Mambo Mania : Sequence out!

Welcome to Mambo Mania week!

Here's the performance order for the week and the Idols voting details....

Sezairi Sezali

Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry

Call 1900 112 1201 or sms '1' to IDOLS 43657

Each call/sms costs 60cents.

Duane Ho

Tainted Love by Pussycat Dolls

Call 1900 112 1202 or sms '2' to IDOLS 43657

Each call/sms costs 60cents.

Tabitha Nauser

Ain't Nobody by Chaka Khan

Call 1900 112 1203 or sms '3' to IDOLS 43657

Each call/sms costs 60cents.

Charles 'Stitch' Wong

Take On Me by A-Ha

Call 1900 112 1204 or sms '4' to IDOLS 43657

Each call/sms costs 60cents.

Sylvia Ratonel

I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston

Call 1900 112 1205 or sms '5' to IDOLS 43657

Each call/sms costs 60cents.

Mae Sta Maria

Kiss by Prince

Call 1900 112 1206 or sms '6' to IDOLS 43657

Each call/sms costs 60cents.

Faizal Isa

That Thing You Do by The Wonders

Call 1900 112 1207 or sms '7' to IDOLS 43657

Each call/sms costs 60cents.

Malaque Mahdaly

Last Dance by Donna Summer

Call 1900 112 1208 or sms '8' to IDOLS 43657

Each call/sms costs 60cents.

Ok, time to put the kiddos to nap...and on to my review! Just heard Mae's performance again, sigh, she really sounded sick. Guys definitely did better than the girls last week. Ok, more in my next post....

I hope everyone's well and back to 100% health and ready to give it their all. Last time I saw them was on Saturday's charity carwash @ Dempsey and they seemed alright.... fingers crossed no one is down with any bugs this week.

xoxo, s.

Get to know your DISCO!

Get ready to shimmy & shake and point those fingers in the air!

Sylvia - I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston

hrm, do I see a pattern emerging? Does SylSyl like WhitWhit?

Faizal - That Thing You Do by the Wonders

Very mainstream, pseudo oldie, catchy - very typical Faizal choice :)

Tabby - Ain't Nobody by Chaka Khan

Typical Tabby - diva to the last drop :) Bring on the Chaka Khan hair girlfriend! Just make sure it doesn't come out like this :)

Malaque - Last Dance by Donna Summer

Ooooh nice one...this one always gets me up and dancing!

Charlie - Take On Me by A-Ha

Classic Mambo hit... :) This one gets everyone pointing to the sky!

Duane - Tainted Love by Pussycat Dolls

Very sexy tune.... I also think.... Full Monty hahahaha!

Sezairi - Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry

Awesome choice...lay down n boogie n play dat funky music til ya' die! (I first heard that line in a NKOTB song)

Mae - Kiss by Prince

OMG, love this song - it always reminds me of that scene in Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts is in the tub, up to her neck in bubbles, listening to her walkman and singing to this song...baadly! LOL!

Took me ages to find the video - cos when I did a youtube search it gave me some weird japanese movie??? Anyway here is the link because there is no embed option at this site :) Do have a look and enjoy this iconic Prince song 'Kiss'.

Happy weekend everyone, sit back, bone up on next week's tunes and break out your dancin' shoes cos we gonna mambo next Idol Day! Woot!

xoxo, s.

Idols Burger King Music Video Shoot

It Just Tastes Better!

...and it really does - today's french fries were superb - am swearing off McD's fries for a while cos I watched that vid where it doesn't biodegrade even after 2 months - worrisome can?

But like Tabby said, she staved off fast food for 2 weeks after watching the McDocumentary (can't remember its name!) and then slowly-slowly got back into it, and now, its like it never happened! LOL!

ANYWAY...here are some pics of the Idols at this morning's shoot at Great World City's Burger King outlet. The BK people were real sweet, they provided the Top 8 + crew + Iz with loads of drinks and makan to while the waiting time away ....although the executives looked a bit stressed...

I love the pic where they all wear the crowns - Idol Royalty :)

haha, check out Idol writer Clarabelle being a calefare as a BK staffmember too. She and Mae were SO in character they decided to clear tables! Apparently some kid even asked them for a straw. Mae's name tag actually had her name on it. Sylvia's however, said Nurse Low :)

This is a twitpic from @siproducer when the Idols moved on to shoot the second part of the music video (I guess where the 'audition' and transform into the IDOLS we know and love?) at Caldecott Hill...

