Look at how bad the Pop Idol lot were
 

Just on the music channel, lmao remember this?



That clip also uncovers her in the pink tshirt, who was like the original one before Diana, which doesn't make Diana original anymore because they're both similar

hmm...they seem pretty good

oh and what do you mean original about the diana bit?

Compared to those we've had on X Factor? :tongue:

People were saying how she was original and we've never had anyone with her sound on this type of show before ... but theres her in that pink tshirt and her who won Fame Academy (but flopped). All 3 have similar sounding voices

Its not meant to be a anti-Diana thread though :joker:

lOl
no of course they aint as good as the x-factor ones

Lol.

Pop idol was crap.

ohh....

hmm...i'm not sure that people branded her as "original"
i think it was "unique" and she is! or THEY are unique!

diana of course aint original cuz she didnt invent the style of music...but shes unique since its rare for people to have the same style of voice as those girls!

They seem tame compared to the likes of this years XF finalists.:pat:

I counted 2 good ones.

Will Young was the best of the Pop Idol show. This lot were awful.......fatty macmanus whatever happened to her? :rolleyes:

I loved Pop Idol, it was a lot less serious back then. And it was more focussed on making real life people famous, not professionally trained undiscovered artists.

People like Leona and Laura have already made albums and had a bit of recognition, they have just used the X factor as that publicity they need... Pop Idol was about taking people from ordinary jobs and making them huge. It worked for a few of them, Will Young and Sam and Mark!

David won fame academy.

I remember the girl in the pink shirt. She was the Diana of that year.

He didn't win both

Oh sorry, I know who you mean now. Alex Parks? I thought you were talking about Sinead from the first series, who finished runner up.

X Factor is more entertaining though, thats what I want. I don't care if people have made an album before, the ones that have are usually the better singers anyway so its a higher standard and is better to watch.

And to think that those in Pop Idol were just normal people ... well I'd be very surprised if a lot of those hadn't had some kind of training or recording before, especially if Andy Scott Lee slipped through the net :thumbs:

What I would enjoy would be the X factor talent with the personality of Pop Idol... X factors all a bit fake to me. I can imagine living in the x factor house... everyone pretending to like each other.

I found Pop Idol really boring though, I could never get into it or the first series of X Factor because it was all really plain. X Factor is about more than just the acts and the singing, Pop Idol wasn't. But if Pop Idol was still going, the standard would probably be about the same as now anyway.

X factor is rarely about the singing these days, its about getting viewers to watch, selling records and keeping the 'Cool X factor' image. If it was about the singing there wouldn't be miming, and the judges always want the show to be about them not the singing. Thats where the controversy comes in.
X factor is loosing its image of a Talent search to me personally, why would you hold a singing competition and then when you get a winner... make them mime on live TV?

Who mimed? :puzzled:

(contestants wise)

Fame Academy should return IMO. It had some great performers in it, as well as songwriters. I just loved it. :hugesmile:

Your answer =

But thats not on the show (as you implied) and most mime on GMTV, they have to. I don't know why but they aren't allowed to have people singing live all the time. And the talent show miming came about way before X Factor- even back to Popstars.

Totally agree.:thumbs:

On the show =

Oh I knew about that one (and forgot about it) but its a group performance and not for votes, again as you implied the contestants mimed for their votes.

I didn't imply that, I said why would you get a winner and then make them mime.

I read it wrong- but as I said theres something which makes the majority of the performers on GMTV mime, its nothing to do with Alex's management. Thats a bad example, but I'm not saying she won't mime ever again.

Yeh I lose respect when people start miming, I can just imagine all the horrible things X factor producers said to the contestants to make them mime. If I was in their shoes and I was told to mime I would say no, but I can imagine they say 'If you dont mime we can make it so you leave this show' or that could of been why Ruth and Daniel never appeared on stage.
Its all very very fake... and my friend got quite far in sharons group and ended up going to her house, and she says its not all as it seems. No contestants mean to give sob stories but editing a 10 min talk to the camera, thats always what they seem to use.

No they dont they are totally different?
Susanne and Alex both have husky voices.

... as does Diana

Eh? No she doesn't.

She does.

She really doesn't.

She really does.

Their voices don't sound completely the same but if they were signed up they'd have a similar sound. and Diana is husky.