The Good the Bad and the Idols

It was a dark and stormy night.....On the 29th September 2004. I had completed my packing and was about to head out on a trip. At that moment I was tempted by Lucifer to switch on the idiot box. It was that fateful night, I beheld my very first episode of SINGAPORE IDOL! OH! The HORROR

I have always said I wanted to watch, if anything just for the laughter. Let me spell out what I meant. If I saw a stand-up comic tell a joke about my momma, I laugh. If I see a clown make an ass out of himself, I laugh. William Hung, I laugh. Lightsaber boy, I laugh.

What I saw that night was not funny. I was literally Doggy-Styled in both my eyes and ears. In the short ten minutes I finally saw the Abysmal excuse of a talent show. It's not even a popularity contest. It's a mad rush to screw as many people as possible in a few months. Thats right, Not only was I privy to see one of the finalists ("shudder") croak, in the middle of things they bring out those that couldn't even pass the auditions to sing children songs like "ABC" or "Do Re Me". Forget DooM 3, Hell is already on Earth and it IS scary.

During my holiday, I also managed to watch a delayed telecast of the Final 3 in the Malaysian IDOL. My friends were complaining on how it sucks, and armed with me experience a few days before of the Singapore version, I explained to them that there is no way anything could suck harder. So I decided to risk it. Malaysian Idol, Final 3. What did I get? Actually a pretty entertaining show. There were 2 girls and a guy. There were no "fillers" by audition drop outs. The contestants all sang 2 songs each, one in English and one in Malay. I was actually entertained. The Malay girl was good, those large bodied gospel type voice. There was another girl, voice slighty "squeaky" but she still belted out a mean version of Alicia Keys "If I Ain't Got You", one of my favourite songs so, Respect. The worse of the lot was the chinese guy Vic, not because he couldn't sing, but because he had a strong chinese accent which made him unable to properly pronounce the words in English and Malay so his song renditions come out short. Nohing some speech therapy wouldn't cure.

I just read the above how you must have read it but, OK it isn't as good as what I seem to have potrayed. Maybe it's because of the Singpaore Idol treatment I was given before that makes anything else look great but it was definaltely watchable