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1 hour ago
about Sanjaya, the voting system and democracy
To be honest, I love Sanjaya the first time I saw him at the American Idol audition. I loved him even more when he showed his love for his sister as soon as he knew his sister didn't made it to the next round at Hollywood audition.
If you read the forum at the American Idol website, you knew he was the most popular guy until Antonella Barba case was exposed. Barba didn't lasted long in the show but Sanjaya fame continues to rise not because of his talent but his personality and hairdo.
The rating of the show continues to fall but I don't think anyone should blame Sanjaya. The show is bland: Melinda Doolittle and Lakisha Jones are flawless even Simon didn't know what to comment anymore, Ryan Seacrest and Simon and their homophobic jokes, Randy Jackson and his same ol' "It was a little bit too pitchy for me" comment and Paula, I don't even want to talk about her.
The American Idol show is now depending on Sanjaya for publicity. I don't watch the show as regularly as I did before. I just tune in because I want to see if he performs really bad that week and I don't want to miss the moment if he's voted off. But hey, there are other contestants like Phil Stacey and Haley Scarnato who are far worse than Sanjaya who should be voted off first but they continue to stay on.
Going into my main point, people like Gina Glocksen, Chris Sligh and my favourite Stephanie Edwards are the victims of the voting system. I have long disagree with this so-called democratic approach to find a talented singer. We didn't make a mistake the first time when we decided that Jaclyn Victor is the well-deserved winner of Malaysian Idol. But look at what happened to Malaysian Idol in season 2.
Another significant weakness of the voting system was shown in Akademi Fantasia. Mawi is not my favourite contestant in AF3 but this man deserves to win because he's really popular. But what happened to other contestants in the same batch with him? The huge gap between Mawi and his fellow friends was very demotivating because you know you did your best and received applause from judges but you will never be able to match the popularity of Mawi even though he made mistakes like forgetting lyrics, sang out of tune or received bad reviews from the judges.
Once I heard that some contestants from Blast Off spent thousands of ringgit to ensure they will go far in the competition. Another contestant in Astro Talent Quest not only won the competition through the voting system but also represented Malaysia in a TVB8 singing contest and won the most sms votes despite his lack of popularity and losing in the singing contest judged by Hong Kong celebrities.
To me the voting system is a total rip off of viewers money because for each vote, you are paying like 50 sen or 65 sen. And now Akademi Fantasia is introducing Afundi Sakan whereby viewers can place 3 or 5 votes with each call. What is so democratic about the system?
The moral of the story: the voting system in reality shows is the symbol of the democratic world we live in. Look at the suffering world around us. The influential and rich will always win or have better advantage than those who doesn't. But since we accepted the system, we made decisions on who becoming our leaders (whether you vote them or not) and hence we will have to bear the consequences of our own action.
16 drop shot(s):
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True. I only turn my attention to Melinda, Chris and Gina's performance. Was disappointed when those two got booted off. I lost hope when Daniel won MI2.
Did you watch OIAM?
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Anthraxxx: I actually did watch OIAM. But I don't really care to mention the show because it sucked. I'm glad Dayang didn't win.
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I can't believe I actually watch the beginning until the end of the show. My favorites were Ching and Faizal. Oh well, most of my favorites don't win anyway.
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totally agree. i'm not a fan of reality show like this. it's always the goodlooking people who can charm the little girls and boys to waste their money that wins the most votes. daniel of MI2 is a lowsy singer, he just doesn't have what it takes to be a great artist, but look at the support he's got. what a screwed-up system.
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anthraxxx: I actually supported Faizal at the beginning. I think the show is a failure and that's why I don't think there will be OIAM 2.
livingmonolith: Many viewers are very smart now and they don't vote for these shows anymore. I think most of them who vote are family and frens of the contestants.
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haley is totally hawt. i heard sanjaya is helped by all those indian call centres... which if it was true, would explain a lot
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I didn't pay much attention to this season's AI. So boring!!!
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simon: Simon AI likes Haley a lot! Haha...I think that call centres rumour is just err rumour.
che-cheh: Normally I would sit through the entire show but now I just try to catch the ending where they summarize the over all performance.
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For this season, I would normally wait for Chris Sligh to mock Simon but since he's gone now, so.....
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yes, voting/democracy may not be perfect but what is the better alternative? Given the opportunity to decide, how would you run a show like AI/AF or even elect a Gov?
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michael: Judges and expertise reviews and comments should be counted in the votes. That's why we don't see similar problem happened in shows like Nescafe Kickstart or the recent one What Women Want.
There's no perfect system in this world but the existing system will definitely work better in a transparent government driven by people-oriented leaders, etc.
Btw, even Mao's ideology helped save China. But we don't want to know the later part of his 'contribution' lah.
To be honest, I'm not a fan of democracy. I'm a fan of utopian socialist society that we all see in Star Trek where everyone work for the advancement of humanity.
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well... Vince does competed in Astro Talent Quest in 2002... he's 1st runner up Winner.... He do tell me that ATQ mmg sukar buat dia... because he's not fluent in mandarin.. but his effort
tapi ATQ ada juga sifat racism... kalau org yg bukan pure Chinese bertanding.. sure kena kutuk habis...
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"but his effort buatkan dia berjaya juga"
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Aziya: if I'm not wrong last time ATQ don't have voting system.
Vince and Nicholas Teoh (the winner) were tested at the finale by a guest celebrity and they were being judged professionally.
I think Vince improved a lot during AF1 thanks to all the lessons by all the cikgu. He was kinda kaku during ATQ. But you know what? I still remember Vince sang "I Believe" popularised by David Tao.
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i ada beli VCD ATQ 2002 tu.... mmg kelakar giler tgk. Vince nyanyi macam "Kayu".... masa dia buat persembahan komedi tue.. mmg kelakar lah.... nak tergolek tengok dia pakai "wig hair" dan seluar baggy....
at least "kayu" dia pun dapat 1st runner up kan...heheheheh
lepas dia menang by SMS vote during AF, dia masuk Voice of Asia dkt. Shanghai...all contestants performance judge by jury... and he won 2nd runner up.
At least Vince bukan macam "juara SMS" ye... lariiiii !!!!!
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aziya: I agree with you. Thats why I don't really believe in all those juara sms :)
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