{"id":7784,"date":"2014-10-20T11:14:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/195.21.21.161\/epop\/?p=7784"},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:22:54","slug":"week-2-of-the-x-factor-live-shows-could-it-get-any-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/10\/week-2-of-the-x-factor-live-shows-could-it-get-any-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"XF 80s Night:  Could It Get Any Worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/louis-and-the-chicken-wings.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7649\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/louis-and-the-chicken-wings\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/louis-and-the-chicken-wings.png?fit=604%2C387&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"604,387\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"louis-and-the-chicken-wings\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/louis-and-the-chicken-wings.png?fit=604%2C387&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7649\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/louis-and-the-chicken-wings.png?resize=604%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"louis-and-the-chicken-wings\" width=\"604\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yes, it&#8217;s week 2 and it was 80s night. When I heard this, I thought &#8211; Oh no they&#8217;re going to ruin all my favourite songs. As a teenager of the 80s I am very familiar with the music of that era. However, I needn&#8217;t have worried because they didn&#8217;t cover any of the songs I used to rock out to back then. A lot of the song choices were terrible and there were some really weird remixes going on.<\/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;\">Having said that, I think the show was an improvement on last week. At least there were a few good performances. Lola did a very nice version of John Lennon&#8217;s &#8220;Imagine&#8221; &#8211; I have to say it warmed the cockles of my heart! (she works in a fish shop in case anyone didn&#8217;t know) Paul Akister was v good too. He sang &#8220;If You Don&#8217;t Know Me By Now&#8221; and didn&#8217;t butcher it &#8211; something which is quite easily done. Jay James&#8217; version of &#8220;500 Miles&#8221; was also quite impressive. They slowed it down and it really worked. I think they knew that and that&#8217;s why they left him til last.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After that, I was less impressed.mainly because of the song choices. Chloe Jasmine sang &#8220;Fame&#8221; &#8211; one of the cheesiest crappiest pieces of music ever produced and I felt she was let down badly by Cheryl. We had Paula Abdul&#8217;s &#8220;Straight Up&#8221;&#8216; sang by Jack Walton, rearranged to sound dire. Stephanie Nala&#8217;s version of &#8220;Call me&#8221; turned in to a reggae song was just weird.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And then we had the dregs. Stereo Kicks &#8211; (they should have been kicked oft this week) &#8211; sang &#8220;Boys of Summer&#8221;. It wasn&#8217;t the song that was bad. It was them. Stevi Richie, I think, is kinda winging it a bit too much. Ok, so he&#8217;s enjoying himself up there, but are we enjoying him? I&#8217;m not so sure. Then we come to &#8220;Come On Eileen&#8221;. Eh..Come on, Louis &#8211; this is sacrilege to anyone who used to dance around to this in the 80s. I think it&#8217;s one of those songs that should only be sang by the original artist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stephanie Nala and Chloe Jasmine were knocked out this week and while I don&#8217;t think Stephanie is any loss, I was disappointed to see Chloe go. But you know, maybe she&#8217;s better off out of it. You could say,the mistake she made was entering the competition in the first place. After all, the X Factor doesn&#8217;t really do style and originality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s week 2 and it was 80s night. 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