the Australian Idol thread

[Cooperman]

YAY! I cheered when Dan got the boot. I never liked him... Anthony's next on my hit list but I don't think he'll be going for a while

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I hated Anthony up until last week, but he can really sing.

Dan on the other hand, couldn't sing for shit. I don't think he was forgettable, I think he was just shit.

 

[Goreripper]

I remember that Dan sang "Better". I will never forget how badly he butchered that song. I'm still not sure though whether it was his performance of "Higher" that got him kicked, or just the fact that he sang a Creed song.
He sucked though. What I thought was interesting this week is that three completely different people got the lowest votes, unlike last year when it seemed that at least one of the same group would always get the lowest votes.

 

[Cyclonus]

Dan was pretty bad and deserved to go, but I remember his first audition I liked.

He was a sexy man though... that's what got him so far.

Anthony impressed me back when he did Hoobastank, so I want him around.

Emilia must go...

Courtney must win... followed by Casey, Chanel, and Marty.

And for a classical singer, Daniel Bell is pretty damn shit, when he hits a root note he does it so good with such awesome projection, but he can't link those notes for shit.

 

[Southy]

That metal guy was just on, done a bloody good version of VH's Unchained. If Australian Idol actually let metal acts on, and they got to play metal, i'd probaly watch

 

[Blitzkrieg]

It is people like that that make the general public think that metal is for fools.

 

[Kem]

I loved it how the audience got in to every song apart from his. They all just sat there.

And while I'm on the topic of Australian Idol I found a picture of Andrew G from 2000 in an old copy of my Uni News mag, where he has long hair and was interviewing students around the campus for Channel V. Pretty funny.

 

[Goreripper]

I think if it was up to G, all the contestants would have to sing 80s metal songs.

 

[phlogiston]

And that would be bad because...

 

[Spruce Goose]

Because What?

 

[Goreripper]

It wouldn't be bad at all phloggy you fool! It would be awesome. Daniel could sing "Silent Lucidity". Marty could do Van Halen. I can hear Hayley doing "Falling In and Out of Love" and maybe Casey doing a Warlock song.

 

[phlogiston]

That was kind of my point. I was prompting someone else to finish the sentence, because I couldn't do it.

Sometimes I have trouble getting my tone of voice across in the written word. CURSE YOU WRITTEN WORD!

In fact, I was listening to "Balls to Picasso" in the car this morning and was thinking that pretty much any song on there would be a great Idol song. It's just un-metal enough to be rock, and unmetalling it a bit more wouldn't be hard. And all the songs have a bit where he sings and then a bit where there are "big notes to win votes". Great album.

I don't know why I was thinking that.

 

[Goreripper]

Did I make one of those posts where I deliberately forgot to use an emoticon? Yes, I think I did.

 

[Spruce Goose]

Me too

 

[phlogiston]

Oh.

 

[Spiff]

I listened to Balls to Picasso at work today. Maybe it was at the same time as you listened to it in the car, Phloggo. Spooky...

 

[Spruce Goose]

Rikki Lee

She was fuckin awesome last night. Owned that song.

Anthony was quite good too.

 

[spawn]

I think the bell has tolled for Marty...

 

[Spruce Goose]

Shit yeah. Marty has got to go. His falsetto is really, really annoying

 

[Goreripper]

It was hard to pick last night, but the three weakest IMO were Marty, Amali and Chanel (yes, Chanel).