I am so MAD!
Mo and I have been following the X Factor (UK) this year again, as there are a few brilliant singers in the ‘over twenties’. This week was Mariah Carey week, and she was present, and worked with all the singers.
There is just no understanding the way the public vote. There is a chap who, although a very nice man, is a bit like the old Tom Jones, if you know what I mean. In no way is he, or could he be, a pop singer or a recording star. He is getting a lot of sympathy votes, while good singers are getting knocked out.
We are now into the serious stuff, with the cream of the singers left to battle it out. He should now be gone, and we were fairly confident he would go yesterday. Did he? Noooo! Two really great female singers, Laura White and Ruth Lorenzo were in the sing off. That in itself was a shock, but what followed has really infuriated me!
Mariah Carey said of Laura’s rehearsal “No notes”, which apparently is the best compliment she could give, and basically means ‘Perfect’.
You need to watch this video. Listen to the remarks at the end.
This lady is world class, as the judges continually said. Then why, tell me, did they vote her off?
I’ll tell you why. Ruth Lorenzo is a good singer, but not to the standards of Laura. She is Spanish, which Simon finds sexy. She knows how to play her body while performing, and Simon Cowell makes no secret of the fact that he fancies her rotten. He says it every week! The deciding votes were with the two men. Need I say more?
They spent weeks building this poor girl up and telling her she was “special” and “a world class singer”. When it came time for them to ‘put their money where their mouth is’, as the saying goes, they totally crushed her, and voted from their trousers (Pants)!
If I sound a tad upset, it’s because I AM, and more than a tad! What would have been nicer, is for them to have gone to a split vote, which would revert back to the public vote. That would have been a more fair way to do it, and something they have done twice before. But no, crush the girl, why don’t you? It wields more power!
The decision, not surprisingly, brought a lot of booing from the audience. No consolation for Laura though.
Oh, I expect she’ll get a recording contract, but this experience will have totally knocked her confidence.
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