In a massive 5 hours of TV this week, UK viewers have actually caught up with America. Well done, ITV2! Another performance from One Direction too, to get the Results Show under way.
This is when we get some idea of just who is popular out there in voting land and someone gets sent home, presumably not to be brought back again next week à la Diamond White.
In fact we get something new - and very welcome - the announcement of how the votes stacked up from bottom to top! Not the actual numbers, but a 12 to 1 countdown and this adds something extra to the show and, no doubt, will influence how acts are presented, the material they choose and it will fascinating if this is repeated in future weeks to see the changes. That assumes, of course, that they will be changes. Should every week from here to the final have the same two or three at the top then that's not going to help the confidence of the acts from 4 down if, whatever they do, nothing seems to change.
So here's how America voted:
1 Tate
2 Carly Rose
3 Vino
4 Diamond
5 Fifth Harmony
6 Emblem3
7 Jennel
8 Paige
9 Lyric145
10 Beatrice
11 Arin
12 Cece
13 Jason
Some surprises there! Tate beating Carly Rose, after his competent but less than enthralling performance of an average track, says one hell of a lot about who is watching and voting, doesn't it? Remember - Scotty won America Idol two years ago and Phillip Phillips last year, whilst not a Country act, was not exactly modern pop and beat Jessica Sanchez. Two big balladeers reached X Factor USA's final last year, Josh paving the way for Vino for follow. Tate is certainly an appealing character and sings well, totally reliable as a performer, and has the big Country vote to himself but I still hadn't expected him to top the bill at this stage. Wow.
Vino must be as pleased as Punch with his 3rd position. Again, that wasn't the most stunning of performances either. Competent but not something I'd expected huge votes for. He must be delighted and clearly has the East Coast well organised.
Diamond at 4 is also a big surprise. Her performance was not at all good this time so I can only imagine we're getting the effect of a build up of support for some earlier pretty smart ones, including the previous week when she definitely outshone Arin. Whilst there was no way she'd be sent home just after being brought back, I'd expected her to be way down the list and certainly last of the Teens.
Fifth Harmony getting more votes than Emblem3?? Good grief. That was possibly the biggest surprise of all. Yes, the girls did put on a great show but I really had expected the girl vote to go for Emblem3 in a big way and I had them down as up there with Carly Rose for the top spot. (As did the bookies, incidentally!)
After all the effort expended on Paige by Demi, it seems that she doesn't have a breakthrough of support out there but then, for all we know, there may only be a few votes separating her and Jennel one level above her and one of my early predictions to win.
Lyric145 are great fun to watch and could do well in the industry but I am not at all sure this is their type of show to do particularly well in so their placing seems about right. However well they do the votes simply aren't likely to be there - unless they get a lot further and things start polarising in their favour.
At the bottom, Beatrice, Arin, Cece and Jason seems OK as none really did very well last night. So it's Cece and Jason to sing off and Cece must have thanked her lucky stars that it was Jason she was up against. anyone else and she would have been first to go.
Her version of You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me was emotional but a little desperate to watch. It's not a performance even her fans will be downloading in a hurry. She does show passion, though, and there are moments of brilliance when you can see someone with real talent standing there. I wonder if she might do better by trying a little less hard. I preferred the pretty brunette with a cool attitude and leopard spots. She should now go either all the way - Gagaesque, perhaps, - which I believe she could pull off well, or just sing well some popular tracks and look fabulous.
Jason's response with Total Eclipse Of The Heart started well but he lost the key and it became actually painful to listen to at one point when he failed to hit notes. Oh dear. He really has to go. Good TV, a nice guy but he has no chance of winning.
I had expected a straight 3-1 vote but Simon voted for him to stay which must have really knocked Cece's confidence. She looked quite shocked. That brought it to deadlock and so it was the act with the lowest votes that goes home. We hadn't, at this point, seen the list of voting preferences so it could have been either that were on their way out the door. Cece survived to sing another day.
Quote of the week has to be from Tate, on discovering he'd topped the polls: Obviously these people don't get out a lot! Ha ha!!
I find the comperes really annoying, though, and as amateur-looking as Steve last year. If anything, Khloe Kardashian is worse. The guy may improve and certainly has more natural ability and some idea of timing and some personaility. The girl, though, is just a large cardboard nightmare. How on earth could Simon have agreed to her? Something wrong there.
