More Over the Rainbow

I've lost count of weeks. And posts. Ah well.

After this weekend's double eviction, there's four left. Danielle is the best, but I am warming more and more towards Sophie. She has a quality that I think deserves to go far. Steph and Lauren are both talented, but I don't think the public will vote for either of them. Lauren sings horrible songs and the panel rave about her voice, but they're not pleasant to listen to and she doesn't come across well in the (edited) clips. Steph is pretty good and quite professional, but somehow just not that interesting.

Of those that have left:

Amy: was utterly wrong and should never have been there

Bronte: was good, went far too early

Dani: was pretty good, not sure what she did wrong

Emilie: thank goodness she finally went, was there far too long

Stephanie: shock exit! I expected her to win, but she was getting annoying.

Jenny: was carefully edited to show all her failings but has an amazing voice. No surprise that she left

Jessica: good riddance. I originally thought she was good, but she annoyed me more and more as time went on with her "I'm dead quirky me, ooh look at my funny face" 

Have I missed anyone? Meh.

The panel are actually being too nice and rather repetitive.

And the Toto thing? Mad people. I can't imagine anything worse for a pet dog, and the owners are all bonkers. It seems cruel somehow, but there you go. Cute doggy footage, huzzah.

Over the Rainbow week 4

So I stopped taking notes on this, because that was sad saddery.
Tonight Dani and Danielle were in the singoff, I'm not sure why, neither were rubbish, and Dani went home. The other girls were quite dry eyed compared to last time, or to be precise, the editing team didn't see fit to focus on the tears this week.

Opinion from expert Me, which changes weekly:
Emilie is rubbish, I don't know why she's still in.
Lauren is quite good but there's something not quite winning enough about her.
Steph gets better and more likeable each week. Her mam is/was Baby D, but that's not her fault.
Sophie, I can't decide, she's never all that great in her individual performances - bad song choice I think - but totally stands out for me in any group performance. The panel don't like her much, even Charlotte who battles with her Welsh solidarity.
Jenny is growing on me, but she drew attention to her own lack of dancing and I can't help being critical of her dancing now. Her voice is really good.
Danielle is the most talented, she deserves to win. If I ever watched this before the lines closed and if I was the sort of person that voted, I'd vote for her.
Stephanie probably will win. I don't think she's the best, but I think she'll win.
Jessica I am liking less and less as the show progresses, her voice isn't as good as the others and she's a bit odd.

And that will suffice for this week.

Over the Rainbow week 3

OK, so noone cares about this, but like some saddo I took notes. Oh yes.
So here's the notes:


Charlotte's hair big, Sheila's very voluminous too
"Good lord" nickname to keep
Giant slippers freaky,why have giant ruby slippers?

Girls:
Sophie Evans, Jessica Robinson

Sophie, bla, in school 4 weeks ago. Good reminder. Trying to be fun,
seemed about 11, singing "don't impress me much". Not well. Judges
unimpressed.

Jessica thinks she's different. Uh huh. Only seen quirky side, wants
to show she's got the voice to match. Song?? Sang nicely, not that
powerful. Alw looked impressed.

Alw reckoned both would go further. Rules state: don't vote these two off yet.

Bronte Barbe and Dani Rainer

Bronte, lovely voice. Likes being quirky reckons song shows she is
quirky.
Sings: "Suddenly I see". Looks uncomfortable in slightly ridiculous outfit.
sounds good.
John mean, charlotte liked. Sheila thought she did well, but not well
enough.

Dani, can connect with song. Wants to show charlotte she can be
dorothy. Homesick. Home by michael buble. Nicer than original. Sounds
angry rather than wistful. John and Charlotte liked. Sheila really
liked.

Alw likes dani. Called bronte barbie. Heh. Hinted bronte may go. Prob
coz she's blonde.

Jenny Douglas and Steph Feyron 

Steph isn't going to go far.
Jenny - looks funny. Like craig from joseph. We're not all wonky in Scotland.

Steph - It's o so quiet. Looks even wronger, v grown up. Made good job
of song and performance. Not fair if she is in sing off. Charlotte
liked lots. Sheila thought good. John liked but not as much.

Jenny - Songbird. Boring but pleasant. Managed not to squeak. V grown
up, odd in someone so young. Charlotte v impressed with. Sheila liked,
john loved.

Alw thought steph wonderful. Jenny bla, bla adoration. Liked lots.
Neither in sing off or Lordie will kill.

Something amusing about jodie prenger guffawing to who let the dogs out. She's not the classiest chick in the world.

The girls look like babies in practice, unmade up.

