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Of my earliest childhood entertainment memories, The Monkees are at the front of the line (followed very closely by “That Girl” and Carol Burnett, but that’s a story for another day). We’ll never know, will we.) The Monkees had flown into the Rochester, NY airport.
It was maybe 1967 and I was maybe three-years-old, but I was old enough for the memory to be imprinted on my brain.
They're all so different, I have no idea who'll take home the title—but I do know that each of their looks have evolved much since the show first premiered here in the United States.
To that end, I hit up celebrity hairstylist Ken Paves and makeup artist Kristofer Buckle—the grooming gurus of the X Factor's Style Team (follow 'em on Facebook!
It’s like “X Factor” just had to find a stage in the competition that was different from “Idol” and this is what floated to the top of the pile. I like it a lot, but there are some really breathy moments that I think could be more supported. I can see what Rihanna means about Brennin being boyband-y. I’m a little biased on Marcus because I loathe “All My Life.” He seems to do pretty well, but also? Combine that with last week’s acts I chose to leave (The Anser, the Brewer Boys, Elaine Gibbs, Dexter, Brian Bradley, Skyelor Anderson and Nick Voss) and I have eliminated only one girl, five groups, two over-30s and four boys. I think it’s a bummer each group has to be evenly split – the girls and the over-30s are much stronger than the other two categories, in my opinion.
Simon’s House Tonight we get Jazzlyn Little on “I Will Survive,” Rachel Crow on “I Want It That Way,” Tiah Tolliver on “No Diggity” and Melanie Amaro on the “Free Willy” song. Thankfully we can all cleanse our palate on Melanie Amaro, who takes a song I kind of hate and just kills it. I sort of blame the song choice, but honestly – this is terrible. Their “Let’s Dance” is the most soul-less song ever. I have a feeling the next episode is going to be really hard on all of us – what do you think, “X Factor” fans?
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Jazzlyn’s “Survive” is very current R&B, I love the arrangement. Rachel’s song is a weird choice, but I trust Simon. The little minor changes to the song make it really melancholy and sad, but I mean that as a compliment. Paula’s House For the groups’ house, we have Stereo Hoggz with “Heard It Through the Grapevine,” 2 Squar’d on “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Illusion Confusion on “Let’s Dance” and the super-group made up of solo auditioners called Intensity on “That’s Not My Name.” The Stereo Hoggz are very well put together.
I will freely admit I’m totally biased against Tiah, but I closed my eyes and tried to be objective – this was horrible, right? They’re and yet a throwback to groups like the Temptations and the Four Tops at the same time.