[Despondent]

I'm curious, if not jaded. Both of the Male winners of the competition are from Birmingham, AL, where I reside. But I remember there was a World Idol special years ago where a Dutch lad took the title?
Anyway, I'm curious. What's it like in your country? It's a big deal around here anyway.

Seems it's old hat when they jet home every year for the (top-three contestants') hometown whirlwind tour media circuit; Still, I managed to get close to Taylor at a downtown park mid-day event where he sang (one of many Huge events). He's wearing the key to the city around his neck, it's obviously a duplicate.

[Gobbler]

He... heheh... it's actually embarassing to talk about it... but then again, I don't watch it and I don't like to associate with my fellow countrymen that much anyway.

It's called "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" over here. Which is as stupid as it can get - "Germany is searching for the superstar". Lowlives of all kinds gather around and prove that they're not even worth the money given to them from the state to compensate for their unemployment.

Some wacky producer got into the jury and managed to get famous again... yuck. The mere thought of it makes you wanna puke, so I won't go into detail.

But it can also be a source of laughter. For example, the first "Superstar" (AHEM) Alexander Klaws-or-something-like-that was forced to sing a lovely song with the ever so brilliant title... "Take me tonight". I'm pretty sure that he never really understood just what the hell he was singing there with that dumbass-smile of his.

The second "Superstar" is... I forget his name. He's singing something like "I still burn" all day long. Always makes me think of a special topic in the newsdesk.

It's actually quite funny to see all the expectations laid into those fools. As if they could win the World Idol contest... tss, don't make me laugh. It's just as silly as the current craze that brought some people to believe that Germany's soccer team could actually win the worldchampionships...