X Factor – Lyric 145 – R.E.S.P.E.C.T. – (AUDIO)

By On 11/24/2012 · 31 Comments · In X Factor

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Check out a recording of the song X Factor finalists, Lyric 145 were SUPPOSED to sing the week they were eliminated. The tune is a reworking of R.E.S.P.E.C.T by Aretha Franklin.

Anything would have been better than that Katy Perry/Queen mess the group was forced to sing, but to be honest, I don’t think X Factor audiences would have been ready for this jelly either.

Check it out below:

R.E.S.P.E.C.T by Lyric145

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  • Karen C

    I think this would have been much better,  not sure if it would have gotten more votes.  I can’t see why there would be clearance issues, since it has been used so much. I wonder if the problem was that Simon had used Respect as Melanie Amaro’s single, and didn’t want someone to use it on the show yet.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XY62PETGTXO3FFQXX45UKQ2O7M Steph

    But Simon wasn’t being ‘stubborn.’ He knew exactly what he was doing. He was getting rid of Lyric so that they wouldn’t be a threat to Emblem 3.

    Good luck trying to get Emblem the win, Simon. They are nowhere near as hot, talented or interesting as 1D.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XY62PETGTXO3FFQXX45UKQ2O7M Steph

    Lyric’s verse is SIIIIIIICK as f*ck, fa real! She out spits her bandmates by a few country miles!

    Too bad L.A. couldn’t mentor them. He would have taken them to at least the top 6.

  • http://twitter.com/TarheelShari Sharon S.

    But Simon wasn’t being ‘stubborn.’ He knew exactly what he was doing. He
    was getting rid of Lyric so that they wouldn’t be a threat to Emblem 3.

    Whether that was the case or not – and I wouldn’t doubt that it was – it illustrates what makes me so uncomfortable with shows like The Voice and X Factor where the judges, as opposed to just the show itself, have a stake (even if it’s just bragging rights) with who wins.  It’s hard enough to get a fair shake on a show like Idol, where the judges don’t have their own group of contestants, without worrying about a judge sabotaging you to protect someone on their team, or – even worse – your own mentor/judge sabotaging you to protect someone else on your team.  I don’t fucking care which multi-millionaire judge “wins”, because it makes no difference to anything except their egos.  The contestants are the ones with something at stake, and if they can’t even trust their own mentor to look out for their best interests…yeah, it sucks.

  • http://twitter.com/desireechick Kesia Monteith

    You know, it’s funny, there is an interview Lyric 145 did with Young Hollywood after they were eliminated, talking about how they feel what the revealing of the rankings has done to the atmosphere of the competition. They said that it made the judges care so much about winning, they were starting to strategize exactly how the contestants would perform to get votes. But the group were upfront about how they just simply care to do the best performance that simply represent them, rather that worrying about votes they’re mentor wants. They acknowledge that the fighting between the judges of how one should present they’re acts was becoming distracting. Basically, they’re saying their mentor’s need for winning was getting in the way of the creative process for their acts, and not allowing them to be themselves. 

    They didn’t want to blame Simon per se, but they were aware of the show’s biggest flaw.

  • http://twitter.com/TarheelShari Sharon S.

    That all rings so true, and it’s even worse because the judges (or, perhaps more accurately, the producers/PTB via the judges) seem to have so much control over what the contestants sing, how they sing it, and how they look when they sing it.  With the advent of the Interscope/Jimmy Iovine era, it seemed to me that Idol started taking more control away from the contestants, and it didn’t strike me as a good development – you might get fewer train wrecks that way, but you also get fewer shining, unexpected “moments,” too. 

    X Factor and The Voice take away even more control from the contestants, and I just don’t care for it.  I’d rather see someone triumph, or fail, on their own merits (or lack thereof) as much as possible.  And the institutionalized tendency for the judges to judge, not on the basis of the performance in front of them, but on the basis of how they can spin their reactions to suit their own self-interests, is problematic.  Adding in the possibility that a contestant, who is in a position of relative powerlessness, may have a mentor actively trying to get rid of him or her, and it’s a total turnoff to me.

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