Rhydian : Bad Hair Day

The Mens Hair Care Tips Blog (the bald facts about the hair industry) has a list of the Brylcreem Best and Worst Hairstyles of 2007. Rhydian ' the haircut' Roberts features in one list and bizarrely it is not in one of the 'best' lists.

He comes third in the Worst TV Personality Hairstyles of 2007.

1. James May(Top Gear), 2. Simon Cowell, 3. Rhydian, 4. Vernon Kaye 5. Peter Andre

Are they mad...Brylcreem is a company whose main product is perfect for the making of quiffs, for getting your hair to stick up electric shock style from your scalp. One can't help but feel that they are missing a trick on a massive scale. Rhydian should be their man of the year. Not only has he the best hair in pop, he is constantly changing it's style. If they made him haircut of the year their product would sell liked greased (should that be bryled) lightning.
And who do they think has the best TV hair? 1. Richard Hammond ?. Please examine carefully the accompanying photograph. One of these men has unique individual style and looks every inch a star, whereas one looks like shit. The fact that Rhydian didn't win this is a scandal almost greater than ITV rigging the phone voting. Now is the time to start the boycott the Brylcreem campaign, slogan: Give the Grease the Elbow

Rhydian:bits and pieces

The You Tube of Rhydian's performance of You'll Never Walk Alone in Cardiff on Monday is linked to in sidebar. Plus there is an MP3 available there too.
A quick round up of news about Rhydian and the two other final acts.

Rhydian has been offered a part in a forthcoming Little Britain sketch. One can only guess which Little Britain character he will be playing against. There are rumours that Leon will also appear in a sketch, with the hypnotist Kenny Craig who, in the show, will hypnotise X Factor viewers into believing that Leon can sing in tune. Look into my eyes, not around the eyes....
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In the final, as everyone now knows, Rhydian may sing a duet with Katherine Jenkins. Leon may be matched with Kylie Minogue. An odd choice as the only thing they appear to have in common is their height. There has been no word as yet on a pair for The Same Difference. Dollar would seem an obvious choice. But if the producers want to double their viewers they should choose that other great duo who play with the idea of whether they are really brother and sister or partners...The White Stripes. Wouldn't it be great to see Meg and Sarah hammering the drums as Jack and Sean share lead vocals on Hotel Yorba
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Two more stories about the band they are calling 'Third in X Factor 2007' Same Difference have been turned into insomniacs by the show. And then there is a headline that says Same Difference banned from Having Sex I daren't look. Are the two stories connected? Anyone who knows please leave me a message.

Rhydian: News...Rhydian (not Phoebe) is a Dog!

A good review of last Saturday's perfomance on ROT WATCH. Highlights, "Rhydian stole the show...he managed to bring a tear to Rotwatcher's peep, while Mrs Rot was weeping buckets. Leon was ok, if you like crooner re-treads. Hope did a Christina Aguilera song which I didn't now, which I find no compulsion to remedy. Phoebe has a horrible, harsh instrument and some serious intonation problems...Simon must have paid for armies of tin-eared monkeys to phone to keep Same Difference"
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Fearne Cotton in This Is Scotland is quoted as saying, "I think Rhydian is great. Career-wise he could be really successful and at this point I would put my money on him" but then loses all our respect when she confuses vunerability with stagefright, "I really like Leon because he gets really nervous and I think that you get to see his vulnerability"
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Organ Grinder in the Guardian asks, Is This Really A Talent Show? and makes the usual points, but about Rhydian he says,"(He) made a glorious comeback from last week's lacklustre performance. He gave us a goosebump-inducing version of West Side Story's Somewhere. Sharon rightly pointed out what a huge mistake Andrew Lloyd Webber had made by not noticing Rhydian's talent for musical theatre in the auditions for Joseph."
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RHYDIAN NEWS OF THE DAY is from Dogs Blog.com (Bring Joy, adopt a dog) which is a dog adoption blog (I kid you not). They have a great looking new greyhound to adopt, called, Rhydian. "Rhydian is 5 months old and was found straying in County Durham. He has a touch of kennel cough poor lad, but he is gorgeous. He races around and throws himself at you.He is a very obedient lad, house-trained, good with everyone and everything. He will need a home with the time and patience to train and socialise a pup."
Don't all rush at once.

