Thanks to a voting snafu that transformed last Thursday’s “The X Factor” results show into a performance show mulligan, Wednesday’s episode opened with an elimination.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for Team Paulina member Carlos Guevara, he was on the receiving end of that ax and thus uninvited from the night’s performance show.<\/p>\n
Or, perhaps the word is “fortunately,” because while the elimination meant Guevara’s “X Factor” journey had come to a close, it also meant he avoided involvement in the embarrassment that was “80s Night.”<\/p>\n
With a performance spectrum ranging from aural toxicity to middling karaoke, the Top 12 show epitomized the word nightmare. Victimized by painfully off-key vocals, cheesy song selections and distracting choreography, the episode amplified the reality series’ worst tendencies without delivering any of the requisite upside.<\/p>\n
Only Josh Levi delivered a performance that compared favorably to his past work on the show, and he was far from perfect.<\/p>\n
Telling you all you need to know about the night is the fact that not even media, judge and producer favorites Alex and Sierra were immune from negative marks. That a collective of voices so committed to overrating that particular act could not refrain from pointing out its shortcomings is proof enough of how poorly the night went.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s results show features two eliminations (please, can’t there be more?) and performances from Selena Gomez and Fifth Harmony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048,1049],"tags":[1191,1189,1190,806],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n