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| The Top 10 SA Idols 2012 |
Have you ever watched one of these talent contests where the viewers and the contestants fans have to vote for their favourites via SMS or online? There are a lot of these reality shows on the small screen and people sit glued to their couches as they watch contestants make complete idiots of themselves or can actually sing and become top singers. At the moment on South African TV we have the popular Idols contest where at the moment seven young people are battling it out for the title of "The Next SA Idol", people vote like mad, probably 10 times a day, hoping to save their favourite. Whilst the official SA Idol's Facebook page is filled with comments from armchair judges giving their opinions on who should go and who should stay. Some of these people even judge the judges, cause whilst we don't always agree with what the Idol's judges say, it's the votes from the public that count. I have often wondered myself if by acquiring a large fan base one could actually win the competition with votes and not with talent. It would seem that way with some of the contestants. Just tonight one young man landed up in the infamous "bottom three" of the results show for the third week running. Unfortunately for him, Dominic Neill got the least amount of votes and was sent home. Let's be fair here the past preformances of his have not been great and one wonders after hearing his horrendous version of the Coldplay hit "Utopia" how on earth he made it this far. Contestants who were far better than him were getting voted off. Some of the names that spring to mind are Chloe Kiley, Nosipho Mngomezulu, and Obakeng Ramaboa. So how could Dominic have lasted so long in the competition? Maybe the three ex contestants mentioned above made the wrong song choice? Or did not enough "fans" vote for them? As I said before it is possible to get all your aunties, uncles, cousins and siblings to vote for you because from what I hear one can vote every hour. According to the T&C for Idols every viewer can vote a maximum of 100 times which if you multiply that by 10 family members, that's already 1,000 votes for one contestant. Get the whole neighbourhood behind you and it's a hell of a lot of votes! Methinks that this was the case for Dominic, but then who am I to judge? Well now that he has left, I think the real competition is about to begin. Who is next to go in theTop 6? We will have to see what song choices are made by the remaining 6 very talented contestants!
