Best performances of the series?

*floundering

oc it was Nights in White Satin  - not Whiter Shade of Pale

whiter shade of pale?!?!

for me:

1) Rebecca - Sweet Dreams
2) Rebecca - Amazing Grace
3) Rebecca - Make You Feel My Love
4) Rebecca - Wicked Game
5) Rebecca - Feeling Good

George

Yes agree with all that.  I thought Mary sang a couple of decent songs too and Cher's 'Stay' was very good I thought.

However the number one stand out for me was 'First time ever I saw your Face' ................ just brilliant and I think he won it then when he sand it on the live show about 6 weeks ago.

Sweets dreams was fun, but how does it compare to MYFML Papa?

I think the song choice is more important than vocals. Missed Matt singing whiter shade of pale. Its my favourite all time song. I would say its a very nostalgic song for a lot of middle aged voters so a very food choice. Personally my favourite of the whole series was Rebeccas final song last night.

i thought it was brilliant GB - but then again i was sitting on a massive ONE D red at the time, and a brilliant performance like that was very VERY welcome!!

Very true Papa lol

Basking in the glow of 1d relief

Yeah, was reviewing a couple of Mary's Lou

They don't stand up to close scrutiny for me, but impressive first time out. John's I could happily watch 100 times

George

Did you not think 'First Time Ever' was a real classic moment?  'Night in White Satin' and 'The Way you Are' great too but not quite as good.

In no particular order.......

Rebecca - Show me love
Matt - Baby one more time
Aiden - Mad world
Rebecca MYFML

It showed of all the aspects of him that irritated me Lou. And I think that's what knackered his throat

Oh seems like i did not miss matt singing whiter shade of pale after all....

I thought the whole final weekend was a big let down until Matt and Rebecca gave their final performances. Both were fantastic. But i think Rebeccas version of Distant Dreams was simply stunning. Obviously, she could not sing this song earlier in the competition as it was going to be her winners song, but if she had been able to i think it could have swung the result. It definately would have been closer.

In no particular order -

Rebecca - MYFML, Candle in the wind (much underrated. The last 30 secs are sublime)Show me Love, Wicked Game, Sweet Dreams.

Matt - Baby one more time (it persuaded me to back him) FTEISYF, Mights in white satin.

Aiden - Mad world.

Cher - Hard Knock Life, Stay and her duet.

Mary - Something.

John I remember being quite impressed at the time, but have no idea what he sang.

1D - hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Fair enough George

I thought the best performances were Sweet Dreams, Wicked Game and Show Me Love. Rebecca's voice shone on all of them

Cher - Nothin on you.

Wagner ..... Viva Las Vegas

rebecca was so much more relaxed and confident doing "up tempo" songs like sweet dreams and teardrops. im convinced she would have won if she had changed and done one "up beat" song saturday night.

Cher - Stay
Just captured a moment I thought better than anyone else in the series.

alfie

Aapparently she's doing 'Stictly Come Dancing' nest year! (wink) [;)]

1. Cher - Clapping Song
2. Cher - Nothin' on You
3. Aiden - Mad World
4. Cher - Girlfriend
5. Matt - Nights in White Satin

I heard she got a job as a statue modeller.

shes my favourite WINK

Is that a spelling mistake there Alfie ?

A

Best songs, for me.

FTEISYF
BHMOMT
KIWS

All by Matt Cardle.

rmb well done if u made money but dont make mistake of over rating him;ordinary winner imo could be another brookstein

My favourites, without betting bias:

Rebecca - Make You Feel My Love, Feeling Good, Sweet Dreams and Distant Dreamer (I thought she was tremendous last night, albeit too late in the game to have an impact)
Matt - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Nights in White Satin and Many of Horror (too few highlights after he peaked early, which made him a bit of a disappointing winner)
Cher - Stay (although Clapping Song was probably her best performance of the season on Saturday night)
Aiden - Mad World (sadly proved to be his one and only highlight)
Katie - Help (not surprised to see her runner up in the vote that week)

And for sheer irony, the highlight of the whole pantomime had to be Wagner singing 'Creep'!

The voting stats show how weak the opposition was to Matt, particularly given that he failed to shine after week five, with the exception of one song (NIWS).  Had Rebecca sparked into life earlier or repeated the high of MYFML she could have been a real challenger.

