Saturday night, i found myself glued to the TV for a good four hours. It was the final of Deutschland sucht den Superstar on RTL.
Fady Maalouf competed with Thomas Godoj for the viewers hearts and a record deal.
It was clear for me who should win. Bohlen again hit the nail on the head when he said that Fady's singing reminded him of the warm feeling he got as a little boy when he had peed himself!
Thomas has a great voice for the rock side of pop. His first two songs of the evening: 'Fairy tale gone bad' by Sunrise Avenue and 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol ranked with his best performances on the show.
To me, Fady's crooning voice was all-over the place again on non-discript pop songs.
I was happy when Thomas won (I even sent in an sms) and also very relieved.
The amount of advertisement breaks they slotted in with increasing frequency before the winner was announced was terrible. RTL had a captive audience of perhaps a couple of million and they unashamedly battered us senseless with dozens of commercials on a loop.
Tom's final song which will be released as a single this week could have been better. Firstly, the lyrics of 'Love is You' are pretty banal. Secondly, the song itself is way too poppy for his so-called rock image. And thirdly, this is not a song to launch a super star career. But hopefully, others will come soon that are.
So Tom was number 1 from 30,000 original entrants. Maybe his victory was most pleasing due to his underdog status. In terms of his singing ability he was no mere beginner. But what about his image? At his audition Bohlen brutally told him that it looked like a coffin lid had hit him three times in the face! The English expression, 'third time lucky' springs to mind.
In the end, it is reassuring to see that an 'outsider' with true talent can still beat all the pretty vacant wannabes out there.
Fady Maalouf competed with Thomas Godoj for the viewers hearts and a record deal.
It was clear for me who should win. Bohlen again hit the nail on the head when he said that Fady's singing reminded him of the warm feeling he got as a little boy when he had peed himself!
Thomas has a great voice for the rock side of pop. His first two songs of the evening: 'Fairy tale gone bad' by Sunrise Avenue and 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol ranked with his best performances on the show.
To me, Fady's crooning voice was all-over the place again on non-discript pop songs.
I was happy when Thomas won (I even sent in an sms) and also very relieved.
The amount of advertisement breaks they slotted in with increasing frequency before the winner was announced was terrible. RTL had a captive audience of perhaps a couple of million and they unashamedly battered us senseless with dozens of commercials on a loop.
Tom's final song which will be released as a single this week could have been better. Firstly, the lyrics of 'Love is You' are pretty banal. Secondly, the song itself is way too poppy for his so-called rock image. And thirdly, this is not a song to launch a super star career. But hopefully, others will come soon that are.
So Tom was number 1 from 30,000 original entrants. Maybe his victory was most pleasing due to his underdog status. In terms of his singing ability he was no mere beginner. But what about his image? At his audition Bohlen brutally told him that it looked like a coffin lid had hit him three times in the face! The English expression, 'third time lucky' springs to mind.
In the end, it is reassuring to see that an 'outsider' with true talent can still beat all the pretty vacant wannabes out there.
hello ...
ReplyDeleteis cool that you blog about thomas ... and i did too you are right about dieter hitting on thomas all the time my personal view is that he want fady to win i cant denied that he has a great voice but i think he is alil too boring...but anyway the decision was right and yes thomas deserved to be the champion .
The decision is wrong, totally wrong! The real superstar were Fady Maalouf!!!
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