Is anyone listening?
I know I am writing about this rather late but I just had to...
Indian Idol - 3 is AWESOME. This, I say, considering all the amazing singers it has found. There wasn't one person in the top 13 who couldn't sing well and was there because of public sympathy. I used to watch Indian Idol - 1 religiously. Still,it wasn't this good. 3 is a class apart. Most of the people I know watch it. This, excluding "I wanna become Donald Trump" wannabes who have probably watched one episode of The Apprentice.
Coming to the point... The people who are being voted out of Indian Idol DON'T deserve to leave. Atleast the last 2 weeks, the whole results show has been surprising me. First Deepali. Then Puja. The only girls who I thought were capable of becoming the idol, were gone. And the only girl left is Ankita Mishra. This might sound rude, but, comparitively Ankita's singing sucks. And I don't think she is a great performer either. Thats the sole reason Annu "I want more n's" Malik supports her and I so don't agree. She ONLY has a naughty face. And she tries to do things with her nose which makes her look cute. Anyone could do it. She probably has attitude in her voice but thats her voice quality. If you can expect Deepali to sing like Shreya Goshal or close to someone like that to vote her in, you should probably look for a Vasundhara Das in Ankita. You'll find not a pinch of her in Ankita. I do not intend any comparison. Each one of them have a different voice and I just think Deepali is better than Ankita, be it voice or performance.
So I hoped Ankita would go out and Deepali would stay - That did not happen.
And so I had to wait for her to go last week and what should happen again - Puja left. Now this definitely was crazy. If what a person had been singing for the last 10 weeks meant anything at all, Puja should have been on the top. "Ab ke saawan" is a really really hard song to sing and Puja sang it so amazingly well, I could not imagine her leaving after that. If the audience wanted a girl to leave then it'd have rather been Ankita.
I haven't considered the guys till now and if I did, I'd say Prashant doesn't deserve to stay this long. Nor does Chang. He could probably become the Indo-China Idol in China but definitely not Indian Idol 3.
Now that the girls I supported are out, my only hopes of a deserving Indian Idol lie on Emon.
For the LAST TIME, Emon does NOT sound like Sonu Nigam. If anyone remember how he sang "ek chathur naar", they wouldn't say this. He can modulate his voice to sound like almost anything or anybody AND along with all this he has this whole new different voice which belongs to him. Talking about Indian Idol's finds, he is certainly one of them.
The only contestant I haven't talked about yet is Amit Paul. So lets do that too.
He isn't great period
What Annnnnnuji finds in him is beyond me. He thinks his standing ovation means a thing? Its like shit. The way Amit sang "mai ri" was bad. If Palash Sen would have listened to it, he would have cried. But oooo what did Mr. Malik have to say?!
You are simply superb... *stands up on his cunning feet*
Just incase you read this Annuji-
If you could stand for him you could have stood for everyone. And if you didn't know, there are freaks who vote for people Annu Malik stands for. Deserving, they might think. Stupid judge, I say.
I once wished Alisha were blind when she was all gaga over the rock guy who couldn't sing a line in Hindi without going out of tune. The competition never stopped him from singing/screaming whatever he claimed was rock. And if it did, he didn't deserve to be there in the first place. In any case, judges need a limit for how much lou they can possibly show towards a contestant.
I think the sole reason there is so much confusion is, the whole concept is not clearly defined. The judges themselves do not know what they are looking for. Its so foolish. How did they even rate the singers till now? One of them wants performance and singing... the other just singing and Malik needs just some butter. Javed Akthar is the sanest.
In my opinion Indian Idol should be more of singing and stage presence. Right now, thats what one needs to look for. The whole performance thing will happen as time goes by. Or they could take it in the lines of Fame Gurukul. But who is listening to me?
I don't even wanna watch the show anymore. I just hope Emon wins though. But the unexpected always happens so allow me to expect Emon to lose.
Ok this should do. I have whined enough.
For the record... Mommy dearest FINALLY left me home ALONE! So YAY!
Indian Idol - 3 is AWESOME. This, I say, considering all the amazing singers it has found. There wasn't one person in the top 13 who couldn't sing well and was there because of public sympathy. I used to watch Indian Idol - 1 religiously. Still,it wasn't this good. 3 is a class apart. Most of the people I know watch it. This, excluding "I wanna become Donald Trump" wannabes who have probably watched one episode of The Apprentice.
