Justice was served, and my faith in the British public has been well and truly restored. Actually, I wonder if Leon’s victory in part led to Eoghan’s downfall? Perhaps those who voted for Leon felt stupid when they realised the true crapness the rest of us saw all along, and they didn’t want to make the same mistake with Eoghan. I expected Alexandra to win, so I was most pleased about JLS being the runner-up, as it meant we didn’t have to hear Eoghan singing Hallelujah, cos that would have been beyond upsetting. At the final 4 stage, I was just glad that half the contestants remaining were good, but never thought that those 2 would be the 2 in the final. It’s so nice to be proven wrong!
Now we can think about Alexandra, and I’m really excited about her future career as a fantabulous popstar, but also hesitant to state for certain that she will be a megastar like Leona. I’m sure that Simon and his record company pals will try to launch her in the USA after the amazing success of Leona, and it won’t be hard to market her as ‘the new Leona’… but this will only work if she has a song as amazing as Bleeding Love. And that will only happen if Simon and pals use their little brains and pay someone brilliant (even Ryan Tedder again would be fine) to create one – or better yet, steal one off someone undeserving like Jesse McCartney! Alexandra deserves to be even bigger than Leona in my opinion, because a) she sings upbeat songs as well as ballads, and b) she has an actual personality and is a million times better for the representation of women than just-so-bloody-grateful Leona! So please can someone just make it happen? This is an opportunity NOT to be wasted.