{"id":7770,"date":"2014-10-13T09:58:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T09:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/195.21.21.161\/epop\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:34:10","slug":"x-factor-live-shows-start-but-wheres-the-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/10\/x-factor-live-shows-start-but-wheres-the-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Shows &#8211; Where&#8217;s The Talent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/many-faced-lw.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7667\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/08\/the-50-faces-of-louis-walsh\/many-faced-lw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/many-faced-lw.jpg?fit=625%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"625,390\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"many-faced-lw\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/many-faced-lw.jpg?fit=625%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7667\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/many-faced-lw.jpg?resize=625%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"many-faced-lw\" width=\"625\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, it&#8217;s finally happened &#8211; The X Factor live shows have kicked off and I have to wonder if Lola brought some squid with her to the studio, because there seemed to be a big damp one knocking about.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I sat through one boring performance after the other, I had to ask myself is this meant to be an entertainment show, because I am not entertained. And I did wonder if Louis had a prior engagement and they created a robot to sit in for him, because everything that came out of his mouth was a stock clich\u00e9d comment. Mel probably was pressing a button under the table every time it came to his turn. &#8220;You deserve to be here&#8221;, &#8220;You&#8217;ll go far in the competition&#8221;, &#8220;You remind me of a young&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We had a series of bland unmemorable solo performances interspersed with a few faster numbers. I thought all of the bands were brutal. Overload Generation, a pretentious name for a band which I thought had no talent. seemed to be on course to go far in the competition (in the words of Louis) due to all the hormonal teenagers voting for them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stereo Kicks &#8211; the much hyped 8 piece boy band &#8211; were disappointing also. Let&#8217;s put it this way &#8211; If I heard them on the stereo, I would give it a kick! Only The Young would have been better if they&#8217;d been given the right song and I felt this was the case for a lot the acts. The choreography was all wrong and the outfits were badly chosen &#8211; Lola looked a bit like a lobster in her dress. Stevi Ritchie was a victim of too many sexy girls dancing around him. I felt they overshadowed him completely. Blonde Electra had too many props, and were done up in such a zany way that it just took away from their individuality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only acts I thought were worth watching were Ben Haenow &#8211; Hey now, he&#8217;s not half bad looking and he&#8217;s a great singer &#8211; and of course the best which was deliberately left til last, Andrea Faustini. His performance was pretty much electric and at the moment he is the clear front runner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday night, the two acts that had the edge on the others in terms of being atrocious, were sent home. Louis Walsh&#8217;s monster, Blonde Electra &#8211; hewn together with all the ingredients that Louis felt would form an imitation Jedward: hyperactivity, false happiness, in your face flamboyance and childishness. So what went wrong? I think we could all see the stitches! Overload Generation &#8211; the name is enough to make you groan and they certainly lived up to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, in conclusion, everyone should be sent home except Ben and Andrea and they should have the final next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s finally happened &#8211; The X Factor live shows have kicked off and I have to wonder if Lola brought some squid with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[386,387,276,12,388,389,390,157],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-blonde-electra","tag-live-shows","tag-louis-walsh","tag-music","tag-overload-generation","tag-stereo-kicks","tag-stevi-ritchie","tag-x-factor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-21k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7784,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/10\/week-2-of-the-x-factor-live-shows-could-it-get-any-worse\/","url_meta":{"origin":7770,"position":0},"title":"XF 80s Night:  Could It Get Any Worse?","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"20\/10\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, it's week 2 and it was 80s night. 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