Eliminated Idol: “TV show posing as a competition”
Sabrina Bashton slams Australian Idol as boring and fake with scathing comments on its judges.
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As reality television, Australian Idol has struggled to make an impression this year, having dumped its most controversial element, Kyle Sandilands.
Lacking any headline-grabbing comments from those left in the show, it may have taken an eliminated contestant, Sabrina Batshon, to do it for them.
In a blog for the Daily Telegraph, she was brazenly honest with her feelings, as these excerpts illustrate:
The Idols are my best friends and I don’t have any ill feeling towars them. They are all extremely talented and I think Idol has created a bad name for itself. It’s the people that vote and the way the cookie crumbles. I think they need new judges. People are getting really bored and the judges are under alot of pressure to give a good show and when you are just saying things to entertain people, people get bored. Dicko’s gotten away with murder, and Marcia’s very kind. JDee needs alot of time to warm up. But with JDee you need 2 stronger judges, and Marcia and Dicko are not as strong. I think Dicko has said a lot of things, he makes derogatory comments and i don’t know if the fans agree with that, his jokes are not funny. We;ve watched that year after year and it gets boring.
I miss Kyle, I prefer him over all the judges. The feedback has not been helpful for me, its been purely contradictory. Dicko thanked me for helping them make great TV last night after the show finished. It didn’t upset me, but I’m very aware of it all. I feel like I’ve been looking at everything from the rooftops and its a TV show first and foremost posing as a competition.
JDee has had an awkward start, Marcia isn’t very social, Dicko was very playful and JDee was always very nervous.
Im 24 and entered this comp as an adult, i dont recommend people entering under 18 or 16, u can get caught up in the fakeness of it all, none of it is real. Most of what the judges tell you is not real or factual, often it is just for show and entertainment.
I think Stan will win it, because he makes great TV and he is a talented artist, i adore him, i think he can surpass the theatrics of the show.
Source: Daily Telegraph
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I think she makes a lot of good points. I’m sure that sometimes the judges say things to spice up the show and make the viewing more interesting. Makes you wonder how real some of the judges are. I think Idol may need a bit of a rest. The US Idol is far more entertaining. Cannot wait for it to start
but it is a tv show, I don’t understand how these contestants can expect anything else.
It is just a very bad choice of top 20 by the judges and they lack charisma and breathtaking talent … entirely their own fault that it is a poor rating season!
Jack!
But she was tone-deaf!!
The judges aren’t really commenting on singing ability anymore, as much as appearance and theatrics. That’s whats wrong – more than ever it’s a popularity contest and not at all about talent, hence allowing voting Before anyone even sings.
Maybe she can play Tina Arena in the movie of her life. Same amount of “talent” and bloody annoying.
The whole rice/casserole thing actually does make sense. Marcia was trying to explain that although all the instruments (including voice) need to mesh and blend with one another to produce a good sound, the vocals need to also retain seperate to the blend of instrumentality going on behind them. So basically, the vocals need to stand out. But I think it was a pretty crappy analogy.
One thing which annoys me with the Idol judges is that they always talk about the same things each week, and rarely ever talk about the actual musicality of the performance. We never see comments on things such as articulation, dynamics, tempo, tone, pitch (well sometimes Marcia talks about pitch), instrumentation or the like.
Idol seriously needs a judge who actually has a good knowledge of music performance theory (not just straight up music theory, but theory behind performing). That should be Marcia’s role, since she’s the singer there.
Dicko just doesn’t seem to fit in the show anymore. His role as the guy from the record label has been taken by Jay Dee, since he’s higher up in the network. Dicko doesn’t know much about the musical side either so what do you know, there’s nothing really special about his position anymore. This year he’s just trying to cause trouble for the sake of causing trouble. He went too far about Nathan’s ‘campness,’ and his comments on Sabrina’s theatrics weren’t centred around her off stage as he claimed, he actually said when he made those original comments that her “choruses were just like a massive explosion of sound” or something like that and then said to tone it down, but said nothing about her personality off-stage.
Put away your tin foil hats there is no conspiracy theory just a bitter girl who had her ego bruised and is lashing out.
But speaking of Kyle i thought of him when they mentioned the big band show coming up and how much he would have loved it:)
First up I do agree that a 16 year old shouldn’t audition for Idol or for any reality show. I think the thing to remember is that it’s not up to the judges to “guide” the contestants but the offer opinion on their performance. The people working behind the scenes are the ones who need to go.
It never ceases to amaze me when eliminated reality show contestants are shocked, bitter, angry, defensive or surprised. Haven’t they watched the show before? In this case the comments regarding the judges are spot on. Marcia really is useless. Her rice and casserole comment on Sunday was pathetic. As for the rest … Sabrina get over yourself.
I totally agree that someone at TEN would have helped her write this nasty sore loser rant.
And she really hasn’t written anything that previous contestants have mentioned before ie. Dicko humiliates and abuses the contestants just to stir things up and Marcia is nice but not very sociable.
As for the “I miss Kyle” remark – well that sounds like something Kyle has been pushing his fans to do ever since he was sacked. Kyle’s own twitter/facebook whatever page has many comments slamming Idol for sacking him.
When a show resorts to cheap lowlife tactics like this – it’s a fair bet that it is tanking and tanking big time.
Sorry Dicko and Marcia – your lucrative million $ gravy train shall end this year – 3 years too late IMO!
How did the show resort to lowlife tactics? Aren’t we presuming one too many conspiracy theories here?
hey David FYI, that first question from Nathan of Penrith where she really opened up in that blog…was asked by me!!
I couldn’t believe either how she opened up too!!
Go Penrith.
I liked her voice… until she stopped singing and started talking. She would have got my vote if she’d shut her mouth and cut out the back chat and sob stories.
Sore loser, albeit providing some valid points about the judges. Clapped when this screecher was eliminated. Glad we don’t have to put up with your ‘woe is me’ comments anymore – people wised up to your see-through sympathy grabbing comments, lovey, and stopped voting for you.
She raised some pretty good points there. Quite refreshing to see what seems like an absolutely honest response from an Idol contestant, when we’re all used to hearing people tell us how great everything was.
Good riddance Sabrina Arena – she is as short on talent as she is in real life
She didn’t say anything that isn’t already obvious from watching the show. I’m sorry for her that it took losing for her to realise.
Also: she was clearly the worst singer on the night.
As if murdering your song weekly wasnt bad enough.. kiss goodbye any record deal anyone had planned for you. Silly girl.
What a little upstart…Dicko told her to shut her mouth…which was a good honest appraisal from him…she has not leant a thing from the Idol experience. Back to the Johnny Young talent school for you!!!
I agree, I don’t think Ten would allow anything they have not passed first to be published. Same as with their other shows like Masterchef and Big Brother. All TV nothing real about them at all.
10 probably told her to write that stuff. just too get some publicity for the show
but hmm she has a point lol
she dosnt shut up does she?
Well articulated and to the point!
Talk about sour grapes from a girl with zero class. When we first saw her she was a sweet down to earth girl and then she morphed into this big mouthed egomaniac giving Dicko lip and now she’s insulting all the judges. Sad as she seemed nice to start.
Think the voters got it right she has a loud screeching voice and her “singing” is ear torture.
“its a TV show first and foremost posing as a competition” – umm.. what did she expect?? Young people are supposed to be all media savvy and then you see comments like this??