X Factor Blog: Week One

Well the 2009 count down to Xmas has begun now that the X Factor is well and truly underway. What a night, what a night. First off if you are offended by my comments please remember this blog is a matter of opinion…my opinion, but if you want your say, then get to typing in the comments section!

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First off, have to shout out Dannii Minogue who finally looks like she has landed in the 21st century with her new ‘do’. The addition of ‘our’ Cheryl last year has obviously encouraged the less fortunate Minogue sister to step her game up and sit her ass down in the chair to get those locks chopped. Liking it though Dannii, liking it a lot.

But the addition of the studio audience during the auditions has yet to win me over I have to admit; especially when they aren’t necessarily behaving how you would expect. I mean come on, had some of those acts been performing at the Apollo, they would have been booed off the stage within seconds.

But obviously some sort of mass pinky swear had been carried out, just to avoid hurting anyone’s feelings, on entering the venues. Well either that or they are cast offs from previous shows who know exactly what rejections feels like. But all jokes aside that audience was just verging on the boundaries of being ‘TOO’ nice. There were folks up on that stage that had the potential to make me want to gouge out my eyes and feed them to my friends dog who I am looking after and who even ran for cover at one point. All for audience participation here as long as they, like Simon Cowell, ‘keep it real.’

Although you had to love the reaction that the first lambs to the slaughter had (the sister on the right from Dream Girls) when she realized she was about to sing (can we call it that?) to a couple of thousand folks. She turned positively puce and I thought someone was going to enter stage left with a bucket.

But the two models from Lithuania (they need to get a Timotei commercial pronto btw) along with the infamous duo Sister Act, (pleased to see their father has given up the idea of being the Northern version of Dolce and Gabbana) brought me to the foregone conclusion that this year is one for the boys.

Even with the cutesy Essex girl and the leather clad biker girl, Katie, it was the lads that excelled and rightly so last night. Whether we were blown away by their talent or just a bit weirded out by their fake American accents and their obsession with ‘our’ Cheryl (John Edward and Kyle Campbell respectively) the boys were on fire last night.

Newcastle, in dire need of something to focus its attention after the Toon Army lost its premier league spot were represented by the darling Joe McKeldry. Do we think he has the potential to bring the sunshine back to the city? ‘Way Aye’ I say… Echoing the sentiments of ‘our’ Cheryl, but of course he faces extremely tough competition from the current day Mr. Chips, Reading’s very own heartthrob Danyl.

Do I even need to make a comment here? Me thinks not, incredible to see Mr. Cowell leading the standing ovation for his rendition of the Joe Cocker classic, Get By, but not surprising. That brown-eyed primary schoolteacher might just have the vote of the nation on his side after that performance. I am just hoping he managed to grab a few minutes back stage with the Catherine Tate meets Harry Enfield ensemble of Triple Trouble. If anyone was in dire need of educating it was those three.

Tell me how can you go on stage promoting positivity amongst our youth and how teenagers should be seen in a less negative light and then act like a complete tosser when you get zeroed out of the competition and throw your mic on the ground when exiting stage left? I mean come on…’Simon Cowell needs to sleep with one eye open’, with the security Simon has I doubt anyone in Cowell’s Casa will be missing out on a wink of beauty sleep worrying about those threats.

Melanie Cornish