Rough Copy have loaded up their backpacks and headed home and we are left with Nicholas McDonald, Luke Friend and Sam Bailey. Which means that The X Factor final is now lower down my priority list than dusting the skirting boards and cleaning the oven.
Rough Copy were the only act that stole my attention away from my wine/ takeaway curry/ bag of Doritos every Saturday night this series;
When it comes to Sam, Gary might as well hold up an * Insert gushing comment here * sign instead of trying to come up with new adjectives each week. She could come on doing the YMCA and Nicole would still weep at her judges’ table.
But the point that has been lost in the Sam - and Nicholas - fawning is that they might be technically strong (I’m omitting Halo - good god Nicholas, DON’T DO HALO), but outside of the X Factor studio bubble, they are not cohesive pop acts.
Luke Friend might fare a bit better, but since the main thing people say when you bring up Luke is “Why doesn’t he wear SOCKS?” I don’t think the chart’s biggest artists are feeling threatened.
Rough Copy were a pop act, ready and waiting to pose in weird skirts on their album cover, with a sound, a style and a Joey, who might be one of my favourite X Factor contestants of all time. They give me a gut feeling I had with JLS, One Direction and Little Mix but that wasn’t there with other X Factor singers with much bigger voices.
Sam has a strong voice, she seems lovely, but we are now one week from the final and barring a generic ballad covers fest that I hope no-one would let her make, I cannot imagine what type of album she would put out.
And if I cannot imagine that by now then I don’t believe that she is the fully-formed artist we’re being told repeatedly that she is.
This is not about age, which seems to be the accusation levelled at anyone that says anything about Sam Bailey that isn’t *Insert gushing comment here *. If anything, I’m biased to sing the praises of any women over 30 on TV, because we all know they are depressingly rare. Plus I feel the same about a Nicholas album, and as we’re aware (big shout out to Louis), Nicholas is SEVENTEEN.
Instead, it’s about the X Factor bubble skewing things so that we lose sight of what actually works in the real world. It’s how Leon Jackson won, it’s why so many finalists crash and burn following the series and it’s why Rough Copy were overlooked.
The final will be a duller place without them, and I’ll be shocked if next Saturday night, any one of those performances can tear my eyes away from that large glass of Pinot.
What do you think?
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