Thursday, October 04, 2012

X-Factor Ph: Week 9


Theme: Songs from the Top 4's favorite musical artists
ActOrderSong (original artist)Result
Allen Sta. Maria1"Whip My Hair(Willow Smith)Bottom Two
Daddy's Home2"Open Arms(Journey)Safe
KZ Tandingan3"Forever(Chris Brown)Bottom Two
Gabriel Maturan4"Boyfriend(Justin Bieber)Safe

My review on the Top 4's performance:

Allen - such a risky song choice; I know she's been groomed to be like an r&b type of singer but her weakness has always been the way she pronounce her words; she tends to eat the lyrics up. Most of performance I hardly able to hear what she was saying....well.. maybe except for some of her ballad performance. Her song choice seems to be interesting but somehow a wrong move when you're almost near the finale.


Daddy's - an okay song choice; they really still need to smoothen their blending though. They may have nice individual voices but one of their members really seems to get be out of tune most of the time.

KZ - whatever she was wearing that night really annoyed me; they could have at least switch it up a bit with something like a loose sleeveless with a logo or a controversial line printed on it; or probably a slim fit tank top underneath; her cap didn't help her either. She may have delivered singing that song..but that thing she wore totally lessened that known swag in her. Too bad.

Gab - I didn't like the song choice; I never see him as close an artist like Justin Bieber. He may be the only one on the remaining contestants who seems to be confident at what he does, in  terms of performing but there's still something lacking in him.

And so the bottom 2 were...

I initially I thought Allen and the Daddy's will be in the bottom two (based on their pitchy performance) with Allen leaving. So I was a bit surprised that KZ  was in the bottom two with Allen.

KZ being in the bottom two made me feel that it was just one of their strategy to make people think that she got one of the least amount of votes so people would text more than usual. (I've been watching every reality TV there is on the tube, I know how these things will play out haha)

Charice may be super annoying on the night Allen got eliminated (that scene was abit awkward and funny at the same time) in some ways her teary outburst brings out the child in her (seems like she really do believe in her girls so much..or was is it just too much?) but on a side note, she's one of the best mentors among the 3; while her commentary critique may be alittle bit questionable dahil di nya masyado masabi ng malinaw yung gusto nya sabihin pero madalas naman may point sya. Sila lang actually ni Ms. Pilita ang medyo gusto ko ang mga comments.

Here's the video of the results night, after announcing the elimination of Allen. As the weeping contestant cried onto her mentor's shoulder. Which eventually lead to Charice saying, "...this is not a joke..this is Allen". I wasn't paying much attention when this happened, so di ko alam ang dahilan kung bakit nasabi ni Charice yun..so kasalanan pala ng mga audience haha..

I know that online Gab has one of the biggest fans amongst the contestants, but here's an advice don't vote that much for him (I've been there done that with PBB & PDA) clearly KZ was the one they're pushing to be the grand winner for this season (if you don't believe me, then watch their guesting the other day on Kris TV). Well, clearly every die hard fantards may be giving all their means in voting for their bets... that's their choice anyways.
Whoever wins, what matters is their post-competition status be for them and to what their future album should offer...