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Originally Posted by Josy

He sang that song on Saturday perfectly in fact he was the best performance of the night IMO.

That's why it was bad. Angst love songs are often about pain, heartbreak or about passion, sex, lust, excitement, desire and raw uncontrollable shove you against a wall sex. And yes, sex is a major part of love but it's curiously ignored on X Factor love themes. Love songs are about expressing emotion. Something you need to experience. Nothing behind the eyes, but rather he's like a reliable wind up singing toy that can hit every note.

Nicholas, sweet guy but has all the passion of cold mouldy custard. Love songs require passion. Miley Cyrus, say what you want, she's experienced "Wrecking Ball"

Nick is a nice "boy" but I don't want little kids singing adult stuff, he's is like a 5 year old girl copying her mums make up. You to live with the blues to sing the blues. Nick has zero relavant life experience to draw upon, that much is obvious. He'd be great at singing choir songs, but love songs no f@cking way. You can tell that the others of similar ages eg Tamera, Luke and Hannah have some romantic love experiences, they may not be note perfecton but they are living the lyrics.

Yes, just like Joe McElderry, Nick can hit every note perfectly, but that's the problem, lovesongs are not about note perfecton. When Bono sings it's not perfect, his voice crackles, light and shade, despair, anger, lust, sweat, desire, hurt, passion. Nick can't do this, not wanting to be rude but let's be honest he's a virginal choir boy. Yes, if he sang Blurred lines, or Mars' Gorilla it would be note perfect, right pitch and perfectly pleasant, but pleasant is not what what love songs are about. This sounds bad, but Nick needs to ahem, live a little, and then in 2 years when some b*tch has trampled on his heart or shown him a good time come back to the microphone. It's all tol choir boy.