Coming to the point... The people who are being voted out of Indian Idol DON'T deserve to leave. Atleast the last 2 weeks, the whole results show has been surprising me. First Deepali. Then Puja. The only girls who I thought were capable of becoming the idol, were gone. And the only girl left is Ankita Mishra. This might sound rude, but, comparitively Ankita's singing sucks. And I don't think she is a great performer either. Thats the sole reason Annu "I want more n's" Malik supports her and I so don't agree. She ONLY has a naughty face. And she tries to do things with her nose which makes her look cute. Anyone could do it. She probably has attitude in her voice but thats her voice quality. If you can expect Deepali to sing like Shreya Goshal or close to someone like that to vote her in, you should probably look for a Vasundhara Das in Ankita. You'll find not a pinch of her in Ankita. I do not intend any comparison. Each one of them have a different voice and I just think Deepali is better than Ankita, be it voice or performance.
So I hoped Ankita would go out and Deepali would stay - That did not happen.
And so I had to wait for her to go last week and what should happen again - Puja left. Now this definitely was crazy. If what a person had been singing for the last 10 weeks meant anything at all, Puja should have been on the top. "Ab ke saawan" is a really really hard song to sing and Puja sang it so amazingly well, I could not imagine her leaving after that. If the audience wanted a girl to leave then it'd have rather been Ankita.
I haven't considered the guys till now and if I did, I'd say Prashant doesn't deserve to stay this long. Nor does Chang. He could probably become the Indo-China Idol in China but definitely not Indian Idol 3.
Now that the girls I supported are out, my only hopes of a deserving Indian Idol lie on Emon.
For the LAST TIME, Emon does NOT sound like Sonu Nigam. If anyone remember how he sang "ek chathur naar", they wouldn't say this. He can modulate his voice to sound like almost anything or anybody AND along with all this he has this whole new different voice which belongs to him. Talking about Indian Idol's finds, he is certainly one of them.
The only contestant I haven't talked about yet is Amit Paul. So lets do that too.
He isn't great period
What Annnnnnuji finds in him is beyond me. He thinks his standing ovation means a thing? Its like shit. The way Amit sang "mai ri" was bad. If Palash Sen would have listened to it, he would have cried. But oooo what did Mr. Malik have to say?!
You are simply superb... *stands up on his cunning feet*
Just incase you read this Annuji-
If you could stand for him you could have stood for everyone. And if you didn't know, there are freaks who vote for people Annu Malik stands for. Deserving, they might think. Stupid judge, I say.
I once wished Alisha were blind when she was all gaga over the rock guy who couldn't sing a line in Hindi without going out of tune. The competition never stopped him from singing/screaming whatever he claimed was rock. And if it did, he didn't deserve to be there in the first place. In any case, judges need a limit for how much lou they can possibly show towards a contestant.
I think the sole reason there is so much confusion is, the whole concept is not clearly defined. The judges themselves do not know what they are looking for. Its so foolish. How did they even rate the singers till now? One of them wants performance and singing... the other just singing and Malik needs just some butter. Javed Akthar is the sanest.
In my opinion Indian Idol should be more of singing and stage presence. Right now, thats what one needs to look for. The whole performance thing will happen as time goes by. Or they could take it in the lines of Fame Gurukul. But who is listening to me?
I don't even wanna watch the show anymore. I just hope Emon wins though. But the unexpected always happens so allow me to expect Emon to lose.
Ok this should do. I have whined enough.
For the record... Mommy dearest FINALLY left me home ALONE! So YAY!
Labels: Indian Idol, Life, Music
posted by Poornaa Venkatesan at 8:54 PM
2 Comments:
agreed...totally agreed! someone needs to kick annu in the right places (:D).
Nice review on Idol 3 ....please blog more often :D
Ok not that I'm some expert on singing and all, but I DON'T think any of the singers in Idol 3 can be called 'amazing'. Even you can sing better than some of them.
As for the judges, they ARE a confused lot :)
Hehe the good ones always tend to get voted out. The same thing happens in American Idol too. Donno why... people don't like people who sing well?
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