In case Olly Murs hasn’t made it onto your radar, America, you haven’t missed out on the second coming of John Lennon. But in all fairness, considering that he didn’t even win the reality show he entered a few years ago (he was the runner-up on The X Factor in 2009), the mere fact that he’s performing to the world is triumph enough. Slightly harder to fix were his flat vocals and his insistence on constantly checking out the female dancers (in the U.K., Murs is what we call a “cheeky chappy.”) Events brightened up a tad when his guests, Rizzle Kicks, spat out a verse and managed to elicit a cheer from the crowd. But when the music stopped and Murs raised his thumb, he surely knew it was pointing in the wrong direction.
Grade: D-