In the Season 2 premiere, new judges Britney Spears and Demi Lovato join Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid for an evening of auditions, as solo artists and music groups compete for a $5 million recording contract.
Occupation: Actor and singer Hometown: San Francisco Audition song: “New York State of Mind” — Billy Joel Jason Brock walked onstage to his X Factor Season 2 audition looking like Adam Lambert’s congenial cousin, then proceeded to blow the lid off the aud more
Age: 16 Hometown: Castro Valley, CA Audition Song: Original rap, plus “Boyfriend” by Justin Bieber Johnny Maxwell is just 16 years old, but he’s got the swagger of Justin Bieber and Drake combined. The California boy charmed judges with his original rap d more
Words of wisdom courtesy of Britney Spears and her tribe of interns (aka Simon Cowell, L.A. Reid, and Demi Lovato) are super important, and the time has come for you to create an inspiration journal. You will need the following supplies: A Five Star trapp more
It's like a weird pattern with "The X Factor" -- after a rather great first episode, the second episode is a huge letdown. It happened last year and it happened again this year. We swear there were more terrible auditions crammed into this one hour-long e more
Like most reasonable people, I did not watch the first season of The X Factor . This was in a pre-Phillip Phillips age when singing competitions did not interest me very much. Dancing, yes. Prosthetic movie makeup, yes. Scream-karaoke, no. But in retrospe more
Britney Spears and Demi Lovato's arrival at "The X Factor" judging table propelled Wednesday's premiere to a curious new record – most social TV season premiere ever. http://www.thewrap.com/movies/media/article/x-factor-charts-huge-social-numbers-season-p more
While “X Factor” fans await the debut album release of season one winner Melanie Amaro; season two premiere’s with a two hour episode that featured only a few auditions, singer’s video clips, and s... http://www.starpulse.com/news/Sherrill_Fulghum/2012/09 more
Last night The X Factor made its return to television for its second season and as everyone who’s been paying any attention at all to the media knows, this premiere episode was much less about the talent search and way more about the addition of Britney S more