A lot of expectation was resting on Lucie Jones for her first live performance on the X Factor last night. The bookies' favorite to win the competition going into the live finals, Lucie was under pressure to put on a big vocal performance.
So did she pull it off?
Choosing to sing "Footprints in the Sand" by 2007 X Factor winner Leona Lewis, Lucie was taking a big risk as she would be putting herself up for comparison with the show's most successful singer to date.
It was a good performance for the most part, but not really confident enough to make it a great performance. As X Factor judge Simon Cowell quite rightly said afterwards, Lucie struggled to hit the big, high notes towards the end of the song. It's not that she can't reach them, I'm sure she can, she just didn't really go for it.
The other judges all thought she was great though and the crowd liked her.
This was only the first of the final shows and it's unlikely Lucie Jones will be voted out in the first round. But she will need to up her game a bit and show more versatility and confidence if she wants to win the X Factor competition.
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