Alfielina will be delighted to hear he is now a daughter!

Not at all, age has everything to do with it.  It's life experience. 

It isn't a classic song to my mind.  It's one of those cheesy Americana rock 'n' roll revival songs that became fashionable with many artists in the 70s and especially during the glam rock era.  If I was to pick an Elton John's theme song I would be more likely to say any of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Rocket Man", "Pinball Wizard", "I'm Still Standing", "Blue Eyes", "Nikita" or "Candle in the Wind". 

I'm not a fan of Elton John at all but those would be my guesses for his most well known songs.

I would bet that some five year olds know that song but in my view, it's still a generational thing and exposure depends on parents, own musical taste and chance.

I've not heard Crocodile Rock for years.  As I'm not in the habit of watching Elton John or listening to commercial radio or Radio 2, it's unlikely that I'll hear it again for many years to come.

You heard it last night   

As I said before, whether or not she was familiar with the song she should have listened to it a few times and done some research before hearing Paijes' version cos she had to judge and THAT'S HER JOB!

She gets paid 1.5 million a year for her role on X factor, blimmin earn it!

I'm still in shock that Cheryl Cole has any sort of career.

In TV terms I think she earns it. She has to look pretty whilst delivering a complex script, and she has to sit through some of the dreariest music imaginable. Last night plumbed new depths. Will they ever have a Smith's week? How about New Wave?

What utter bollocks. Why do they have to listen to the songs beforehand to judge whether they are performed well or not? Do you think they should do the same before all of the audition stages?

And how do you know she didn't listen to them all beforehand? I heard the song in question twice last night for the first time, but I'm still not familiar with it. Truth is you don't know and I don't know.

Probably more likely that she must not have listened to any shit music radio stations in her life, not any music radio stations full stop - the music channels and radio channels i listen to certainly wouldnt show that.
The song is probably one of those songs on those music channels that you flick through without even looking what's on because you know it's gonna be absolute dog wank no matter what.

Everyone on here knows my opinion on Miss Cole, she is an overated person.

It's not utter bollocks at all. So you think that someone who is employed to do a job to judge another persons performance should have no knowledge of what they're comparing the performance to? That's like putting a Judge in a courtroom who has no knowledge of the legalities of the defendant's case but still passing a sentence.

She said herself last night she wasn't familiar with the song before Paije sung it. And yes, I think if you are employed as a judge on X factor then damn right you should know what you're going to be comparing to, especially when it's the live finals and all judges know what each act will be singing every week. I'd go as far to say that the judges should know of a few versions of said song in order to make a considered judgement.

The prize is a 1 million pounds recording contract, a serious investment into an unknown who has a fast track to stardom. She's paid a hell of a lot of money to do what she does, she's supposed to be the professional and was employed (allegedly) for her knowledge and know how of the industry. I think it's farcical that she hadn't bothered to listen to a song before trying to judge it and pass a professional 'considered' opinion. Considered on what, exactly? He could have sung a completely different melody and she wouldn't have known.

Oppsss sorry, I'll re attatch his pee pee.

Don't they have a list to choose from for their artists? Surely then she should have familiarised herself with all the available choices before picking one for each of her contestants?

Yep, and he seems to still be able to play football, so Cheryl and her man Malaria should stop moaning.

But they aren't judging it. In the auditions they are, but not in the live shows. It's the public. They give their opinion of the performance, that's it. The only part of the live shows they do judge is the sing offs.

And what a crap thing to compare it to, a judge not knowing the legalities of a defendants case. Hardly the same is it!

Like I say, for all you know all the 'judges' could have listened to all the songs 10 times during the week leading up to last night, still if those 5 times are the first 5 times you've heard it it still doesn't make it familiar. Fact is we don't know whether she'd never heard it before or not. It's all assumptions to make more ammunition to throw at her.

And before you say it, I'm not saying this cos she's fit, because last week I didn't back her up because imo she was partly responsible for the farce that was last sundays results and deserved the sack for it, but this weekend is just nit picking.

I had chicken pox when I was 23 and although it was horrible it went within 3 weeks with no lasting effects.



Most people if not all in this day and age recover from malaria,  it's nothing more than a slightly bad fever.

Yeah she made the whole thing up, got the doctors, her friends, her family to all lie. She didn't collapse, wasn't in hospital at all, she was secretly sunning it on some private tropical island somewhere.

It's a tad more serious than that..


http://www.traveldoctor.co.uk/malaria.htm

When did I say she lied???   Im sure she was ill and was layed low for a while but was it really life threatening??   doubt it.

I looked at the site about malaria and they said it's sometimes" life threatening,  but for a pampered pop star I doubt it.

You've just asked a question, then answered it straight after.

But you suggested I said she was lying about being ill, I never said she made all that up, just over reacted to her illness.

If you think that then that's your choice, but why would she go to the trouble of getting the doctors to lie about it being life threatening as well if it really wasn't

Well, it is in theory. But to offer a more simple analogy, it's like a Geography teacher marking a student's essay on the rain forest, but not having any knowledge of the rain forest.

So why bother having judges on the live shows in the first place if none of what they say really matters?

And from mine (and most it seems) understanding, she said she wasn't familiar with the song before Paije had sung it, meaning that she hadn't heard it before he sung it. Even if she'd listened to it once she would have had a familiarity with it, non?

You and I will never agree about this, so might aswell agree to disagree. But as much as you are defending her based on the subject in hand and not cos you think she's fit, I am not banging on about it just because I don't like her either. Had this been any of the judges I would be saying the same. In my opinion, if you get paid to do a job, then do it properly.

I heard there was a mutual exchange of fluids.  The mosquito culprit has formed an insect 5 piece and is currently riding high in the Hot 100.  No word as yet on which footballer it'll be knocking off.

Malaria has killed more people in this world than anything else (even war) it is the biggest killer known to man. I daresay sometimes it's easily treatable but it will be dependent on a number of things - I wouldn't think her low body weight helped TBH.

Personally - I believe she was extremely ill but was fortunate enough to have excellent medical assistance on hand.

Did they really say that or did the press say the doctors said it was life threatening?


There was alot of hype going on at the time.

Yes YOU did - but you are not the only person in the world you know..

Yes, has anyone checked to see if the mosquito was alright??

Thats a shame, VS world would be brilliant.

I think that one either likes her or not. I have zero tolerance for Elton John but I don't refer to him as being over-rated.

Are you sure about that?

My take on the judge's forming an opinion  on a performance not having heard the original... I've heard quite a few songs on the show that were completely new to me and thought they were dire then later heard the original and liked the song. That says to me the contestant completely murdered the original so yes it's very important that the judge's have heard the original version of the song.

It's killed more people than any other disease or even war (over history) and I can't remember wher I read it (more than once) but it's true. It's a regular pub quiz question.

Are you not there already

It was used in Four Weddings & A Funeral - perhaps she's never seen that film either.

They interviewed the doctor for the Piers Morgan show and he said it was life threatening.

It has killed people who live in less developed countries who cant get medical treatment, but then flu in those countries is a killer too.

Hmmmm ok,  I still say she over reacted but I accept your point.

You guys keep gate crashing my world.

Mmmm, I'm not sure of the relevance of historical death tbh.  I mean Small Pox killed 300-500million (Wiki) in the last century but nowadays no one gives a shit about it on account of it being eradicated.

Malaria kills about 1million a year at the moment.  AIDS about 3million.  Given the choice of AIDS, Cancer or Malaria (which were mentioned earlier), I know which I'd rather have.