Rhydian: News from the Blogs no:523

In the old days if you wanted to become a singing super star you honed your craft by countless hours touring the country and singing to disinterested people. Today all you need to do is make a Minogue cry, albeit on television. A sorry state of affairs...but he did sing Somewhere marvellously. So, what does the world at large think of 2007s X Factor winner, Rhydian?

Peggy's Shirley Bassey Blog (Shirley is forever),"Rhydian Roberts performed another winner this week... It looks like another Welsh singer is going to be a big star!"
Perez Hilton ,"He won’t be quite the international superstar that Leona Lewis is poised to be, but Rhydian will be a good X Factor champ. He’s definitely the best of this season’s lot. He brought Dannii to tears!"
The Simon Times (a blog obsessively all about one person(imagine that!), Simon Cowell) quotes Dannii in More magazine,"Rhydian Roberts is very handsome in real life. He's great. He's perfectly well proportioned and a real gentleman, and I love that. People love to hate him but when they meet him they change their minds and say “I love this guy.” He's cool.'
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Lucy's blog (Don't piss off the writer, she might write a book about you and kill you!) A brilliant read, "X Factor was somewhat shit last night. Except I was watching it in my pyjamas in bed, which was ace! My fluffy pyjamas, at that." she goes on to say how shocked she is about Bev, then," I think Hope were pretty shit to be honest, but it's only because loads of blokes are perving on them and voting for them, I reckon." and on to the Rhydler and it's not looking good for him,"...this year I'm not really willing anyone to win, as long as its not Rhydian. He sends chills through me when he sings, and not in a good way. Ergh. He's sooo bloody vile and I didn't know the song he was singing either." So maybe don't visit Lucy's blog for Rhydian love but at least she had this missive about SD,"Same Difference made me want to spew up... pretty sure the only reason I didn't is because I'd wolfed down the last of my Cadbury's Buttons and I wasn't going to waste them. Instead I took a nice big swig of my vodka and coke." Excellent stuff.
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No Damn Blog blog (The rants, raves and ramblings of an author and editor living in the land of the long lunch) A seriously good post which makes the valid point that Rhydian doen't spit at his audience. What's not to like about that?, "Why do so many people tag Rhydian Roberts, X Factor’s outstanding contestant, as weird? His current hair style is a little odd, agreed, but that’s not his choice. Leaving aside his “makes-my-hair-stand-on-end-voice”, he has a great physique; loves his family; doesn’t spit at audiences. He’s polite; he has performed graciously and good-naturedly and kept his dignity when dressed as Liberace and later in the horrible sailor suit. He’s a Christian (I’m not, but I don’t think that being one necessarily qualifies as being weird). He’s well-educated, well-spoken, and as far as I have been able to see, doesn’t have any piercings. He doesn’t say “You know what I mean?” at the end of every sentence.So how, precisely, is he weird? "

Rhydian: Quiff News

A lot of jealous negative comments about Rhydian today mainly from lifeless hacks filling space in provincial newspapers.
The Middleton Guardian reports,"Meanwhile, on top of the misery of (...waffle about sport...), more misery is being heaped on the Land of My Fathers.
And this time it is because of the one thing that we actually look likely of winning. I’m talking about that whippy-haired, ego-manic freak show that goes by the name of Rhydian on the X-Factor.
Believe me, if you don’t do something to stop him you are surely going to send up seeing this pompous little fellow voted the winner by Christmas."
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And from the little know and even littler read My Park Magazine,"22 November 2007 - Foghorn-voiced Rhydian Roberts is to cover a Barbra Streisand song on the forthcoming edition of the X Factor." Foghorn? They cement their musical knowledge by stating, "Beverley is set to have a go at Without You - a beautiful ballad originally sung by Harry Nilsson but made legendary by Mariah Carey in the 1990s." which as any fool knows was made legendary by Harry and warbled all over by Mariah and also by Leona Lewis (Mariah-lite singer and last year's Rhydian)
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And to answer the question we have all been asking for weeks visit Answer Questions where they pose,If Rhydian was a chocolate bar, which one would he be and why?

