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an indescribable quality or something; something about a person that you cannot put your finger on; je ne sais quoi

Supposedly a singing contest, yet instead one huge joke. All it is is an unfair competition in which a young, good-looking yet naive wannabe-famous boy or girl is chosen to be the next one hit wonder popstar to generate money for Simon Cowell. The winner is usually forgotten about after a few months, becoming only background noise in the music industry, but that doesn't matter to Simon, as he does it every year. The shows are heavily decorated and the drama is over exaggerated, making it even less about the singing, and to make matters worse the judges are always people that don't actually know much about music or singing. Plus the performances are usually enhanced with pre-recorded backing vocals. And no, your votes don't count, Simon chooses who goes through and who doesn't. It's a shame how music is about money nowadays, and not emotion and expression, and The X Factor is only making it worse.

Really lame pop-music Reality TV show much like pop-idol.

Noun.
A) A quality that makes people in possession of it the epitome of cool. When trying to explain why this person is so cool you come up blank. Everyone knows this person and people like being around them.
B) Used to describe someone whos not necessarily hot but you are strangely attracted to.

When you hitting it from the back and you cross your arms for added grip

Is a fix. the winners are chosen before the series starts and they intentionally let some shite ones through to the 4th round so we can all laugh at them on telly.

And no, I've never applied for it.

to stand out from all of the rest, to be the "only one" at something or not common

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A member of Northwestern's most a cappella group.