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May 26, 2006
8TV's One In A Million
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There is this local reality show called One In A Million by 8TV where if you win this contest (singing contest ala American Idol by the way) you will get RM1 million plus a recording contract where you'll get a chance to work with international producers for an international singing career, or so they say. RM 1 million I am sure is the easy part, the international singing career is debatable. There are two judges, one is the infamous Simon Cowell wannabe (only much more rude) Paul Moss and the other I am sure a famous Malay singer in her own right. I do not follow the local scene except maybe for Siti Nurhaliza. Anyway to audition must be daunting, and to audition in front of two judges who looked like they always had a bad day must be frightening. Especially the lady judge who looked so fierce one wonders what is wrong with her. When the singer is young and talented, the lady judge speaks a bit nicer but every bit as intimidating as she spoke like as if the recipient is 3 years old.
Anyway I saw the debut episode where the auditions were held at Kota Kinabalu I think. Most speak Malay but the judges spoke English. If the winner is going to be groomed for international stardom and one assume that is beyond South East Asian countries, then the winner must first and foremost speak decent English. So if you can sing but speaks lousy English, sorry to say I am very sure you won't get chosen. I think the format must be the same as AI which means in later stages it will be us Malaysians who do the voting. And that is when the problems kick in.
You see this contest is open to absolutely anyone. You can be amateur and only sing in your bathroom, or singers in a pub or even established singers nominated for many awards with lots of albums to your credit. Say if Britney Spears want to join, she can too.
I feel the rules should have been limited to those without a recording contract because I am sure the point of this reality show is to find untapped talent and not discovered talent.
One local female artiste who is very famous I heard and was recently nominated for several awards auditioned and naturally she got through. This most famous artiste in this competition will then be judges by the voters, I wonder how can then an ordinary nobody compete against her? More so she already has a thriving career as a recording artiste. I also read Malaysian Idol runner up from last year also joined and I am sure many others. That is understandable since I think maybe she didn't have that recording contract. But thus established singer...one wonders why she join in the first place? I read she did so because it was a great leap in her effort to bring her career to new heights and to international arena. Why would her recording company agreed to let her go into an essentially amateur singing/talent contest amongst amateurs with the possiblity of her not winning the title and in the end causing much shame to the company? I mean imagine if she really lost the contest ... wouldn't you feel why she want to bring herself to that road when she has already made her career? Is it so hard to find collaboration with international producers that she was desperate enough to join? Whatever her reasons may be, one can't fault her and she was brave to take this step, to face the potential humiliation of losing to a nobody. But what I couldn't understand is why the rules are so relaxed in this competition? It creates a biasness and it will be an uphill task for an ordinary Joe to garner as much attention and publicity than this already established singer. It is simply ridiculous and not fair.
That being said, the judges were so rude, especially to one girl who was told she can proceed to next round and yet she can't decide if she should since she had to leave her job and have no income for months. The judges found her lack of enthusiasm of proceeding to the next round insulting and both of them were super bitchy to this poor girl who kept her smile throughout, and frankly she didn't look too bright. And worse still, we have the lady judge commenting on people who can really sing as "You don't have a predefined style". Excuse me, isn't THAT the reason for this show? Find potential and YOU mould her into a predefined style? I mean she/he will work closely with the producers who will monitor her image, her style, her song choice. What the heck are they talking about style at this stage? This is bad news because that established singer will have a predefined style and having image consultants and all, definitely she would have an unfair advantage over many others. What I dislike about the judges was them looking like they shouldn't be there, that they'd rather be somewhere else and that their time is so precious, if you can't sing so great, you're not worth their time. Their attitude is even worse than the AI show. I wonder aren't they paid to do this? If they don't want to, and they act like some big hot shot producer looking for the next big thing, why not let someone else do the job? I know, this show is supposed to look for the next big thing. But what is the next big thing in this show's context? They're essentially amateurs, so why judge them like as if they are established main stream recording artistes? They were sweet to some though, whilst looking like you'ver just offended them by simply standing in front of them. I believe if Taylor Hicks were to audition before them, I am sure he will be said to lack a predefined style.
I wonder though; did any of these singers, amateurs or otherwise ever ask this judges; "Excuse me, can you give me YOUR credentials? How can YOU make me a star?" instead of the judges saying "Are you good enough to be a star?". Look, Britney Spears can't sing, neither can Avril Lavigne, and see where they are today.
Oh please, why must 8TV invest in such a nonsensical show? Don't we have like ASTRO Talent Show, Superstar, Malaysian Idol and now this? And why must all such shows have similar types of judges; rude ones? Why is everybody trying to equate rudeness as honesty? I know, honesty can be interpreted as rudeness but when someone says "I won't be freaking wasting my time promoting her" or "I have just wasted half my life with you" or or "What kind of attitude do you have?" or somewhere along that line, that to be is rudeness and not honesty. Malaysian reality show judges, especially Malaysian Idol and this one do not seem to be able to diffrentiate between good judging thus good comments with plain rudeness. Some judges get offended so easily that sometimes I feel like I am watching a verbal abuse reality show, with the judges scolding people and making highly personal attack type of comments and one wonders for what? Ratings? Sensationalism? Oh yes...honesty.
That overused words in reality show these days, from modelling show to everything else. Of course the people in the industry will say if you can't take this, you can't take the real comments by real producers. Remember Elliott Yamin and one particular famous producer who was kinda impatient and kinda snapped at him and that was shown on big huge TV across the world? That kinda of attitude I understand but must they be so at this stage? I am not asking them to be nice and sweet and lie but to say "I won't be freaking wasting my time promoting her" is hurtful, not very helpful and way too personal a remark to be called good judging.
Why not let the real singers, songwriters and established producers with proven track record do the judging eh?
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Nowadays we have too many reality shows which are not much different from one another.It seems that we too have been hit by the reality show craze but I wonder how long before people lose interest.And yes,those judges especially in singing competiton have to be mean and rude.Sometimes they don't even know what they're talking about but then again they're the judges...what do we know?
By the way,Happy Birthday to you..:)