Saturday night gave us our penultimate dose of
arena audition action and the girls were certainly out in force! We were mostly
treated to a second helping of those we saw in the room audition, which is both
brilliant and disappointing in equal measures. Here’s how we thought they did…
Chloe-Jasmine
Possibly the best pre-audition-contestant-at-home
bit of filming there has ever been. After explaining to her parents (we assume
that’s who they were) that she’d have to casually sing in front of 5000 people,
she took some time out from experimenting with gluten free cooking to take to
the arena stage. A bit more fabulous chatting with the judges ensued and then
she began to sing. We loved her room audition but this was a million miles
ahead, her voice was even more effortlessly bluesy and cool and was easily
great enough to see her through to bootcamp.
Fleur East
This was our first glimpse of Fleur as her room
audition was just casually overlooked; and it was quite a glimpse. Unlike any
other act we’ve seen far this year, she doesn’t just have ‘the voice’ and ‘the
look’ but she also has the little something extra, she’s got a performance in
her and that’s exactly what she show’s been missing so far. We can’t wait to
see what she does at bootcamp.
Raign
Raign’s arena performance was preceded by a VT of
her demanding ways and diva tendencies, then there was a whole lot of talking –
sigh. It’s as if they don’t want people to like her? Despite the less than
subtle attempts of portraying her as the dislikable nutter we can’t help but
really, really like her original song. There’s no denying Raign has talent. Off
to bootcamp she went.
Emily Middlemass
We’re a bit of a sucker for a slowed down,
stripped back, version of a well-known hit. It’s our kryptonite. So we were
always going to enjoy Emily’s performance of Coldplay’s ‘Yellow’. It was
original, authentic, and cute; it really showed off how talented she is.
Another breezing through to bootcamp.
Stephanie Nala
We’d been waiting to get even a flash of
Stephanie for a few weeks now, finally our wait was over. Having explained how
she’s decided to go solo from The Luminites she performed her rendition of ‘Let
me be your fantasy’ and it was effortlessly brilliant. Her voice has a
vulnerability about it that instantly adds emotion to a song; we’re looking
forward to hearing more.
Kerrianne Covell
Possibly one of our favourite auditions of the
series so far! We thought Kerrianne was pretty great in her room audition but
in the arena she took it to a whole new level of wow. It was a brave task
picking a Carrie Underwood song to sing, not only does she have a bloody huge
voice but also it’s a track not commonly known here in the UK. She managed to
pull it off though with apparent ease and the anonymity of the song over here
played in her favour, it sounded like she was performing her very own song.
Brilliant.
Ben Haenow
Ben rounded off the show with what should be used
in all classes as the perfect example of how to nail an audition. He was
confident but not cocky, he was cheeky but not rude and he put in the perfect amount
of emotion without turning into a narcissistic wreck. We sure do love a bit of
Ben.
No comments:
Post a Comment