X Factor - Which contestants WILL Have A Career?

X Factor - Which Contestants WILL Have A Career?

Whether you love it or hate, nearly every year we hear about at least one contestant, whether it be for their outstanding talent, their live show cock up, or for the novelty of their act. Despite this, a selection of contestants do actually continue on to have a genuine career. Those who still enjoy success include One Direction, Olly Murs and Little Mix, but will any of this years contestants savour the same success as these?

Brattavio

To be fair for a joke act, i didn't actually mind them. They were funny and entertaining, and i wouldn't have minded seeing them advance a bit further then 12th.

Facing the facts, these guys will not have a music career, as they just weren't that good at singing. Despite this, they are rumoured to be appearing in the upcoming series of Celebrity Big brother and they will be TV GOLD on it if the rumours are true.

Freddy Parker

I didn't really care much for Freddy to be honest, but i did find the way he sat in front of a piano for many of his performances quite restricting, he was stuck to the seat, and couldn't dazzle the crowd with any moves.

Apart from a few media appearances alongside best buddy Matt, i can't see him having much of a career.

Relley C

It's a shame that Relley C got the boot over 4 Of Diamonds, as I think she had a lot more to offer. I couldn't find her first audition video on YouTube, which implies that it wasn't aired, showing how little faith the producers had in Relley C.

I think (and secretly hope) Relley will do a holiday park tour, and release a few singles, but nothing that will scrape the charts and really make an impact on the music scene.

Gifty Louise

This girl brought sass and swag to this series, but was sadly given an awful song on Fright Night that no one would have known unless you were a fan of Hotel Transylvania 2 where it as used on the soundtrack.

Overall Gifty's exit was a shock to many, with some people thinking she could even have won the show, including gifty, who was not happy to be eliminated.

I can see an independent record being released in the USA, but nothing to taint the UK charts.

5 Of Diamonds

The group that were brought back after another group were removed from the series really didn't fit together properly in my opinion, and the fact that they made it to the tour is beyond me.

Mark my words, they won't last a month longer after the tour, either going on an infinite hiatus, or having a massive public feud for the lolz and vowing never to sing together again.

Sam Lavery

A better Singer than Ryan? Yes. Good enough for the final? probably not, but we'll never know, as Sam was given the boot in week 6.

The richness and rawness of Sam's voice is definitely enough for her to make a name for herself in the industry, but it's just a concern of whether she will be signed by a label.

Ryan Lawrie

Scottish boy Ryan came 6th on the X Factor, 2 places behind "girlfriend" Emily Middlemas

I think Ryan has a little bit of growing up to do before he's ready for a serious music career, after publicly feuding with Liberty X star Michelle Heaton, claiming "he has a bigger fanbase than her".

Honey G

Let's just all bow down to the absolute queen of X Factor 2016, Honey G. Honey G slayed all the way to the end, putting on show after show, always getting better and giving the fans the performance they want.

The woman behind Honey G, Anna Georgette Gilford is an absolute genius, as she has seen a gap in the music scene, and filled it, just dancing on the borderline of being a joke act and a serious act. 

Whether you like her or not, Honey G will reach "world domination" and has already got her first single out, which is a fair start not even a month after X Factor.

Emily Middlemas

Emily Middlemas reached past the middle of the pack, scoring forth place in the competition.

As important as it is for a singer to have their own style, when you are on the X Factor, it's important to stand out, and actually preform to the theme chosen for the week. Every. Single. Week. Emily. Sang. A. Slow. Song, and it soon got boring. I can't see a career for her, but prehaps she could team up with Ryan, and do something like Same Difference.

5 After Midnight

After reaching the final, 5 after midnight were beaten to final 2 by Saara and Matt.

Any other year i think they could have come either second or first, but the competition was tough this year, as these guys are great performers, and multi-talented, but they were just not singing up to the standards of Saara and Matt. 

I think a good career is in the future for them, and most likely a duet with clean bandit once again.

Saara Aalto

The Finnish queen was 100% ROBBED in the final, after slaying week after week, surviving 3 times in the bottom 3/2.

