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
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
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.)
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.)
Friday, October 01, 2004
Australian Idol - 60's Night
I love the shit out of Courtney! Ahem. Sorry, I'll try and show some restraint. The top three performances of the night (once again dear reader, this is just the humble authors opinion).
1.Ricki-Lee
1.Courtney
2.Anthony
You might note both RL & Court are tied for first, this is because they both ROCKED DA HOUSE! RL has impressed me more with each performance and the CourtJester once again proved he is probably one ofthe most talented guys in the competition and can be remarkably cute when he dances. Little Anthony was great again - some FABULOUS chord changes and madprops to the guy with the poster that read Melbourne Guys Love Anthony - niiiiiiice. (I think I've solved the Dan vote-off from last week -the girly girls are now voting for the little gay man) Chanel and Hayley didn't choose the best songs but they were still quite good. I would have paid money for Chanel to do These Boots Are Made For Walking. Good money. And I don't understand what Marcia's freaking problem is with Chanel but it is starting to piss me off greatly. Casey was good but she needed to really kick the song up a notch. Emelia was boringly average and Amali can sit right in that box with her, preferably holding Daniels hand as he settles into the boring box of "damn that sucked but not in a bad way, more of a 'meh' way" - but they're all unfortunately safe. Even though they did boring songs boringly. With touchs of yawnworthy selfindulgence on Emelia's behalf- "I deserve to be here, remember I've never sung in front of a crowd before or had any experience and only knew I could sing a few months ago because until then my boyfriend/circumstances/wars in Iraq kept me downtrodden and I never sang until I had a child and realised how beautiful I really really am. And remember I deserve to be here. Not Ngairre. Really. Deserve. Really" Blerghhhhhh. And Marty. Marty Marty Marty what the HELL were you thinking? A little Tom Jones would have been brilliant for you to do -sooooo the Stones?? What the?? My prediction (and lets note that I've been wrong every single week so far) is the final two to be Marty and Hayley.
1.Ricki-Lee
1.Courtney
2.Anthony
You might note both RL & Court are tied for first, this is because they both ROCKED DA HOUSE! RL has impressed me more with each performance and the CourtJester once again proved he is probably one ofthe most talented guys in the competition and can be remarkably cute when he dances. Little Anthony was great again - some FABULOUS chord changes and madprops to the guy with the poster that read Melbourne Guys Love Anthony - niiiiiiice. (I think I've solved the Dan vote-off from last week -the girly girls are now voting for the little gay man) Chanel and Hayley didn't choose the best songs but they were still quite good. I would have paid money for Chanel to do These Boots Are Made For Walking. Good money. And I don't understand what Marcia's freaking problem is with Chanel but it is starting to piss me off greatly. Casey was good but she needed to really kick the song up a notch. Emelia was boringly average and Amali can sit right in that box with her, preferably holding Daniels hand as he settles into the boring box of "damn that sucked but not in a bad way, more of a 'meh' way" - but they're all unfortunately safe. Even though they did boring songs boringly. With touchs of yawnworthy selfindulgence on Emelia's behalf- "I deserve to be here, remember I've never sung in front of a crowd before or had any experience and only knew I could sing a few months ago because until then my boyfriend/circumstances/wars in Iraq kept me downtrodden and I never sang until I had a child and realised how beautiful I really really am. And remember I deserve to be here. Not Ngairre. Really. Deserve. Really" Blerghhhhhh. And Marty. Marty Marty Marty what the HELL were you thinking? A little Tom Jones would have been brilliant for you to do -sooooo the Stones?? What the?? My prediction (and lets note that I've been wrong every single week so far) is the final two to be Marty and Hayley.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Australian Idol - Pop
Why I love Chanel . . . and why you should too. Or Else.
A. Because she sang one of my favourite songs in theoriginal top 30 perfs and did the Portishead girl proud.
B. Because she has a fucking sense of humour
C. She loves Courtney (and Daniel and Ben)
D. She can actually sing (unlike say, Emelia)
E. Hello!! Did you SEE her last night? There are NO more reasons necessary. History Repeating was FAB. And if anyone has a problem with that - you tell them to see me, I am ready to rumble on my bestest girlfriends behalf.
