X-Factor result.

[teylaminh]

I have only one thing to say:

HA HA! I WIN!

(This will only make sense to Eni.)

A wholly and entirely suitable winner, thank you. :D

Comments

[commoncomitatus]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!!!!

...actually, y'know what? I totally can't even be resentful. I'm just too happy. And relieved. But mostly happy.

Seriously. How adorable was her reaction??

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA! No auditioning for meeeee!

Yeah, it's a great result. I love the fact that she just gave up halfway through her final rendition of the song. :)

[commoncomitatus]

Oh, you should SO audition anyway, and you know it, damn you. Paul, if you're reading, DRAG HER THERE BY FORCE.

And, oh yes, that final rendition of that song!! Not to mention the part where she literally fell over when they announced it... it was just the most awesome thing ever. Seriously, if there was any doubt about whether this stuff goes out live...

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Nope, I have now won my bet. Had, in fact, as soon as they'd announced Eoghan as out. :P

I don't really like the actual song choice though. I love the song already, but it's quite good enough without being forced into the Christmas number one slot by virtue of X-Factor... I think Alex kind of had an unfair advantage with it, as it can't work effectively as a group song...

(There's already a group on Facebook with 18K members getting people to download the Jeff Buckley version on Monday...)

[commoncomitatus]

PFAH. You will audition one day. It will happen!! It's just a matter of time. And plotting. Oh so careful plotting...

Amen to the song being too good for an X-Factor song choice. Though I'll be honest and say I preferred JLS's arrangement to hers. I liked the softness of their version and the power in her voice didn't do justice, IMHO, to the quiet passion of the song. In every other way, though, she pwned everyone and everything.

(Yea, I heard about the Facebook thing... and that actually annoys me even more than them bringing it out as the X-Factor song. If they're going to insist on the song making number one outside the X-Facto influence, at the very least plug the freakin' ORIGINAL, for crying out loud. < /rant > )

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

I shall not. It was a one-off bet and I pwned it.

I think I actually preferred it when they made up crappy original winner's songs...

(Heh, there's actually a discussion about that, and the answer seems to be that Leonard Cohen preferred the Buckley version anyway, and I think most people see that as the 'definitive' one.)

[commoncomitatus]

Yea. I totally think the winner's song should be original, even if it is the cheesiest, crappiest thing in existence. If nothing else, you then get to judge their talent, if you've not been following the show, based on their song and not some pre-established conception of a song they're covering.

(And yea, I ge tthat the song is all about the Buckley, as is the case with many other unfortunate songs that are covered with greater success than the originals... but it just seems like one of the most hypocritical things in the world, to me, to say "support the song! don't buy the X-Factor cover! buy another cover instead!")

[yoshi.livejournal.com]

The Leonard Cohen version sucks balls compared to Jeff Buckley. So speaks the voice of reason to silence you and your weird ramblings. :P

PS - You can drag a Bex to X-Factor but you can't make her sing... or something like that.