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"The X Factor didn&amp;#039;t do so well in the ratings last year, and you know what that means: time to pull out all the production stops and change things up in hopes of drawing in viewers. The Four Seat Challenge (which was the six seat challenge in the show&amp;#039;s UK counterpart this season) sees acts performing for a place in each judge&amp;#039;s Final Four in one of four categories. Just because they get one of the available four chairs doesn&amp;#039;t mean they&amp;#039;ll keep it, of course, and they could be switched out. Let&amp;#039;s just get on with it.  In case you forgot, we saw the first four of Demi&amp;#039;s girls on Wednesday night and she put them all through. Unfortunately, things won&amp;#039;t stay that way considering there&amp;#039;s still six girls to go. The first of those is Simone Torres, a student at Berkeley College of Music who has sung at weddings, restaurants and clubs for the past ten years with her dad.   Tonight, Simone is singing an upbeat version of Sam Cooke&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;A Change Is Gonna Come&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s great that she has a lower range to her voice, but she spends too much time in it and at times it doesn&amp;#039;t sound very good. It&amp;#039;s clear she can sing, but I don&amp;#039;t know that this was the right song choice for her. I will say that she brought a lot of energy to it, but that&amp;#039;s about all. Paulina really relates to her since she, too, started singing when she was young, but Simon wishes he could have sat down with her a week ago to hear that song, because he would have told her she&amp;#039;s not doing it. The arrangement was &amp;quot;a joke, so bad and so karaoke&amp;quot;, and I have to agree. Kelly insists that she still sang the hell out of the song, but Demi is unimpressed - she&amp;#039;s not sure if she&amp;#039;s seeing a star even if Simone does have a good voice. Simone gets a seat, but that means someone has to go home - but who? Well, Bree Randall gets the boot and Simone takes her place. Well, that&amp;#039;s a bit disappointing. As a viewer, I love the squirminess of this twist, but I have to say, it&amp;#039;s an incredibly messed up thing to do to people. Ah, well. Next up, 15-year-old Danielle Geimer (yes, the annoying girl who considered herself edgy because she likes to read - she even mentions it in this video package!) is giving it a go with &amp;#039;Georgia On My Mind&amp;#039;. She does have a really nice voice - a great tone and range and I would definitely listen to her more. She has GOT to get through, even if her personality is incredibly grating. This is an incredibly difficult song to sing, but she just kills it and makes it seem effortless. It&amp;#039;s sorta hard to believe she&amp;#039;s only 15, as well. Wow - even Simon applauds.  Kelly says that she &amp;quot;sang [her] face off&amp;quot; and thinks Demi needs to give her a seat and someone else needs to get up. Simon loves that she&amp;#039;s come around at a time when there are so many over-confident popstars, which she flies in the face of - she&amp;#039;s humble and shy (uh... I think that&amp;#039;s a put on, but whatever). Demi is absolutely blown away and finds her talented and beautiful - she&amp;#039;s a total star. She gets a seat, of course, but that means Simone Torres is out as quickly as she was in. Tough luck! Rylie Brown is 16 and in 11th grade in Missouri, but she&amp;#039;d rather be a star. To get there, she&amp;#039;s singing Robbie Williams&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Angels&amp;#039; tonight. It&amp;#039;s... not all that good, honestly. Don&amp;#039;t get me wrong - it&amp;#039;s okay, but it&amp;#039;s nothing all that special. I don&amp;#039;t feel like I&amp;#039;m witnessing something I haven&amp;#039;t heard a million times before, and she&amp;#039;s picked up some annoying habits from her pageant background. It&amp;#039;s a nice effort and she&amp;#039;s definitely not the worst singer in the batch, but... eh.  Kelly feels it wasn&amp;#039;t the right song choice and she&amp;#039;s not sure if Rylie is ready for the competition. Simon feels like everything she did tonight was chosen by her mother - what she&amp;#039;s wearing, what she sang... she didn&amp;#039;t sound 16 and he had no idea what she was trying to do. Either way, he didn&amp;#039;t buy it. Demi thinks she looks beautiful and has a lot of potential, but she too felt it was pageanty. She doesn&amp;#039;t know that Rylie is vocally ready, and because of that, Demi sends her home. Ah, well.  