'The X Factor' Pepsi Challenge: Pick the finalists' songs for next week
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It's time for this season's Pepsi Challenge, which I had assumed involved picking Pepsi or Coke out of a taste-test lineup, but is apparently about picking a song for the six remaining X Factor finalists for next week's show.
Last year, the Pepsi Challenge resulted in some fairly bland song choices, such as the over-performed Mariah Carey ditty, "Hero", and the perplexingly-selected "Fly" by Sugar Ray. This year's song choices have some headscratchers, but there are at least more current choices for the remaining finalists than were in evidence in Wednesday's #1's-themed show.
The choices:
Carly Rose Sonenclar
Your Song (Elton John, though I imagine she'd be doing the Ellie Goulding version)
I Just Can't Stop Loving You (Michael Jackson)
If I Were A Boy (Beyonce)
CeCe Frey
Part of Me (Katy Perry)
Die Young (Ke$ha)
So What (Pink)
Diamond White
Kiss From A Rose (Seal)
Diamonds (Rihanna)
Mercy (Duffy's song, I assume, not Kanye West's or Dave Matthews Band's)
Emblem3
I Got A Feeling (Blacked Eyed Peas)
Forever Young (Alphaville)
Marry You (Bruno Mars)
Fifth Harmony
Anything Could Happen (Ellie Goulding)
What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction)
Give Your Heart A Break (Demi Lovato)
Tate Stevens
The Dance (Garth Brooks)
If Tomorrow Never Comes (Garth Brooks)
She's Country (Jason Aldean)