Misha B took to Twitter this week, in a bid to deflect attention from the whole Frankie Cocozza scandal and announced that this week’s X Factor theme would be Lady Gaga vs Queen.
They are two acts that are hard to follow and we love the fact that producers have mixed up the potential for contestants to perform huge classic numbers, with insanely popular and current tracks on Saturday night’s show. In fact, this is probably our favourite theme so far.
The remaining X Factor acts took to the stage tonight to perform a rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
Very ambitious, too ambitious maybe. Because Rhapsody is such a long song, they picked out highlights from it, which sounded a little bit like fast-forwarding through the song somewhat. The performance only got really good when Brian May and Roger Taylor made their appearance.
Week 6, baby! And as if we didn’t learn our lesson with Rock Week, this week is dedicated to Queen Songs, which could be a combination of rock awesomeness and feeble awfulness.
Oooh, the husky voiceover guy says that last week’s X Factor reached new heights. Funny, most people thought it plumbed new depths. And they even show Simon’s slimy chickening out last Sunday. But they show all of the news response, showing that X Factor loves nothing more than to grab a few headlines…
Queen are brilliant though, aren’t they? Even the sight of O’Leary can’t dull the buz of those opening chords to One Vision! Introducing the judges to the campy falsetto of Flash, and nobody even bothers to boo Simon (they’re probably contractually obliged not to). Oh – video montage of Queen – old folks, how much do you miss Freddie Mercury right now? What a guy! The closest person to Mercury in the charts today has to be Lady Gaga? Agree/disagree?
Simon takes exception to Sting’s comments about the X Factor contestants (although Susan Boyle was never an X Factor act). He also pontificates a little bit about his desicion last week, citing the public vote once again, and their failure to spend money voting to save her. I’m about 55% convinced, so I’m gonna let Simon stay on the judging panel this week!
Queen legends Brian May and Roger Taylor are set to perform on this weekends X Factor, as the contestants belt out some of their classic tunes.
The guitarist and drummer will play with the whole group, as they sing Bohemian Rhapsody on Sunday night’s results show. They will also be mentoring the singers this week in advance of the Saturday night show.
