Were you watching X Factor this weekend?
If so, you’ll know that this week the contestants were singing George Michael songs to mark his incredible career but this didn’t exactly go to plan.
Two of the acts decided to sing songs that George Michael covered instead of ones from his impressive back catalogue and unsurprisingly, viewers were really annoyed.
The Cutkelvins siblings sang Seal’s Killer and The Temptations’ Papa Was A Rolling Stone, songs that George Michael sang before while Grace Davies went with I Can’t Make You Love Me, the Bonnie Raitt version.
Fans of the show expressed their rage at the fact that these contestants ‘broke’ the long-standing rule by sending the below tweets.
Needless to say, they were NOT happy.
So Grace Davies didn’t sing George Michael then ??♂️ #Xfactor #FixFactor
— Dan (@DanDares2) November 12, 2017
That was beautiful by Grace but this is George Michael week ffs, not songs he covered #xfactor
— Richard Smith (@middlestump1989) November 12, 2017
Oh noooo Grace that was not good and NOT a George Michael song #xfactor
— Yolande Kaspers (@YoeyKaspers) November 12, 2017
When Grace does a cover of a song that George Michael did a cover of #XFactor pic.twitter.com/AhJdx1mTdg
— Estella Joyce??♀️ (@LelJoyce) November 12, 2017
Interesting that grace is butchering a song that isn’t a George Michael song on George Michael week , atrocious #xfactor
— therowleyranger (@therowleyranger) November 12, 2017
Yep, that decision on Grace’s behalf didn’t impress viewers, it had the very opposite effect.
The same goes for The Cutkelvins too.
In my opinion The Cutkelvins should have left last night not Jack & Joel.. They were the weakest act, didn’t really perform a George Michael song & they are still struggling with the whole “being a group” when performing… #XFactor
— Chelseaa Jadee (@ChelseaaJadee98) November 12, 2017
That was really poor from The Cutkelvins. They butchered the song. Was that even George Michael’s? Not a tribute if you don’t sing his song #XFactor
— zima (@maaadcow) November 12, 2017
ITS GEORGE MICHAEL WEEK NOT COVERS WEEK @TheCutkelvins WHY DID YOU DO THAT SONG??? #xfactor
— Just Like Lilie (@JordiFtTommo) November 11, 2017
am I missing something or did the #cutkelvins just do a seal tune on George Michael night #XFactor
— Steven Lindsay (@bops1973) November 11, 2017
George Michael has so many incredible songs…so why didn’t the Cutkelvins sing one of them?!
Rules clearly don’t apply to them:
a) they’re not a ‘group’, they’re a soloist with backup singers and
b) it’s George Michael week, sing one of his originals!@TheXFactor #XFACTOR— Catharine (@peripericat) November 11, 2017
Yep, this weekend shows didn’t impress X Factor viewers so here’s hoping next week’s Crazy in Love theme is an improvement…
