Now that we know the 12 X Factor finalists this year, we’ve got a few days left to decide which of them are will be this year’s Phillip McGee and which will be – no, wait, none of last year’s X Factor finalists were very good, were they?
This year will be better, it has to be – just look at the crappy groups that Louis Walsh decided weren’t up to X Factor standards on Saturday. There was the group made entirely of screaming mothers, the boyband which more or less had a punch-up onstage and a group of girls who looked like they’d just been turfed out of their local Wetherspoons for looking a bit too generic. Surely the loss of those halfwits leaves Louis Walsh with a handful of world-beating groups to enter the X Factor finals with, right? Right? Anyone? Hello?
Here are today’s X Factor betting odds to find the group that will progress furthest through the series, with betting odds from PaddyPower…
Eton Road – Last year’s X Factor would have been a whole lot less fun if it weren’t for The Conway Sisters trudging onstage every week and fucking up song after song in ways you couldn’t possibly imagine. Well, Eton Road look to us to be this year’s Conway Sisters. Four boys from Liverpool, one of whom looks frighteningly like Brian Molko from Placebo, singing popular songs in bewilderingly terrible ways. Somehow, Eton Road scraped through X Factor bootcamp despite turning their chosen song into a bombsite, and their dire version of God Only Knows originally wasn’t enough to get them through to the live X Factor finals, until another group was kicked out for telling a lie to Louis Walsh. If Eton Road were singing karaoke in your local pub you’d hurl bottles and lit cigarettes at them until they stopped, so we can’t see them getting too far on X Factor. Current X Factor betting odds – 4/1
The MacDonald Brother – Singing brothers on X Factor? Holy shit – The MacDonald Brothers are Journey South version 2006. However, as Scots, The MacDonald Brothers are about 15 times more incomprehensible than Journey South ever were. Luckily for the boys, they’re a whole lot less creepy than Journey South and aren’t named after an oral sex act either. And they sing Everly Brothers songs instead of terrible Bon Jovi songs. All these things are blessings. The MacDonald Brothers could go far. If they weren’t duller than an envelope full of dust, that is. Current X Factor betting odds – 3/1
4Sure – Oh dear, here’s a band that falls into the Number-Pun Trap. The Number-Pun Trap occurs happens when a group takes its name from the number of members it has, and then somehow bends it into the world’s most laboured pun. Remember 4Tune from last year’s X Factor? Remember them? Of course not – 4Tune were abysmal, and most of their awfulness came from their rage-inducing name. Has X Factor learnt from this obvious mistake? Of course not – this year another identikit bunch of plebs have managed to wander cowlike into the live X Factor finals, and this time their name is 4Sure. And they’re just as shit as you’d expect. 4Sure? 4Skin more like. Current X Factor betting odds – 2/1
The Unconventionals – The Unconventionals also have a terrible name, but at least they’re fairly distinctive. If you’ve seen X Factor this year, you’ll know who The Unconventionals are – there’s about a gazillion of them, and they all sort of go “bee-bah-doopy-doopy-doo” instead of actually singing words. Needless to say, if you’ve got any common sense at all this description will fill you with tremendous anger, but The Unconventionals just might have what it takes to go far this X Factor. They sound a bit like The Puppini Sisters for one – so their shtick is vaguely in vogue at the moment – and there’s enough contrast between them and the other 11 blandly grinning pop moppets for them to stick in the memory. Song choice might be an issue for The Unconventionals, but they shouldn’t be written off. This is the country that made G4 briefly famous, remember. Current X Factor betting odds – 13/8
Tomorrow – The same sort of thing, but about Simon Cowell‘s young X Factor pups instead. Don’t forget to check out Paddypower.com for the full list of X Factor betting odds, either!
[story by Stuart Heritage]
i am glad that leona won the xfactor because she is a great singer and i am very proud of her says
i am glad that leona won the xfactor last year because she is a great singer and i am very proud of her