Friday, August 26, 2005

过五关斩六将

These would be what Kelly and 伟联 have to do on Sept 1 at the Indoor Stadium.

1. 压场的功力
Round 1 would be testing their 舞台魅力 – how well they can stir up the emotions of the 8000+ audience that night.

2. 音色的震撼力
Round 2 would be testing the clarity of their voice, so most probably both of them would be singing a song in the "unplugged" version. Maybe Kelly will sing one with piano accompaniment only while 伟联 can 自弹自唱.

3. 合唱的渗透力
This seems to be the most exciting round! The guest of the night (JJ) will sing a duet with Kelly and 伟联 separately first, after which all 3 will sing together. And then, JJ will leave the stage to let Kelly and 伟联 sing their own duet. Can you imagine if the male champion had been 俊扬?? Wah… Then he would have ultimate 默契 with JJ when singing the duet!

4. 裁判的夺命曲
Veterans like 黎沸挥, 李伟松 and 许环良 have specially composed new songs for both of them that will "expose" their flaws. This round is mainly to test whether or not they have taken in the judges' comments during the previous rounds and also to see whether they noe how to 避短扬长. Of cos by now we all noe that 伟联's biggest problem is the super-nasal tone and Kelly's is the tempo thingy.

5. 自选的歌曲
This round would be the easiest for the 2 contestants ba… After all, they have been doing this for the previous rounds rite?

As a side note, I bumped into ex-Singapore Idol participant David in sch! He’s quite a loud person. A bit suaku too. Heh…

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

I saw 2 PS contestants today!!!

I was walking around in Heeren today and guess what?? I saw (ex-)Project Superstar contestants Silver and Darryl!!! Think Silver was shopping for clothes and Darryl paid for them. Haha... Then I followed them downstairs and they went into Marche! I stopped following them cos I gotta go off to another place. Heh... They behaved like "normal people". Even then, not many noticed it was the 2 of them anyway. Haha... But they were holding hands lah. That's for sure. =)

Saturday, August 20, 2005

JY vs WL

Since the whole world is talking bout this topic, i should "chap in" also..heh

well for me, the most interesting issue is "Is JY a better singer than WL or vice versa"? there are people who said that WL is truely talented (which i totally agree), but they are also ppl who said that WL sang much better than JY and JY's singing is so-so.

i don't know if i'm so lousy in listening to music, but all i can recall is up till now, the only song that WL sang superbly well is the "zou chu hei an shi jie ba peng you", i can feel he's singing for his friends, those who are sadly blind like him, to be brave and be themsleves. But for the other songs, i think they are ok-lor. But of course, people are entitled to their own opinion. heh.

As for JY, he's not a superb singer too. But he's very consistent, very smooth voice and rarely makes mistakes. The only problem is he doesn't seem to add his own style into the songs he sang. The songs he sang just sound like that sang by the original singers..heh. His english song wasn't that fantastic though ( i wonder why the judges are so amazed with that song). BUT definitely his interpretation of TONG HUA is much better than WL (i feel).

So on the whole i still think JY is better than WL (just singing abilities) but i think WL is catching up though.

A friend of mine told me that if a person belonging to a perticular church in the West takes part in the competition, he will probably win. (i didn't say it. but it's interesting).

As for the girls, i must admit the xin hui sang much better than kelly. sigh. so i agree with kelvin loh. I felt that the finals would be a tough fight between xin hui and JY. But this is not going to happen. sigh.

While i'm watching the show, i really feel very sad for WL (not sympathy!). As a doctor to be, i was wondering whether i'm able to help him regain his eye sight. He has worked so hard he really deserved to look at himself, his fans and what he had achieved.

Enough of talking and saying rubbish coz i'm just like most ppl, talking shit here and not supporting them by buying their albums and making the phone calls. heh. but i wonder where the hell the money is going to. they don't even give xin hui enough money to buy clothes to make her look better (she really didn't look as good as kelly, although kelly is not that gorgeous)

My predictions. WL will win. (he won derrick and JY, who else can win him?)

Lastly, voting should be toll free.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Zero clairvoyance...

If I truly were in Professor Trelawney’s class, I would have done terribly lousy in Divination.

I thought 俊扬 and 欣卉 could make it to the final round and fight it out at the indoor stadium on Sept 1. But after watching the heart-wrenching episode yesterday, this scenario is impossible liao... Sigh...

Feel so sorry for 俊扬! Must have been the most horrible birthday present he has ever got in his life... =P But like what 权怡凤 said, maybe he’ll be 战场失意, 情场得意... Hope Candyce and he can become an item!

俊扬和欣卉, 你们两位永远是最棒的!

Thursday, August 18, 2005

人言可畏

Singaporeans can make comments that are REALLY malicious man... Well, I’m referring to the most talked-about TV programme nowadays – 绝对 Superstar. Many have left comments like “Since this is a locally-produced TV programme, people of OTHER nationalities should not be allowed to win.” and “This person must have stayed on thus far because of all the sympathy votes given to him.” etc. Why can’t people look on the good side of things? Why can’t they differentiate what is truly good singing from what is not? Many contestants have already been “sacrificed” to make way for others who have HORRIBLE (Mark my words) singing techniques, if there were any to talk about in the first place. =P

Whatever it is, I must say I was rather touched by 伟联's “Heaven Knows” yesterday. Though the pitching wasn’t fantastic, it was good enough to 感动到我. Ha ha…

Tonight will be another tough fight! Both of them are good friends/singers and it’s definitely painful to eliminate either one of them. I myself do hope 欣卉 will win though! Then again, even if her average tonight (42.5 points) is higher than Kelly’s (38.7 points), it doesn’t guarantee anything since Kelly’s fan base seem to be larger than hers.

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Project Superstar

hmm..decided to watch this show when the competition has already reached "revival round".

well..my verdict..i think it's a bit hard for them to make it that big coz although they can sing..i really dunno if they really looked like a star.

this is quite an interesting show coz they allow all ppl to take part. even handicap person. well, im quite sad when derrick was out coz i think he's the only person in the competition who has a unique voice and he always make an effort to change the song, unlike the rest, who merely sing the song like how the original singer sang. If this is american idol, like wat simon says..u r just someone who can sing well in a karaokae bar, but not a star without ur own style.

well, about articulation, jay chou sings slow songs and 99.99999% of the time u wonder what the lyrics are..but he's still a star. so im sure derrick can make it big even with this problem.

regarding weilian, well..with no offence to handicap ppl, i really wonder if it's fair for him to be in the competition. He can sing well (for certain type of songs only), and can be a singer in the future (i'm not saying blind ppl can't be stars, look at andrea bocelli) but in a competition, i'm sure a percentage (i wonder how much) comes from sympathy callers.

I'm quite amazed about kelly. coz she wasn't very pretty at the beginning, but last thurs, she looked really good.

Well, i think JY should win (although i don't think he's a SUPERSTAR) and i think Kelly will win. I hope and i really hope.

Electives ending in a weeks' time. Cheers!

Friday, August 12, 2005

恭喜俊扬, 伟联, 欣卉, 嘉丽!!

I must admit I feel sad for Derrick too, on top of the happiness for the 4 contestants who made it to the finals. (BeliefInLife, did you see the no. of girls crying for Derrick? *gasp*) But I guess there has to be a point where even the very good ones are KOed… After all, there can only be ONE superstar from this whole contest rite? =)

Anyway, next week’s episode will be even more exciting! The theme is LIVE BAND. Each contestant will be singing 3 songs – one pre-determined song, one English song and the last would be one which the contestant has to change the style of singing e.g. from ballad to rock or something like that. Heh... Sounds interesting eh?