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July 17, 2004
Malaysian Idol
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I want to say something about this new reality show on TV (1st season) and I want to say something honest, brutally honest in the spirit of Simon Cowell.
There is a difference between meaness and plain rudeness. Simon Cowell may be mean but he knows a good voice when he hears one. Our local judges (2 malay-1 successful producer, another successful singer and one Ang Moh-supposedly successfuly producer) know nothing. I saw one episode where rude comments were made and whilst we have talented and untalented people, I find it disgusting to ask people to go and lose weight. One paper reported that one girl was so traumatised that she never went back to her college because the judges said she was overweight and even went as far as saying why she would do that to herself when her body is God's gift. I am speechless. Isn't this competition a talent and singing competition? The last time I checked, Ruben Studdard isn't exactly Brad Pitt, Clay Aiken isn't exactly manly and Kelly Clarkson isn't exactly thin. Even Fantasia isn't exactly pretty and Guy Sebastian isn't exactly handsome. In fact if this is the standard of judging, the Norwegian idol can just dig a hole and bury himself in it. It should be about the voice.
And come to the thing about voice, I saw the first elimination round. One chinese amongst so so so many Malays and after watching that one episode, I am tempted not to vote for any of them. I am sick of so called power voice, one was doing a hoola hoop dance like routine, one was shouting, one can't sing and our Chinese guy sang My Way when frankly he is not qualified to sing that song. The judges gritted their teeths and said public will like her or him, I am the public and I can safely say I like none of them.
My friend then SMS-ed me and told me to vote for Vick, because he is the only chinese. Since none of them had talent (in that one episode anyway), so I voted based on race. Shame on me but I had little choice. Someone once asked me will this turn into a race based voting or town based voting. Now you have my answer.
I do not believe thousands who turned up so few other races did better than their fellow men/women.
I was even more disgusted when I read that one winner of ASTRO chinese talent quest show (which produces the excellent Zhang Dong Liang and some non-winners who made it huge in Taiwan) was rejected in second round. Funny because he went and auditioned and in a way embarrassed himself and quite disgusting because the judge called Roslan said his voice is only good enough to win Akademi Fantasia, another local talent show. The winner of that show was Vince (mixed Chinese) who was second placed in that ASTRO talent quest show. I find myself wondering what is the standard of judging? ASTRO talent quest showcase better talents (though chinese) who all can sing very very well.
Then back to the judges. I remember the Ang Moh is called Paul Moss. I am still wondering why a caucasian in the panel? Why not one Chinese, one Malay and one Indian because we Malaysia have a great pool of talents, famous singers and all? I was predicting the audition part will be about types of songs, not songs styles, so definitely we have people singing Chinese songs, Hindi songs, Malay songs, Chinese songs, instead of Jazz, soul, whatever because this is Malaysia. Then I read in the papers that this Paul Moss commented on one girl who sang Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (and she is a chinese by the way) and he dared to say he didn't like the song! This song is a classic loved by all! How can we have someone who can't appreciate different races' songs be a judge who himself is not exposed at all? How can we be guaranteed that really talented people will be streamlined into the contest when they're singing songs none of the judges have ever heard?
Now it's up to us to vote. But those that are chosen by the judges and those that didn't, I am tempted to say why bother. Why not let us vote from day 1 because I believe the public will be a better judge?
And then the judges have been criticised for being too honest and they said they must be. This is not honesty, this is putting down people. Why is everybody so keen on being Simon Cowell? Simon is not mean spirited actually. He knows what he is saying and he apologises when he is wrong.
Then we have two really bad hosts. None of them in the league of Ryan Seacrest. We have so many hosts and we chose these two who looked like they just came out from the Disney Channel and true enough, I think one of them was a host in the Disney channel. Why can't we have Fly Guy and Little Kev hosting this show? Already we have boring DJs in the mornings replacing these 2 aces (and mind you these two new guys don't know anything about being DJs, they're just plain noisy, rude, silly and not much wit) thus making our mornings like really bad mornings, now on Malaysian Idol we have 2 hosts who .... I can't describe it.
All I can say maybe every first season is a failure and so I look forward to season 2 and new judges and new hosts. For the time being I am really not bothered with this Idol show. When will local telly show Pop Idol?
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