Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Australian Idol - Personal Choice

Personal Choice - By an outstanding margin of "Mark created a new'thang' for me" the winner is Anthony - he would have won last night anyway because he made myself and Fosse clasp our chests and tearup at the same time with one beeeey-autiful note. It was DAMN close to Climb Every Mountain and When The War Is Over territory. Bravo to the little man. Kudo's dude. A "not really terribly close but nonetheless stellarwork kids" second place goes to both Chanel (for an outstanding interpretation of one of my favourite songs and also the grace to resist the urge to march over to Marcia and spit in her eye - more on that later, but first - shut up Marcia) and Ricki-Lee (hate the song, but my personal issues with Whitney aside it was a very good version, the girl has PIPES to spare). Coming in third place was our girl Casey who did Ms Katie Noonan of George very proud - lovely work. Very enjoyable. Closely followed by the CourtJester. I liked Courtney's performance and I was a little saddened by what the judges said and I think he was taken aback by it as well.
Hayley should never sing that song EVER again. Marty should be shot - either by or out of a cannon. And Daniel just needs to go home. Just go home. Now. No, don't bother packing, we'll have your gear sent on. We're very fond of you Daniel (even though you desperately need a haircut) and you sing like an angel, but this competition is not for you. Pretty certain that they're the final three tonight - although it wouldn't shock me if Casey is there again even if she doesn't deserve to be - my money is on Marty to go. Buh-bye Marty. It would be nice to be right just once . . .
Now. Marcia. Chanel. Ahem. WHAT. THE. FUCK????? What EXACTLY is Marcia's problem with the croonstress? Did Chanel steal her parking space? Poisen her dog? Did Chanel badmouth Deni?? I don't get it. Marcia had nice things to say to everyone last night - even Mediocre Marty - and then Chanel comes out DOES A GREAT PERFORMANCE and the kid gloves come off and get slapped in her face. I get that Marcia wants them to excel and do better but we are talking straight out very obvious pure and simple animosity and malice when it comes to Chanel. If I was Chanel I would have lost it completely with Marcia - and I admire her all the more for just noting to Marcia that she's not a belter and then just letting it go. Is it because the boys have played obvious favourite with Chanel? It can't be, because they have been harsh with her the last few weeks too - but at least they've been constructive. Marcia is just mean mean mean. And also, she has worshipped at the Altar of Anthony since day one calling him the Italian Stallion - ummm hypocrite anyone?? She angered Fosse to the point where he called her the bigC word and I wholeheartedly agree and normally I will have naught to do with that particular word. The message boards on the Idol website are talking a LOT about what is going on. I hope Marcia realises that a lot of people will have voted for Chanel tonight PURELY because of the way she was treated. Once again - say it with me kids - SHUT. UP. MARCIA

Australian Idol - Disco Night. Ouch.

What do you do when your favourite Idol bites the big one on national television?
Sigh. Chanel Chanel Chanel. You weren't the worst of the night - ohhhh no, that honour still belongs to Emelia who was freaking awful once again and was the most tuneless I think I've heard her in a while - but Chanel, you were damn close. I love her, but I actually hope she is in the bottom three this week - I think she needs the kick up the bottom to inspire her to greater heights and less mediocrity. And whilst on the subject of mediocrity - average seemed to be the call of the night.
Ricki-Lee chose the most boring, repetitive MJ song she could have, Anthony's Carwash was just him going MMMMMMMMM woooo hooooo and then the occasional lyric, Courtney should have done You Sexy Thing and not Everyone's A Winner - because THEY'RE NOT – and Chanel- words fail me at how unhappy I was watching her last night. Once again, she didn't suck but she didn't grab me and that makes me sad. The others (Daniel excluded, who looked like he'd rather be having a castration performed on him instead of performing a disco song for Australia and his rugby mates to see) were more interesting. Daniel could have been better but . . . no, he couldn't have. He was tied for second blandest performance with Chanel (man, that KILLS me). The three best performances seemed to come from Hayley (we'll forgive her the posing she's stolen from Chanel because it offered me one of the few smiling moments of last nights travesty) Casey and Marty. Who knew the Bee Gees would suit the bald one? The sad thing is that the worst performer will probably dodge another bullet. Emelia missed a lot of notes, she looked like a drag queen – a BAD drag queen - and she f*%ing cried AGAIN talking about her stupid kid, who is probably better off without such an appalling example of How To Conduct Yourself On National Television. And if Marcia says one more FUCKING time that this is the first time Emelia's done anything like this, I'll SCREAM. Its NOT the first time, she's been doing it for a month now people - they all have - so SHUT. UP. MARCIA. And also, stop picking on Chanel, I have warned you time and time again but you keep doing it.
I think Hayley will be the one to go but hey, I haven't been right yet . . .
They were just . . . . bland, which Fosse attributes to the genre choice, but you know – I remember Cosima last year taking the place APART in the disco section when she did 'Hot Stuff', so don't tell me its the genre. I think it might just be the people. And quite frankly, I've watched BBC documentaries that were more entertaining. Ouch.
Please Australian Idol. Bring back Shannon Noll. All is forgiven. (I’m joking. Please don’t bring back Shannon.)