Answers include:-
Dunno about chocolate bar but reckon he could be a pepperami
Not a yorkie anyway - too camp for that!!!!!
One of those Toffee or caramel ones that gets left behind in the Roses tin.....hehehehe
I think he would be a Double Decker. As there are so many layers of him, so many different sides of him. He can be serious, elaborate, funky, is there anything this guy can't do?
in a bizarre way he does resemble the "milky bar kid"...only a lot older and taller
Hard on outside soft on inside caramel or cream
turkish delight..... they're disgusting.
Something nutty.
a williy wonker bar coz hes a gay ponce aristocratic wannabe
A milkybar!!! - eccentric yet strangely tasty. Extra moreish and enjoyable

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Rhydian: goes to college

The Camarthen Journal is reporting Rhydian (Wales first winner of the X Factor) made a surprise visit to his old school, Llandovery College, on Monday. The paper reports he made a flying visit and was given a hero's welcome , "The first thing he wanted to do was find his music teacher Vivienne Couch and our head of music Emma Lewis. Then he crept up on some unsuspecting year eight pupils in the middle of a singing lesson." I bet they got a shock.
The Welsh wonder, dressed head to toe in a diamond encrusted white leather flying suit then visited the rugby pitches followed by his parents' home. His Mother said, "It was wonderful to be able to make him a cup of tea in his favourite cup again - it seems such a long time."
At The Rhydian Factor we believe we know what the Rhydler's favourite cup looks like. It's the 'Born To Be Mrs Rhydian Roberts' tea mug and is on E Bay for a mere £4.99.

read the full article here ; see the Born to be Mrs Rhydian Roberts mug here

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Rhydian: Mirror Mirror on the Wall...

Shocking X Factor news in today's Daily Mirror.
Leon has accused Rhydian (winner of X Factor 2007) of cheating, "Leon, 21, said, 'It's not fair he's had seven years of voice coaching and singing lessons. None of the rest of us have had that. Rhydian can sing and that makes the playing field uneven as far as I'm concerned.' Bubbly Midlands songstress Niki, 43, added, 'Also, both his parents are still alive. That can't be fair can it?' The Mirror contacted Simon Cowell's office to ask him about the latest scandal to hit X Factor and was given a statement which read, 'Simon has a girlfriend. He is not and has never been gay.'"

Further comments on Rhydian's Go West performance appear to back the majority view that it wasn't his best song selection or performance but mention must go to the people who comment on the videos on You Tube. Under Rhydian's video someone stated that they weren't happy with his performance. They weren't complaining about song choice, perceived campness, his voice or choice of costume. No, they were upset because he saluted with his left arm rather than his right. "No country in the world has an army that salutes with their left arm," they fumed. Sack the choreographer I say.

(Only 1 of the above stories is made up)

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Rhydian: More News from the blogs

What are people saying about last night's performance by the Rhydler?
OMG I Love her Style say, "I have now turned all my support to my second favourite the incredible Rhydian Roberts!!This week, he camped it up to the extreme with a cover of the Village People's Go West.he's the most fabulous and over the top contestant on the show!!!P.S. How can you not love a guy with a quiff like that?"
TV Scoop,"Clearly way outside his comfort zone tonight - and he admitted as much - Rhydian nevertheless once again showed what a true professional he is and gave everything to his performance. No matter what this guy does it's always entertaining and always worth watching"
Bright Vision, a blog that Thora Hird would still approve of gets it just about right"Rhydian’s performance was not his best but I still loved watching him and seeing his enjoyment as he performed. Tonight’s show was the least enjoyable for me. I hope the next week’s theme is better than disco. I was not so keen on the music chosen tonight. Rhydian is the only performer we can rely on"
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Exitainment, "They are always harping on about the acts being modern, then they set them themes like country music, or heavy metal week (actually, that would be amusing) then moan at them for not being contemporary." He goes on to say how all the acts left him cold including, "Rhydian- awful" then, "Dannii seemed to have a mild form of retardation that made her make stupid comments really loudly, followed by a 'woo!' "
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But X Factor post of the week goes to Gettographer which has a brilliant post titled, "Alisha to win X Factor" and dated 17/11. The entry has been edited at 9.30 to read, "Unfortunately Alisha didn't make it to the next round."

