Comments on: Why Australian Idol is bad news for alternative artists

By: Cassie

Cassie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:42:06 +0000

How old do you have to be to enter?
I want to enter when I get older…
I’m only 12 but at this singing competition, everyone said I was a good singer… So I’m thinking of entering.

By: kiddo =D

kiddo =D — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:44:31 +0000

haha wow! nice come back Give Me The Remote!
i totally agree with everything you said, in both your blog, and reply to the last comment!

i am a young, alternative/indie muso myself, and after being dead against entering the show, for those EXACT reasons, i thought id give it a go… past though my mind for a few days… and then i had to re-think!

no one that has come through Aus Idol is seen as an ‘artist’ without having the ‘that chick/guy off idol’ trademark…

artists as amazing as bobby flynn, are almost seen as pop artists on Idol, because thats what the majority of the public believe!

im sticking to the hard road!

peace!

By: Give Me The Remote

Give Me The Remote — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:13:26 +0000

you are entirely correct jackie. i made the fatal mistake of assuming that the better/more popular singer would win. i failed to take into account previous trends in this show whereby the better singer always seems to come runner up and the winner ends up a dud with no sales. my bad.

By: jackie lowe

jackie lowe — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:32:31 +0000

is something wrong with me? have i gotten it wrong somehow, even though i was right there myself? or am i seriously the only person that seems to find a problem with this article.

the main thing being that Matt corby didnt win, natalie did!
he doesn’t have a recording contract (or at least not as of yet) because they were only giving away one (to the winner) and.. as FAR as i REMEMBER, i’m PRETTY SURE NATALIE WON.

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:52:18 +0000

I have to agree.
My opinion is that the people behind Australian Idol should raise the entry age to 18. It’s obvious that Matt Corby is already having doubts about entering the competition and is worried of the effects it might have on his career in the future & all this because of a decision to enter a nation wide competition at the eary age of 16! I’m sorry, but at 16 I would’ve thought entering Idol was a great idea as well! This is an extremely talented kid, who, I have no doubts, would’ve become a star in his own right without the Idol platform.
Lets hope that Matt can become the anomaly as Kelly Clarkson has, because I think this kid has a lot to offer to the Australian music indudstry and I urge those who read this to not give your votes to Matt, as maybe not winning may give him back a little credibility…

By: Joe Sciglitano

Joe Sciglitano — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:22:33 +0000

Great post. You pretty much summed up my thoughts.

I sorta feel for the poor tykes, but then again, they knew what they were getting into. I’m sure most people would choose the Idol route if the alternative is to slog it out with shitty pub gigs hoping for a lucky break the old fashioned way. If these people are being made to feel like sellouts, it’s because they are. They became sellouts the moment they turned up for an Idol audition and chose to leave the “artist” title at the door and instead become a brand for a huge corporation.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with selling out. Hell, if that’s they way you wanna handle your career, by all means. But it does annoy me a little when these Idol chaps and chapettes act as if they didn’t know what they were getting into when they signed up. It’s pretty damned obvious. I mean, it’s in the freakin’ title: Australian IDOL.