Danielle hope, Lauren Samuels.
Danielle: may be quiet, doesn't mean she's rubbish. sang "Just a little
girl". Comes across as little stroppy girl on stage - not bad thing,
dorothyesque. Liked. Sheila thinks she's great. John liked.
Sophisticated, huh? Charlotte loved too.

Lauren: very smug, not good for votes. Looks like katie holmes. sang"I'll
never fall in love again", ooh I'm a diva, me. Overdoing it. Sheila
liked. John loved, her ego will explode. Charlotte called her
arrogant. Indeed. Love Charlotte.

Alw loved danielle. Knew she was like dorothy. Not so keen on lauren
but def wants to keep her.

Emilie Fleming and stephanie davies.

Emilie: gap annoying in teeth. Public relying on you - overstate
importance.
Clean slate, as good as others.

emilie: don't know song. Didn't like performance. Looks all grown up.
John quite liked. Charlotte didn't like so much, said vocal was iffy.
Sheila wasn't too complimentary, suggested she was led by rhythm, not
in good way.

Stephanie sang lovelily. Smile? Charlotte loved, john thought was
great, sheila thought she picked up as song went on, bad start.

Stephanie: sure she'll win. Erm.  Little kid (brill for dorothy) wants
to be taken seriously.

Alw def loves stephanie. Really liked her performance. Doesn't rate
emilie much but reckons she'll get votes. Er, maybe.

Predict: emilie and bronte sing off, bronte saved.

Vote now (or forever hold your peace)

Night 2, results.
Hair flat, really filmed next night?
Toto: don't care. Weird people. Dogs do not have star quality. Why do
that to your dog? Freaks.

Stupid mash: material girl and emilie is guff.

Experts: Star potential in a dog? Nuh uh.

Jodie prenger animal fanatic. Heh heh. Jodie Prenger: reality TV addict.

They're not painting stephanie very well, badly edited to show
negative comments.

Danielle coming out as strongest this week, also Jenny but she looks
funny. Funny looking birds never do well. Acting thing showed Emilie
and Lauren as good as well as J and D.

D's don't have a scoobie, don't think they like danielle. Quiet?


Panel asked who was not Dorothy for them:
Sheila: not sophie
John: not jessica
Charlotte: not emilie

Think emilie out, except public voted her IN.

Stephanie, jessica and jenny through
Bronte in singoff
Dani and sophie, steph,
Danielle, lauren and emilie...
Danielle through
Emilie through, lauren in singoff

Lauren def will be saved!!! voted off for arrogance. Bronte lowest.

Want bronte to stay. Lauren loved by panel, will be surprised if she
goes.

Bronte lovely voice. Lauren more polished not as pleasant. Dopey grin,
bronte more acty, less pitch perfect. Lauren better voice, bronte
better performer. Lauren quite punchable, but why edit show her
blowing her own trumpet.

Girlies sniffling. Make them friends with each other, then watch them suffer. Top telly. Grr.

ALW saved lauren (obviously, panel LOVED her) after long ramble. Bronte ever so pretty. Lauren
hopefully less cocky but yawn. Arrogance is the only thing against Lauren.

Bronte much nicer on floating moon than Amy was. Alw moved. All girls except lauren
crying!

Aww bronte's lovely. But blonde. Girls looked shocked, she really is
good to be leaving not like slutty amy.
Almost cried. Want to adopt bronte.

Why did the dim public vote for emilie?do they like the gap? mibbee I
should vote, but don't generally watch before too late.

Over the Rainbow, wk 2

Never done one of these before, bear with me.

Reality TV. Meh. Stupid people, being stupid and edited to look stupider. Entertainment void. X Factor is extraordinarily cruel. Auditions are purely an excuse to openly laugh at people who are deluded about their own talent. Oh ha ha ha. And to shatter dreams with a cruel comment? What joy! But, yeah, addictive. You watch, you care, you want to know what happens... So, best avoided.

Unless it's on the BBC. They do a special line in Nice. (as in Very Nice, not Southern France). People encourage talent and editing shows the best of people, not the worst.

The latest BBC Very Nice Reality Big Brother Rip Off Talent Show is 'Over the Rainbow', following the format of 'How do you Solve a Problem like Maria?', 'Any Dream Will Do', and 'I'd Do Anything'. All seeking the star of a West End show, auditioning 1000s of nobodies and ending with 10/11/12 people in the studio, voted off weekly by audience phone ins, with one of the bottom two saved each week by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Oh, and we don't forget he's a Lord. Oh no.

Anyhoo. Here we are, down to the 10 girls picked by the panel, and one wild card selected by the public vote.

