Touchdown for Dami Im
The X Factor might as well just award its 2013 title to Dami Im now and pack up and go home.
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The X Factor might as well just award its 2013 title to Dami Im now and pack up and go home.
The 24 year old singer from Queensland is light years ahead of her competition on the show, with a powerful voice and range, who knows how to sell a song.
Her performance of Purple Rain pulled up another standing ovation last night, making it 2 out of 2 for the young singer. Nobody expected her to match her performance of U2’s One from last week.
I’m trying hard to think if she’s the best talent show singer we’ve seen since Anthony Callea bowled over the nation with The Prayer on Australian Idol. No question, she’s scored two “Touchdowns” for the Seven show.
Last night’s “Legends” show also included a rendition of The Police’s Roxanne (but the lyric “you don’t have to sell your body to the night” was excised).
Ronan Keating questioned a Rihanna song being given to Joelle, with Keating insisting Rihanna doesn’t qualify for Legend status yet. He then proceeded to tell Joelle she was a “superstar.” Bizarre….
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The best thing is that Dami is not the typical person who is the favourite on these types of shows.
She’s killing it. It’s way too early to call her the winner. She has strong competition from Third D3gree. It only takes 1 bad performance to be knocked out though.
Roxanne’s lyrics were changed, but Joelle is singing: “Rude boy are you big enough? Rude boy can you get it up?”
Um…
It’s going to be Dami VS Third D3gree for the finale, hopefully… Jiordan a close third.
Let’s not forget that Susan Boyle came second. Sometimes the favourites do not win. I personally think she is incredible.
I would love to see Dami belt out a K-Pop song, bring something totally different to the show.
I am so pleased that Australia loves Dami. I have not read or heard a single racist comment, which is great. She could have international success.
I personally found Dami outdated and boring – would rather listen to Third degree and Jiordan. Dami will get in the top 3 but won’t win, and won’t sell a large amount of albums either
That poor kid is going to crash and burn big time.
It does help Dami that the other contestants, in my opinion, are really sub standard this year.
She’s amazing. But something tells me she won’t win because it’s too much of a deserved win. I still hope she does though!
I remember when Stan Walker sang Purple Rain on the final season of Idol, and that was pretty awesome, but Dami absolutely blew it out of the water last night. Brilliant stuff. Can’t wait to see what she does next.
I’ve never bought any music from an X Factor graduate, but I’d buy a Dami Im album in a heartbeat!
If you count her audition and boot camp performance, that’s a perfect 4 out of 4 standing ovations so far!
Dami is absolutely amazing. I just hope hope she can hang out till the end and win the bloody thing.
And what a great bunch of contestants this year – so diverse in all areas (whether it is musically, background, experience etc…) enjoying this years X Factor – Great job Channel 7
I’m not quite as enamored with Dami as others, but think she is emerging as one of the top 3 for this year’s finale. Remembering it is a popularity contest, the best singer invariably doesn’t win. I thought Jiordan was great, and Third Degree. Agree on discussion of Ronan’s subjective view. Bryan Adams a legend? Where do you draw the line? Beatles, Stones, Michael Jackson abbasalutely!
I opined the same thing last week, that she is clearly going to be the winner this year so they may as well not bother with the rest of the episodes. Just give Dami the award now. She is absolutely light years ahead of the competition, she is so much more accomplished and poised and there is a vast expanse of daylight between the power and range of her voice and the other contestants. She is easily as good as Anthony Callea, she is probably the best vocalist I’ve seen on a TV talent show since Idol started back in 2003. I can’t think of any female contestant, or male for that matter, who has been as outstanding vocally as she is.
I predict she will make it all the way to the end, then come 2nd. That’s how these things always go, the early favourite never wins.
That was a great episode though, vet entertaining. The judges are really good this season.
Agree with your assessment of Ronan, David. Such odd comments to make. To me, it feels like they’ve been told they can’t be too critical of Jai because he’s only 14 – both of his performances have been really pitchy, but the judges absolutely gush every time. Same with the trio the judges formed – both of their performances have been really pitchy but they rave about them. I think they don’t want their decision to form the group to look like a failure.
It’s definitely hers to lose but I wouldn’t write off Third D3gree or Jiordan just yet. I hope the three I just mentioned end up being the final three.
Dami is fair incredible! But not sure how she will go with an uptempo track we will see. Third D3gree are amazing to watch and I’m fairly sure they will be up there at the end aswell.
Whats bizarre is that they persist with Ronan Keating. He calls all his pets “Superstars” on this show. Apparently according to Ronan, Altiyan was also a “superstar”