. I’d give Dani the nod in terms of being the savviest song selector, but even her picks were simply pretty good and not much else. This is to say nothing of the well addressed topic of “this is big band!?!?”, or that an act managed to work a rap into a Frank Sinatra song (I’m not upset to see Miss Frank leave in the slightest, if only for that crime against humanity).

I would like some of the drugs that Simon is on. I have a need to see everything through rose colored glasses.

I quite like the dancers on X factor and think that they can add to the performance .. but at the same time they can also be very distracting and probably divert your eyes/ears from some pretty ropey car crash performaces vocally ‘ ¦.. lol

I like the dancers. It makes it more of a performance. Although I’d say Brian’s choreo seemed off this week. I suppose he had difficulty with the theme too.

Just watched Michael Buble. You know, in two notes you can hear that he’s just a much better singer than everyone.

Everyone on this season? That’s not saying much given that this is weakest season of X-Factor ever. Michael Bubl must be one of the most overrated singer ever. I read about what a great singer he was some years back, got his CD to have a listen and that was one of the biggest disappointment I can remember. He has an above average voice that’s nowhere approaching great, and his performance was quite mediocre in that CD I heard. His latest CD however is better, and his Cry Me A River is good.

I agree that people are clearly getting tired of the talent show format and deliberately pick underdogs.

I’m not sure in the case of Danyl it’s a case of picking underdogs. If people don’t like him, it may have a lot to do with his personality. I also think he is over-praised and never as good as he is made out to be. He has little to show in the last few performances apart from the glory notes. If there is one thing that annoys people about the pimping he got, it’s that the praise doesn’t match the performance. His performance of the Whitney Houston song last week for example was just bad but the judges still praised him anyway. It just reminded me of the reluctance of some judges to criticise Danny when he had that awful performance of Dream On – it simply devalues their opinions.

The heavily overrated Danyl should go home but over all the talent pool is a bit thin on X-Factor. Lloyd is adorable but he’s only fair, but truly isn’t being handled well by his judge mentor.

The lack of “Big Band” songs on “Big Band” week is both off-putting and eye-rolling.

(Yikes more bitter Glambert comment bait for Kris fans in a topic not related to either one! Such class.)

Seriously who is voting for the Twins? Its a joke that they are still in it at this point. In this country there is no way in hell they would have made it on the show.

Sanjaya anyone?

what are those Brits smokin’?

I don’t understand why people get so offended when non-talented-but-entertaining people advance in these TV shows. Those twins are very entertaining. There is no chance in hell I will buy their music, but if I want to see them again making fun of the show’s self-importance, all I have to do is vote for them.

I just saw the video of Miss Frank. What is so GREAT about this group? I hated the rapping bit, but then again, I do not like rap, at all (except for some classic rap songs, as ‘Rappers Delight’ or other well worth listening to songs, although very few). Actually, they kind of suck. Back to topic: Miss Frank remind me of Salt n’ Pepa a bit, although S&P were way better and had some pretty good hits.

I don’t understand the ‘shock’ of the people commenting on this thread of Danyl’s bottom two position. IMO, Danyl is pretty good, he is not great people!

Danyl Johnson lacks the ‘star’ quality in order to make it far in the music industry.

Ethan should be there. Ha! Ha! Everytime I hear Use Somebody on the radio (which is every 10 minutes or so) I think of Ethan. If instruments were allowed, I bet he would have really done well.

I wasn’t a fan of Michael Buble’s type of music, but after I saw him on a morning show and now just watching the X-Factor performance, man, is he cool! There’s something about him, really intense and his moves are interesting, very sexy. Love his voice, the phrasing. I smiled the entire watching him and the end move — love performers that feel the music. Very nice.

I don’t know whether Michael Buble is overrated or not. Actually I don’t see him in the news that much. But whoever is managing his career, they’re doing a A+ job. He’s never hip, he’s singing covers, he only got a few AC radio hits, yet he’s sold almost 20 million albums worldwide and has sold out arena tour all over the world. One good comparison is Clay Aiken. They debuted same year 2005. Look at where they’re now.