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News of the Rhydian:The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

As tonight's episode creeps ever closer, a few bits of Rhydian News.
The good...
Unreality TV report that Girls Aloud have watched Rhydian's rehearsal of Go West. He believed his performance, wearing a navy uniform, might possibly be too camp but they told him he was brilliant and to "camp it up...the camper the better". Hmmm. Read the full report here.
the bad...
Blogger miss x states in a post titled 'Made in Wales, Made me Cringe', that, "...this man is not a pop star, which is what this competition is all about - finding The Next Big Thing. If there's any place that would suit The Riddler down to the ground it's musical theatre. Know what I mean?" Read the rest of her dribblings here, leave comments, etc..
...and the ugly

NOW magazine reports Danniii Minogue as saying, "I am not having any more Botox" Presumably because there is none left. She's had it all.
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Rhydian:news from the blogs

The Guardian online blog (almost as good a read as Peggy's Shirley Bassey blog but not quite) has a good article all about the Rhydler. Titled 'Get Ready for Rhydian' the article describes the Rhydian effect well, "The Welsh baritone is an unstoppable juggernaut who crashes through your Saturday peak viewing, grabs you by the lapels, bellows into your face and demands your undivided attention" The writer has a go at deciding who he looks like, " turning up for his Pink cover looking like Max Headroom styled by Liberace" and says why he must win, "we need someone as talented as Rhydian if the show is to make someone a real star."
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Also on the Guardian there is an article on bench pressing which mentions, "Rhydian has a claim to fame from a decade ago that ensures he'll get the votes of weight trainers across the land. Roberts, it turns out, was the junior Welsh bench press champion, and fifth best in the UK."
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And finally the story titled 'Rhydian does Westlife' on ITV.com is, unfortunately, not a report on the Rhydmeister's violent physical attack on Westlife, rather it is just a link to last week's video.
MP3s:because it's ages till he sings again heres some psychedelic indie stuff
The Panda Band:Eyelashes
video~panda band:eyelashes

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Rhydian:news from the blogs

What does the world of blogs think of the Rhydler's killer performance on Saturday?
The Bright Vision blog(the sort of blog that would be approved by Dame Thora Hird) reports:
"The performance of the night was Rhydian, which was no surprise to us! We both look forward to seeing and experiencing his performances, as we are never disappointed. I would love to have a DVD of his performances from the shows and see him perform. Last night’s performance ... was raised to a new height by Rhydian’s interpretation; it held us spell bound!"
They then spoil it a little by saying, "We always feel happy and uplifted whenever the group, Same Difference perform, as they are so obviously happy and put so much professionalism into each performance."
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Peggy's Shirley Bassey Blog which is the place to go for all you Bassmeister information said: "Wow! Rhydian will win the UK’s X Factor singing contest!
He’s a kind of male vocal equivalent of DSB(Dame Shirley Bassey)… powerful, expressive, and born in music-mad Cardiff"
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Perez Hilton who a week ago was slagging Rhydian "Think of him like the British Sangina or Gayken." now has had a suprising change of mind,"We may have misjudged Rhydian! He is our favorite on this season of the X Factor, but we thought he was a one-trick pony. A deliciously camp and over-the-top entertainer. Well, he is that….and much more."
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Brilliant blog DanniisXFactor(quoting the Sun):"X Factor favourite Rhydian Roberts was stunned when David Walliams asked for a special audience with him."
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and finally, The Shropshire Star never one for hyperbole, Louis Walsh told Rhydian: “I’ve heard hundreds and thousands of covers of that song and yours was one of the best I’ve ever heard."

