{"id":4168,"date":"2014-09-06T00:12:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T23:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=4168"},"modified":"2014-09-06T00:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T23:16:13","slug":"maria-ellinas-singing-street-life-or-shreet-life-on-the-x-factor-2014-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/4168\/maria-ellinas-singing-street-life-or-shreet-life-on-the-x-factor-2014-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Ellinas singing Street Life or &#8216;Shreet Life&#8217; on The X Factor 2014 Auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Maria-Ellinas.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Maria-Ellinas.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Maria Ellinas\" width=\"570\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Maria-Ellinas.png 570w, https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Maria-Ellinas-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Maria-Ellinas-200x110.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maria Ellinas auditioned for the X Factor this year in what for us is one of the funniest moments of the auditions so far. <\/p>\n<p>Maria attempts to sing Street Life by Randy Crawford, but could not pronounce the word Street, instead she says &#8216;Shreet&#8217;, renaming the song to \u2018Shreet Life\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The judges eventually saw the funny side of this after Simon tried to help the 26-year-old who originally begged him to sing the song after he told her he loves the original track.<\/p>\n<p>Once Maria started singing, her pronunciation initially leaves Simon somewhat annoyed.<\/p>\n<p>He interrupts her performance and says: \u201cCan I say something, it\u2019s Street life, not Shtreet, there\u2019s no H\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a few failed attempts from Maria to ditch the extra H, Simon quips: \u201cDo you know Shtop?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/105335134\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Ellinas auditioned for the X Factor this year in what for us is one of the funniest moments of the auditions so far. Maria attempts to sing Street Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-4168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auditions","tag-the-x-factor-2014","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/09\/Maria-Ellinas.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}