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It's not the sort of thing that usually tickles my ears, but I'm grading on a curve here and it's infinitely better than the sort of drivel that The X Factor usually inflicts on us.
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We've been hearing about how Leona's been off to the US and working with all sorts of people, but it was a very long time before we heard any results, and there were points where I wondered if we were supposed to have forgotten she existed, but no, here she is with her first proper single. Since then I've found myself wondering what precisely happens when The X Factor, through luck more than deliberation I imagine, actually finds itself with a talented winner. Then of course there was that rather brilliant moment when Gary Barlow rather brilliantly owned Simon on the X Factor finale last year by basically accusing him of lumbering the winner of these shows with a bunch of third-rate castoffs for their albums and warning him that if he did that to Leona, he'd be sending the boys round (presumably not Take That, although that would've been brilliant). Anybody know where we can find any songs that weren't originally turned down by Westlife."Įxec 3: "Shall I call Simon? He might know somebody." They might throw stones at us."Įxec 1: "Can't we fix it for that annoying swing kid to win?"Įxec 2: "Wouldn't that look like a bit of an obvious sabotage, though?"Įxec 1: "Gah, we're screwed. She might never be in the bottom two at this rate."Įxec 2: "Anyone got a video of this girl?Įxec 1: "What the hell are we supposed to do with HER?"Įxec 2: "If we trot out another Westlife covers album and record her vocals in a toolshed the weekend before Christmas like we usually do, people are going to be cross. She's actually doing really well in the votes. She can actually sing like Christina or Whitney while still being connecting with the emotional heart of a song in a way that makes it more than just a two-bit karaoke version, and people seem to like her."Įxec 1: "Yes, but she won't win, will she? We always get rid of the good ones in week four by pitting them against a one-armed puppy-juggler singing 'How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?' in the showdown, and they always lose."Įxec 3: "But that's just it. You have to stay true to your heritage, that’s what your brand is about.Exec 3: "Um, guys? I don't want to worry anyone, but there's this girl called Leona and she's actually quite good. I think I’d go mad if I didn’t have a place to escape to. I don’t like things to be staged or fussy. Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity. Sofia has a very average facade as you enter the city, but once you lose yourself in the old town area, everything changes.Ĭlothes can transform your mood and confidence. This was an easy city to navigate, and it was a beautiful city – despite its ugly, staunch and stolid communist-built surrounds.
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I had low expectations about Sofia as a city, but after the walking tour I absolutely loved the place. We were exhausted after a long day of travel, so we headed back to the hotel and crashed. Headed over Lions Bridge and made our way to the Sofia Synagogue, then sheltered in the Central Market Hall until the recurrent (but short-lived) mid-afternoon rain passed.įeeling refreshed after an espresso, we walked a short distance to the small but welcoming Banya Bashi Mosque, then descended into the ancient Serdica complex.