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Title: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 22 August 2011, 20:18
yesterday as i was coming in from town my sister was watching xfactor and a young girl called janet devlin was on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-VIAZdQ0-g

pretty good imo, only 16  and lots of tallent. came up on my youtube accound in the recomended videos and it reminded me of it, ive listened to ellie gouldings version then this and i cant decide which i prefer, i think its actually the xfactor audition  :shocked:

what are your opinions on it, anyone else prefer this to ellie gouldings version?
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: Seanl on 22 August 2011, 20:32
I hate Ellie Goulding tbf!  :angry: Her singing through the nose annoys the sh!t out of me, and I have to turn the radio over or plug my phone in and listen to something else!
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: topher on 22 August 2011, 20:35
http://www.youtube.com/user/janetdevlin

talented and i wish her luck but its all in the hands of the producers now. the yanks are gonna go crazy for her i reckon.
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: brett on 22 August 2011, 20:36
i see it and thought she was pretty good for 16,better than most on there imo
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: Mitching on 22 August 2011, 20:37
Already been done with Ellie Goulding.
To me seems pretty much exactly the same, just with a sort of 'The Cranberries' Irish twist, similar breaks in the voice to Dolores O'Riordan (singer of the Cranberries) and similar tone, pitch and vibrato used by Ellie Goulding.
TBH I think she'll get far as the cretins that watch X factor like stuff they've seen before just remarketed.
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: Adam88 on 22 August 2011, 21:26
How is she going to sound when she performs a other song? To me it sounds like a Ellie rip off and she kinda spoke parts of the song. Downloading Xfactor now, YES!
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: dom on 22 August 2011, 23:45
I like her, got a very nice voice :cool:
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 23 August 2011, 00:02
X-Factor is like Scientology

Simon Cowell is like L.Ron Hubbard.

You is like fools.

 :rolleyes:



Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: AlexMozza on 23 August 2011, 00:16
Cant it just die a quite death?
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: Seanl on 23 August 2011, 08:41
Cant it just die a quite death?

Yeah just like BB did ffs!  :angry:
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: raptorSE on 23 August 2011, 09:14
She was excellent whats unusual is that when Irish people normally sing there voice sounds english with Janet you can still here the irish in her voice which is nice.  :cool:
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: JulesS3 on 23 August 2011, 10:22
I watched it back after recording it and found it took 18 minutes for the first 'act' and there were only around 8 people shown over the whole time. The rest was adverts and crap. I watched the whole thing in 30 minutes, its an hour and 40 long i think. Thats horrific
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: JDM82 on 23 August 2011, 10:40
I have to agree, this girl does have a talent................ A talent for copying Ellie Golding  :undecided:
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: bobbarley on 23 August 2011, 17:09
Indeed.  I'll be impressed when she does something original.
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: R32UK on 23 August 2011, 17:35
she isnt that great a singer.... will probably do well out of x factor. end of.
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 23 August 2011, 20:20
I have to agree, this girl does have a talent................ A talent for copying Ellie Golding  :undecided:

who copied elton john :rolleyes:

most singers dont right there own stuff i.e. riannah love the way you lie was written by a girl called skylar grey and was written for herself to sing then riannah actually did a cover of.

thats just to name one artist off the top of my head.

Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: emery1990 on 23 August 2011, 20:24
She's a good singer, but nothing different.

keep bleeding sung by leona lewis was written by one republic singer, but he made a mint, and so did the skylar bird if she wrote that song!
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: Kent on 23 August 2011, 20:28
I think she is good singer imo

She sings these songs well http://www.youtube.com/user/janetdevlin#p/u

Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: Mitching on 23 August 2011, 23:31
I have to agree, this girl does have a talent................ A talent for copying Ellie Golding  :undecided:

who copied elton john :rolleyes:

most singers dont right there own stuff i.e. riannah love the way you lie was written by a girl called skylar grey and was written for herself to sing then riannah actually did a cover of.

thats just to name one artist off the top of my head.


A couple of things; Ellie Goulding did not 'copy' Elton John, she covered his song, big difference. But there's little chance this Janet Devlin will have even known the song until Ellie Goulding covered the song and it was used in an advert (I know I didn't, yet I'm blessed to have been brought up in an Elton-free environment :nerd: )
And the fact Janet Devlin sings the same song in such a similar style to Ellie's version, to me, seems like Janet copied Ellie.
Not that there's much wrong with that in the fickle world of pop music, everyone's copying what's 'in' as that's where the gwap is.
If it gets her her 15 minutes of fame, all power to her!

And as for 'most singers dont right [sic] there [sic] own stuff', this is very wrong.
So many artists write their own material, unless they are (again) in the fickle world of pop music, which I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were referring to 'pop' 'singers'.


*Apologies for being pedantic, I'm very opinionated when it comes to music and also in a bit of a dodgy mood at the moment  :smiley:
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 24 August 2011, 08:52
Yeah i admit it is simelar to elllie gouldings version.
and i also admit theres plenty of artist/bands out there who wright there own material

but in my opinion she still has loads of tallent and in the full version of her audition it says she wrights her own songs. Though cant find any so no idea how good they. though shes only young so plebty of time to learn still
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: JDM82 on 24 August 2011, 09:48
Cheers Mitching.... That was my point exactly. She sang the song in almost the same way as Ellie Golding did. Now I never said she wasn't talented but we already have Ellie Golding and I thought the whole point of the X-factor was to find the new big thing not cloned copies of artists already out there.
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: Mitching on 24 August 2011, 13:10
To me the point of the X factor is to make Simon Cowell loads of money!
The thing is, the music industry moves on so quickly what was popular a few months ago will now be forgotten, people will see this and move straight onto it instantly forgetting and dismissing most others that were identical that came before it.

One thing I always think of and ask people to tell me is how many 'pop' artists (say in the top 40) that have emerged within the last 2-3 years (and sometimes more) have NOT appeared on TV to get famous?
'Pop stars' have been doing it for years, doing something on TV then moving onto a career in what most people would deem as music, but in the last 10 years, since Simon Fuller's "pop idol", the majority of emerging 'pop stars' have come from and been made famous by being on TV.
Title: Re: some one with talent on x-factor
Post by: emery1990 on 24 August 2011, 17:00
And seems that the ones that do make it from having good music and being talented dont get number ones or noticed.