Having to listen to thousands of covers of You Raise me Up sounds like some sort of Guantanamo Bay soft-torture technique. Maybe that explains why Louis seems so bewildered this series.

MP3s-ages till Rhydian sings again so some more disco
Heatwave:Boogie Nights
KC and the Sunshine Band:I'm Your Boogie Man
Sister Sledge:We Are Family
video:Sister Sledge:He's the greatest dancer.
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Rhydian: news from the blogs

X Factor forums and chatrooms have been alive all week discussing Futureproof's exit from the competition. Futureproof, a band that couldn't be more inappropriately named unless they called themselves '8 Track Stereo Cartridge'. Anyway, most discussion centres around how they would have survived if only they put the two short fellas in the middle rather than always stuck out on the ends. But this blog is not about losers, it is about Rhydian.
Some comments on the Rhydler from blogs and newspapers:-
A random comment from Rhydian fan facebook wall:

"His performance of Phantom absolutely blew me away! If I had been at home at the time then I would have voted for him!"
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from the blog louphoria:
"Rhydian Roberts (what a delicious name!), what a performer, what a voice, and what an interesting guy. I’ve always gone for the quirky ones, and let’s face it, we all know I have a soft spot for red heads. But it’s the respect I have for him for being so incredibly entertaining that makes him so appealing to me."
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from the must read Bucks Free Press:
"Silver-suited Rhydian's act was like Liberace meets Shirley Bassey, and not in a good way I hasten to add. His delivery was something akin to Robosinger, but the judges loved it!" ....then, hilariously, talking about Same Difference:"It was a bit like watching The Carpenters on LSD"
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And my favourite comment, possibly of all time, is from The Shropshire Star
"As a music mogul myself, albeit in a previous incarnation, I’d agree with Cowell’s assessment. Rhydian’s rendition of the classic Pink standard was inspirational. He owned the stage and made the song his own. In the words of Frankie Goes To Hollywood: The world is his oyster!"
Harold St. John Peasbody
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MP3s: delicate, haunting it's The Young Marble Giants
Young Marble Giants: Searching for Mr Right
Young Marble Giants: Salad Days
Young Marble Giants: Choci Loni
video: YMG: NITA

Rhydler News

Rhydian is highlighted in a brilliant article on the Anglophina website.(read full article here)
"The contestant making headlines this season is a 24-year-old classically-trained Welsh opera vocalist named Rhydian Roberts
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He's really unlike anything you've likely seen before. Decked out in sequined suits and a platinum-blonde pompadour, and channeling, at once, Pavarotti, Liberace, and Blade Runner-era Rutger Hauer, he singlehandedly turns X-Factor from a cheesy talent show to a Vegas-style Aryan pep rally"

Rhydian Roberts Nightmares?
There has been a lot of discussions in various X Factor forums regarding the question that Rhydian is scaring small children. Surely this is all just ludicrous nonsense. It is often the most innocuous thing that can scare children and cause nightmares. Almost any of this year's contestants could cause a child to be scared, especially if they came at them with a knife (like, say, Emily)
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And because Beverley attempted Nina Simone's Feeling Good last Saturday and we still have to wait what seems like ages for more music from Rhydian we have some nice MP3s by the goddess of the blues, the wonderful Nina Simone.

Nina Simone: Do I Move You?
Nina Simone: In The Dark
Nina Simone: My Man's Gone Now
Phenomenal: video performance by Nina of Aint Got No..