I don’t know whether Michael Buble is overrated or not. Actually I don’t see him in the news that much. But whoever is managing his career, they’re doing a A+ job. He’s never hip, he’s singing covers, he only got a few AC radio hits, yet he’s sold almost 20 million albums worldwide and has sold out arena tour all over the world. One good comparison is Clay Aiken. They debuted same year 2005. Look at where they’re now.

Interestingly, many thought Aiken should go the route of Groban and Buble and his fans fought that every step of the way. They wanted him to be the hip pop sex symbol…

Danyl, IMO, isn’t very impressive and I hope he doesn’t win

Olly Murs ‘“ Olly continues to deliver…another great performance.

Lloyd Daniels ‘“ The kid seems so stiff and lost. He should not have been picked. Cheryl should have taken the opera kid.

Miss Frank ‘“ I thought this was pretty good.

Rachel Adedeji ‘“ I like when she sings more soulful songs…but was pleasantly surprised by her voice today. Didn’t know she could sing like that. Well done

Jamie Archer ‘“ didnt like this at all…thought it was a disaster. He is losing his way.

Stacey Soloman ‘“ This was pretty good. Her singing brought it down. I liked the disney atmosphere.

Danyl Johnson ‘“ You can’t sing this and not be compared to Adam. At least he didn’t do the muse version like Adam did..that slightens the comparison. It was pretty good.

Lucie Jones ‘“ Pretty good..if she would have held it together during the big note..could have been showstopping amazing.

John & Edward ‘“ Entertaining. Hot dancers.

Joe McElderry – I didn’t like his tone for the song. He worked the stage well.

One other thing to considered from X Factor:

They got 24 hours to votes. So the fans who can really power voting their favs for that long will hands down win.

AI only had 2-3 hours to votes.

DWTS had limited votes each week.

I also agree that cute boys always do quite well in X Factor regardless thy can sing or not.

I will not suprise if John and edward can stay till the top 5.

And I am not suprised Cheryl picked Danyl to go home cause she was not happy, her singer Llyod got crushed by Simon twice in a row. And she did not like Danyl personally.

They got 24 hours to votes. So the fans who can really power voting their favs for that long will hands down win.

I thought they had to pay 35p per call…. Or is that only landlines? Then Dermot always goes on about some Red button that I have no idea what he’s talking about. I wouldn’t vote at all if I ever had to pay anything. Then again I don’t usually vote when it’s free anyways….

They got 24 hours to votes. So the fans who can really power voting their favs for that long will hands down win.

Really? Ooof. And I thought the AI system too heavily favored depth. But that’s just insane.

I love Westlife’s version than Daughtry’s. More round and smooth vocally and felt emotionally better too.

Btw Westlife released Flying Without Wings in 1999.

Westlife are basically a cover band now .. they’re always covering other people’s songs as their singles .. they’ve already released things like Mandy, Seasons In The Sun, Uptown Girl, You Raise Me Up as singles and now the Daughtry one ‘ ¦ which has just recenty been in the charts by them so I don’t know why Westlife are doing it as their comeback single after a year off .. Like you say Suzane it’s not like the world is running out of songs ‘ ¦lol

The Westlife fans don’t know why they’re doing it either. Especially given all we’ve read from the guys in recent months about how their new album was going to be all original songs. I guess it still might be — beyond the first single. But then Simon is still their A&R guy at the label and both he and their manager Louis Walsh are fond of covers. I wouldn’t mind it as much if they’d picked obscure songs and made them their own. They seem to think “What About Now” is OK because it’s unknown outside the US… at least until Daughtry released it in the UK just a few weeks ago!!!

Well, Westlife are at lest good at singing covers. I love their The Love Album.

Total Eclipse of the Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etcMoMj0PMA

The Rose (music video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QBc8k706gc

Well, Michael Buble did LOTS of covers too.