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Bottom 2 sing off of Luke and Tamera were the only two who can thrive beyond XF.

I like RC, but Joey is a weak link and could cause marketing issues tbh. They have their work cut out gaining support from Sbtv, bbc 1 Xtra, choice fm and kiss fm crowd (as well as more mainstream radio).

In a way as long as Luke gets to final he'll do well. He has a market (not all young people like urban) and Tam has her own lane (providing she doesn't become a beyonce/ rihanna tribute act). SYCO will need to be wary about marketing her as I suspect making her too urban will alienate her from mainstream pop fans but at same time, being an urban mixed black female act means she'll need to shed her XF origins. Your SBTV watching urban black young will be a bit icky about an XF act so Simon needs to do a James Arthur and get in Naughtie Boy and Labrynth level producers.