Many newspapers and magazines have reported over the weekend that recently evicted band 4Tune blame a feud between the three X Factor judges Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne for the decision that caused them to leave the competition on saturday.

This may well be true. It would seem that so far this year Sharon and Louis are sticking together. Last week Louis saved Sharon’s act Chico, so this week she repayed him by saving Louis’ act Chenai. However in the later show ‘The Xtra Factor’ Sharon admitted to saving Chenai beacuse she was a woman and also beacuse she was responsible for sending her home last year and couldn’t do it to her again.

I think the truth may lie a little closer to home for the 4Tune boys. Had they come on a show like this 5-6 years ago they would have fared much better. Boy bands still had a lot of popularity at that time. Westlife were at their peak, as were the Backstreet boys and groups like Five were thriving. But as it stands now people are sick of the boy band routine and their vocal warblings. They are being replaced and it is time to move on.

Things may have been different had the band been allowed to show their full range of talents. If they had been able to showcase their own material rather than covering classic songs that we have heard a million times, or if they had been able to show their true musical talent and played their own instruments maybe they would have inspired more people to vote for them.

4Tune were vocally polished and technically very talented. But they failed to inspire the public, people just don’t want to hear that kind of act right now, the music industry has moved on, so maybe 4Tune now need to do the same.