Australian Idol

The Australian Idol finale was last night. Way back when I first arrived in Australia it was being advertised and it was advertised near constantly for a full month before it actually premiered. Ten practically did my head in with an unprecedented recursion of a single advertisement featuring the top 100 and the song ‘Can You Feel It’ (the Jackson five). Well after the auditions were over and the top 24 announced I kind of tuned the show out. This was also partially due to my loosing the signal for TEN on my TV. I did decided to watch the final, and was surprised to see two people I actually remembered from the auditions as the final two. The show began with the top 12 singing ‘Can You Feel It,’ and I remembered how glad I was when that finally stopped repeating on channel TEN.
After watching about 40 mins I put in my vote for Wes, and as there is only one night of finale (as opposed to American idols two), waited for the results. In the end Wes won, which is good because in their last two performances I preferred Wes over Luke. Wes’ first single song is actually really good, and I can see him selling a lot of copies of that tune. The whole show was really well put together, very compact and not as strung out as its American counterpart which was good.
The finale of the show has always taken place at the Sydney opera house, this year they held it outside and it poured with rain the whole show.