Idol Round-Up: Tarisai Vushe Proves That A Brilliant Voice Will Get You To The Top; Lana Krost Disproves That Theory Instantly
Posted by Clem Bastow at 10:58 AM on August 29, 2007
Next two through to Final 12: Tarisai Vushe, Lana Krost
Mixed emotions upon last night's announcement of the third and fourth contestants through to Idol's Final 12. When we saw Tarisai sing, we were overcome with joy and promised to eat our television if that voice was not rewarded with a place in the finals. Fortunately, she got through; unfortunately, we are still hungry.
This is also good news because, as Dicko suggested when he called her "barking mad", Tarisai is also totally crazy/amazing, as evidenced by this quote from her Idol contestant questionnaire:
Watching Whitney Houston on television letting that voice out made me cry to God about how I wanted to become a precious woman and start singing professionally, leading to a long career.We are looking forward to this precious woman's tearing her weaker-voiced Idol peers a new arsehole, hopefully all the way to the Opera House.
However, we also had a strong premonition on Monday night that 17-year-old Lana Krost would become this year's Lauren Buckley/Amali Ward/Natalie Zahra/Lisa Mitchell and be the "young chick who the young chicks vote through" (although, to clarify, we love Amali and Lisa), and last night, our fears were confirmed as the girl with a voice about as exciting as a Milk Arrowroot dipped in milky Tetley's was voted through to the Final 12.
After four series of Australian Idol, we still have some naïve hope that only the truly talented contestants will make it through, and we still get disappointed year after year. This year it's a case of one-out-of-four-is-bad so far, and we're still crossing those fingers for the wildcard round.
ED: I am mildly concerned by this Tarisai love fest, Bastow. She thanked Jesus for her performance of Straight Lines, for fucks sake! That said, she is obviously completely batshit crazy, and therefore I support her inclusion in the Top Twelve, if only because of the potential for psychotic episodes/breakdowns/hilariously over-the-top one liners.

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