X Factor – The Final

[Miguel]

Big, soaring ballads brought the first "X Factor" crown to Melanie Amaro, but the young singer says she cannot be pigeonholed so easily.

"I'm not going to tell anyone," Amaro said of her vision for her debut album. "I think I'm going to surprise. Humongous ballads -- everyone knows I can do that. I want to show people there is more to me."

...Cowell concurred with her assessment of the type of album she should make. "She's a different kind of singer so you don't want to be what's going on already -- there's a lot of dance (music) at the moment. A lot of people who voted for her want a different kind of record and we have to do her justice.

...Once they reunited, Amaro came to be known as a singer who stood her ground. "I had to be able to stand up for myself," she said, just minutes after Cowell complimented her -- out of earshot -- on her confidence . "Many times we had gone back and forth on a song -- I'm not doing this, this doesn't sound bad, oh, I'm going to do this. Wow, it's a process."

...Cowell said in closing that his advice to her was "remember that it was the fans who got you here . Some of the people who win these shows forget that. I told the same thing to Kelly Clarkson. One minute you're thanking fans, the next you're not signing autographs. I don't buy that kind of behavior. If they've made you, you have a debt with them."

http://www.billboard.com/news/x-factor-w...7752.story

Summary:

Melanie: I don't want to do an album full of ballads.

Simon: The people who voted for her want a record that's not dance music. They voted for ballads.

Melanie: I often stood my ground during the X-Factor and said I'm not going to do that song...I'm going to do this ballad.

Simon: My closing advice to her is that it doesn't matter what she wants. She is indebted to her fans and they want ballads.