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Ah, the X Factor returned for week two and royally slagged off the talents of lovely Birmingham in the process! It's not the most glamourous place in the world, but love it I do and Dannii (who has this week dressed as a cross between Roxie Hart and the lovely Elouise) needs to remember that words hurt :P Still, I was busy beautifying myself for a night out with chums so I didn't pay as slavish attention as I did last week, but inbetween oiling up my loins this is what I remembered...

• Dermot (as pictured above) can look quite pleasing when he wants to - usually when he's not trying to be sincere to families of crap auditionees but coming across as incredibly insincere. Sigh :/
• Poor Alan was really quite representative of the talent on offer for the Birmingham auditions (which means that the team will "come back" [ie show at a later date footage from the same day] and find a great auditionee) and while seemed quite lovely with his directions was a bit shit really wasn't it?
• Also quite dreadfully bad in a ghastly way were The Stunners. I mean, come on! I don't want to be mean, but really. Everything from the moment they said their group name indicated that they would be utter tosh didn't it? No wonder Dermot is insincerely sincere to the families - did you see the one waiting in the wings in this clip? Chavrific!
• The new X Factor cliche is at 1m52s of the clip above. Everytime someone auditions, the camera shows the sound man pushing the buttons up to play the tracks! Amazing! Britain would be sitting wondering how the music came on if they didn't show that.
• I sort of really like Behrouz. He has a hideous look, is very annoying indeed and yet sort of won me over with his a bit tat to start with but got better as it went along version of Take Your Mama Out. He could be the entertainment person in the competition who isn't really the best singer. He slid quite quickly down my list of favourites so far (including Danyl really and Stacey) when I saw the next two auditions...
• Astonishingly, after Cheryl (what IS that weird collared dress she is wearing?) bemoaned how crap the group were, a brilliant group came along! Mind boggling how that happens. The Miss Fittz are basically The Puppini Sisters with their rather enticing rearrangement of Toxic. Lovely harmonies and great little group that could do well... (I miss the Puppinis ~ where are they?)
• Best and most loveable audition so far was the quirky, huggable, delightful Rozelle. She did a rather beautiful version of one of my favourite songs One Night Only and just sparkled and glittered from every pore as she sang it. It was just quite the pleasure to watch. My favourite auditionee by far. And yes, I did still make everyone listen to Elouise's version before we went out.
• Finally, there were a couple of others of note (bald dad with sob story, that was actually quite affecting :/ good voice but not great) (mega afro'd guy who everyone loved doing Sex on Fire but left me cold - did have a very foxy blonde friend in blue shirt waiting for him though; check him out 2nd from left at 50s!) but basically so far I'm all about Miss Fitz, Danyl and Rozelle. That is all...

THE TOP 21 SONGS OF THE WEEK:

Ah, what a lovely night out was had. The Ace Gang got together, went to our usual haunt (Eden) and had copious amounts of fun. Lots of ace music was played too including the brilliant new Alphabeat song, less brilliant each time I hear it Alexandra (no wonder they played Hot n Cold at the start of the X Factor - it's basically Bad Boys without FloRida!) and the increasingly super Get Sexy by the Sugababes :) And I grabbed the ones I love and shimmied to them all. Check out all the photos in their horrors here...

21 ~ "Abba", Second Best To None
20 ~ Elouise, One Night Only
19 ~ PSB, All Over The World (NE)
18 ~ BWO, Love Comes Crashing Down
17 ~ JLS, Beat Again
16 ~ Lily Allen, 22
15 ~ Industry, Burn (Irish #1)
14 ~ Blake Lewis, Sad Song
13 ~ The Yeah You's, Getting Up With You
12 ~ Marina & The Diamonds, Obsessions
11 ~ Erik Hassle, Don't Bring Flowers
10 ~ Benny Andersson Band, Story Of A Heart
09 ~ Preston, Dressed To Kill
08 ~ Bananarama, Love Comes
07 ~ Backstreet Boys, Soldier Down
06 ~ Whitney Houston, Million Dollar Bill
05 ~ Sugababes, Get Sexy
04 ~ Little Boots, Remedy
03 ~ Same Difference, Better Love Me
02 ~ Madonna, Celebration
01 ~ Mika, We Are Golden (3 weeks)

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