They’ve got to pad the show and remind us how bad they are somehow. Even if the judges comments make them sound like the best they’ve got.
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Me too, I don’t understand why they are performing again if people can’t vote again or if the judges aren’t saving 1 of the bottom 4 or something happening
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Australia decides their Idol Top 10
Jasey Fox and Maya Weiss eliminated from the competition
The Australian Idol dream ended for two contestants tonight on Channel 7 and 7plus as Australia locked in their Top 10 during a night of highs and lows.
Opening the show with an explosive group performance of Lizzo’s About Damn Time, the Top 12 stood side-by-side on stage to hear who Australia had chosen as their favourite eight performers, and which contestants would land in the bottom four.
When asked what he thought of the voting result, judge Kyle Sandilands said bluntly: “I can’t complain. I think Australia has got it right.”
Jasey Fox, Maya Weiss, Ben Sheehy and Noora H each took to the Idol stage to prove to Australia why they still deserved a place in the competition. For two artists, it would be their final performance before judges Harry Connick Jr, Meghan Trainor, Kyle Sandilands and Amy Shark.
Jasey owned the stage with Waking Up in Vegas by Katy Perry, while Maya delivered a rousing performance of Titanium by David Guetta ft. Sia.
Ben rocked River Deep, Mountain High by Tina Turner and Noora shined with I Have Nothing by Whitney Houston.
As Jasey, Maya, Noora and Ben waited to hear their fate, Meghan Trainor had the audience on their feet with a dazzling performance of her smash-hit Made You Look.
As the audience fell silent, Australian Idol hosts Ricki-Lee and Scott Tweedie announced Ben and Noora had made it to the Top 10, while Jasey Fox and Maya Weiss were the first artists to be eliminated from the competition after securing the lowest number of viewer votes.
On leaving the show, Jasey said: "We’re older, we’re used to setbacks. You will know our names.”
Maya was also grateful for her time on the show, saying: “Thank you to the judges, the crew and thank you to everyone for getting us here.”
Sunday night on Australian Idol: The Top 10 perform on the Idol stage in front of the nation and judges Harry Connick Jr, Meghan Trainor, Kyle Sandilands and Amy Shark. Who has what it takes to make the Top 8?
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Next week’s theme (as revealed by Ricki-Lee in tonight’s show) is judges’ choice, in which the four judges choose one song for each of the top 10 contestants.
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Phoebe and Royston are the standout contestants from a less than impressive performers so far
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Tonight’s actual live show finished approximately 5 minutes before the advertised finish time. While the pre-recorded shows finished after the scheduled advertised time? Work that out… lol.
The show itself… well, they had the bottom 4 peform another song just for the sake of it. I honestly cant remember if the original had the bottom 2, 3.or 4 re sing? Im assuming they did?
Next week, Adam Lambert is peforming. Not sure which night yet.
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They used to have a bottom 3 (although for most of its run only 1 contestant left per week) and it was only the eliminated contestant that performed. The bottom contestants performing feels very X Factor, except there is no chance to save them.
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I have just found out that Maya Weiss (who was eliminated last night) also competed in the second season of The Voice back in 2013, the same year as Celia Pavey aka Vera Blue, and eventual winner Harrison Craig. Maya made it to the battle rounds where she lost to Kiyomi Vella.
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Poor result for the live show last night in the key demos ranking just 13th in 25-54 beaten by the 9:00pm shows on Nine (Big Miracles) and 10 (Would I Lie To you?).
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And she will go back into obscurity now just like all those others. What we learn here is that seems that the only contestant that could find success was Vera Blue, who had to change her name and disassociate herself from the talent show.
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Interesting interview Jasey did with Mediaweek today after last night’s elimination.
For Fox, being a part of Australian Idol was “difficult”, with the 26-year-old admitting that the competitive nature of the show wasn’t a natural fit.
“The competition was sort of a difficult thing for me,” he said. “I’m not competitive in any way. I’m only extremely competitive with myself, and I want to do very well. However, a competitive environment is not something I take well to. It doesn’t make me feel good, and it was bothering me if I’m very honest.
Even though he is talented and performs live on a regular basis, Fox admitted that he knew he wasn’t going to win.
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So applies for competition. Loses competition. Says he doesn’t like competition.
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According to News Corp music writer Kathy McCabe, while this year’s Idol contestants have an estimated catalogue of about 1000 songs to “choose” to perform, new copyright arrangements mean Seven has to pay for a licence for particular tracks, which was imposed by some record companies to maximise the fees payable to their songwriters. New songs are more expensive to licence compared to older hits, and a 90-second performance is also cheaper than licensing the entire song.
This means for example, contestants won’t be able to perform hit songs by Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift in the past 12 months.
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I think you’ll find tonight’s episode will dispute that last comment. One contestant sings a recent Harry Styles song tonight and another one sings a song which is also currently heard on Hit Music Stations around the world.
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Just because they’re more expensive, doesn’t mean Idol won’t use them.
It’s interesting how licencing has changed. Ricki-Lee said on Nova recently that when they performed nearly 20 years ago, they could practically perform any song they wanted (it was rare that an artist wouldn’t allow their song to be used). Now, there are a lot less choices for the contestants, so some find it harder to pick a song that they are comfortable singing.
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Maybe it will be limited to when their are less contestants or for those who the producers think will do well.
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Like I said above there is a Harry Styles song tonight and a Maneskin song. There is no issue with singing recent songs.
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They making too much of a big deal out of this judges completion.
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Padding. Thats legit the reason they’re doing it.
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Can Meghan start acting like a 29 year old, and not scream, squeal, interrupt others and have that odd look with every contestant…
And yes, there’s a lot of padding, with the contestants trying to guess which judges chose their songs. It’s unnecessary.
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