Australian Idol: Mattalie

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the official Idol winner's song is the worst song ever written. Actually, scratch "out on a limb" and replace it instead with "and say something glaringly obvious". That song.... Matt was totally right in calling it crap. He didn't say it in so many words, being polite and non-threatening and all those things that we all love him for, but we all agree with him anyway. I love the veiled sarcasm inherent in this statement:

"It was written by a woman in America. Apparently, she's a very established writer. She's written stuff for the Backstreet Boys and Nick Lachey, so that sort of explains it straight away and what it's like."

Also, while I'm bitching: Shut up Dicko. Shouldn't you be grovelling? It's so unfair to call Nat and Matt boring. Idol packages them and puts them in pigeon holes so square you'd be struggling to find mathematicians who could recreate the perfect ninety degree angles of said pigeon holes.

And what? Past year's Idol finalists were so interesting?



Cough, and double cough.

Anyway, I quite enjoyed tonight's episode. I can't exactly put my finger on what I loved about it. Oh, wait, yes I can, it was the bit that showed Matt's earlier years, busking away and singing in choirs and going on an eighteen month tour around Australia at the age of fourteen. Jesus. I also learned tonight that Matt does indeed have parents, they've just been a bit camera shy or whatever all year. Frankly I would have been happier just to believe that he burst forth from a magical tree in some enchanted forest somewhere to bring happy tunes and funny dresses disguised as shirts to the world. Interesting to note that he's always had those really defined eyebrows and the "sluggish" lips, as Chesty calls them.

Natalie's video package bizzo was also pretty revealing. (Hm... package.... revealing.... I'm getting so depraved in my old age, huh). She was in a few of those funny ABC-Kids shows in the nineties, and she actually funded her own album and went to America or something. Pity nothing came of it, which I guess led her to Australian Idol. I suppose it IS kind of tacky to actually pay to release your own album (just like it's tacky for a model to pay a fashion label to feature them in a show).

The performances of the Idol winner's song were both pretty crap, but I think I liked Nat's version just a wee bit better. That's not saying much by the way. That song..... it's not even good in an ironic sense. What's with the title? I know it's an Idol institution to have a lame song with a lame title, incorporating souls, angels, listening with one's heart (as if that were physiologically possible, song writers), going on a journey and having the night of one's life. 'Here I Am' is a lame title, so ... I guess it compliments the tuneless and utterly forgettable song poifectly.

The other performances were a drag, really. I never even HEARD of "High and Dry" and "Running Up That Hill".

Timbaland? Wolfmother? Bleh.

So, that's it, until the Opera House finale next week - which I always enjoy. Who will win? I'm happy with either of them for the win, frankly. Last year (and, in fact, every year) I've hated one of the finalists and loved the other, but this year I'm not displeased that it's Matt and Nat. It's kind of like this year's Big Brother if you think about it. It was a crap year for Big Brother, but the final two were actually decent, I remarked at the time that I wouldn't have minded which one of them took it out and I guess the feeling is much the same with Idol 2007.

Obviously though my favourite to win is Matt Corby (der, whose isn't?) but I wouldn't totally disregard the possibility of an upset. Which wouldn't be all that bad for either contestant, as Matt seems to have gone off Idol in the last few months, and it would be great to see him build a career on his own merits.

But seriously, if you're going to vote, vote for Matt.

PS. Goddam that song was shit.

Uggghh, totally.