Posts tagged Australian Idol

And, so it was. With mere hours to release what is set to be one of the biggest (quickest) wads of cash made off the Christmas music retail push, there was simply no way – none – that this single could be attached to an enduring week of press, where the artist had so totally detached himself from the product. Sony BMG was never going to have it. No business, in its right mind, would. Once again, publicity directs the outcome of reality television. But, worth remembering, is that once again, we have seen that publicity narrative interfered with by the uncontrollable nature of talent, in a generation fast wising up to the falseness of the genre. It was an awful, awful series – I don’t think anyone would disagree with that – but, regardless, it actually had one of the most productive endings we’ve seen in the recent dramas of reality television. Natalie Gauci, wedding singer extraordinaire, won Australian Idol. Like she should have.