@FallenAngel
99% of the time I agree with you but I just don't see where you saw the good vocals. The backup singers did a decent job covering them up. I mean you barely even heard them. At the end when they ran into the water fountain and stopped singing, the backup singers kept singing and it sounded no different. So I am not giving Jedward any credit when it comes to singing.
The key words here were "one of their best" and "
relatively well". Compared to the rest of the artists, they were practically Top 10 when it came to vocals. Unless they've hired some sound-alike singers, it's very much them singing throughout most of the song.
I watched the contest in 5.1 surround sound and I'm re-watching a rip of the BBC feed now. When the boys dropped their microphones, you can hear an obvious difference in the vocals. It's not "no different" at all. Most notably, the volume drops by several decibels, which means that the mics of the backup singers was set much lower than those of the twins'.
So unless they get two sound-alike singers (who, somehow, wasn't used as sounda-like singers in the semi-final, seeing as how Jedward was noticably much worse there) and set their mics so that they'd be the same volume as Jedward's or louder for most of the song except for right at the end, that was Jedward we heard there. There were also quite a few bum notes strewn throughout the performance, so they'd also had to have gotten sub-par backup singers or deliberately have them flub many notes just to make it less obvious.
You know what's more important? If you really listen closely, you can actually hear how the backup singers sound. Their voices can be discerned especially during the first verse and they sound
nothing like Jedward. Furthermore, they're quite blatantly singing in a lower register than Jedward, by an entire octave or more (I can't be bothered to check if they're singing the exact same notes, just an octave lower, or have their own little variation). It is literally
impossible for the backup singers to have done what you claim they did.
No, that's Jedward.
Their singing last night was bizarre. They were singing in the lowest register they could, I guess to make it appear as if they were better singers than they actually are. Will email RTE begging them to not let Jedward back next year. Twice was more than enough.
What? Did you set your surround sound system improperly and had the backup singers' channel mixed too loudly? They sang the song the same way they also sing it (i.e. in the same register).
It would be nice seeing them in the contest for the 3rd time in a row. 
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