Rhydian: Reviews of the Rhydler

Some recent reviews and comments on Rhydian show that not everyone can have taste.
Patty Hose blog
"On this season of the British reality talent show X-Factor, they came up with a really creepy looking queen calling herself Rhydian, who does have a good voice for show toons. Watch her version of The Phantom of the Opera.... then a frightening impersonation of Liberace while butchering Pink's Get The Party Started.
Pink should sue her for wrecking her song! I'll never be able to listen to it in the same way again! What a freak!"
(The Rhydian Factor has suggested to Ms.Patty Hose that Rhydian did his best. As we told her, you can't make a good piece of furniture from a bad piece of wood.)
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And from Betfair we get this...
"Rhydian performed the Shirley Bassey version of "Get The Party Started" with a delivery and outfit that was camper than Christopher Biggins at a scout jamboree.
A warm favourite in the outright market, the operatic has the quirkiness to carry off such absurdity but is it a worry as to when voters become tired of the joke?"
(You know what to do, get your money on Rhyd and take them for every penny they've got)

However, positive comments from:
Deliah's Live Journal
"This guy is my new favorite human. I will 100% buy his first album. He's like Marc Almond with classical vocal training. Love it. Love it."
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Rhydian Lookalikee #8
When you look at the Riddler do you think that his music is the language of the spirit. That it opens the secret of life bringing peace and abolishing strife, OR, do you think he looks a little like Billy Fury, 1950's rock and roll star?
MP3s
Billy Fury:Maybe Tomorrow
Billy Fury:A Thousand Stars
Billy Fury:Jealousy
video: Billy Fury ~once upon a dream

RRRRRRhydian: The First Tribute Song to the Rhydmeister

The first tribute song to Rhydian (Welsh champion bench presser and future winner of X Factor 2007) has been made. It's a corker and we urge readers to listen to it, memorise it's lyrics and make famous the band from Manchester who wrote it : Federal Drugs Administration
FDA are a punk pop/death metal band; think Slipknot crossed with Half Man Half Biscuit and then add Pete Shelley from the Buzzcocks on vocals.The song is called Rrrrhydian.
Over magnificent buzzsaw guitars the lyrics go:

Rhydian voice: "Hello I'm Rhydian from the X Factor. Bow down before my ridiculously big blonde helmet, you foolish humans" [evil laugh]

Singer:
Oh Rhydian, Oh Rydian
With you there is no meridian
They either love you or they hate you
But you hit our mark
Rhydian, Oh Rydian
Oh nothing rhymes with Rhydian
Just please don't come and meet us after dark.

Rhydian voice:"I'm a freak, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here. I don't belong here or do I"
Singer:
Rhydian, Oh Rydian
You do things in your idiom
You take a tune and cut it , like Dr Frankenstein
Rhydian, Oh Rhydian
You really are not kiddying
You are still wearing that halloween mask
After all this time
Rhydian voice "I'm the phantom of the X Factor. I'm here inside your mind. I'm the phantom of the X Factor. I'm here and now you're mine" [evil laugh]

Your actual pop genius!
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MP3 of Rrrrhydian by Federal Drugs Administration here
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Rhydian: After The Party

The dust has settled after the party. After Rhydian tore up the X Factor Stage. What does the world think of his efforts:-

Peggy's Shirley Bassey Fan Blog was quite impressed by the Rhydler "The orchestration was an exact copy of Dame Shirley’s, and he wore a silver sequinned suit." But she was dissapointed that "No credit to Dame Shirley Bassey was given in the show"
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Unreality TV Blog has Rhydian topping their favourites poll for the third week running "He has stage presence, he is charismatic and he is different"
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News of The World are favouring Beverley. On Rhydian: "I enjoyed his stage presence - but would I want to listen to a whole album by him?"
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On Rhydian's Facebook support group:
"If the Riddler does not win it is the biggest set up since Michelle Mcfatus won"
"marry me! marry me! marry me!"
"Yes! Another week and another great show from the Rhyddler! What can he not do?!"

As we now have another week to wait till we can get more Rhydler we post some opera MP3s for your enjoyment.
Tatiana Troyanos sings Habanera from Carmen (Bizet)
Luciano Pavarotti sings Un di felice from La Traviata (Verdi)

Rhydian to Get the Party Started

Rumours abound about the choice of song that the Rhydmeister will sear into the nation's consciousness on Saturday night. It's not Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bohemian Rhapsody or even Creep. Instead, possibly, it will be that tribute to dropping Ecstasy ~ Get the Party Started by Pink.

