Former contestant is now a huge pop star, puts on performance worthy of one

Oct 31, 2011 15:31 GMT  ·  By

One year ago, before she stepped on the toes of many an X Factor viewer, Cher Lloyd was just getting started on the show, as one of the hopefuls. The other night, she made her triumphant return – as a pop star.

As Lloyd is getting ready to drop her debut album, it's clear that her people thought there was no better venue to promote her than the very show that launched her.

Still, the difference between then and now was remarkable.

Dressed in a clown-inspired cutie outfit, Cher proved even her biggest haters wrong the other night: she sang live, she danced and, in one word, she rocked to her second single, "With UR Love."

The diminute singer was accompanied on stage by a slew of female dancers, all wearing pink wigs and doing broken doll poses.

Cher kept up with them admirably and even joined in for a group routine halfway through the song, where Mike Posner signs on the studio version.