[Niamh.]

OK, so some of the ways they use to sway us are glaringly obvious like the sob stories etc. But some of them we don't even realise. Take that Irish girl Melanie for example, I was glad she didn't get through, I never thought she was great from first day but maybe she was and the producers didn't want us to know how good she was.

Her mother was interviewed on an Irish radio station this morning and apparently the song they showed her singing on her first audition wasn't the first song she sang for the judges, she said that after she sang her first song, which was a Jennifer Hudson song, all 4 judges gave her a standing ovation and glowing comments then Kelly asked her to sing another song, which is what they showed.

Now, like I said I didn't like her that much anyway but it would make you wonder what they cut out and stuff to brain wash us into liking who they want us to like. I need to stop watching this crap. Seriously.