Comments on: Taking The Positives https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: pink champale https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1089513 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:26:42 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1089513 can’t work out why the poochie comparison seems so spot on or makes me grin so much. but it does.
i am VINDICATED re kye. each judge in turn struggled to put their finger on the SOMETHING they didn’t quite like about kye. i struggled not – it’s his FACE!
‘never tear us apart’ is a good song, i think, but melanie somehow failed to make it at all dramatic, mainly be being far too dramatic in all the wrong places. and yes, the thinking behind the makeover was counter-intuitive at best. what do do with an attractive boho type woman? make her look like gillian mckeith at a wedding!
didn’t much like ella h this week. hitting the high notes was impressive enough, but the rest of the song was all gutsy where it should have been [beware, i am about to use a word that has not been used without irony to describe music since 1991] ethereal.

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By: sükråt tanned rested unlogged and awesome https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1089409 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:22:34 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1089409 From memory: save-yrselves sing-off items in bold

union j: the boys groups are unusually uninteresting this year
district 3: woefully out of tune in the sing-off, but the judges were plainly favouring youth and malleability over melanie’s experience and consolidated style
maloney: BORELOW called him “the people’s vote” at one point (as the reason judges mustn’t criticise him) which was even more arsey than the arsey heights GB usually patrols
james arthur: can do very effective actual total massive emotional turmoil and break-down, quite striking, possibly authentic, could get exhausting to watch (i have an affection for him while not much liking his music)
kye: totally failed to stay in tune, should have been in the vote-off, one among us KNEW HIM IN SCHOOL
spragbot: a pal tweeted “COMPO RAPS” during her version of kanye — i kind of enjoyed it in a perverse wtf way
ella h: unimpeachable, esp. hitting those absurdly exposed ultrasonic queen-of-the-night notes — the fact that she’s so ahead of the field is probably responsible for the producers upping the ante trolling the judges (esp BORELOW) (louis meanwhile is becoming smaller and dafter, like a sponge rubber glovepuppet whose characteristic is knowing nothing abut anything)
MK1: “note: poochie died on the way to his home planet” <– pertinent gag remains reusable
rylan: TEN FASHIONISTA PANDAS! he still can't sing but is having fun himself now going for broke and adding to the er gaiety of the nation in epic style (plus he and nicole were taking great and justifiable pleasure ragging on BORELOW: including repeatedly calling him this)
jade: second best, stylish and relaxed, lovely smile
melanie massan: BORELOW totally undermined her with terrible song-choice, emphasised by ghastly and inadvisable makeover which made her look abt 120, shouldn’t have gone when kye stayed
jahmene – ramped his slightly psychotic melisma back a lot this week, to my disappointment but his music's benefit i suspect — he is enormously nervous and i find him very likeable

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1089402 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:10:46 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1089402 Chico was Pop Idol though! In the wider annals of Reality Pop performing yr own songs isn’t new – Fame Adademy was partly based on it!

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By: Billy Hicks https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1089390 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:03:32 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1089390 Surely Chico beats Lucy Spraggan to performing their own song by seven years? I’m sure ‘It’s Chico Time’ was on the show months before it came out as a single.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1089272 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:08:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1089272 I missed this yesterday because I was in the black hole of IKEA. So no recaps! I heard it was better than last week tho.

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By: Another Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1089271 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:03:39 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1089271 Aren’t MK1 just Thompson Twins Juniors or at least appearance wise. (More so if they had the third member)

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By: pink champale https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1088440 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:59:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1088440 union j – quite likeable, but really no good. (and terrible name)
district 3, not very likeable, not very good either.
maloney – aaargh! ever so ‘umble, doing it for his family, entire head goes red at key points. most likely to go postal.
james arthur – i agree with BARLOW. clearly had an artistic vision at audition state (tortured intensity, not actually nice to watch) now made over into blandness. restore the nan glasses NOW!
carolynne – the dullest, so rightfully the first off.
kye – i know it’s not right to dislike him on the strength of his face. but i do. the name doesn’t help either, nor the hair.
lucy spraggan – clearly a future as a professional songwriter (okay, i’d hate her songs if they were on the radio, but what she does she does well). not much future on the show i think – abba week would not be pretty.
ella h – erm, she’s good isn’t she? and not even boring.
MK1 – missing the audition stage means you missed their foundation myth. the third member, a do-gooding youth worker in his mid-thirties gamely mucking in. the judges asked him to step down, he nobly sacrificed himself for the sake of their dream and “thirty three percent of everything you make”. every time they perform i see him there like banquo at the feast.
rylan – quite fun to have around. BARLOW doesn’t seem to have noticed he can sing better than anyone in the boybands.
jade – her hair was better before the makeover, i think her singing might have been too.
melanie massan – she really does belt it out every single time. so far to enjoyable effect.
jahmene – looks endearingly like a ventriloquists dummy. sukrat has how he sounds spot on.

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By: Andrew F https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1088430 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:24:33 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1088430 byebyepride – if you saw nothing last year, have a go of this.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1088195 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:25:47 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1088195 I’d have got it wrong if I had ventured a prediction – of course if voting is allowed from the beginning the opening-slot curse no longer applies, and a forgettable contestant near the end is, essentially, fucked.

But I did at least get the footnote part right.

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By: byebyepride https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1088154 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:13:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1088154 I enjoyed this more than I was expecting, having skipped all of last season, and almost all of the pre-live show stages this time round.

Tick vg goes to: Melanie, Ella, Carolynne
Enjoyably OTT: Rylan, MK1
Potentially interesting: Jade
WTF: James Arthur, Lucy Spraggan
Yawn: Jahmene, Union J, C Maloney
Creepy: Kye

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By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/10/taking-the-positives/comment-page-1#comment-1088133 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 09:20:34 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=23664#comment-1088133 Jahmene’s melisma sounded like it was inserted randomly and technologically, except the technology had gone mad and was getting madder and couldn’t be turned off. Naturally I liked this.

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