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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
talent, or lack of it - 09:07 PM
i'm going to about as brutally honest in this diary entry as i have ever been on my site. i'm not being nasty though, it's something about which i'm genuinely curious.
shroom & i have been watching the second series of australian idol on tv. some of the people that turn up to auditions amaze me. they are absolutely talentless, yet they truly believe that they can sing. they honestly believe that they have a chance at being the next 'australian idol'.
i don't understand how they can think this. i'm sure they're really lovely people & i absolutely admire their stubborn belief in themselves & their drive to do something which is obviously very important to them, but to believe that they can sing, they must surely be delusional.
when it comes to talent, there are obviously different ideas of what comprises talent in different fields of entertainment, but when you're auditioning for something like australian idol, then surely you have an idea of what they're looking for, especially when you've probably seen the first series on tv already. surely most people understand that being able to sing is a relatively technical matter. i.e. you have to be able to hold a note .. on the right pitch. you have to be able to keep time .. correctly. you have to be able to move to the music at least a little bit without looking as though you're throwing a kind of fit.
some of the people that turn up to these auditions really truly believe that they have talent & are absolutely devastated when the judges say otherwise. it's true that sometimes the judges are a bit harsh, perhaps even for the sake of the cameras, which makes me sad for the contesant, but i find it hard to believe that enough people told these contestants that they could sing well, that they came to believe it to be true.
i'd find it interesting to see what a psychological profile on these people would look like. i really wonder what's going in their heads.
you might think that i'm being a real cow talking about it like this, but it really gets into my head. i really & honestly wonder how someone can believe something so strongly about themselves that is not even close to the truth.
i suppose we all do it to some extent, think that we're good at something which we're not, but what type of person does it to the point that they'll run for one of a relatively few places in a competition that requires a considerably high level of talent which they simply don't have? is this an actual mental condition? is there a name for a condition like this?
it's really got into my head. i'm not being mean at all. i seriously wish that i could know what was going on in these people's brains. i've met people like this in my own life & it's always made me wonder how they've become the type of person that they are.
i want to know. i must know.
overhere is there also the second idols. in the serie overhere there are also people who can't sing. step on a cat his tail, and you get a better sound, than people sing in idols
American Idol isn't any better, in fact I think most people do it now to get their 15 minuets. They know from watching the previous seasons that the most outrageous people get on TV whether they are good or not.
i was commenting the same to daniel last night when we were watching it. i am sure that some of the people must be going on there trying to give a bad performance just to get on tv.
but then there are the ones who are crap who appear truly devastated when they're told no, and those ones really are a mystery.
talent? idol? perhaps somewhere in there is a translation none of us understand. how much singing talent do some of these metal bands have? or even some of the pop singers that are selling well. i imagine the idol-series folks are into a sellable product, not talent. anyway, my 2-cents.
Uhm, how about obsessive self-delusion? Skip the google-entries also containing Morrissey, the truly talented Irish singer
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i've been watching australian idol off and on..
remember the karaoke host, rachel? she auditioned. she opened her mouth and sang ONE note and mark holden told her to get lost.
she's got more talent than some of the people that have made it through!
but you're right, some people are awful. i'm not a great singer but i know i'm not.
some people should just find other talents, i think