1) Rebecca - Wicked Game
2) Matt - Baby one more time
3) Katie - Help
4) Rebecca - pick one of about another 3/4
5) Matt - Nights in white satin

Rebecca - Make You Feel My Love, Feeling Good, Sweet Dreams, Distant Dreamer (first time I heard this - great song) , Amazing Grace , Show Me Love, A Change is Gonna Come
Matt - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Nights in White Satin

Cher - turn my swag on

Show Me Love

but I'm a bit limited because I don't like ballads.

The best performance of the series was when the credits came up last night at the end of the last show.

We have now been spared this garbage for a few months.

Now, now Barney Boy...  It's a pantomime, but we all love it really!  If it wasn't for Christmas round the corner, I'd be lost (how sad does that make me?!)

I thought Sweet Dreams was sensational for Rebecca,the wow moment came too late because of Cheryl's failings.

wasn't Sweet Dreams a song that Cheryl wanted Rebecca to sing previously but Rebecca stuck up for what she wanted to do, although I think that was Show Me Love.  Instead of Just Like a Star would have been good, or a duet with Annie Lennox would have been sensational.

Denman, someone called Ged from Liverpool sent a very good text to Radio 5 Live this morning - that's not you is it?

No mate,what did they say?

I was driving and can't remember the descriptive words he used but something along the lines of the reason an anodine ?  ?  ? pasty-faced Matt won against a ? ? ? ? like Rebecca was because of all the bitter women at home alone with a bottle.

He should have added that it's probably because of blokes like Matt that they are bitter and at home alone with a bottle.

I like his style.

i loved gamu's make you feel my love, but in the live shows, one stood out an absolute mile for me

matt - baby one more time

CHER - The Clapping Song
CHER - Stay
CHER - Imagine
CHER - Viva la Vida (At bootcamp)
REBECCA - Foots Steps on the dance floor
GAMU - Make you feel my love.

CHER - Viva la Vida (At bootcamp)

LOL!! ringy dingy dingy....

At least his list has more than one singer in it..

Stay.

Cher was the best performer by a mile.

Gamu's Feel your love was the best display of singing and it contains the single best note I have ever heard on one of these.

I must say Sweet Dreams was good. Why did she never sing like that before/ I do not think they wanted her. She is not entertaining.

I think those who've put Stay on this list need their lugholes cleaning out with molten lava tbh

Why not just cut off the head.

Sod the lugholes.

Spot on melv, Cher is the best performer by a mile!!

George Bush and BarnabySpears I was think the exact same but the other way around!! Anyone who didn't like Cher's performance of Stay needs to book an appointment with Hidden Hearing!!

i thought stay was quite average.  lots of backing production holding it up.

cher should now fade to obscurity - a c*nt of the highest order.  can't rap, can't sing, and a disgusting attitude.

George we are talking about performance here. Stay was a brilliant brilliant performance. Filmic.

Cher has a chance of making it. If she does it will be as an original. A rare thing.

The Divine Vickers and Queen Stace are still my favourites though.

Vickers lit up Buzz**** last week. She sings she moves she acts she's funny. And she is northern (What a coincidence )

Buzzcucks.

Obvoiusly some one does mind the Buzz****.

cher will go down in history as the girl who invent hip hop imo

*invented*

You are putting up a false arguent here. I did not say original rapper. She is not jsut a rapper. Its the whole Cher thing thats original. The fact is I would not catgorise her. A true sign of originality.

Cher - Stay
Aiden - Mad World

GTL: Cher is a 17yo girl and in case you haven't notice most girls of her age have bad attitudes! They are just trying to grow up.

She should deffo make it big, she just needs to mature a bit which will come as she gets older.

donal - she's a 17 year old c*nt.

most 17 year olds can be a bit "difficult", but they don't all act like her.

for what it's worth, aiden and paije were 18 and 19 respectively and both behaved with dignity and reason, despite some harsh and bizarre comments at times.

cher is a little tw@t and the sooner she f*cks off back to malvern and disappears into obscurity the better.

As sure sign of class. Having an impact on people.

Yeah. The fecker twatted me on the back of my head while her mate filmed it on her mobile

i realised today that, imo, they'll be grooming cher to become the female plan b.

make of that what you will

God help us...  We really could do well without the male plan b!