The Navigator: November 2015

Monday, November 30, 2015

X Factor UK: Top 5 Results Show Recap

Most of these contestants are so good, I am going to have a fit when they get ride of like half of them before the finale.

Is there any point of me even writing this? Because I'm not sure how many people they are going to cut this week, but I'm sure it's going to be an absolute slaughter that is going to be really hard to watch. The clear "front-runners" as far as the judges (and probably America too, based on iTunes) are: Jordan Smith, Amy Vachal, Zach Seabaugh (and maybe Braiden, possibly Jefferey). Unless some dark horse rides to the finish line, I don't think there is a whole lot the constants can do to switch up that front runner list. My Top 5 are Shelby, Jeffery, Madi, Amy and Jordan buuuuut we'll see if my faves get through tomorrow.

Soul Train Awards 2015 Recap

Once again, big thanks to Anthony Ying! Check out his YouTube videos, he's the only reason I'm able to watch the show before it airs in the states up here!

Looks like we have a new underdog! Lauren Murray came out of nowhere and stole the night from everyone. There were some decent performances, but aside from Lauren and 4th Impact, it was a very underwhelming night.

HOT TRACKS: Who Is Fancy [ft. Meghan Trainor & Ariana Grande] "Boys Like You"

Survivor: X Factor Edition (Top 5)

Welcome to another week of The X Factor's Survivor!

HOT TRACKS: Tish Hyman "Subway Art"

"I'm not gon' cry this time so it sounds better"

If Loving You Is Wrong: He's Beautiful (2x09)

X Factor UK: Top 7 Results Show Recap

Everyone kicked it into high gear tonight! I was surprised that I enjoyed all of the performances in their own ways.

Let me just preface this with: I am not reviewing the entire American Music Awards. I'm reviewing what intrigued me and that isn't much.

X Factor UK: Top 7 Rankings

First off, thank you to Anthony Ying on YouTube! His videos are why I can watch the show before it comes on American TV and where I get some of my screen caps from!

The competition is pretty tight but it's clear who rose up to the occasion and who didn't.

Cheryl, shockingly, is my favorite mentor this year. You can just see by the way she takes everything they love about themselves and she allows them to apply it to their performances so they are the most genuine performances and both her groups have such star power! Anton, once again showed enormous potential that I just wish he would tap into.

The girls had the strongest night this week. It's usually been a three-way tie for who has the best category, which is hilarious because Simon isn't in the three-way tie.. But the girls reigned victorious this week!

The boys let me down a little this week. I thought they were going to be much better. They weren't bad but they weren't as over the top amazing as I've come accustomed to with the boys.

Survivor: X Factor Edition (Top 7)

Welcome to another week of The X Factor's Survivor!

The queen has returned to reclaim her thrown. Not sure what's more to be said. Adele has created her own lane. Turning her heartbreak into hit after hit. One would think that now that she's actually happy she may have lost some of that magic that made her the artist she has shown us to be. That one would be wrong.

X Factor UK: Top 9 Results Show

If Loving You Is Wrong: The Tape (2x08)

The Voice US: Top 12 Rankings

There were standouts, there were let downs but most of these performances were very middle ground so it made it a little hard to got out of the 7-7.5 range I usually grade. I wasn't impressed too hard with everything (except the top 4), but it wasn't a terrible show either. However, I don't think the show's going to cross into great territory until the group gets smaller.

Team Pharrell had a solid night. Evan was the best of their bunch, although I loved Madi's instrumental track. I think it was just a confusing night for all three of them. Mark was so extra he should be a gum, Madi looked uncomfortable to me and Evan was...well, Evan.

Gwen's team was a bit of a disappointment this week. The one bright spot was Braiden, mostly because I literally expected nothing out of him after last weeks abomination so I'm glad he's back in the competition strong. They weren't bad, I just expected them to be the brightest part of the entire night (even though my fave Viktor was booted, but enough about my struggles.

Let's get one thing straight, I literally only wanted Zach and Barret to make it through to this show. I didn't care who else went through because Blake had two gems and four duds. Now he has two gems out of three contestants, so his team is looking much stronger now.

Does anyone have an extinguisher? Because Adam's teams were on fire this week. I spoke WAY too soon when I wrote him off as a mentor when I reviewed his team last week. They were fun, they were fresh and they all delivered fantastic overall performances in addition to being vocally competent. Adam's team is the team to watch, y'all.

MUSIC REVIEW: Alessia Cara "Know-It-All"

Everyone shockingly did pretty decently this week. It's going to be a very shocking results show because I have absolutely no idea how the vote is going to go.

Maybe I expected too much from the category this week (I'm just being nice, I expected nothing from Anton) but the category was very lackluster this week, unfortunately. Hopefully things can turn around for them.

Cheryl is clearly the best mentor this year. I should have bit my tongue at the beginning when I started doing these reviews but she's taken Reggie N Bollie (who bring out the absolute best in her fun nature), who could have been a complete joke, and 4th Impact, who I absolutely couldn't stand at the beginning of the live shows, and turned them both into serious contendors for the X Factor crown. Okay, 4th Impact was always a contender becuase everyone loves them but I didn't. So. Yeah. Now I do.

Rita's girls delivered this week. It was so beautiful to see Rita crying tears of joy with Louisa. It just shows what an emotional and true connection she has with the contestants in her category this year, she's a joy (and did something right with Monica this week, who would've thunk?)

I was completely shocked that Sean went home last week, I thought he did great. Maybe it hurt even more because this was my favorite group but the competition felt a little empty without him (Che gave enough in his performance for everyone who went home, though)

HOT TRACKS: Eryn Allen Kane "Piano Song"

I usually go onto the "Hot Tracks" page of iTunes when I really want to hear some good new music and a lot of stuff doesn't catch my attention. That being said, a lot of tracks do catch my attention and typically the artist deserves more recognition that they are getting. These "Hot Tracks" reviews go out to my artists that deserve more than what they're getting!

MUSIC REVIEW: Justin Bieber "Purpose"

Just my luck that 3 highly anticipated albums come out on the same day (Purpose, Midnight in the A.M. & Know-It-All). I'm starting off with Purpose, for no particular reason, Saturday I'll have Midnight in the AM and Sunday I'll review Alessia Cara's debut album! This review is chalked full of my interpretation of his lyrics/meaning. If I'm wrong, oops.

I thought it'd be fun to maybe give a little insight as to what I think the contestants need to do in order to survive to the next live show.

If Loving You Is Wrong: Being a Woman (2x06)

This is debatably the best episode If Loving You Is Wrong has ever produced. I'm a broken record when it comes to how ILYIW is at it's best when it embraces it's campy soap opera genre and boy did they take my advice tonight. This episode had so many classic Tyler Perry trash-tastic moments, my hood rat heart just went up in flames.

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