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August 9, 2004

Hurrah! The Results Are In!

Thank the Lord - Chanel made it through. I started feeling deathly afraid that perhaps the Aussie public did bugger up completely and would forget to vote for the marvellous Chanel but nooooooo… In fact, I wonder if the show deliberately left her result until last as a way of both making it seem as though she wasn’t such a shoe-in (thus possibly freeing her of the ‘teacher’s pet’ label) and also to make sure that it was her absolutely tops version of ‘Glory Box’ that finished off tonight’s episode.

Patrick and I were discussing Chanel’s song choice over email today - he didn’t manage to catch Chanel singing on Sunday night and wondered if there was an mp3 available. By the way - there is, and it’s over at the Everyone Loves Chanel Cole website (right click and save this)

Anyway, one thing I said to Patrick (who’s a big Beth Gibbons fan, as far as I know - lemme know if I’ve gotten that completely wrong, dollface) was that a song like ‘Glory Box’ is SO Beth Gibbons that it’s incredibly difficult to perform a rendition of it without being either complete rubbish or alternatively simply doing a Beth Gibbons impersonation. In my opinion, Chanel managed to avoid both scenarios and instead delivered a faithful rendition while still making the song undoubtedly hers.

Of course, Chanel wasn’t the only person in the Top Three. Courtney Murphy made it through (and was utterly shocked by it) as did Hayley Jensen. While I’d say that both are deserving of their place, it’s a shame Ben or Ngaiire couldn’t also have gone through. I suspect that Group One will contain at least two (if not all) Wildcard entries though, so this may not be the last we see of the pair.

In other Idol nonsense ‘news’ - did anyone else notice the occasional spark flying between Ben and Chanel? Arm holding, cuddles, the odd saucy wink mid-Portishead - could this be the start of an Idol love affair?

Bonus Issue Discussion!

A few Yahoo groups and other assorted folks have had a bit of a dig at Chanel’s admission on Thursday’s Inside Idol show that she was hurt by what certain websites had said about her. “Ha!” they said “she’s been sprung searching her own name! Egotist!” Let’s be honest here, if I were on a television show I too might be tempted to suss out public opinion by looking up fansites to check out what was being said. Hell, everyone’s guilty of the odd ego-surf, so let’s not get on our high horses and knock her down due to to her doing something anyone remotely computer savvy would probably do if they were in the same position.

Secondly - the “Bjork” thing. Chanel does resemble Bjork physically, but to say she is a Bjork rip-off would indicate that you’ve never actually listened to Bjork sing. Course, this doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to see Chanel upper cut the odd tabloid journalist in the future… Fingers crossed…