Did You See That

The theme for this week’s X Factor was love songs, and the calibre was very high with great performances from all of them.

Rhydian knocked it out of the park as usual with a brilliant rendition of Somewhere, from West Side Story.

Louis criticised Hope for performing a solo artists song (Hurt by Christina Aguilera), with Phoebe on lead and the rest just ooh-ing and aah-ing. Of course the irony of this criticism was that his group Westlife have just covered a solo artist’s song (Home by Michael Buble) with Shane on lead the rest just ooh-ing and aah-ing.

Beverly - despite giving a great performance obviously doesn’t have the same fan base as the rest as she finished in the bottom two -along with Hope - and after a deadlock in the judges voting, it turned out she finished last in the public vote. Being the first act up probably didn’t help her either.

Next week’s theme is Best of British, and Duran Duran will be performing.

Eugh. Westlife. I didn’t mind them once upon a time, but what’s all this about: releasing a cover version of Michael Buble’s “Home”, which is only a couple of years old and their version is no different certainly no better. By all means stick some cover songs on your album as filler, but to release it as the first single of a new album is a bit pathetic. Have they really got so little to contribute musically that this is what they come up with?

Anyways, check them out singing it on Strictly Come Dancing recently. Notice how very little Nicky and Kian do, but how much effort they put into doing it. It’s actually quite funny.