held back on making a thread this year, but judges’ houses is upon us.
get your predictions in now - who is gonna win? who will be through to live shows? who will definitely go home at judges’ houses?
any favourites?
don’t bother posting ‘it’s shite’/‘it’s a fix’/‘why waste your time’ etc., just do us a favour and fuck off?
Simon: Girls
• Caitlyn Vanbeck, Emily Middlemas, Gifty Louise, Kayleigh Marie Morgan, Olivia Garcia and Soheila Clifford.
• Off to Malibu with Mel B and Emma Bunton
• Wildcard: Samantha Lavery, chosen by Louis
Sharon: Overs
• Samantha Atkinson, James Wilson, Relley C, Christopher Peyton, Janet Grogan and Honey G (Ivy Grace had visa issues).
• Off to LA with Robbie Williams
• Wildcard: Saara Aalto, chosen by Nicole
Nicole: Boys
• Christian Burrows, Freddy Parker, James Hughes, Matt Terry, Nate Simpson and Niall Sexton.
• Off to Nice with Calvin Harris
• Wildcard: Ryan Lawrie, chosen by Simon
Louis: Groups
• 5 AM, Skarl3t, Four of Diamons, The Brooks, Ottavio and Bradley and Tom and Laura.
• Off to Ibiza with Fleur East and Alesha Dixon
• Wildcard: Yes Lad (), chosen by Sharon
Have absorbed some of it by osmosis, Gifty’s the only decent one I’ve seen. Ottavio and Bradley are a bit too obvious for the joke finalist, but they’re going to be the joke finalists
please remember these words the next time you come bursting into someone else’s thread and start doing exactly what you’ve told us not to do in this thread
I saw some of this for the first time this year on Saturday or Sunday (not sure which) and was struck by how bad all the boys sounded compared to previous years. Not sure if they cocked up the sound, my TV is broken or the judges were deliberately taking the piss, but this genuinely felt like the comfortably the worst lineup I’ve seen.
Is that just me being unlucky in dipping into a poor section of the whole thing, or are they actually poor by previous standards?
this year and last year in particular have been terrible, thinking the ‘current state of the charts’ is to blame. mainly just boys who are popstar lookalikes doing slowed down and/or acoustic covers of upbeat pop songs.
Also very, very easy to spot the plucked-from-a-talent-agency ones from the actual off the streets ones now, maybe that’s just me being wiser to it idk
ottavio and bradley definitely through
the brooks are most likely though (although i’d much prefer to watch 5AM at the lives)
louis will pick skarl3t over four of diamonds (who will pull a great harmony out of the bag) and inevitably say to skarl3t ‘yous look like popstars, yous sound like popstars’