Music mogul and starmaker Simon Cowell is not known to be generous with praise. As such, hearing him describe the latest British "X Factor" champ as "not human" should be enough to make audiences stop, look, and listen to the newly-crowned winner. And, as The Telegraph put it, one may find Louisa Johnson apparently is a "worthy winner."
"ITV have just released the breakdown of the phone vote, week by week, and apart from a couple of small blips, she was the viewers' favourite from the beginning," the publication reported.
"For the first three live shows, Louisa came top," it went on. "In week four, the nation suddenly fell for Reggie 'N' Bollie and they beat Louisa by 0.1 percent."
"In week five, both Reggie 'N' Bollie and Ché Chesterman beat her - but, again, by the tiniest of margins (just 1.1 per cent in it!), and from week six onwards she was back on top," it added.
Sunday night saw judge Rita Ora's ward Johnson earn 53.9% of the vote, making her this year's "X Factor" UK champ. And she's only 17, the youngest ever to win the British "X Factor."
"She was presented with some great song choices, but her voice was so reliably powerful that she could probably sing the Nandos menu and still sound amazing," The Telegraph noted.
Meanwhile, MailOnline noted that Cowell had predicted the young student as possibly reaching the heights Leona Lewis, another X Factor alum, achieved.
"Louisa - whose version of Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young' is being rush-released - is predicted to enjoy levels of popularity similar to 'Bleeding Love' hitmaker Leona and earn at least £6million in the next year alone," the British publication said.
A source reportedly revealed that Cowell believes Johnson could even "outshine Leona."
"Louisa is the whole package, she has a great voice, she is pretty and is young enough to have a long career," the insider said.
Upon being announced as the winner, the teenager broke into tears and said, "I've imagined this day for so many years, it's incredible. You have no idea how much this means to me."
The young champ had performed James Brown's "It's A Man's World" for the finals. Her version of the song got Cowell gushing with praises.
"I don't think you're human," he commented. "I have never ever heard anything as good as what you just did."
"You're 17-years-old, you're not human," he added, as noted by Mirror.
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