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[CdnTVwatcher]

Greetings, Aussies! Just wishing you all a Happy New Year as it 2004 there. Here in mid-Canada, it's 6:30 pm.

Let us know what happens on WI! Myabe then I can avoid watching the crappy parts. Oh wait, then I'd have to avoid the whole thing.

[djayde]

I just had to put this in, because it was bloody funny.
I was watching Millsy on Channel V last night and he did a cross from a chair, where he was sitting with these two girls...Anyway, they seemed completely unimpressed with him until he said,
"Hey! It's time for the Skank of the Year and Spunk of the Year Awards", to which he asked them who was the biggest Skank of the Year, and they answered: Paris Hilton. He's gone,"Um, I don't know, I think she's a nice girl, she doesn't have to pretend to be someone she's not - like Britney Spears."
Then one of the girls popped up with: "Well, she looked pretty skanky in that video!"
Hee!

[foster duckwort]

I am so totally watching 6:30. Not that I really want to, but I have a flight at like 8:00, so I'll be up early anyway. And this way I can take some sort of satisfaction in knowing before most other people.

OT/ We had some friends over last night and the topic of World Idol came up. There was a collective feel of 'Millys rules' and 'I want the first guy to win'. There was even an awful rendition of 'Maniac'. No they wern't drunk, but they were under the age of 14. Go figure.

[Aussie Andrew]

DjayDe - Oh that sounded hillarious! I would've paid to see that! Oh wait...it was on Pay Tv, I probably would've paid to see it.

And the Carols, ug... *shudders* I cannot stand watching them again! I left the room when the family sing along started.

But yes, I too am World Idol's bitch, so I'll be up at 6:20 giving me 10 minutes to make a stumble out to the loungeroom. Then after world Idol. Onto Sunrise to get out of Zombie Mode.

[raen]

I'll be watching! If I can get out of bed, I got up at 2pm today so I may have trouble getting to sleep tonight. Loving my holidays.

[mercury_ca]

Hi, Greetings from London. (I'm a Canadian here playing press.)

I hope this offends no one, but your guy Dicko? A bit of an ass. He may have just been having a bad day at the press thing yesterday, but he was a bit snippy at...everyone. Could have been that maybe his humor didn't translate? I don't know.

Other than that. your Idol Guy is very nice to us press (hee!) and has the goofiest smile ever. I kind of want to marry him just for his smile ;)

Have a great day all and sleep well before you get up for the live show!

[qu0s]

*yawns* Well, I'm sad enough that I got up at 6:30 to watch the live results, then straight onto the computer to discuss them. Do I get some sort of prize?

I can't believe how badly Guy did. I thought that he'd come in around fourth, but he didn't even make the top five. I didn't see the final results for the lower ranked contestants, but from the craptastic votes he was getting I'm assuming he came in about seventh. Bad Guy! Bad! The patriotic part of me is fighting with the part of me that loves to see Guy lose, so I'm half enjoying this and half cursing Guy for putting on a bad showing.

Once again I must proclaim my Shannon love, because I'm convinced that if he'd gone he would have fared much better - after all, he's both hot and talented. Sigh.

[Andrew's Mommy]

I'll put this in spoiler tags for those who may not watch till tonight.

7th! Woo! It was funny listening to the announcer on Power FM down here this morning. Had HairBear won, it would have been on, right on 7:30. They didn't announce it on radio down here until 8:20am, bemonaing the fact that Kurt had performed about 70 concerts and HairBear hasn't had any! Big HairBeary deal!

I'm wondering how the folks at Aussie BMG are going to take this result. Here's their prodigy, ready to take on the world, but in the eyes of the voting (and CD buying) audience, he's crap, And first impressions last. He only polled better than the Polish looney, Jamai from the Netherlands, the Maniac from Germany, and despite her pretty song, the Pan Arabic Diana. Even Will with his tepid attempt shat on him from a great height.

Quoting the Daily Telegraph "...Sebastian's rhythm and blues version of the Louis Armstrong ballad What a Wonderful World was not enough to secure the title over Nilsen."LINK It weren't enough to beat most of the contestants! And you call THAT an arrangement! Hee!

ETA Check out this horrid picture of HairBear, it's an article with the results.

This post has been edited by Andrew's Mommy: Jan 1, 2004 @ 4:50 pm.

[cavalier196]

Oh, fuck patriotism - that was FANTASTIC. It was well worth the early start to see that little prick get smacked down on the world stage. Perhaps now the rest of Australia will catch up in realising just how crap he is and get over him just in time to see the realease of Shannon's CD.

Hmm...that may have been BMG's plan all along...

ETA: The photo in that link, Andrew's Mommy, is just before/after that freak attempted to molest a male member of the studio audience during his performence.

This post has been edited by cavalier196: Jan 2, 2004 @ 11:01 am.

[Andrew's Mommy]

This mornings DT has a refreshed story with this gem:

Australian judge Ian Dickson said he believed that Sebastian's unusual look, in contrast, had probably counted against him in the international tally because it was so unlike what other countries would have assumed an Australian popstar would be.

Hmm so the pundits in the media saying that Guy should be the Idol, not based on his talent (?), but based on the fact that he was "multicultural" and Shannon was not, will now be saying that the rest of the world is racist? Hee!

On the other hand, Hobbit Boy was "unusual" (Dicko said it himself) and he won, so it must just be that WAWW was crap.

BTW molesting male audience members is going to do nothing for his rep, but might just earn him a float at Mardi Gras this year!

This post has been edited by Andrew's Mommy: Jan 2, 2004 @ 4:49 pm.

[cavalier196]

Hmm...Guy as a gay icon.

Gimme a while to digest that.

[katisha66]

I think Kurt winning had a fair bit to do with both Dicko AND the fact that he went last. Remember how in the preliminary AI heats, if you weren't in the last four you never got through?

Perhaps now the rest of Australia will catch up in realising just how crap he is and get over him just in time to see the realease of Shannon's CD.

I'm already over Shannon, and I don't need to hear his CD!

This post has been edited by katisha66: Jan 3, 2004 @ 12:30 am.

[La Dolce Vita]

I'm over Shannon as well. His single is quite bland and soulless, especially compared to the first live version. I've heard it maybe three times on the radio.

[katisha66]

La Dolce Vita, I've NEVER understood the appeal with Shannon. As people say around here, I'm "not feeling the Shannon love". Nice bloke, certainly, but an average singer/muso at best.

[Andrew's Mommy]

Sunday Telegraph today has the first "Guy was Robbed" article that I have seen.

Dear Dicko

The whole point of this WI exercise was to get the PUBLIC to vote for THEIR World Idol. Sure, there is the whole teenybopper movement (what else could explain Will or Heinz getting as high as they did), but frankly, HairBear's version of What a Wonderful World WAS CRAP. Any pretty well much the whole world agreed on what they thought was the "best". Kurt and Kelly placed 1,2 on almost every voting result, Guy didn't place above 5th for every other country! You see, the rest of the world agrees it was crap too!

As much as you and your other 10 "experts" valued your OWN opinions, and you experts decide what we should listen to, the World voted for what THEY wanted, and it wasn't a crap-ass cover of WAWW. We all know what market you are aiming at in Oz (cashed up 8-14 year old girls), but, surprise surprise, other people DO exist! (How else do you explain the continued popularity of Celine Dion?)

Love, Andrew's Mommy.

This post has been edited by Andrew's Mommy: Jan 3, 2004 @ 7:21 pm.