23rd Sept- Rainie, Yunjia and Javin
24th Sept- Ren Liangyi and Alex
Start of the Libra Star
Although I personally don't quite enjoy watching the latest episode of Singapore Idol (to be truthful, I missed about half of it cos I finished work rather late and went for haircut at Heartland Mall between 8 to 8.30 pm!!), I still wanna express my thoughts about this show anyway. But I won't want to go into specifics as in express my thoughts for each performance, given my love-hate relationship towards the Idol franchise I once supported at a great scale (at least for Season 2).
Looking at the Top 13 grace the cover of this week's 8 days magazine (as is the case for Season 1 and 2), I just couldn't quite get the same "feel" as that for the finalists for the past 2 seasons, but eventually had to accept the eventual outcome (maybe it's all predestined after all). Ok, this time round there are 13 finalists (the 13th Wonder Nurul Huda included), all of them intact and none of them pulling out at the very last minute a la Candice Foo.
Having gotten back home from haircut, I was probalby thankful to have missed out on the first half of the show, cos I would still most probably be bored to death anyway. Watching the recaps of all the contestants' performances goes to show how lacklustre and dull the show is in general. Doesn't help either that the results show comes 30 minutes after the Performance Show. It was quite a pain to wathc Duane's take on "Pokerface" (playing piano may be a brave thing to do, but the former Kids Central actor's rendition of Lady Gaga's No 1 hit sounded NOTHING like the original). so painful that I actually switched channels after the first few seconds. And it's still painful to see Gurmit attempt more lame jokes as always, like he's being forced 'at gun-point' to do so against his own will. Even Hady didn't sound half-baked in spite of his lack of experience in hosting (but still quite pointless lah).
The results are, as usual, rather disappointing. The 6 contestants with the lowest number of votes consist of 5 girls and 1 guy... the guy being Sezairi, the gals being Mae, Tabitha, Amira, Malaque and Syltra. What, you mean the girls didn't do well at all?? Whatever happened to the overall voting strategy man?!? Thankfully, Mae Sta Maria avoided the fate of doomed foreigner finalist Jeassea Thyidor from Season 1 by being the first of the 6 to be announced safe, rather than to be in the Bottom 2/3. Next 2 to head back to the seats were Sezairi and Tabitha.
The first 'casualty' from the Top 13 turned out to be Syltra, who turned out to be one of the better performers for the night (but just wasn't good enough to win the majority of the viewers or the favor of the judges). Ironically, the pouty-lipped rock chic of Chinese, Malay and Indian parentage turned out to be the very first contestant interviewed in 8 days. Man, if this kind of outcome (aka mostly girls in Bottom 5/6 position) is gonna occur in the next few weeks, then the competition is in serious trouble. And as far as watching the show is concerned, I am most probably going to swear off watching the show from TV for good if most of the girls get wiped out before the Final 5. Not that I care about this season anyway. The cynicism as well as the skepticism towards Singapore Idol 3 continues...
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