Singapore Idol
A colleague and I had this discussion about The Singapore Idol recently, before she toodled off to holiday in Malaysia with her kids.
The concept of the Singapore Idol works best when you are a struggling unknown singer. Someone who has been singing in pubs, clubs, dinner and dances and other public events. Someone who perhaps also holds a day job so as to make ends meet. Someone who has been slogging away at your singing year after year because it is something that you are passionate about. Someone who for some reason or so, has remained undiscovered.
The Singapore Idol would have been your big break. The one break that you have been waiting for and working towards all your life.
Perhaps then, we will not have to suffer tone deaf contestants who cannot carry a tune to save their lives, flamboyant performers and even circus clowns. Perhaps then, we will see contestants pouring their souls into their songs. Perhaps then we will see contestants singing with a passion that will bring their performance to new heights.
Perhaps then, as many Singaporeans will tune in eagerly to Singapore Idol as they do to American Idol.
Perhaps then, you will feel what amount you have spent to call in and vote for your favourite actually is worth it after all.
posted by As Time Goes By at 9:58 PM
4 Comments:
Maybe it is just a profit making gimmick found in America and now franchised all over the world to generate revenue from the calls and advertisement belt.
Instead of wasting money again and again on Singapore Idol, whatever idol, Singaporeans should spend their time on something else more important than supporting the useless idols who can't give money to us but to distract our lives.
I do agree that at the end of the day, it is the telco companies, record companies etc who will profit from it.
However, I also feel that the Idol concept provides an opportunity to those who do have the talent and passion for singing. It is an opportunity that prior to Idol, almost never existed. =)
most of the contestants can't even carry a proper tone at all! thats why those ang mo always mock at us for being talentless and shameless! if you really don't have the ability to sing.... please don't shows it to the public that we are very thick skin......
i rather watch malaysian superstar and idol...... at least the contestants sing much better than us do......
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