Louis Walsh - A Right Muppet or a Frog Prince?
Oh my God people!! The more intelligent amongst us realise that the X Factor is just pantomime but let's run with the notion that this thing IS an actual talent show.It's still the same glitzy campery that it's always been, but there is something about the immense cruelty, the "Car-Crash Factor" of the X-Factor that means we have to watch it. Fred and I are hooked, and I know so many more of our friends who are also hooked - intelligent people who abandon their various sophistications in life for an hour and a half of pure pulp on a Saturday night.
It's true that the early stages are much more entertaining than the live shows. It's also true that every week in the early stages of the live shows has been fairly predictable... Until, it must be said, that the lovely Maria came up against the Conway Sisters.
And so a "poor choice of song" (Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones) meant that lovely sexy beautiful classy and most importantly, note perfect Maria came up against (by comparison) four screetching moggies from Ireland. Now I am sure that the Conway Sisters "Have so much more to offer" and "You haven't seen the best of us yet", as they ventured almost apologetically after the show to Ben (yum) Sheppard after the shock result, but these women have, lets face it, no commercial worth at all. They are useless to any record company because no-one - even the great Simon Cowell - has the faintest clue what to do with them.
Maria was by far the better artist and by far the best looking commercial prospect which leaves me thinking that she has probably in her "we was robbed" elimination circumstance, secured a fantastic future in the industry. The public will always see her as the talented one who got her crown stood on.
As for Louis Walsh, well he needs his "head felt" as we would say here in Belfast. My own theory is that he saw an opportunity to eliminate a heavyweight "Sharon" contestant which lets face it may be his only chance of gaining a finalist. That's the only plausible reason I can think of for kicking out Maria in favour of the Nolans. If he really was playing the "Irish Card" then he's a bigger babbling giggling tit than I thought and quite how he is so successful with his "Boyzone Westlife Girls Aloud" brand is beyond me. 
He certainly looked under pressure as he squirmed and wriggled in his little seat as the studio audience booed and hissed at his decision. He reminded me of how Kermit the frog looked when he had upset Miss Piggy in The Muppets. Gulp!!!Whatever way you look at it, the two ugly judges have knocked Maria out for no reason other than politics. However the ratings will now soar. It just got unpredictable and I'm cancelling all my Saturday engagements right up until Christmas...
Let the Pantomime continue...."Boo! It's behind you."
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Labels: X Factor
posted by Freddy @ Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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