Comments on: Week 7: Nasty Nancy in phone frenzy

By: cork29

cork29 — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:06:30 +0000

Good point Leafy! Fighter was a disaster (for any Nancy). I feel I must correct a small but important point. On Jessie, it is said in a comment above: “…her Irishness is overpowering-Niamh and Ashley come from other parts of the UK, but they are not defined by their accents, whereas Jessie has too strong an accent.” “Other parts of the UK”? I hope kingathon27 is not suggesting that Jessie is from part of the UK? I am moved to address what I hope is a simple typo. I must comment as I recently met a lovely couple from England who genuinely believed Ireland was in the UK! Bizarre stuff! Anyway, if you genuinely listen to Jessie’s accent you will notice that the Irish accent does a far better job at pronouncing letters than many English accents. The letter R for example…it is in fact correctly pronounced R and not ‘awe’ or ‘awh’. Just because you are not accustomed to an accent, this does not make it ‘overpowering’. Even if accents are to be considered overpowering, surely Cockney is the most overpowering of all?

By: Leafy

Leafy — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:46:15 +0000

I have to agree with most of the above. I had to watch the show on tape as I was out, so couldn’t vote last night. Up till now I’ve voted for Jessie but didn’t like last night’s song one bit. However, I don’t know that it was entirely her fault; it was a dreadful thing to give her - imo not a song at all just an appalling racket with no tune! I doubt any of the others could have done it, to be honest. I tend to think that if she’s up against anybody but Rachel in a sing-off then ALW will save her. I thought his comment to Ashley was totally uncalled-for; I think they’d all been told to be more controversial tonight. I’m not a Rachel fan particularly; thought she was OK. Niamh is not Nancy in a million years and Samantha had an awful song. Jodie isn’t Nancy for me either. If I could have voted, just on last night’s performances, then I suppose I might have chosen Ashley. Looking forward to tonight!

By: Jennell

Jennell — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:50:45 +0000

I mostly agree with the comments above. I was very surprised when ALW said Nancy could be Irish. I thought that was rubbish and JB looked amazed–as well he might! It is obvious that ALW favors Jessie, but I think she was dreadful tonite. I couldn’t understand anything in her song and that was not because I am German as I have lived away from home since I was 18.

Niamh is NOT Nancy. She is O.K. but I cannot imagine her playing Nancy. Bill Sykes would have killed her with one push–that is–if she had survived infancy—. I don’t care much for Rachel but I thought she was good tonite and I think she could play Nancy.

Ashley is much better that ALW’s rude comments would suggest. From the start he has made it plain he doesn’t like her. When she performs he sits and scowls and tonite he was so rude it made me wonder why the panel didn’t just throttle him on the spot—-that would make such GREAT TV now I think about it and the viewing figures would be enormous!!

Samantha was not so good tonite I think. However, it may have been the song rather than her. She is overall very promising. Jodie has had some boring songs to sing the last two weeks, but she can act them and I think could play Nancy, although she isn’t my favorite for the role.

I hope the general public get rid of Jessie as I am getting sick of her and tonite she was so big headed. We have had everything from her now–tears, moans and now total self-centered -ness. Maybe she isn’t Nancy but she can certainly act as she has acted a different person each week so far.

I have a feeling though that Jessie will get through this round. If she is in the bottom two ALW will save her anyhow.

By: kingathon27

kingathon27 — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:02:30 +0000

I have to say the show did feel a bit ‘nastier’ this week and so much more intense than previous weeks. From the opening footage we learn that there is clearly friction between Samantha and Rachel-as each named each other the worst Nancy, when its clear that neither of them are…. And as for some of the Lord’s comments they were rude and out of character!

Jessie-Oh dear! What an absolute disaster-cocky, out of tune, shouty. In fact it was a car crash;pure and simple. She looked awful, she danced awfully, her diction was appalling! There was absolutely nothing good about this performance and her Irishness is overpowering-Niamh and Ashley come from other parts of the UK, but they are not defined by their accents, whereas Jessie has too strong an accent.

Niamh-Apart from one vocal slip-up this was a sterling vocal performance and I enjoyed it, but is she really Nancy?? I don’t know-maybe she is, but I can’t see it. Personally I would rather listen to her than some of the others-but she is not Nancy.

Ashley-I thought this was not a good song choice, but she did it really, really well and certainly much better than Jessie. There was absolutely no justification for the Lord’s comments and they were downright rude. To me she is the best potential Nancy in the contest-not the best singer-but the best Nancy. I voted for her.

Samantha-Thought she was on top form tonight-vocally superb and a brilliant all round performance.

Jodie-Bored, bored, bored. It was boring! She sung it averagely and made a great Alicia Keys song dull-thats a real testament to her talent. She is cabaret, she would not make a good Nancy and I’m sick of her.

Rachel-After initial brilliance how the mighty have fallen-this was bland with a capital b, an absolutely average performance of a bad song…. She could even be in the bottom two again!

For me the worst two tonight were Jodie and Jessie, however if I had to predict a bottom two I would go for Rachel and Niamh and who knows who Andrew would pick after his comments tonight, I would reckon upon Niamh being sent home. I think Ashley should be safe after those disgraceful comments!