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| Monday, September 25, 2006 |
And your Singapore Idol is...(pause for 10 seconds) HADY MIRZA! And then jonathan Leong and Hady smiled and hugged each other, then Hady went to hug Gurmit, the host, whereas Daniel went to shake Jonathan's hand and hug him also. And all their fan downstage (you could tell 90% of them are females) were screaming, cheearing, going wild, hugging each other, doing whatever stuff you can think off. Then I got sick of the scene and returned to my PC to type this post out, when I suddenly got interrupted by an MSN convo: [Hady] the singapore idol!!!!!!!!!!!! says (9:32 PM): Yep, you guess it, its a teenage female fan of hady. I daoed her after that. I sooo don't understand girls. Why do they have such overreactive compulsions? (in other words, go so crazy). As i already mentioned in my previous post, that's also probably the reason why the female singers never make it past the semi-finals, both for the last season and this season. Ok, so maybe i predicted the results wrongly. I guess hady is also quite handsome, and can perform better. Compare the convo above with the following excerpt: Hady = boo. always a malay...always malay vs chinese, male vs male. then the male malay win... Yep, you guessed it, that a forum post from a male classmate of mine. That's why males are more sensible. Maybe its just not our natural instict for our testosterone to start pumping whenever we see a female singer on stage, unlike the sensitive hormones of our female counterparts. See, we're actually more concerned with issues of racism and sexism than with stuff like singing. Seriously, when have you seen such big groups of teenage adolescents mobbing a female singer, performer or whatever, and cheering and going wild over them? Unless they are jounalists, i doubt you've ever seen such a scene before. Mostly its just girls who bother with such stuff. Us males would rather spend our time sensibly at home, watching Singapore Idol on our TV sets and saying, "Those singers are crap. Heck, the audience are just as crap." Okay, maybe that was a little too exaggerated. But you get my point. Is mobbing your "cute idol" that fun? Chasing after their minibuses, or camping for a day outside the indoor stadium, then shoving through crowds just to get that grainy photo of him in your handphone to show it to everyone and say "I saw him! He smiled at me!" Of course, I do believe the idol wannabes have some merit in their singing also. Else they wouldn't be in the competition in the first place. But are you idolising them for their singing, or is it more because of their looks? Singapore Idol thanks you very much for sending in thousands of smses for your dream guy. Considering each sms costs 60 cents and there are a few hundred thousand teenage Singaporean girls out there, its no surprise this is pretty much a rip-off. Gals, why can't you idolise someone like, your macho PE teacher instead? Or maybe someone like Bing? Why does it have to be some frigging guy with big teeth, weird eyes and who likes to comb his hair so that it covers one eye?! At least it looks like Singapore Idol breeds nationalism. Hmm, i think since its even more successful than the National Day parade in making people love their country, why not jsut scrap NDP? Replace it with year long talent contests. Don't worry, you can always change the name. Maybe have "Singapore Idol" from Jan to April, then "Singapore Superstar" from April to July, then "Singapore Band" from July to Oct, and finally end off with "Singapore Dancing" from Oct to the end of the year! That would generate lots of revenue all year long, and plus, its even more effective than NDP in promoting a sense of national pride. Don't have to spend money on goodie bags and fireworks some more! |
'Twas teh winnar at 10:09 pm.
