Lopez Blogs

So this week's show comes after 7 days of bitterness and resentment at Laura White being kicked off. Louis was blamed! The show is a travesty! etc. I mean, let's not forget that she ballsed up her performance by trying to be clever playing the piano and that actually the public voted her into the bottom two! And Laura has become all bitter and twisted this week, so I am done with her. No one likes a sore loser. Anyway, this week's X Factor saw their global triumph return to the show - Leona Lewis (I kind of wish I was writing Shayne Ward - he really should be a bigger star than he is). And despite wearing a weird black tutu-ish dress - the sort that some rich new gold digger widow would wear to the funeral of her recently deceased 97 year old husband - of course her rendition of Run bought the house down. She did actually perform with grace and passion which made me love the song even more than I currently do. Astounding stuff, particularly when the choirs joined in. I was goosebumperised. Anyway on with the less impressive performances of the night (theme? "best" of British)...

• Cheryl - no, she's not a contestant, but good grief! Who chose her lipstick colour this week? It's like she had her make up gun set on whore...
• Daniel - GAH! Daniel is increasingly believing his own hype which makes him incredibly annoying. And must he always wear black? He must open his wardrobe and think he is being sucked into a black hole. Go black and bold, not black and old Daniel. His performance of It's Not Unusual is rather cheesy, and cabaret like. He would have a brilliant career in Benidorm. Thank god that finally he is in the bottom two and voted off the show. I was not impressed that he went home to his dead wife's daughter and couldn't believe how much she had grown! I mean good grief! How little does he see her?!
• Alexandra - after her rather good performance last week, Alexandra is bugging me. She is wearing this really really bizarre top that looks like it has been painted onto her naked body. It's freaky. Vocally she is very solid, but she is an absolute mess of performance tics and mannerisms. Plus she seems very cocky about how well she is doing. Humility is a nice virtue people. Cockiness isn't. Her song You Are So Beautiful is actually a bit boring. Yawn. Another ballad.
• JLS - ah they may well be my second favourite act on the show now. They are just rather adorably cheesy and do the most outrageously "pop" performance this year since Scott's doomed Matt Bianco campfest. They do the Take That version of the Beatles medley (from their Everything Changes tour) and it's all rather fun - even if Louis is singing along to I Wanna Hold Your Hand, though to which poor boy god only knows. My guess is Marvin. He looks like a bottom.
• Rachel - she doesn't live at the X Factor house. She lives at home with her kids, one of which only sneezes. This is a good thing considering that Daniel clearly hasn't seen his daughter in months. Rachel and Dannii are BFF again and Rachel sings that Amy Winehouse song (You Know I'm No Good) that she sang at her original audition which made her collapse and thank the lord when she got threw. Problem with Rachel is that she hasn't been good ONCE since she got onto the live show and even though this is quite good, it's nothing new as she did it just as well the first time the nation saw her. So in the X Factor script meetings this means that she will deemed good, but be in the bottom two enabling another week of "debates" stating how talent shouldn't be in the bottom two. Last week's scripted boot off of Laura worked perfectly!
• Eoghan - young yorkshire pudding hair has gone home to visit his baby sister. Who, unlike her parents, is absolutely adorable. So now that Daniel and his deadwife stories are gone, Eoghan can replace them with his justbornsister stories which will be equally as emotional and effective on the nation's grandmas. And goddammit that his performance of One More Try is actually quite good. Despite the wardrobe department screwing him over ONCE AGAIN on the fashion front, i - for the first and hopefully last time ever - like (like is too strong a word really, nothate is better) him.
• Diana - still ill, so a VT full of lots of snot and tears. Cheryl has picked one of her all time favourite songs for Diana to sing, which is really Cheryl's way of showing that she has good musical taste rather than picking a decent song that matches Diana's strengths. Yellow is not a good choice - mixed with her illness and her continuing reliance on performance tics, the vocal is off and the energy is gone. I'm not sure really what to say about this - should she get through because she is ill again? What if she is ill right through to the final and wins on a sympathy vote? Clearly I think she is talented enough to win, but it's new territory here. Any international idols ever had this problem?
• Ruth - oh she has got to be the sexiest person in this competition. In a non bi-sexual way. But i can tell when women are sexy. Occassionally. Or perhaps i am drawn to Ruth's funbags. She does that old staple Angels, which not only is very good indeed, but also has a rather pretty stage direction thing going on with some weirdy dancers. All in all, Ruth has now solidified her position as my favourite.

Next week Take That are on the show. I will of course miss it being in Florida. Oh well. That is what youtube is for. Some new act called Same Difference are also on the show...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Happy blogging birthday to the lovely Adem! He is one year old today (although older if you include always right) and has treated his site to a bit of botox. Very lovely it looks too. Loving the logo!

TOP 21 SONGS OF THE WEEK:

21 ~ Jason Mraz, Make It Mine
20 ~ Pink, So What
19 ~ Infernal, Whenever You Need Me
18 ~ Rongedal, Hello Euphoria
17 ~ McFly, Do Ya (NE/see vid - totally cute Christmas ad for album!)
16 ~ Marit Larsen, If A Song Could Get Me You
15 ~ Lenka, The Show
14 ~ Leona Lewis, Run (NE)
13 ~ Mariah Carey, I Stay In Love
12 ~ The Feeling, Won't Go Away
11 ~ Alphabeat, What is Happening
10 ~ William Young, Grace
09 ~ Darin, Breathing Your Love
08 ~ Alesha Dixon, The Boy Does Nothing
07 ~ Take That, Greatest Day
06 ~ Kylie/Dannii, The Winner Takes It All
05 ~ The Killers, Human
04 ~ Britney, Womaniser
03 ~ Britannia High, Start of Something
02 ~ Girls Aloud, The Promise
01 ~ Same Difference, We R One (2 weeks)