australian idol song suggestions
Australian Idol Round-Up: A Message To My Bui
11:04AM Clem Bastow | As was noted the other day with the mention of Darren Hayes’ impending Australian Idol mentor duties, this weekend the Final 10 will be tackling “Aussie hits” week. This means the usual glut of disastrous choices – perhaps Chrislyn will tackle Swoop’s Apple Eyes? – and a hilarious Final 10 group song on Monday (please, please God, make it Ian Moss’ Telephone Booth). But if Defamer Australia has any power left in this fickle world, I would like to think we can make a miracle happen. Let’s band together with the magic of the internet and try to ohm a song choice into reality. Thanh Bui, this is for you: More » 
Australian Idol Round-Up: Sophie Not Pop!Ular With Darren Hayes
3:35PM Clem Bastow | Idol contestant Sophie Paterson, aka the Final 12 member hand-picked from the show’s first expat auditions in London (the LA audition rounds were canned) with the help of celebrity judges Darren Hayes and Tina Arena, is slowly breaking the fragile heart of Hayes into a million tiny pieces. The ex-Savage Garden singer reckons Paterson is too easily letting herself be sucked into the Idol machine. Gee, you think?
“I can understand there’s a pressure to conform – you’re surrounded by a lovely wardrobe and stylists … you’ve got all these resources at your hands, you can be very slick, but I don’t think that’s what she is.”
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Attention Male Australian Idol Contestants
5:33PM Jess McGuire | When it comes to a week where you have to perform some sort of sensitive ballad with a rock twist, you may want to think about this song.
Then Marcia will be all “Darlin’… I love the way to delivered that. So fresh. That’s a really diff’rent song but you gave it some blue-eyed soul. Well done. You did a fantastic job, darlin’… welcome.”
Trust me. I heard it on the radio the other night and thought to myself “God, this sounds exactly like the kind of song some would-be alternative type on Idol would belt out and Marcia would be moved to the point of heavy breathing”. More » 