Paul McCartney called it "not a bad thing" which "gives some people an opportunity, it gives them confidence, it gives them work". However, Elton John , despite appearing on it in , described it as "a cruise ship show" which is "cruel" and "no way to find talent". Similarly, Sting called it a "soap opera which has nothing to do with music" and had "put music back decades". Quotes Simon Cowell : [to a bad auditionee] You couldn't win this competition even if you were the only one in it!
Connections Featured in 8 Out of 10 Cats: Episode 2. User reviews 20 Review. Top review. I just don't understand. I simply don't understand how anyone could possibly find this show in any way successful. How can people stand for the auditionees being abused by the judges? I may be no expert but I don't believe that someone should be allowed come onto the show with some false hope or dream in their head and then be punished for it. Aren't they human beings too?
Is it right that the judges can laugh at their performance and then criticise them for making some effort? Quite simply if people like Simon Cowell are going to be allowed to insult other people like this, then I don't know what the world's coming to.
Just because a person is idle or boastful about 'having the X Factor' is it right for judges to display a similar type of behaviour? Is this a way of saying that other people don't have feelings the same as anyone else? In any case not all the auditionees behave like that and I don't believe that they should be hurt in such a cruel way. Details Edit. Many of us thought we could do better ourselves.
In recent years though, audiences fell by nearly half, and this week ITV confirmed it had no plans for the show to return. Its creator Simon Cowell is focussing his attentions on a fresh music panel show, entitled Walk The Line,while channel bosses have fresher formats to concentrate on, like The Masked Singer. So how did The X Factor go from four yeses to being voted off our screens? Along with Big Brother and Pop Idol in the early s, The X Factor was part of a new wave of reality TV shows that enabled normal people to become stars in a matter of months.
Not only that but the public could decide their destinies. There were also a lot fewer channels, he notes, and the internet was still young. Such was the show's cultural power that from to , every single Christmas number one came courtesy of an X Factor star, whether it was Shane Ward or Alexandra Burke.
However, there was a reaction to the contestant's apparently pre-ordained success. Rage Against the Machine broke the show's winning streak in Their single, Killing In The Name was sent to number one by a fan campaign that attempted to inform Cowell the British public were no longer going to "Do as you told me". Perversely, even that counted as a victory for Cowell. His opponents confirmed the show's importance simply by caring about it. Matt Cardle returned the show to the festive top spot in , after more than 17 million viewers tuned in to see him crowned winner of that year's series, but he was the last of a dying breed.
In a new digital decade, it became harder and harder for The X Factor to prove itself as the ultimate crucible for British talent. X Factor acts thrived in the CD era. Fans would buy their singles as a memento of the time they'd invested in the series.
Even if they never played the music, the song was all but guaranteed to go to number one. Streaming torpedoed that link. Suddenly, the Top 40 was counting consumption as well as sales - and music fans simply weren't playing the curdled cover versions the show forced upon its winners even Little Mix have erased their winner's single, Cannonball, from their discography, preferring to call the strident, anthemic Wings their debut.
In , a year after streaming figures were incorporated into the Official Singles Chart, Louisa Johnson became the first X Factor winner to miss the top five. After that, the show never produced another number one. Around the same time, artists like Taylor Swift, Drake and Billie Eilish redefined pop music, with an emphasis on introspective, diaristic songwriting. The judges would then decide on twenty-four acts to go to the Judges' Homes, only six in each category.
Both the people in a pair could advance, or only one, or neither. It didn't matter who they were with or how many of the pair advanced, only how the judges felt about the performance and their potential in the competition.
At this stage in the competition, each judge is assigned a category to mentor throughout the remainder of the competition. The categories used vary from year to year, but there are always four, one for each mentor. After hearing what category they've received, the judges bring all the acts from that category who made it through bootcamp to their own home, which can be located anywhere in the world.
The judges, with the help of a guest judge, watch all the contestants perform for them and decide which four they want to bring through to the live shows. After twenty-four hours, the judge again meets with each contestant individually and delivers the news about whether or not they will go on to the live shows.
The live shows are often considered the peak of the entire competition, as each elimination has been leading up to this point. The acts who passed Judges' Homes are the contenders for the live shows, and the live shows contestants are the only ones who can win.
Weekly, there are two shows, the first being a performance show, the second for results. Performances Each week, the live shows are themed, and the mentors make a song choice for each of their acts to fit the theme.
After a week of rehearsals the acts perform, being broadcast live. For the first week of the live shows, the public cannot vote. Instead, each judge chooses one act from their own category to immediately eliminate. However, the judges often come to the decision that one act eliminated Melanie Amarofor Season One, Diamond White for Season Two , is too good to leave and bring them back as a wildcard.
After the first show, the public is allowed to vote for their favorite acts after they sing. The public can vote for as many acts as they want, as many times a they want. They vote by calling, texting, online voting, or via the X Factor app. At the end of the show, and after the voting lines are closed, the results of the votes are broadcast the night after the performances in a results show.
Results The night following the performance nights are for the results shows. Then, in a random order, the acts that are continuing to the next week are announced, leaving two. The "bottom two" are the acts who received next to the fewest votes, after the first elimination of the night. For example, in the Top 10, the act who got 10th place in the votes would go home immediately.
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