Singapore Idol 2006

Singapore Idol

It's an imitating show adopted from the US. For sure the quality and the excitement are all different stories from the former one. The local channel just want to catch the wave after the American Idol (A.I.) concluded around May... a strategic move.

What's intereseting, is the setting and the presetnation of it. Contestants are young as if they just finished hi-school without a job. Maybe more mature singapore people will still regard show business as an open face thing which they rather be conservative to do their routine office work for the society... possible chinese culture, things like that..?

Back to the show, the host(s) were terrible. Gromit Singh is well known in the locals as an artist with Indian origin. He surely is good in acting but not hosting. Especially when quotating the famous saying from Ryan Seacrest (A.I. host) "After the break' was just an impression of copy-cat and plagirism. Not to mention the uncontrolled screaming from the fans and absolute annoying prolonging way in presenting who will be out (no excitement at all as the pace of the program was being dragged too long, also trying to put words into people mouth by asking difficult question ("do u think Singapore made a right choice?"). Acceptable?

Discrimination? The best singer Mathilda was out 'cos she didn't have enough support? Or 'cos she is an indian without a perfect body/look? The "good-looking" but "terrible-singing" people continues their journey up to the final months.. The era of 'buying-face', superficial and naive, especially lots of the voters are under 18 hi-school kids just got their mobile phone to vote vote vote with their unlimited pocket money? (thanks for the rich and unlimted-love parents). THe generation nowadays seems to be tasteless and well-tolerated with terrible-singing"(or noise, off-tune/ flated). Karaoke room, parties.. not a well quality/standard performance anyway.

The best, for sure will be left, with good look and good vocal... hopefully. However, how it turned up to be, will be by SMS and phone call votings... as a sign of democracy? Though I haven't heard about any restriction on the number of times you can vote. So the idol must either has huge amount of fans behind, or he/she might be very rich to keep voting him/herself to be on the show... The number of vote never being disclosed in the show and the joke was, there was an error in counting vote before which a contestant had lost her place in the secure position and has to sing again for getting in the final 12...! amazing?!

Finally it's just looking for 'idol', not singer as the title of the show stated. Commerical world need a great population of consumers to accept and most importantly, "buy it"!

More and more to talk about this like the 2 judges: Jancintha's coded coments and straight -forward Ken Lim (an icon like Simon Cowell in A.I.) on contestants' identity... These topics could really write up a thesis..!?

2 more weeks to find out the results... let's see howSingapore choose...!