Australian Idol - Final 10

This post is dedicated with sincere and entirely non-smug condolences to Magical_M for the loss of her favourite Idol, Klancie, this week. Although I’m glad she’s out of the competition, I know it would have stung you, and for that I am not glad.

I’m going to rip through each contestant this week and give my lightning-recap thoughts on their performance. In no particular order:

Damien – Excellent. He has definitely raised himself into the top four in my opinion. “Bad teeth” be damed. Stupid press. Who cares?! It’s about his singing abilities, and he’s fantastic.

Bobby – Worst he’s ever been (and I hope it was the worst he’ll ever be). Was he on drugs or something? He seemed completely distracted and rattled. Hopefully he’s back on form next week.

Klancie – Wasn’t as bad as someone else (see below), but she still needed to go sooner rather than later. If she’d tried to sing anything that wasn’t tweaked to sound like country music, she might have won over more of the nation than just our beloved candidate for Pink-Eye, Ms Magical_M.




Dean – This is the guy who performed the worst. Just bland, bland, bland. I don’t care if he’s hot-to-trot, girls. There are enough pictures of him out there now with his shirt off … store those away if you need them, but don’t keep voting for him when he isn’t as good a performer as the others. It’s embarrassing to everyone; Dean included. An interesting story circulating at the moment was that at the Brownlow ceremony at Crown Casino tonight, Steven Quartermain rushed up to a group of people backstage before the show started (while Idol was airing) and exclaimed in exasperation, “I can’t believe Dean’s in the bottom three!” If true, that’s a very amusing story, and yet I feel sorry for Quarters. He’s a man who I think is an excellent presenter, ‘caller’ of sport, and complete non-meathead (for a sports nut), and yet he has just demonstrated how the uninformed can cast their opinion on a subject matter they know nothing about … and actually give the title to someone completely undeserving. It’s scary.

Lavina – She simply should not have been in the bottom three even once, let alone twice. Probably deserves to win. Her fans should vote for her more often and stop assuming someone else will. (I’m not gonna, though.)

Mutto – He was unwell, yes, but it really hampered his performance. I hope he’s fit and healthy again next week.

Chris – Just not exciting enough. Lift your game, man. He takes criticism slightly better than his sulky brother, though.

Ricky – Very good. He continues to be good despite M_M’s elusive reference to his prior indiscretion (which I don’t know anything about).

Jessica – Continues to rise to the challenge and do exceptionally well. Also in the top few performers. I’ve done an 'about-face' on her (metaphorically) and I’m happy to admit it … because it’s only happened since she raised the bar and hit it out of the park and other such clichés.

Lisa – Crap, crap, crap, awful, awful, awful, boring, boring, boring, snore, snore, snore, eliminate, eliminate, eliminate.


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