---whoever this is, I can't quite figure who actually votes on these things---

A new panel:

Sheila Hancock, who is quite marvellous and appears to believe that talent entirely depends on understanding lyrics. Who cares who can sing, it's all about the understanding. Pah. Next she'll be suggesting it's all about acting.

Charlotte Church. Who is so very nice and knows how to sing so can comment on singing, nicely:

And John Barrowman. No, sorry, another John (Partridge) that is charmingly gay, an ac-tor (Eastenders this time) and star of the West End. Less easy on the eye than the first John Barrowman but an awful lot easier on the tolerance. Also very nice, thoroughly encouraging comments with huge apologies for hints of negativity.

Graham Norton presents, with his usual simmering double entendres desperate to escape. Quite perfect presenter, incidentally, doesn't take it too seriously, or seriously at all in fact. Marvellous.

The girls...
(in order of performance this week)

Stephanie - looks the part. Stood out as an obvious Dorothy from first (edited of course) audition. Aged 17, which seems to be a requisite, the panel loved her. Slightly perturbed as to why her head held on by scarf at the *hilarious* task of looking after pigs on a farm. Peculiar things, teenagers.

Lauren - meh, nothing special. Bit past it at 22, one of the "older" ones. Not bad.

Dani - is basically Dorothy. Awestruck and 16, which is even better for this show than 17, she also, according to the Good Lord (which Graham Norton DID say), looks like a Dorothy.

Steph - another ancient contender at the ripe old age of 21. Sheila likes her, but Lordie said she didn't look anything LIKE Judy Garland so she was wasting her time. Or something like that.

Amy - the "glamorous" Dorothy. Yup. Glamour. Stated she has a very successful modelling career, oh really? Supposedly 22, looks older, No Chance! And blonde? Does Dorothy have blonde hair? Lordie said she would good for Legally Blonde, in other words not good for Wizard of Oz. She said she would take on board comments, sadly not in time to not wear hot pants for the second show.

Danielle - looks kinda Dorothyish and - whoop - is 17. Not hugely tuneful, but not necessarily awful. Lordie said she would paint the road ruby one day, so the dark hair/being a teenager thing is working. Bizarrely wearing two belts, which is just odd,

Emilie - the one the panel didn't think was good enough but that the public liked. Annoyingly gappy teeth, which Dorothy definitely didn't have. Main drawback however is a seriously ouchy voice. Almost out of the running at 19, has mentioned a few too many times to stomach that she's "back!!!!!" yup. Enjoy it while it lasts, you didn't make the grade. No chance.

Bronte - clearly all wrong on account of being blonde, and performed in her nightie, but has a really nice voice. At 18, she's doing ok. She's my favourite.

Jessica - trying quite hard: is 18, darkened her hair. Good at the acting bit, but doesn't have a fantastic voice. Or so the panel say. Someone on Twitter said they didn't like her, which in my mind means all the public.

Sophie - 17 and wholesome, so quite Dorothyesque. She sang with a strong welsh accent, then went all squeaky. Not great last week either. If you keep the singing-doesn't-matter going, she's great.

Jenny - looks like Barbara Windsor. Not a good look, but she is 18 so can -maybe- be forgiven. Crap song, and not too good at throwing off her imagined RockChick look. Ha. Lordie actually shuddered when she was singing, then the panel said she was great. Which was a lie.

The panel were asked who was "not Dorothy" for them:

Sheila: not Amy
John: not Sophie
Charlotte: not Dani. Charlotte clearly hasn't read the brief.

And to the results:

Bronte, Dani & Stephanie all announced as safe. Jenny, Danielle and Jessica all through. As well as, after a pause... Lauren. Amy in sing off (hurrah), Emilie is through. Steph is also in the sing off, so Sophie is safe.

Public voted least votes for Amy. Shocker.

The sing off begins. Amy turns out to have a lovely voice, she might have shown that before. Steph not so good, and Amy's confidence grows and she reverts to type, then Lordie saves Steph as she is slightly younger and less blonde. I think that's the reason he gave?

Camera cuts to Dani crying, thus ensuring she's staying in a couple of weeks. And a sniff from Sophie, proving that she's lovely too and deserves some
votes.

Amy comments that she's been judged for being a model. Nuh uh. Judged on being completely up her own posterior, and going on ever ao about the being a model, and for failing whatsoever to try to fit the part she was auditioning for.

Song of goodbye is Somewhere Over the Rainbow, predictably, instead of the more fitting Goodbye Yellow Brick Road I hoped for. Amy gets carted off on a giant moon, getting her true princess moment. Byeeee! Do hope you become massively famous some other way. May I suggest bagging a footballer?

Chosen Dorothys by the expert panel of me: Stephanie, Bronte, Jessica and Dani. Everyone else is Just Wrong and Dani should win.