Next up, it&amp;#039;s Primose Martin from Las Vegas. God, she&amp;#039;s... a lot to deal with, and not in a pleasant way. Yeah, you need to have a lot of personality, but really? Her dad is in Kool &amp;amp; The Gang, so she&amp;#039;s been surrounded by showbiz all her life, and you can tell (again, not in a good way). Her performance tonight is awful, vocally speaking. She&amp;#039;s choreographed a bunch of dance moves and is dressed like a goth schoolgirl. It&amp;#039;s all very corny and I absolutely can&amp;#039;t stand her, to be honest. Unfortunately, all the showmanship completely ruins her vocals - it&amp;#039;s all over the place, completely out of tune and a total mess. Even the audience boos her.  Kelly has to be honest - she looks lovely, but this was completely different from her first audition and that&amp;#039;s not a good thing. Paulina is surprised that she didn&amp;#039;t deliver this time and doesn&amp;#039;t know what Demi should do. Simon knows, though - he calls it &amp;quot;beyond awful&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;seriously, seriously dreadful&amp;quot; because she was out of tune and it was the longest 90 seconds of his life. Primrose immediately starts singing a cappella and even though the judges continue to tell her to stop, she just keeps going. Demi says that not only was the performance not very good, she comes off as over-confident and rubs her the wrong way. Primrose continues to beg for a place, but Demi - thankfully - sends her home.  Moving right along, there&amp;#039;s 13-year-old Rion Page from Jacksonville, Florida. She has to deal with a lot of struggles considering her joint issue, but I seriously hope when she gets her seat - and I can confidently says he will without even hearing her sing - that we don&amp;#039;t spend all season talking about her disability. Yes, she&amp;#039;s courageous and to be applauded, but I&amp;#039;d rather not exploit something like that for viewership, or to patronize her and overcompensate because we feel bad for her.   Luckily, her performance is great and Rion definitely has a major gift - in general and especially for someone who&amp;#039;s only 13. She sings passionately and has a great tone. Is she betterthan all the others? Eh, not really, but she&amp;#039;s really good. The other girls in the four seats behind her even get teary-eyed, though I wonder if it&amp;#039;s not just because they know one of them is going to have to get up in about 60 seconds. I really, really hate that everyone in the audience is in tears because they feel bad for the poor little girl with the disability. Way to be awful, people. Can we not just concentrate on the singing? Kelly loves her voice and how happy and excited Rion is when she sings - she loves watching her. &amp;quot;When you&amp;#039;ve got it, you&amp;#039;ve got it,&amp;quot; Simon says, before adding that he loves her voice and feels like they&amp;#039;re only starting to scratch the surface of what she can do. Demi is shocked at how mature her voice is and says that when she looks at her, she doesn&amp;#039;t see anything different. Except she obviously does, or she wouldn&amp;#039;t have to mention that. Rion is obviously in the Top 4, but that means Ashly Williams is going home.  There&amp;#039;s only one singer left in the category before the Top 4 are set, and it&amp;#039;s 17-year-old Ellona Santiago from San Lorenzo, CA. She does have a good voice, but again, I dunno that I&amp;#039;m looking at a star. I feel like I&amp;#039;m watching someone who&amp;#039;s studied all the singers she sees on TV and is now impersonating all their tricks. Maybe it&amp;#039;s just me - and again, you can&amp;#039;t fault her vocal. Just give her her seat already, Demi, so we can get this show on the road.  Kelly calls her a &amp;quot;beast&amp;quot; in the nicest way possible and wishes Demi good luck on a difficult decision. Paulina thinks it was &amp;quot;amazing&amp;quot;, while Simon claims it&amp;#039;s one of the best vocals they&amp;#039;ve heard in this category. He can&amp;#039;t imagine her not being in the competition. Demi agrees with everyone else and believes that Ellona has an incredible voice and is special, but something is missing - the star quality isn&amp;#039;t there yet (I agree!). Demi can&amp;#039;t imagine letting any of her four go, but Simon disagrees - he thinks she&amp;#039;s one of the better singers.  Of course, Ellona gets through and one person has to go. It&amp;#039;s a difficult decision for Demi, but she eventually lets Jamie Pineda go. So that&amp;#039;s it - the final four girls are set and it&amp;#039;s Danielle Geimer, Khaya Cohen, Ellona Santiago and Rion Paige. Whew.  Tune in to Fox next Wednesday, October 9 and 8/7c to find out who Paulina will put through for the boys and which groups Simon will choose. Sounds like fun! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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