Did You See That

It was Week 5 on the X Factor and I was suddenly hit by the realisation that Dannii Minogue is actually incredibly annoying. Her post performance comments all seemed to trail off into some odd voices she was putting on. I wish she’d just give a straight comment without trying to play to the gallery or turn it into a performance.

But back to the performances themselves. Well, it was Disco week which meant there was a massive pool of fantastic tracks available, but somehow some of them still managed to get some duds. Rhydian performed the Village People’s “Go West”. Bit of a boring song in my personal opinion. Dannii said it was hard to find a big Disco track for a male vocalist, but I’d loved to have seen him do something like “MacArthur Park”.

Leon got his first positive comments from Simon with his take on “Relight My Fire”. I don’t think he’s a winner, but the fact I could watch him dancing without putting my head in my hands and cringeing was at least an improvement.

Niki also had to tackle her dancing issues and made a good fist of “Hot Stuff”, which went down well with all the judges except for Simon who said it was a bit “Mum-at-a-wedding”. Niki challenged to get up there if he thought he could do any better - sorry love, that’s not quite how it works. Louis’ other act Beverley again proved she has a great voice with a powerful “I’m Every Woman”.

Alisha should have been on safe ground with a classic track like “Young Hearts Run Free” but I think she just didn’t have enough about her to make it a standout performance. In fact, so little was there to say about her that the judges ended up arguing about her roller skating dancers.

For the groups, Hope did a very credible job with Abba’s “Man After Midnight” and Same Difference did “Blame It On The Boogie”.

After the results had been counted, Hope and Alisha were in the final two and the judges decided to keep Hope. It was sad because Alisha seems really nice but she has never really shone, although her version of Valerie was probably her finest moment.

So Sharon lost her final act. Next week the theme is Motown.