This is when we get some idea of just who is popular out there in voting land and someone gets sent home, presumably not to be brought back again next week à la Diamond White.
In fact we get something new - and very welcome - the announcement of how the votes stacked up from bottom to top! Not the actual numbers, but a 12 to 1 countdown and this adds something extra to the show and, no doubt, will influence how acts are presented, the material they choose and it will fascinating if this is repeated in future weeks to see the changes. That assumes, of course, that they will be changes. Should every week from here to the final have the same two or three at the top then that's not going to help the confidence of the acts from 4 down if, whatever they do, nothing seems to change.
So here's how America voted:
1 Tate
2 Carly Rose
3 Vino
4 Diamond
5 Fifth Harmony
6 Emblem3
7 Jennel
8 Paige
9 Lyric145
10 Beatrice
11 Arin
12 Cece
13 Jason
Some surprises there! Tate beating Carly Rose, after his competent but less than enthralling performance of an average track, says one hell of a lot about who is watching and voting, doesn't it? Remember - Scotty won America Idol two years ago and Phillip Phillips last year, whilst not a Country act, was not exactly modern pop and beat Jessica Sanchez. Two big balladeers reached X Factor USA's final last year, Josh paving the way for Vino for follow. Tate is certainly an appealing character and sings well, totally reliable as a performer, and has the big Country vote to himself but I still hadn't expected him to top the bill at this stage. Wow.
Vino must be as pleased as Punch with his 3rd position. Again, that wasn't the most stunning of performances either. Competent but not something I'd expected huge votes for. He must be delighted and clearly has the East Coast well organised.
Diamond at 4 is also a big surprise. Her performance was not at all good this time so I can only imagine we're getting the effect of a build up of support for some earlier pretty smart ones, including the previous week when she definitely outshone Arin. Whilst there was no way she'd be sent home just after being brought back, I'd expected her to be way down the list and certainly last of the Teens.
Fifth Harmony getting more votes than Emblem3?? Good grief. That was possibly the biggest surprise of all. Yes, the girls did put on a great show but I really had expected the girl vote to go for Emblem3 in a big way and I had them down as up there with Carly Rose for the top spot. (As did the bookies, incidentally!)
After all the effort expended on Paige by Demi, it seems that she doesn't have a breakthrough of support out there but then, for all we know, there may only be a few votes separating her and Jennel one level above her and one of my early predictions to win.
Lyric145 are great fun to watch and could do well in the industry but I am not at all sure this is their type of show to do particularly well in so their placing seems about right. However well they do the votes simply aren't likely to be there - unless they get a lot further and things start polarising in their favour.
At the bottom, Beatrice, Arin, Cece and Jason seems OK as none really did very well last night. So it's Cece and Jason to sing off and Cece must have thanked her lucky stars that it was Jason she was up against. anyone else and she would have been first to go.
Her version of You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me was emotional but a little desperate to watch. It's not a performance even her fans will be downloading in a hurry. She does show passion, though, and there are moments of brilliance when you can see someone with real talent standing there. I wonder if she might do better by trying a little less hard. I preferred the pretty brunette with a cool attitude and leopard spots. She should now go either all the way - Gagaesque, perhaps, - which I believe she could pull off well, or just sing well some popular tracks and look fabulous.
Jason's response with Total Eclipse Of The Heart started well but he lost the key and it became actually painful to listen to at one point when he failed to hit notes. Oh dear. He really has to go. Good TV, a nice guy but he has no chance of winning.
I had expected a straight 3-1 vote but Simon voted for him to stay which must have really knocked Cece's confidence. She looked quite shocked. That brought it to deadlock and so it was the act with the lowest votes that goes home. We hadn't, at this point, seen the list of voting preferences so it could have been either that were on their way out the door. Cece survived to sing another day.
Quote of the week has to be from Tate, on discovering he'd topped the polls: Obviously these people don't get out a lot! Ha ha!!
I find the comperes really annoying, though, and as amateur-looking as Steve last year. If anything, Khloe Kardashian is worse. The guy may improve and certainly has more natural ability and some idea of timing and some personaility. The girl, though, is just a large cardboard nightmare. How on earth could Simon have agreed to her? Something wrong there.
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