Happy Birthday to Daniel Ong and Dai Yang Tian
At 8 pm tonight, it's gonna be a Battle of Venus vs Mars, Powerhouse vs Soulman, Sylvia vs Sezairi at the Indoor Stadium... followed by the Results at 11 pm, with lots of exciting performances by some of the Idols from Season 2, the season 2 winner Hady Mirza (who is also the Asian Idol), Charice from the Phillipines, and yes the very first Singapore Idol TAUFIK BATISAH!!
On December 2nd, after a tumultous 2 to 3 mths of Spectaulars (with strong female singers being booted out in 4 consecutive weeks) history was made for the first time with 2 girls and 1 guy in the Top 3, following the elimination of Charles Wong (good in beatboxing, but his average vocal range wasn't in par with certain genre). That feat alone guaranteed at least one girl a spot in the Finals. On December 8th, that spot was granted to Sylvia Anne Ratonel, making her the first ever female in SI history to make it to the Finals (the Top 2 for seasons 1 and 2 were guys... Taufik vs Sly, Hady vs Jonathan).
Sylvia has proven to be a versatile individual during the Spectaculars, able to handle slow or fast songs alike. She has got the x-factor, the looks (yes, her great figure included), the voice, the personality... the moment she opens her mouth to sing, you will be totally blown away by her performance thereafter. Sylvia is perhaps the only female contestant among the Top 12 who can truly mesmerize me and keep my eyes glued onto her (Tabby and Malaque also wowed me a bit, but they weren't very consistent). If all goes well, Sylvia might just become the first ever female to win the Singapore Idol crown (as well as the 3rd poly graduate to win, following Taufik from SP and Hady from TP). It will indeed be a dream come true for this young lady who hadn't had an easy life, and nearly got booted off from the competition a couple of times.
But come to look at the flip side of the matter... what if Sezairi wins? Will there be a huge negative backlash? Highly possible. Sezairi is a great singer too (given his years of performing at clubs), and a unique musician, he does deserve his spot in the Top 2 as much as Sylvia IMO (and I know lots of Tabby supporters beg to differ). Matter of fact, among the 6 male finalists with mostly mediocre voices (Duane Ho being the worst), he's probably the best of the guys. But in spite of the large fanbase he has, there will always be people who hate him: Sezairi's received tons of death threats on his Facebook fanpage right after the last Spectaculars, especially the one from a rabid Tabby supporter saying that he will "assassinate Sezairi at Jurong Point for stealing Tabby's spot" (narrow-minded losers). The main problem here is, in spite of his originalty and musical background, the main thing standing in his way more than anything else is his race. Already we had 2 Malay winners, their names you should know. If Sezairi wins this (let me clear the air a bit... as much I want Sylvia to win, I am also quite cool with Sez winning, I'm not against it whatsoever), he will be the 3rd guy to win this, and the 3rd Malay as well. Many people will then go, "wah piang ehhh, not another Malay guy again... and I thought the girl was so much better lor!" So you can say that the race issue is something that is impossible to avoid. Imagne the amount of negativity Sezairi had to deal with in months to come...
So who will win the contract with Universal Music... Sylvia or Sezairi? The deciding factor is based on 2 things... the winning single "Touched By An Angel" written by Ken Lim, and the total number of votes tallied by the whole of Singapore between 8 to 10 pm later tonight. Another question is what will happen to the one who doesn't win the title... will he/she be forgotten in a few yrs time like season 1 runner-up Sylvester Sim (offered a contract with Hype at same time as Taufik, but was released less than 2 years later due to personal reasons) or season 2 runner-up Jonathan Leong (signed contract with Hype Records a few months after Hady, but went MIA recently, debut album undergoing development hell).
On a side note, who knows that this might be the very last season of Singapore Idol... it wasn't easy for MediaCorp to bring back this franchise for a third season (after 2.5 years of absence) due to a variety of reasons (small talent pool in Singapore being one of them, another reason being too many similar competitions in recent years, like Project Superstar or Anugerah). If Singapore Idol should come back for Season 4 in abt 2 years time however, may I make a simple request that the producers make the cost for 1 vote via SMS or phone call much cheaper... like 10 cents per vote, pleasssse???
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