Did You See That

It was Michael Jackson week this week on the X-Factor, although I don’t think we heard many of his really great tracks and the show was a bit flat for the whole. Some of the acts that the judges thought were outstanding, to be honest sounded a bit naff to my untrained ear at home. For me, there were two standout moments: Diana Vickers, and then Ruth in the sing off.

Diana Vickers was brilliant and brings something very different to the competition. She reminds me a bit of Will Young in that she might not be the best singer in the sense of being able to do the huge Celine Dion numbers etc, but she can brilliantly give her own interpretation to a track and make it spell binding. She’s probably my favourite to win at this point.

And then there was Ruth, who I thought was pretty good earlier on but ended up in the final two with Girlband. I wouldn’t be surprised if Simon’s negative comments earlier swayed the vote against her. But then she knocked it out of the park with an awesome rendition of “Purple Rain”. Maybe the best peformance of the live shows so far but Simon didn’t have the grace to admit it and was again spouting off about the lack of Spanish and forced it to deadlock instead of doing the right thing and sending Girlband packing although I imagine he knew the public vote results anyway.