After Simon Cowell went against everything he had said about them over the last few weeks and voted to keep Jedward on X-Factor ahead of professional singing sweetheart Lucie Jones last night, has the show now descended into a bit of a charade?
The Irish duo, labelled “horrific” by the Sony BMG A&R supremo in previous weeks, performed a dire rendition of Robbie Williams’ Rock DJ, and after Cowell said he’d rather watch them again than a bland but undoubtedly talented Jones there was only going to be one outcome.
And didn’t Jones know it. As soon as it went to the public vote she burst into tears because she knew there was no chance against the Jedward steamroller. I guess that’s the price you pay for being too cocky and robotic because it certainly wasn’t her excellent singing that failed her.
Dannii Minogue insisted on repeating that it should be judged on singing and that it was a singing competition, but is it? Not looking at past years. After all, we had middle class, rugger playing public schoolboy Rhydian Roberts lose against Leon Jackson simply because he didn’t have a sob story and Jackson did. But look at them now, Roberts has a platinum selling album and Jackson doesn’t even have a record label.
Jedward are entertaining. Even my girlfriend who hates X-Factor has it Sky Plussed just to watch them. I’d have said it’s fairly likely there will be a Jedward Christmas song whether or not they win the show.
The Jedward effect extends even to the highest echelons of our society. Never mind Lisbon Treaties and wars on terror, Jedward are the hot topic in Number 10 Downing Street. Over the last week or two the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have been trading blows in the name of Jedward, with Gordon Brown saying they are “not very good” whilst David Cameron admits that they keep him “glued to his seat”. Shame Gordon didn’t pay this much lip service to Question Time when BNP leader Nick Griffin was on it.
On X Factor we are at a stage now where all of the girls have been kicked out apart from Stacy Solomon and this has reinforced my view that Simon Cowell doesn’t want another second rate Leona Lewis type winning it. It is little wonder, then, that he mentors all the boys and they are all quite good.
But when Jedward get knocked out in a week or two, which they inevitably will, will anyone even be interested in X Factor?
Mr Cowell is a tit and I hope the gruesome twosome win just so long as one of his three singers don’t, and don’t get me started on that silly little talentless Ms Tweedie Pie.
Mr Cowell is scum and a product of Myra Hindley and Peter sutcliffe.
I am no big fan of Jedward eventhough I thought their Ghostbusters performance was very entertaining, musical disaster but hilarious. I think the biggest injustice last night was that limp Lloyd got through. He is not a very good singer in my view, very very limited vocal range, very boring and just gets votes because young girls think he’s ‘cute’. He doesn’t have the versatility, stage presence or voice to be a solo artist, he should be in a band. My favourite to win has to be Olly, Danyl or Stacey.
But you have to remember that the best is not always the winner. Boring Leon Jackson or Alexandra Burke were by far not the best singers in their years yet they both one by some miracle. Like someone said on the radio today its like fast food. Mcdonalds might not make the best burgers with the best quality meat but they are the most popular, the same with Jedward. They may be terrible singers but they are entertaining especially compared to a boring drone like Lloyd.