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Just saw this:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/300873506635269/doc/400874793301806/
Hiya guys and girls, ladies and gents,
Please forgive my silence, but as you all know, contestants can't talk about X-Factor until the episodes have aired.
Seems as though Fremantle Media chose not to air my audition. I'm not really sure why, but they're allowed to do it since it's their show.
What I will explain is only what I know.
For those of you who may be confused about me being in Sydney and in Melbourne...
I sung Christina Aguilera's 'The Voice Within'. It was the first day of many weeks of being ill (and I was starting to lose my voice), and I was just starting to feel it roughly three hours before I went on stage. I performed the song, and told the story, I engaged the audience, and it was an amazing audition. I fought through being sick, sung my heart out, gave everything I had, and got through to Boot Camp. Two or three days after that, on the Sunday, I could barely talk at all, one of a few symptoms, so I was definitely not well.
MELBOURNE AUDITION - Full-crowd standing ovation. Four yeses. Through to Boot Camp.
I was too sick and my throat too inflamed for me to practice. It wasn't anything drastic; I just knew that if I tried to sing, I would strain something, so I didn't sing. This lasted for two weeks. On the second Wednesday after that first audition (so, the Wednesday of the second week of sickness), I woke up with a massive amount of dizziness that left me feeling like I was in a tailspin, falling at top speed from a great height, even though I was lying down. I didn't know what the heck it was. I called mom home from work so she could take me to the emergency room. Whilst there, they did tests, asked questions, and diagnosed me with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (for the sake of keeping this note as short as possible, I won't explain what it is: feel free to look it up; it's nasty).
Whilst in Hospital, roughly an hour after the physiotherapist did these head-tilting exercises to get my balance back, I got a call from an X-Factor contestant coordinator. She stated that X-Factor had some technical difficulties during my audition and needed me to come to the Sydney auditions to audition again. Being the far from "I can't do it, I'm sick" person that I am, I said 'yes', loved that I'd get to sing to a second audience, experience a bit of Sydney, and didn't tell X-Factor of my medical issue.
They paid for tickets with Virgin Australia to fly us (my mother, sister, her boyfriend, her boyfriend's mother, and I) to Sydney so we could basically do a carbon copy of the Melbourne Audition. At any rate, the point here is that they lost my first audition, which I managed to scrape through due to being sick, and then they wanted me to do another one.
The second audition was worse because I was sicker. I thankfully had most of my voice back, but I still had the crappy dizziness of the BPPV that put me in the E.R. two days earlier. I even lost my balance on stage at one point, and was too focused on trying to stay upright and I was feeling generally yuck, so my performance suffered. My mind was frazzled, I swapped microphone-hands (which I never do), and it was generally just a big mess. Despite that, thankfully everyone seemed to enjoy my audition anyway.
SYDNEY AUDITION (repeat audition): Full-crowd standing ovation. Four yeses. Through to Boot Camp.
So to recap:
- Melbourne Audition. Standing ovation. Four yeses. Through to Boot Camp.
- Wednesday (two weeks later): In E.R with Benign Paroxysmal Vertigo. Phone call from X-Factor whilst in E.R, stating loss of original audition, asking me to come back to do a second one in Sydney.
- Thursday (next day), flew to Sydney.
- Friday: Sydney Audition. Standing ovation. Four yeses. Through to Boot Camp.
So I'm not sure why they didn't show my audition, but as I said, it is there show and they are allowed to edit it however they want.
Sorry for the disappointment, everyone. <3
--
P.S. I'm for the most part better now, but I've had three 'dizzy relapses' in the last two/threeish months. I've got the head-tilting exercises to do and that seems to fix the problem for a while, but then it kind of comes back. It's weird.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/300873506635269/doc/400874793301806/
Hiya guys and girls, ladies and gents,
Please forgive my silence, but as you all know, contestants can't talk about X-Factor until the episodes have aired.
Seems as though Fremantle Media chose not to air my audition. I'm not really sure why, but they're allowed to do it since it's their show.
What I will explain is only what I know.
For those of you who may be confused about me being in Sydney and in Melbourne...
I sung Christina Aguilera's 'The Voice Within'. It was the first day of many weeks of being ill (and I was starting to lose my voice), and I was just starting to feel it roughly three hours before I went on stage. I performed the song, and told the story, I engaged the audience, and it was an amazing audition. I fought through being sick, sung my heart out, gave everything I had, and got through to Boot Camp. Two or three days after that, on the Sunday, I could barely talk at all, one of a few symptoms, so I was definitely not well.
MELBOURNE AUDITION - Full-crowd standing ovation. Four yeses. Through to Boot Camp.
I was too sick and my throat too inflamed for me to practice. It wasn't anything drastic; I just knew that if I tried to sing, I would strain something, so I didn't sing. This lasted for two weeks. On the second Wednesday after that first audition (so, the Wednesday of the second week of sickness), I woke up with a massive amount of dizziness that left me feeling like I was in a tailspin, falling at top speed from a great height, even though I was lying down. I didn't know what the heck it was. I called mom home from work so she could take me to the emergency room. Whilst there, they did tests, asked questions, and diagnosed me with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (for the sake of keeping this note as short as possible, I won't explain what it is: feel free to look it up; it's nasty).
Whilst in Hospital, roughly an hour after the physiotherapist did these head-tilting exercises to get my balance back, I got a call from an X-Factor contestant coordinator. She stated that X-Factor had some technical difficulties during my audition and needed me to come to the Sydney auditions to audition again. Being the far from "I can't do it, I'm sick" person that I am, I said 'yes', loved that I'd get to sing to a second audience, experience a bit of Sydney, and didn't tell X-Factor of my medical issue.
They paid for tickets with Virgin Australia to fly us (my mother, sister, her boyfriend, her boyfriend's mother, and I) to Sydney so we could basically do a carbon copy of the Melbourne Audition. At any rate, the point here is that they lost my first audition, which I managed to scrape through due to being sick, and then they wanted me to do another one.
The second audition was worse because I was sicker. I thankfully had most of my voice back, but I still had the crappy dizziness of the BPPV that put me in the E.R. two days earlier. I even lost my balance on stage at one point, and was too focused on trying to stay upright and I was feeling generally yuck, so my performance suffered. My mind was frazzled, I swapped microphone-hands (which I never do), and it was generally just a big mess. Despite that, thankfully everyone seemed to enjoy my audition anyway.
SYDNEY AUDITION (repeat audition): Full-crowd standing ovation. Four yeses. Through to Boot Camp.
So to recap:
- Melbourne Audition. Standing ovation. Four yeses. Through to Boot Camp.
- Wednesday (two weeks later): In E.R with Benign Paroxysmal Vertigo. Phone call from X-Factor whilst in E.R, stating loss of original audition, asking me to come back to do a second one in Sydney.
- Thursday (next day), flew to Sydney.
- Friday: Sydney Audition. Standing ovation. Four yeses. Through to Boot Camp.
So I'm not sure why they didn't show my audition, but as I said, it is there show and they are allowed to edit it however they want.
Sorry for the disappointment, everyone. <3
--
P.S. I'm for the most part better now, but I've had three 'dizzy relapses' in the last two/threeish months. I've got the head-tilting exercises to do and that seems to fix the problem for a while, but then it kind of comes back. It's weird.
