Instruments on Idol!

December 9th, 2007 |

The commercials for American Idol have been talking about a big change for this year, and I immediately hoped they were going to start including instruments, something that Australian Idol has done for the last two years to great success. And I was right! I’m really excited now. Incidentally, I hadn’t meant [...]

Australian Idol: Semi-Finals

September 5th, 2007 |

Dude, Australian Idol rocks. It has more varied performers, many of whom are songwriters, they get to use their guitars for auditions and later in the competition, the judges actually give helpful advice, and after the semi-finals, Australia and the judges together have chosen an absolutely stellar Top Twelve–lots of different styles, good voices, [...]

Australian Idol – Auditions

August 27th, 2007 |

It’s probably something of an exercise in futility to post about Australian Idol, considering everyone I know is in the United States and it isn’t shown in the United States (and I get it via downloads of questionable legality), but I want to really badly. And then I think, well, if I don’t, no [...]

Australian Idol

January 14th, 2007 |

I’m fully beyond caring any more whether or not I’m supposed to like American Idol. I’m nearly beyond even hiding behind the phrase “guilty pleasure.” I’m incredibly excited about the upcoming premiere on Tuesday (BTW, I’m planning on live-blogging the show this year, so stop back by and watch it “with” me!) Anyway. [...]