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Post by Sinead on Nov 12, 2005 19:42:08 GMT 10
oooohhh three left whos gonna win?
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Post by Linsu on Nov 13, 2005 10:37:40 GMT 10
I HOPE IT'S EMILY...............ALTHOUGH SHE STILL NEEDS POLISHING.....A BIT OF A ROUGH DIAMOND SO TO SPEAK........BUT AN ANAZING VOICE......SHE'S SINGING A WHITNEY HOUSTON AND A BRITANY SPEARS TONIGHT.........SO THERE A CONTRAST FOR YA...........HAHA........
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Post by Sinead on Nov 13, 2005 16:03:33 GMT 10
what britney spears song?
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Post by whendovescryforguy on Nov 13, 2005 16:09:19 GMT 10
Yay go Emily!!!!! ;D ;D I love lemy hehehe isnt she doin oops i did it again? lol or maybe not haha i duno but shes gotta be careful with singing britney hehe
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Post by whendovescryforguy on Nov 13, 2005 21:03:52 GMT 10
okay so i was wrong as usual lol ....hehe...Emily sang 'hit me baby one more time', i was a bit worried about her singing that but i really really loved it......and aww she sang 'and i will always love you'....i was crying..hehe so beautiful! GO EMILY! Kate was gorgeous aswell and I thought Lee rocked...it was great ;D
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Post by Sinead on Nov 15, 2005 14:09:05 GMT 10
sounds like it was a good show
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Post by Linsu on Nov 17, 2005 15:19:51 GMT 10
WELL NOW WE KNOW............IT'S EMILY AND KATE IN THE FINAL.........
I'M VOTING FOR EMILY..........I LIKE KATE ......BUT SHE'S NOT GOT THE EDGE THAT EMILY HAS.............CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR THE NEW IDOL SONG............................
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Post by whendovescryforguy on Nov 17, 2005 15:28:29 GMT 10
Go Emily, Go Emily *dances* oh yeah oh yeah go emily!! ;D lol
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Post by Linsu on Nov 20, 2005 8:43:42 GMT 10
IS IT JUST ME OR DID THIS YEARS IDOL GO REALLY FAST ? I'M ALL EXCITED ABOUT TONIGHTS SHOW, WHEN THEY BOTH GET TO SING THE WINNERS SONG.... AND THEN TOMORROW NIGHT IS THE .....B I G......ONE..... WOO HOO!........GUY WILL BE THERE TOO...........YAY
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Post by Linsu on Nov 20, 2005 8:53:09 GMT 10
Divas to do battle at Opera House By Rachel Browne and Rachel Wells November 20, 2005 It's been dubbed the clash of the divas. Tomorrow night, Kate DeAraugo and Emily Williams will sing for the title of Australian Idol at the Sydney Opera House. The two songbirds have beaten the 25,000 contenders who auditioned to make it to the grand final. Now the audience must decide which singer will win a recording contact and the chance to follow in the footsteps of Guy Sebastian and Casey Donovan. DeAraugo, 20, a swimming teacher from the Gold Coast, and Williams, 21, a forklift operator from Inala in Queensland, were both rehearsing yesterday for their big night. The winner will be announced in a two-hour live show tomorrow. Williams has been tipped to win the competition on the strength of her voice, but DeAraugo has enjoyed enormous support from the Victorian country town of Bendigo, where she was born and spent her first 18 years. Locals have hung "Vote for Kate" banners in their homes and shop windows. Thousands are sporting "Vote for Kate" badges and many have racked up hundreds of dollars worth of phone calls voting for DeAraugo, who moved to Queensland two years ago to train with soul diva Vanetta Fields. Even the mayor, Rod Fyffe, has been supporting her. "I'll be voting again on Monday . . . quite a few times, I'd say," said Cr Fyffe, who will watch the telecast from the Bendigo showgrounds, along with more than 1000 locals. DeAraugo's mother, Sue, has been overwhelmed by the support
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Post by LD on Nov 21, 2005 14:49:54 GMT 10
I THINK I'M MORE EXCITED ABOUT WATCHING TONIGHT BECAUSE GUY IS SINGING ....YEAH YEAH
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Post by Linsu on Nov 21, 2005 16:19:53 GMT 10
HAHA...........ABSOBLOOMINLUTELY...........
GOT MY TAPE IN AND AT THE READY......LOL
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Post by LD on Nov 21, 2005 21:23:23 GMT 10
AND THE WINNER IS .....KATETHANKS TO BOTH KATE AND EMILY FOR THEIR GREAT PERFORMANCES & TO THE ALL OF THE CONTESTANTS WHO HELPED MAKE THIS YEARS IDOL A GOOD ONE AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LOVELY KATE ....A JOB WELL DONE SEE YOU BACK HERE SAME TIME NEXT YEAR
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Post by LD on Nov 22, 2005 6:48:17 GMT 10
ARTICLE FROM SMH.
And the winner is … Kate DeAraugo.
Australian Idol 2005 has proved a triumph of local-and-earthy over emotive-and-exotic (well, her opponent, Emily Williams, was born in New Zealand). The show that reinvented the talent quest as a billion-dollar business may be a third down in ratings on previous years, but it is still a force in the TV and music industry, and a marketing bonanza - hence the huge number of exhortations for viewers to vote (by SMS), to buy and, now, to download.
Last night's show was expected to rate at more than 2 million while the winner's single, Maybe Tonight, will probably follow its 2003 and 2004 predecessors by going straight to number one (both singers recorded it just in case and viewers were able to download DeAraugo's version via the Idol website as soon as the winner was announced). And organisers claimed more people voted this year than ever before.
"Oh my God," was all DeAraugo could say at first, though she soon managed a hearty thanks to her home town of Bendigo. She now has a recording contract and a new Mazda MX-5.
Williams, 20, who lives in Brisbane and has a two-year-old daughter Asia, was widely hailed as the better singer. DeAraugo, 19, has been remade throughout the competition and transformed from a dag in tracksuit pants and footy jumpers ("I am what I am and stuff you if you don't like it!") to what the show judges have dubbed a "female John Farnham".
Both fitted the Struggle Street-to-star template: Williams has worked as a forklift driver, DeAraugo a swimming coach, but in a series that reached few great musical or entertainment heights, not even Idol scandals found much media traction. Judge Kyle Sandilands telling DeAraugo she needed to cover her "tuckshop lady arms" had none of the impact of Dicko telling Paulini, in 2003, that she needed to lose a few kilos. And judge Mark Holden storming off set saying last year's contestants weren't working hard enough, barely raised a ripple. More people, and specifically competitors, were focusing on the show's fall from ratings heaven.
Australian Idol, based on the Pop Idol format conceived by Spice Girls svengali Simon Fuller, has been labelled everything from Big Brother Karaoke to, in the words of social commentator Richard Neville, "a celebration of cultural democracy; a reminder that between the cracks of commerce and cant, the light can still shine through".
Holden told the Herald that Idol is a modern incarnation of the Motown label, where Berry Gordy championed young Detroit singers by focusing on styling and vocal performance, and promoted them with tours and records.
Founding judge Ian Dickson is sure Australian Idol still has some legs but says the show was already stale by series two, his last. "Everyone knew, or thought they knew, what the show and the public wanted," he told the Herald. This season, he said, was "just too white-bread".
It is what happens next that will decide whether Williams and/or DeAraugo have careers - and ironically so far the Idol runners-up have done as well or better than the winner.
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Post by Sinead on Nov 22, 2005 17:23:47 GMT 10
i must say, despite not having watched any of the show, i am currently dissapointed with the result - LOL
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