Boot Camp Pt1

Jennel is so photogenic.




Performing in front of their competitors should be interesting. At least they get to choose their own songs and, hopefully the crazy 'group' thing has been dropped at last.




Diamond White is suitably sparkly and very confident for her age. One she gets into the song she's pretty good but gets quite a few notes wrong and needs to work on that. None the less, she'll look good on TV.




Austin has a nice tone and looks like a pop star but is boring. David Corin is good. Dinah-Jane. Good voice. We finally get a glimpse of the mysterious Lyric Da Queen. Jason does well as does Carly Rose Sonenclar. Do you think she's too old for her age? asks Simon. That girl is so accomplished.




A bit of back story from Jessica, again. Not the best of tracks. Pained looks on others waiting to perform are genuine. She doesn't look or sound very comfortable.




I really like this girl. Britney remarks that she has Crazy sex appeal which is quite a compliment, coming from Britney. Just as well Jennel's over 18 now, I guess. The makeover team will love getting her to work on in a few weeks' time! Watch the expressions of the boys (who don't see her as competition) and the girls (who do!)




Vino's a great name. Ugly tattoos and stupid trousers. Great voice! Really good voice.




Short. Seems like he messed up the words but didn't make much difference to me.




Oh dear. Oh dear. Trevor tries. Another oh dear. And another who shouldn't even have been there. I want my mom. That says it all for that batch.




Three groups go by. One wasn't too bad. Emblem3 shine in comparison. Good track to choose too.




Tara was the annoying 'vocal coach'. Looking a bit better. Not sounding that much better, though. She can certainly reach notes but in between hits the wrong ones. Still a bit annoying, especially that shade of lipstick.




Willie Jones should have a section of the competition to himself. There's no-one like him, although, he did seem quite off key this time around. He's a cool performer for all that. Great character.



We've seen shots of both Cece and Paige looking pained or all I'm not bothered at the others' performances. Paige sets off, beginning to look a bit better but it's not until she gets to the main refrain and higher register that it works. That part she did really well indeed. Now let's see what Cece's like. The cruel camera shots will have already given the audience high expectations and that would be difficult to beat.




So attractive. Nice attitude towards Simon who hadn't seen her before. Love this girl. Whilst all the notes were perfect and she did seem to mean the words too, Paige had the higher end right. What a great category. Not sure how they'll get on, though. Luckily, Tara's over 25. Simon says One of you actually nailed it and smiled. Cece looked a lot happier than Paige but I'm not so sure he meant her. Having said that I really want to more of Cece.





Choices made for the following day. Three groups. This is the first really big nervy time. First group is obviously Yes, despite Simon playing with them. The 2nd group has the annoying little Jordyn in so they might have guessed. One or two I still didn't expect to see go in there, though. The 3rd Group has some stars in so must be Yes.

Next the cut down to about 8 for each of the four new categories for X Factor: 12-16s, 17-24s, Over 25s and Groups. Thank goodness they didn't do Girls, Boys or there would have been real problems! There just haven't been many really good 'Boys' to make a category, never mind 8 for Judges' Houses.