I see another Idol winner has been found and again I find myself asking myself ‘does anyone really give a shit?!’
Obviously someone does because they keep churning out Aussie Idol to an audience that just seems to lap it up. They obviously make money out of it too, quite possibly by selling the show to nice but dim countries like us.
The latest winner is a Kiwi which makes me laugh, because if there’s one thing sure to piss the Aussies off it’s a New Zealander winning anything.
Admittedly Stan Walker’s back story is impressive in its adversity; he was fiddled by his uncle (Peter File) at an early age and raised – in his own words – by Jake the Muss. Grim stuff. But yet I can’t help but feel the world needs another Idol winner like it needs another Hitler and so despite Stan the Man’s emotional victory, you and I both know that come this time next year, he will be yesterday’s news.
The list of former world wide Idol winners who have ‘made it’ is considerably shorter than those that haven’t. Actually, apart from Kelly Clarkson can you name any past winner who still has songs played on the wireless / TV / car full of silly teenage girls? No. No you can’t.
Sure, they all go on to record an album or two but then that’s part of their prize package. They’ll murder even more decent songs with their ridiculous covers and perform on stage with the likes of Michael Buble, the man with a tit in his name. But after all the contractual palaver is completed they go back to doing whatever it was they were doing before winning Idol; sweet fuck all.
And the reason is simple – because the same folk who got their panties in a twist during the competition this year will be doing the same again next year, only for some other try hard with a sob story. It’s rent-a-crowd in its purest form.
So does anyone really give a shit? Possibly, but only for a few weeks so you better laugh it up while you can Stan, because this time next year you’ll just be another Maori living in Brisbane and Michael Tit-lay won’t be answering your calls.
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