Top three performances in order of brilliance and my humble opinion - Chanel, Ricki-Lee and Anthony. I am as suprised as the next person that Anthony is up there, but he was really good. Much better quality -it was hard to pick a brilliant performance until my girl came out and struck a pose (but Anthony was in the lead up to that point). Chanel was the best AGAIN but verrrrrrry closely followed by Ricki-Lee - that Beyonce song freaking rocked. She has in the past struck me as just bland vanillapopgirl but that performance put the grrrr in vanillapopgrrrrl (baby!!) and mad props to little Anthony for leaving the gel at home where it belongs and scruffing up a bit to bouncebouncebounce!Courtney was the next best and then I didn't hate (in no particular order) Marty (liked his song choice, screw you Dicko), Daniel (although I didn't nec like the song - still, a better perf from the girlyoperaboy) and Hayley (I thought she did another okay job) BUT horror of horrors - Casey (!!) was average, Amali was average, Emelia was average (which is bloody brilliant for her) and Dan's Creed sucked the ass of Christian rockers everywhere. Unfortunately there are women who apparently find him attractive - I don't personally get it - so he won't be going anywhere. I do think Holden was on the money though when he said Dan doesn't have the best voice in the world. Methinks mayhap it be betwixt young Amali, Emelia and (I hate that this might be the case - geddit? Case/Casey?) Casey. She was just average and she didn't get my vote this week and I think a lot of her fans will feel the same and she'll have lost a lot of votes. I think we all know how much I would like to see Emelia go, but she wasn't hideous and I'm worried that will save her. Hopefully she doesn't have the fan base and as I said to Fosse last night - when i hear that Pink song on the radio or see the filmclip I'm not ashamed to say I tear up and Emelia just had me nodding wryly and huffing that she wasn't as bad as usual. Still, fingers crossed . . .
A. Because she sang one of my favourite songs in theoriginal top 30 perfs and did the Portishead girl proud.
B. Because she has a fucking sense of humour
C. She loves Courtney (and Daniel and Ben)
D. She can actually sing (unlike say, Emelia)
E. Hello!! Did you SEE her last night? There are NO more reasons necessary. History Repeating was FAB. And if anyone has a problem with that - you tell them to see me, I am ready to rumble on my bestest girlfriends behalf.
Top three performances in order of brilliance and my humble opinion - Chanel, Ricki-Lee and Anthony. I am as suprised as the next person that Anthony is up there, but he was really good. Much better quality -it was hard to pick a brilliant performance until my girl came out and struck a pose (but Anthony was in the lead up to that point). Chanel was the best AGAIN but verrrrrrry closely followed by Ricki-Lee - that Beyonce song freaking rocked. She has in the past struck me as just bland vanillapopgirl but that performance put the grrrr in vanillapopgrrrrl (baby!!) and mad props to little Anthony for leaving the gel at home where it belongs and scruffing up a bit to bouncebouncebounce!Courtney was the next best and then I didn't hate (in no particular order) Marty (liked his song choice, screw you Dicko), Daniel (although I didn't nec like the song - still, a better perf from the girlyoperaboy) and Hayley (I thought she did another okay job) BUT horror of horrors - Casey (!!) was average, Amali was average, Emelia was average (which is bloody brilliant for her) and Dan's Creed sucked the ass of Christian rockers everywhere. Unfortunately there are women who apparently find him attractive - I don't personally get it - so he won't be going anywhere. I do think Holden was on the money though when he said Dan doesn't have the best voice in the world. Methinks mayhap it be betwixt young Amali, Emelia and (I hate that this might be the case - geddit? Case/Casey?) Casey. She was just average and she didn't get my vote this week and I think a lot of her fans will feel the same and she'll have lost a lot of votes. I think we all know how much I would like to see Emelia go, but she wasn't hideous and I'm worried that will save her. Hopefully she doesn't have the fan base and as I said to Fosse last night - when i hear that Pink song on the radio or see the filmclip I'm not ashamed to say I tear up and Emelia just had me nodding wryly and huffing that she wasn't as bad as usual. Still, fingers crossed . . .
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