Already a huge star in her home country Finland, after placing second on both the Voice Finland and Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu. Saara Aalto has a HUGE career ahead of her after signing a joint record deal with Sony Music UK and Sony Music Finland.

Matt Terry

Matt Terry snatched victory in the final, winning after a stellar performance of Sam Smith's "Writing's On The Wall". 

Unfortunately for the him, the winners song is nothing special and will make no long lasting effect to his career. Saying that, Matt has expressed interest in being a judge on next years edition of the X Factor, Hopefully replacing Nicole Scherzinger.

Other than that, he just appears to be another Sam Smith, or James Arthur, not really offering anymore than what they have given to the music industry.

Junior Eurovision - Fab or Fail?

Junior Eurovision - Fab Or Fail?

It has been 2 weeks since Valletta played host to Europe's favourite singing contest, but the fans are split as to whether it was a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

The show was opened by the classic flag parade, in which each country participating is announced, and the representatives commerce on stage, typically to the theme of the contest, which for this year was "Embrace", by Destiny Chukunyere. The organisation for the flag parade was not good, with 3 or 4 of the contestants walking up with their flags, and awkwardly dancing in the middle of the stage, as the camera pans out, putting more focus onto the stage design rather than the contestants. The flag parade also seemed a lot longer than normal, and I ended up loosing focus.

Next up were the postcards, where, from what I understood, each representative sang a few lines of a song, and was then shown to be doing something they enjoy doing. What was questionable in my opinion were the songs used for each postcard. Typically, the song used for each postcard is pretty much the same, although at times either slowed down,  or re-pitched, depending on the activity in the postcard.

 Each postcard song this year was completely different, and i think was based on what was written after embrace before each postcard EG: Embrace health, Embrace equality or whatever it was.

The theme of the event is "Embrace" on the whole, so I don't think every postcard needed a different kind of "embrace". As well as this, the lip syncing of the embrace song at the beginning of the postcard was misleading and confusing, and left me thinking Zena Donnelly, the first preformer had had a last minute song change.

Some of my favourites of the night included Ireland, Armenia, Belarus, and Cyprus, although the biggest surprise for me of the night was Georgia. If you read my "Top 17 List Of JESC Songs", you would know that Georgia was my least favourite, however after such a stunning performance moved to at least 10th place in my ranking. Despite this, I 100% did not expect a Georgian win, and it seems i wasn't the only one.

It really is tasteless and downright rude to boo a participant or country you do not like at any event, let alone a kids contest. Luckily, Mariam did not take the crowd's hostility to heart, jokingly telling the crowd to "come on!"

Unfortunately we can not ignore the downright abysmal hosting that left a bad taste in the mouths of many fans, who see Ben Camille and Valerie Vella as the Eurovision 2015 (but worse), compared to the Eurovision 2016 Måns and Petra

Let's just start with the hosting itself. A lot of the links and "jokes" were repetitive and unoriginal. They also seemed to forget the were hosting a KIDS programme, not a documentary on the natural history channel, as they were very stiff and appeared to have no energy whatsoever, unlike Polo last year.

A huge facepalm moment occurred when when there were only one set of points left to be revealed, Armenia's, a set of points that would ultimately reveal the winner of the contest. It's a century old trick to delay the reveal of the winner of any contest for as long as possible, in order to build up suspense, and get the biggest possible reaction when the winner is revealed.

Now Valerie must have thought that she and Ben had already majorly messed up pretty much every aspect of hosting, with the constant mistakes and apologies, awful jokes, and robotic style, so why not tick off one more box, and completely ruin the results reveal?

Valerie accidentally revealed that Armenia had gained 110 points from the kids jury far earlier than she was meant to, creating a complete anti climax, as both Ben and Valerie tried to ignore Valerie's career crushing mistake.

Aced it guys..

One thing that saved Junior Eurovision was the winners reprise. Throughout the week, each of the contestants embraced different cultures, different lifestyles, and different friendships all over Europe and Australia, shown in the winners reprise. This is what Eurovision is all about.