[joeysteele]

I don't like them, far better to take a year or decade and find the song best suited to the contestant. from that period.

The themed weeks,although it states a particular artiste at times, still only have a list of songs that one song for each act must be chosen from. Very often,the themed weeks destroy a singer, professional singers would never think of singing sone songs that were ill suited to them.
In the themed weeks the contestants are forced to maybe often do songs that they would never want or would ever attempt to sing, even to sing songs they don't like at all.

That is not bringing out the best in the contestants,it actually stifles their best, I think it was Jamie Archer in ABBA week, he had to sing a song he hadn't a clue on, he didn't like and it was one he needed to perform well too.
He went out that week think.

I would also like to see some creativity done too rather than a themed week,whereby if they can write themselves, they do a song self penned or with others they know. However the acts need to come up with an original song written for them,that may show their strengths better and also change for one week at least the near always hearing the same songs year after year in the 'live' finals.