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The X Factor

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It's back: download your Popjustice X Factor playsheet now

As the X Factor live finals roll around again, it's time to get out the felt tipped pens for another round of Popjustice X Factor play­sheets. Download yours now in…
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Serious Arts Coverage

Sorry to lower the tone readers but we must have watched this clip of Rachel's scene-stealing X Factor moment about thirty times yesterday, and we're already at ten views so…
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Would you put the new X Factor format through to boot camp?

The people behind The X Factor are so confident in the show's new format that they're asking for your thoughts on it. So we’re halfway through the audition shows and…
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The Big Leona Lewis Comeback Single: Is It Above Average? (In a word: yes.)

The whole idea of 'Happy' is 'bugger this I'm off'. The song begins with Leona singing that "someone once told me that you have to choose what you win or…
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So — the Alexandra Burke single

Think of 'Hallelujah', then think of the opposite.  Some important points here, in no par­tic­u­lar order: » The single is called 'Bad Boys' and it features US rap gentleman Flo Rida. »…
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…and five things we noted from The X Factor over the weekend

VI Triple Trouble (above) are amazing. Their wildly misjudged sense of enti­tle­ment means they would make perfect popstars. VII The new live audition format doesn't work… …and breaks an unbroken…
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Five things we want from The X Factor this weekend…

I Cheryl Crying (Due to some sort of sob story about 'my struggle' etc etc.) (Yes we know it's not good to want someone to be a‑weepin' but that's enter­tain­ment innit.)…
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STOP FUCKING SHOUTING AT US

We hate the E4 voiceover man Peter Dickson. We don't really hate him on The X Factor or the other things he does — "EOGHAN QUIGG!!!!!" was one of 2008's…
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Old fashioned format-related post of the day #1

We got sent a cassette single just before Christmas. A cassette single! It was pink, so we took a pho­to­graph of it.  Things went slightly less well when we tried to…
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'Hallelujah': let's just agree it's better than Bono and move on

Things we don't want to hear any more about until 2009: "Isn't Alexandra's version of 'Hallelujah' pointless/amazing, isn't it pointless/amazing that Jeff Buckley's version is back in the Top 3,…

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    Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
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    The 2024 Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
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    The 2023 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
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    Fine, let's do a Substack then.
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    The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
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    2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Laura Mvula wins
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