pop rock or rock pop?

in light of the discussion on pea's blog/tagboard, singapore idol and rockstar supernova, i wish to discuss the issue of music. specifically singer talent search shows and the kind of music they sing.

firstly, lets make it VERY VERY VERY clear. IDOL IS POP. period. which is why chris was never gonna win. which explains why kelly, ruben, fantasia and carrie won ai. they are pop through and through. whilst there are the odd weirdos aka chris, abotu everything about ai and any other i is pop. jus look at the song selections/themes. u haf a barry manilow week. u haf an elvis wk. u haf a jazz wk. u haf a billbaords wk. they are clear indications of how poppish idol is. not that it is a bad thing per se. but when they start mixing it all up, dats when it starts to suck big time.

-cue singapore idol music thingy-

deng deng deng! singapore idol!!!!! by far one of the biggest jokes in television history for as long as i can rmb. honestly, i think the producers, contestants, judges and viewers alike are getting it very wrong. they are all messed up in the head. cant they understand the show is to find the nest POP idol?? wad the hell the original was called POP IDOL!!! den wad do we get? beng wannabes who cant speak properly, pple with perpetual bad hair days who tink avril is "rocker!!!" and who tink flickin their hair once every 5 secs is cool. wad. the. fuck. i mean helloooooooo jsu take last season for example. taufik won. (yay hehe =D). my point is that he won because of his pop appeal. like duh syl-rockeryeayeabeng-vester never would have been allowed to win. i'd bet they would doctor the votes jus to make sure he doesnt win. because of one reason and one reason only. HE CANNOT SELL. in singapore, there is one very simple rule of music. rock does not sell. only pop does. which is why u haf genie (-.-""""""), now wad kaira gong, even the whole stef sun tanya chia thing. they are all pop. ok so wads so appalling about singapore idol is that some of them contestants tink they can win by being "cool" and "rocker". ala rahimah paul sly. firstly, they prob tink greenday is rock. WHICH BY THE WAY THE FUCKING ARE NOT. secondly, their attempts to dress rocker fail terribly. (jus like someone else heh :P) i mean, the glove stuff and net shirts and wad not? they scream wannabe mroe than they scream rock.

ok i don claim to know wad rock is all about and stuff, but i believe i have seen enuff true rock to tell the rockers from the wannabe rockers.

so aniwae it is very sad how they try so had. u haf sly singing "i don wanna miss a thang!! jea jea jea" (zao siaing somewhere of course), den u haf paul twohill singing wad my sac. scrwe him. oh yea yea my favouratest example of all. rahimah going: "i'm rocker!!!"......"and tonight i shall be singing avril lavigne." honestly, when i heard dat i jus died. like my brain exploded adn my guts all burst, so blood came quirting out of the tips of my fingers and toes and my small intestines started coming out of my ears. point is, i died. avril is to pop as sven goren eriksson is to winning. THEY ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE!! grrr.

as the whole world should know, the one place to find true rock, AND good singing on tv, is rockstar supernova. seriously if u wan to noe smthn of wad a rocker's life is like, watch that show. at least those pple understand wad rock truly is. AND they can sing ALOT better den those toots on anything i. and the best part of all? u actually get good music. u don get no barry manilow theme -.- u get losing my religion and creep. now THATS music at its best. somewhat.

and considerin all these shows aim to find the best singer amongst them all, i tink its quite sad and telling when any of the rockers on rockstar, vocally, could prob make the idol top 3. americas. singapore's they'd be too good to join. again i stress vocally. cos they couldnt cut it as pop. look at the rock bands that tried going pop. gnr, creed, all fucked themverygoodselves up upside down. and hey if ure lookin for rags to riched stories ala carrie underwood, rockstar is THE place to go. u got pple who leave home at 16 and live on teh streets ever since ala lukas, u haf pple born in africa hus parents travel to the land of hope for hope, ala dilana. u get the likes.

so, DOWN WITH IDOL. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> OUT.