Sunday, November 14, 2004
Voices With Soul... Fries With That
So, once again Mr Louis Walsh was put in the unenviable position of having to choose between two of his acts, with both G4 and Voices With Soul failing to get the public rushing towards their telephones. When Kate Thornton announced this, rather than face her asinine line of questioning, Voices With Soul simply walked off the set, presumably in disgust at their treatment as they've been in this position often enough to know how this part of the show works. Their disgust, however, was unwarranted as they fully deserved to be in the bottom two, as their rendition of Lady Marmalade was roughly on a par with a trio of drunk, middle-aged woman doing Kareoke on a hen night. G4 didn't fair much better with their original performance of Circle of Life; over singing it with little regard to the melody line. Fortunately they vastly improved in time for their second rendition so, ultimately, it was quite fair that Voices With Soul were given the boot.
Elsewhere there was little to get excited about, we weren't even too impressed with Kate's dress this week, mainly because it did little for her chest. In terms of the acts, which we suppose is what we should be concentrating on, rather than the presenter's cleavage, Simon got Rowetta to bellow her way through Donna Summer's version of MacArthur Park, a song which Sharon genuinely thought was about a cake, presumably never having heard of the concept of metaphor, while Steve did Help Me Through The Night which may or may not have been good. We got bored at this point and started checking the news on teletext. Sharon's artists weren't much better, with Tabby wearing one of Avril Lavigne's old outfits to do Aerosmith's I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, a terrible version of a terrible song. Cassie, on the other hand, didn't do too badly with Mariah Carey's Hero, though we were more taken with her stylish white jacket/black trousers combo, which leads us to believe that even if the music industry fails her, there'll always be work availiable for her as a Freemans catalogue model.
