I normally don't pay a lot of attention to this group, outside of a few of them, but I wanted to this week because of Queen.

My main thoughts were that Simon doesn't have any idea of which songs to choose, and that too many of the men were wearing tight trousers; normally I wouldn't complain about that but when the guys walk like they sat on a horse too long, it's time to let them breathe.

Freddie Mercury had such a distinctive voice and the songs from Brian May and the others were so fitting for the band that apparently it's easy to forget how flat they can sound when other people try them.

Jamie was incredibly boring. "Radio Gaga" isn't even much of a song, it's Freddie that makes the song go. Jamie seems to be a duller Justin Guarini, in that his afro is his main selling point.

"Don't Stop Me Now" is my favorite Queen song but I don't understand why Simon would want anyone to sing that. Even if Olly had a better voice, it was way too much. The dancing was awful. The tight pants and the pelvic thrusts were embarrassing. I've never completely gotten what "dad dancing" means until then.

Danyl is boring, and when he sings, he spends half the time looking smug and the other half looking terrified. He sings like a Tina Turner impersonator. Everything was through his nose. The song was consistent, which is better than the usual pattern of saving everything until the end, but it was consistently mediocre and self-indulgent, as Simon would say about any act which isn't his.

Stacey was good, she didn't shriek like McPhee, but everything about her is beige. Even her dress, it seemed.

Lloyd was lucky enough to get a song which relies on some faint charm and personality, which he managed to supply for once, and not so much on vocals. The vocals they did have, he did an OK job with. It was one of the few performances of the night which I actually bought as a Queen style performance.

You have to admire the twins for working so hard. I thought they were handed a lot of lemons. The arrangement was terrible. They should have just let them rap throughout, instead of making them sing any of "Under Pressure". It was way over their heads, not only the vocals but also the meaning of the song. And to have them stand up there and sing the "obi de" or whatever that part is, it's just dead air for anyone to sing that part. I thought they were given a much more difficult task than almost anyone last night, so I give them points for the effort.

My favorite was probably Joe. He can't move on stage, and he has no soul, which hurts with "Somebody to Love" (my other favorite Queen song). Still, I would rather see no edge than a fake one (Jamie), and he really nailed those soaring vocals on that song in a way I have not heard very often. It's BS that the chorus did the work for him. A lot of that was him, at least near the end.