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Due to Najib’s contractual agreements with the producers of “Live the Dream”, he regrets that no further information on his participation in the show may be disclosed. Thank you for your understanding! However, Najib would like to announce that he will begin his new job as an Account Executive in a PR agency this week! Goodbye MDA! :p
Keen. According to today’s New Paper (6th November 2006) Ryan Star of Rockstar: Supernova fame will be in Singapore on the 17th of November for a Channel [V] showcase. The event is unfortunately by invite only, but there is a phone-in contest to win tickets to the event. Twenty pairs of invites to the event, and five to a meet and greet session. Ryan Star did a tremendous job and all the videos of his solo material making the rounds on Youtube haven’t disappointed, so I’m hoping I get in.
Curiously this write up is also where I found out Jason Newsted will be replaced for Rockstar Supernova’s (hire better lawyers next time, guys) upcoming tour (by the Black Crowe’s Johnny Colt, apparently) and that Storm, Magni and the house band were taken off the tour due to financial considerations.
And if Fan Favourite winner Ryan Star isn’t enough to lure you, Channel [V] hosts Sarah Tan and Maya Karin will be there as well.
I can’t get over how much the chorus to this…
…sounds like the chorus to this.
EDIT: Note, not actual video for song but the closest I could find.
The first video is You Give Me Wings, the first single for this season’s Singapore Idol winner Hady Mirza, the second is Cathy Dennis’ Too Many Walls.
Still, I’m not hating. Popular music appropriates from other sources all the time. I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Led Zeppelin, it’s just the nature of the beast. In any case, we all know who the real Singapore Idol is.
He’s a hustler, baby.
EDIT: Also, I’m quite amazed by Cathy Dennis songwriting credits over the past decade or so. She’s written more than her fair share of hits for other artistes.
10.UsDudes won’t have to see Najib’s face everytime we want to buy a Slurpee.
Ryan Star - Back of your Car
Truth be told, I’m actually kind of glad Ryan Star is gone from the competition. I don’t think he would’ve made a nice fit with Supernova and besides that, as talented as these guys are their songs kinda suck (I’m talking about Supernova of course). I’m not sure who told Gilby Clarke, Jason Newsted and Tommy Lee that they could write lyrics but I haven’t been particularly impressed with the results so far. I wish they’d just give the contestants instrumentals and let them write the lyrics for the originals like they do in the songwriting clinic. I’m sure Ryan Star will benefit from the publicity he’s gained from the TV show and I wish him all the best. He probably could afford to be a bit more loose and natural onstage, but he’s a pretty good songwriter, a decent voice, and he knows how to play to the audience. I’m sure he’ll be making Billboard again.
I think he would’ve gotten the encore a third time for his original but the producers had chosen instead to go with showcasing Dilana’s mistakes not once but twice on the elimination round. There’s probably a good chance that they did in fact choose to eliminate Ryan rather than Storm or Dilana for the sake of political correctness, but I stand by my opinion that Ryan’s style wouldn’t have gelled very well with these 80s rockers.
Ryan Star wins the encore again (deservingly), and interestingly enough with a Phil Collins song, although that song is “In the Air Tonight”. The thing about Ryan’s best performances is that it seems like two minutes is simply not enough. Ryan tends to fare better with the sort of mid-tempo, melodramatic numbers but I’m not sure how he’d fare with more upbeat, fists in the air kind of tunes that a band like Supernova seems to want to make its bread and butter.
If you’ve been following Singapore Idol… well, this is what you’ve been missing out on. This season’s batch of contestants didn’t impress me very much at first, but I have to remember that I missed at least three weeks from the beginning of last season as well. I think some front runners are starting to emerge, and while Ryan Star wasn’t spectacular initially in my opinion he really stepped up his game first with Live’s I Alone and a defining rendition of REM’s Losing My Religion (one of my favourite songs) that won him an encore performance from the band.
To be fair, I think Dilana Robichaux has been the strongest and most consistent of all the performers thus far, turning in really good covers of Nirvana’s Lithium and Cyndi Lauper’s Time after Time. She doesn’t have to put on an act, she just does gets on stage and rocks. And sometimes it’s as simple as that.
The band itself (Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted and Gilby Clarke) is an interesting concept, and it appears from the tracks they’ve previewed their music is something more akin to AC/DC than any of the bands they were in (Mötley Crüe, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses respectively). It’s interesting, I think, that Gilby Clarke (who was only added to the GNR line-up during their declining years) tends to take the more authoritative voice during contestant evaluations and Tommy Lee tends to act the fool, when Tommy Lee is one of the producers for the show and the show is described as “the Tommy Lee Project” on several places on the internet, which was probably a discarded early title for the series. Jason Newsted still comes off as the eager young buck that he was in Metallica.
There seems to be a bit more conflict between the contestants than there was last season, when most of the derision was aimed at JD Fortune, although this could be simply be a matter of clever editing on the part of the show’s producers to make for more entertaining viewing.
Cross-posted on The Waiting Room
After two seasons of letting black teams win the contest, CBS decided to show their true colours and their racist stance by having the only black team in the Amazing Race be the first to be eliminated. And the name of the team? The Black family. That’s right. Right on some Niggar Family shit, ala the Chappelle’s Show.What better way to show the superiority of the white man than by letting black people named Black lose? It’s time people realise that when CBS decided to name their reality television contest the Amazing Race, they meant the Caucasian race. Down with the racist suits at CBS! We got to stick it to the man!
Power to the people!
* NOTE: Of course I’m kidding. Sheesh. Seemed awfully suspicious though didn’t it, hmm? Anyway, this season seems to be off to a good start, and the family concept doesn’t seem to be dragging it down. I think I’ll enjoy this. Also, I think Stassi from the Schroeder family is kinda cute.
Yeah, she’s 17. Stop looking at me like that.
Yeah, another JD post. Obviously, this got through because the producers of the show were unfamiliar with the Chinese language.
I’ve never really watched any of the Survivor seasons, but one thing I’m thankful for is that when you’re stuck in a remote location like in the desert or on an island, the opportunities to be a corporate shill are relatively limited. Which means that unlike The Apprentice or Rock Star INXS, we will likely never see a challenge on Survivor that involves promoting Levi’s jeans. I love my jeans, but I’ve never thought of being in an advertisement as particularly rock and roll.
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