Top 4

The X Factor folk have never been shy when it comes to lobbing super-surprising twists at us when we least expect them (Goodbye Diamond White... er, hello again). So, we weren’t all that shocked that they had something planned to make the semi-finals different than all the other live results show.

So what’s different about the shows this week? Well, each act is performing two...

It’s only one week till the big reveal, and we can’t wait to find out which of the Top 4 X Factor 2012 contestants will walk away with a five million dollar recording contract.

So, who is up for the prize?

1. Carly Rose Sonenclar. The 13-year-old Mamaroneck, NY native has Broadway experience and a killer voice. She’s been described as “a little diva,” “an...

Dear residents of Planet X: It’s all happening. Here, tonight, you, us, Carly Rose, Tate, Emblem3, Fifth Harmony. It’s the semi-finals, y’all, and it’s about to get real. Demi Lovato has nothing left to lose, so we’re hoping that she’s going to get even more critical of Simon’s acts.

And as much as we love Tate, we have a strange unfulfilled need to...

Somewhere, in a tiny bedroom under the stairs in a house in San Antonio, Texas, we imagine that Reed Deming is crying. Tears fall down his delicate Bieber-y face as he reads this, realizing that this Thursday, his role model, Bruno Mars, will be performing on The X Factor. Dreams, guys, dreams are what we have all lost. And childhood dreams can never be regained. 

But for the rest of us,......

Carly Rose Sonenclar and Tate Stevens have been neck-and-neck forever on The X Factor this season. First, Tate was on top, then Carly, now Tate... we’re getting whiplash from all the flip flopping.

So, we were dying to know what y’all thought about who has the real X Factor, and who’s going to win it all next week. From week to week, the two frontrunners have been, like, a...