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Originally Posted by Pyramid*

I agree and have been saying it the same thing for ages. It's a great way of allowing crap acts (Katie, Cher etc) to get as 'far' as they have. Big, noisy productions that drown out the worst contestants.

Yeah but I find they often drown out people with weaker voices who actually sound better without the backing track, because they don't have the voice to shout over it.

Katie's voice sounds awful when she's trying to get over the backing track, but she actually sounds a lot better without it. And they've done it with Aiden a couple times now, and as much as I love his voice, it's not very strong, so it just doesn't sound good with such an overpowering backing track. It's people like him that sound best just singing on their own I think. This is why we need acoustic week!