Monday nights husband works late, kids sleep early....so, I sit on Facebook on Monday nights and chatter with a pack of folk in real time as the singing unfolds.
For those of us who are ancient reality television talent show forum tragics (ahem), there is no Voice forum. Only an admonishment to join their Twitter feed. And a link to their Facebook page ....the official Facebook page is literally impossible to get a word in on. I'm obviously way past it, because Twitter holds no promise for me, particularly when I'm looking for a real time online chatter. Twitter is like...throwing opinions up into the air, and seeing where they land.
So, Pop's unofficial Facebook Voice page...may or may not be full of old forumites. I can't tell, because everyone uses their Facebook name, and rather than log on after the show ends and rant, we chatter during the show whilst we're all sitting in front of the tvs with our iPads. Gone are the days when I had to wait until after the show, and then actually walk to the computer...it's a good performance that stops the iPad chatter. All the posting happened after Diana and Darren sang this week. On the other hand, people scrawled their rage all the way through Lakyns 'Friday I'm in Love'.
I miss the diversity of the old forum form. I miss the genuine Lakyn fans, the ones who are actually voting for a boy with arguable fashion sense and unarguable pitch issues, who would doubtlessly write in to tell us that he's beautiful and he makes them want to cry. I miss the nuttiness that would have arisen after Keith Urban stood up in his satellite feed and we all got to check out his Calvin undies.
There's only one major point of...division, rather than dissension, on Pops page: Team Darren or Team Karise? And plenty of agreement: isn't Diana awesomely amazing? And Sarah and Ben? And why does Joel Madden think Australians are desperate for their own home grown Beyonce in the form of Prinnie Stevens? She's great and all, but ya know....bring back Mahalia Barnes.
Pops being Pops, she does attract an entertaining bunch of Facebook posters,including an Oz Idol finalist. And she has a warm and generous attitude towards anyone game to get up and sing on Telly. So all in all, it's happy posting on a Monday night.....
hey wilms, sounds like good old fashioned idol fun!
ReplyDeletewe run a sort of proxy affair with the kids, and various folk via text message. works out roughly equivalent to the old days :D
ftr, we're loving dazza and karise the mostest, but give enormous props to diana. and ... wait for it, lakyn :o. totally get that he's pitchy and wears dodgy shirts, but there's something about him that warms the cockles of our independent singer/songerwriter/folky lovin' hearts. and there's a tone to his voice that is just bewdiful - pitch probs notwithstanding. I'd like to see him, dazza, karise and diana in final four. we love sarah, too, but the wailing diva turns are wearing a bit thin.
incidentally, did you hear tell of the hillsong involvement in the show? massive. no surprises, but the extent is surprising.
hillsong? No surprise, but I havent heard...who in the comp this time?
ReplyDeleteAnd dont you think Van Morrison was a far better songwriter before he got all born again?
re lakyn. see. I dont get it. We need crazy pepps like you on Mon nights...
ReplyDeletepps I too would love to see Dazza AND Di in the final 4, but methinks its only 1 per mentor?
ReplyDeletepparently hillsong have all their fingers in the pie. we had some fun playing spot the godbotherer - but ultimately it was easier to play spot the non-godbotherer! our picks .... Dazza & Karise :p
ReplyDeletehmmm...Maybe Karise is a born again...
ReplyDeleteFatai, surely.
We've not done the Voice - just the advertisements send shudders down my canals. Are they really as shocking as the promos suggest?
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