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DANYL PAYS FOR COCKINESS.


Byline: Shari Low

OOOH OOOH Out of Our Heads (Rolling Stones album) , it's microphones at dawn over at The X Factor after hot favourite Danyl Johnson was relegated to the bottom two on Saturday night.

He's one of the best singers of the bunch so I suspect his unpopularity is down to two things - spelling his name with a "y", and all the drama that comes with his performance.

His reactions to compliments come across as insincere in·sin·cere  
adj.
Not sincere; hypocritical.



insin·cerely adv.
, throwing the microphone from hand to hand just screams cheese, and there's a cockiness there that puts the hackles hackles

the hairs over the neck and back that are elevated by arrector pili muscles in response to fright or anger. A mechanism to threaten opponents, perhaps by appearing larger.
 on vertical. As someone who's firmly in the Hubba Hubba Simon Cowell Simon Cowell (born 7 October, 1959) is a British artist and repertoire ("A&R") executive for Sony BMG in the United Kingdom and a television producer, more commonly known as a judge on television programmes such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, American Idol  Club (I blame age and rogue hormones), I can see that arrogance and smugness can be strangely attractive - but only after you havemadeit to the top.
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Publication:Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Oct 29, 2009
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