The X Factor Recap: Old People Can Sing, But Young People Can SANG

X Factor

By RaeRae | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | 1:41 pm | 5 Comments
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“My Momma told me that if I closed my eyes and prayed real hard, Jesus would forgive me for eating the hearts of children.”

First to perform is Diamond White, whom I want to be when I grow up. She is literally the cutest thing ever. Diamond sings Avril Lavigne’s “I’m With You.” And duh, she does tremendously, though like David Correy, her performance is a little over choreographed. But, who’s gonna hold a little hamming it up against a 13-year-old? Will-I-Am, actually, who thinks Diamond cares about her moves too much. Fair enough, I guess. Britney thinks Diamond needs to work on stage presence and confidence. I dunno, she seemed pretty confident to me.

Next up is precocious Reed Deming. Reed strikes me as the kind of kid whose peers don’t get how cool he is, but adults love. I dig him. He’s a likable Haley Joel Osment. 

“If this singing stuff doesn’t work out, I could always go around spotting dead people.”

Reed turns out a solid performance of Plain White T’s’ “Hey There Delilah.” He’s relatively happy with his performance, but Britney thinks he was nervous and that he could have had a better showing. Will-I-Am tells Britney that she should remind Reed to sing with the same attitude that he has when speaking, because “he’s a little emperor. Little emperor kid.” That’s exactly right. Emperor indeed.

James Tanner, the Bieber swoop having rapper, raps Shop Boyz “Party Like a Rockstar.” I hate it.  Last week I explained why I think rapping is a bad idea on a show such as this, and this performance buttresses my point. I’m not interested in hearing a rapper cover another rapper’s song word for word, and certainly not a so poorly written one. James is super cute though, and very cool.  Britney finds his performance entertaining, but she isn’t sure it’s strong enough. 

(Bee tee dubs, Britney’s kind of a shitty judge, no? She hasn’t any opinions other than “it wasn’t strong enough” and “s/he/it needs confidence.” But, I suppose it takes a really huge performance to jolt someone out of a Xanax stupor.

“I haven’t felt an emotion in 3 years.”

So, Ok. Carry on, Britney.)

Arin Ray, every girl’s middle school crush, goes before the judges to sing Nicki Minaj’s “Starships.” It’s good. Arin is nowhere near the top of this category when it comes to vocal talent, but he’s so adorable and likable and I can see a million teen girls coming together to violate fire safety codes at the mall just to catch him at an appearance. Can’t you? Britney and Will-I-Am agree that his vocals could use some work, but he’s got something. Perhaps the X Factor? Dun dun dun.

Next up is Beatrice Miller. I love this girl. She’s so talented and so mature. But right before she goes before the judges, Beatrice is so overcome with nerves that she begins to cry. Isn’t it awful what this pressure does to 13 year olds?  Beatrice remarks, “this is my one chance.” But like, you’re thirteen. IT’S TOTES NOT. Le sigh. Fuck your parents. This saddens me.  Beatrice pulls it together, though, and starts her cover of David Guetta and Sia’s “Titanium.”  And it was incredible. Wow. She’s amazing. 

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5 Comments

  1. 1
    Andrea
    Posted October 24, 2012 at 6:34 pm

    Ugh, David really bothers me…it’s just that his whole “sob story” is very contrived…if you want to find your birth mother, it would most likely be easier to go through the agency that you got adopted from? Like who thinks singing is the one way in which you can connect with your long lost family? I read that she did find him, but I think it was intervention on the producers part. I mean honestly, what’s the likelihood that she watched the show (she was from another country I believe) and just thought to herself, “well, I gave up my son, that must be him!” I don’t find him to be that great of a singer either. They had some better overs that they let go before judge’s houses. I do like Vino a lot though.

    And Beatrice is the cutest. I think she is the one to beat. Carly is good but she knows it, and I can see her attitude becoming off-putting. I’m not sure Diamond is up to par with those two girls. In any case, all 3 of those little ones are INSANE.

  2. 2
    XxinnocentexX
    Posted October 24, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    Answer to your concerns about David: He’s totally ripped off August Rush. I loved that movie. He should be ashamed. If you’re going to have a sob story, be original!!
    Also, my hometown isn’t too far from Jillian’s. From what I’ve been told, her bullying story at school was BS. However, there are rumors her mom is bat shit crazy and was actually the one bullying Jillian telling her she’d never make it. I still like her voice, it’s smoky and distinctive, but girl needs to quit crying! It’s constant and she’s an uglier crying than Farrah!

  3. 3
    Lauren
    Posted October 24, 2012 at 11:14 pm

    I think the teens have 2 of the best vocalists, technically speaking, with Carly and Beatrice. They are both great and will only get better. However, the overs have my 2 favorites with Vino Alan and Jason Brock. They have amazing voices and incredible emotion to go with it, which is something the teens lack, because, well, they are 13. I’m having trouble relating to them, but the 2 teen girls are good. Vino is my horse in this race, he’s the only person, so far, that i would vote for or buy music from.
    Innocent- Jillian is a bit emotional, but Paige totally stole the annoying cry over everything person. At least in the last episode someone finally introduced her to waterproof mascara. I’ll reserve more comments from that episode for the recap.
    I like Jillian, and i didn’t from the beginning. She won me over during the 2nd round of boot camp when the girl she sang with forgot the words. Jillian not only tried to help her with the words, but stood up for her to the judges. Much better attitude than people like Cece or Tara.

  4. 4
    itchy itchy
    Posted October 25, 2012 at 12:57 am

    Yes, yes, Beatrice Miller is very cute, she sings quite well, etc. etc. But she’s clearly a product — she’s been manufactured into this, probably from the time she was a baby. She just makes me suspicious — mostly because at 13 years old she’s already dying her hair blonde, which to me is just a step below getting botox at that age. And then the fake nerves/crying thing?

    Of course, I get the same stage baby vibe from the other teenybopper but at least she’s not pretending to be anything other than a robot.

    Ugh. I get that Disney needs a constant supply of young’uns for their TV shows, and I suppose, well, why not use X-factor to drum up interest in them? But still. It just seems unfair to put these kids up there when they’re barely out of diapers. And unfair to the older people too. It’s the equivalent of using 14-year-old models to sell couture clothing to the 40-year-old women who can afford them.

    The Vino guy… yes, he can sing. And he clearly needs this. But only a jackass tattoos his skull.

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    XxinnocentexX
    Posted October 25, 2012 at 6:20 am

    Paige’s crying IS annoying, but at least it’s not ugly! PS, we already HAVE a Rihanna, why do we need another who can’t even sing that well?

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