No doubt Rhydian will sing it in the style of Wales' third best singer Shirley Bassey - but even so it is an inspired choice.

But surely it's about time the X Factor team put some sort of decent production around the singers. What I want to see is, as the music starts, Rhydian being lowered from the ceiling sitting cross legged on a giant ecstacy tab. To improve it even more they could have the other X Factor contestants staring up in awe from the stage. And instead of having a smiley face the ectasy pill has Rhyd's face drawn on it. As Rhydian lands on the stage he stares at the camera and a nation understands that this is a singer better than any drug.
The Rhyddler has arrived and it's time to start the party.

Rhydian Roberts lookalikee #5

When you look at Rhydian you may find yourself contemplating that people are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Or you might find yourself thinking that he looks a little like 1960's pop star Heinz from the Tornadoes.
(for younger readers the Tornadoes had a hit with Telstar in 1962)


Rhydian News: Rhydian doesn't dazzle Graham Norton

Graham Norton, the poor man's Frankie Howard, has criticised this year's X Factor contestants as not being 'dazzling' enough. He is quoted in the dazzling, soaraway Sun as saying, "I suppose it just shows how shallow the talent pool is in Britain at the moment if that’s the best we can come up with."
Obviously the rock pool of talent was overflowing with pond life when Norton slithered out of it with his lame double entendres.
Has the man not seen Rhydian Roberts! A man so full of talent it's scary. Has he not heard 'the voice'? Does he not know how Rhydian enthralls and scares the viewers?

In further X Factor news Daniel, the loser, has claimed that there was a conspiracy against him. He says that his song choice was changed at the last minute from When Doves Cry to Build Me Up Buttercup ( a song he performed so appallingly that there are rumours he may be sued for defamation and loss of earning by the song's original singers, The Foundations)

Daniel claims that Simon may have had some part in his song selection? because he saw him as a threat to his acts????
video:Heinz~live it up

Rhydian Roberts lookalikee #2

By now every one should be in agreement that whenever you look at Rhydian you think to yourself that rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

But what if you think of something else...what if you think that Rhydian looks like someone familiar. Is it him? Is it Paul Gascoine?


The Rhydian Effect: Werewolves in Wales

Whilst trawling the newspapers for info on Wales Greatest Singing Bench Presser I found the following:

A HALF naked man up a tree sparked a major police operation after he refused to come down.The man woke neighbours by crying and howling like a wolf when he climbed the tree in Cathays, Cardiff, early today. After refusing to come down, the police were called and they blocked off the road surrounding the tree on the corner of Cathays Terrace and Maindy Road.
A witness said: “He’s been there since the X Factor finished on the telly. At first I thought it was a dog howling, he was crying. I came out to have a chat with him but he just said ‘leave me alone, it’s my tree’"
Not only can the Rhydler quieten Celine Dion he is turning the sane into tree climbing werewolves. later in the story....

Onlookers said that the unshaven man, who had blonde spiky hair, was covered in mud and only wearing a pair of black tracksuit bottoms and had kicked off his shoes under the treeBlond spiky hair!
read the story here

Rhydian News : death threats!

The Daily Post has reported that there have been death threats made to Welsh bench presser and owner of the biggest voice in show business. The threats apparently have been made on Internet chat rooms and forums (so obviously we are talking about skinny nerdy geeks jealous of Rhydians physique) and appear to focus on his supposed arrogance.

Rhydd is reported as saying,"I know there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance and I am confident because I have been training for five years as a singer."
X Factor creative director is also quoted as saying that he believes that contestants should be psychologically tested to ensure they can deal with the stress, fame and rejection that the show entails.
One thing is clear - there should be random drug testing on the show. This would immediately eliminate those loathsome, hopped up popstrels Same Difference