It was one more try for Eoghan Quigg on The X Factor this week. The theme was British Best or best of Britain or UK’s Finest or however you want to put it, and Eoghan‘s song was George Michael‘s One More Try:
Many people call me a cynic, I call myself a realist. Audiences are very susceptible and very easily influenced, and I have no doubt that quite a number of people call in for the song they like best and not for the performer or the quality of the performance. That being said, One More Try was a tough song choice for Eoghan. They (or rather: Simon Cowell) could have let him sing Yesterday or Let it Be or some safe bet like that, and people would have phoned in even if he’d sung the lyrics of Yesterday to the tune of Let it Be. One More Try being not quite such a popular song it probably didn’t get him any votes of the undecided, but I’d like to think that the performance did. That was a solid performance, no big mistakes or anything, and together with the VT of him going back home to Dontgivein, or whatever his hometown is called, and meeting his baby sister for the first time it was enough to get him through to the next round.
Speaking of safe song choices, I think JLS overdid it a bit with their Beatles medley. I was almost proving myself right with what I’ve said above when they started their performance. I never really liked JLS too much, but when they started with that first Beatles song I kinda liked it (“it”, not “them”), but when it turned out not to be a song but a medley of songs I felt somewhat appalled that they’d try to win me over like that. I like strawberries, I like pizza, and I like liquorice, but if you try to please me by serving me a strawberry-liquorice pizza you will never see me in your restaurant again.
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