Shoot Concept :

The Top 8 play ordinary people who share the same dream, the dream of becoming an Idol.

Roles :

Sezairi : Pilot

Sylvia : Nurse (her tag says Nurse Low - LOL!)

Malaque : Traveller/Backpacker

Mae : Burger King staffmember

Charles : Chef

Duane : Businessman

Tabitha : Teacher (the outfit looks surprisingly similar to Jade Seah's teacher togs in First Class!)

Faizal : Fashion designer/stylist (he even has BLING!)

When I first asked Faizal who he was playing he said 'Dick Lee' and I almost fell for it cos he had the lil kerchief sticking out of his pocket in purple and a snazzy jacket and even a scarf plus huge bling ring! Check it out!

Can't wait to see the final cut of the music video - they'll be singing the 1983 Grammy Nominated song by The Eurythmics called 'Sweet Dreams' (this is the same year MJ's Beat It, Billie Jean and the album Thriller were nominated for Grammys).

Here's the vid of the song - so you know what it sounds like (and won't think they went all weird on ya - the song itself is weird to many - but I love its haunting melody, love Annie Lennox!)

"Some of them want to use you

Some of them want to get used by you

Some of them want to abuse you

Some of them want to be abused...."

- kinda metaphorical about the entertainment industry right? Idols you have been warned ....

UPDATE :

Check out Official Blogger Iz's awesome BTS vid (he edited this himself k!) here...

xoxo, s.

ps. sorry peeps, post came out a lil late cos Blogger was down this afternoon - freaked me and like gazillions around the world - help forum was flooded - turned out there was a power outage somewhere in the US east coast. Oh well, better late than never! ON to the review!

pps. I remember the name of the McDoc now...its 'Supersize Me!'

Mambo Mania's Song List!

Disco Magic Is Comin' To Idol....

Hot off the press! (ok, more like off the crumpled sheet of paper Producer Eugene gave me to write on cos I ran off in such a hurry I forgot to bring my notebook!)

Here's what your Top 8 will be singing next week, in no particular order....

Sylvia - I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston

hrm, do I see a pattern emerging? Does SylSyl like WhitWhit?

Faizal - That Thing You Do by the Wonders

Very mainstream, pseudo oldie, catchy - very typical Faizal choice :)

Tabby - Ain't Nobody by Chaka Khan

Typical Tabby - diva to the last drop :) Bring on the Chaka Khan hair girlfriend! Just make sure it doesn't come out like this :)

Malaque - Last Dance by Donna Summer

Ooooh nice one...this one always gets me up and dancing!

Charlie - Take On Me by A-Ha

Classic Mambo hit... :) This one gets everyone pointing to the sky!

Duane - Tainted Love by Pussycat Dolls

Very sexy tune.... I also think.... Full Monty hahahaha!

Sezairi - Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry

Awesome choice...lay down n boogie n play dat funky music til ya' die! (I first heard that line in a NKOTB song)

Mae - Kiss by Prince

OMG, love this song - it always reminds me of that scene in Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts is in the tub, up to her neck in bubbles, listening to her walkman and singing to this song...badly! LOL!

Check out the groovy-licious boogie-on-down pics I took below at the September 12th Trailer Shoot :)

1st collage - random shots of the Idols while they were getting ready.

2nd collage - random shots of them waiting around for the shoot.

3rd collage - shots of them practicing their dance moves just before the actual shoot, at the studio entrance actually which is why its so dark!

Click on the images to enlarge ;) and ENJOY!

xoxo, s.

Next Week's Theme : Mambo Mania!

This picture says it all... :)

Click to see the pic in full size :)

It's now 10pm. Lines are closed...who are the 8 that will carry on next week to boogie their way to Mambo hits?

As you would have figured out, this pic was taken ages ago at that major trailer/photoshoot, which is why you see ousted Idols there. But I like it this way don't you? Its like the whole Idol family's back together...

Definitely the most fun theme out of all the themes that they did - they had a funky 'mambo' choreo that they all did. I recorded vids for each one of them...unfortunately my phone decided to die...so all my vids are gone (sigh, a big huge sob!), but Iz also managed to video some - so hopefully he puts it up on youtube tonight ya.....aaahhh I'm so excited just thinking about it cos it was HILARIOUS I tell you - Sezairi is surprisingly limber at the hips! :)

More pics + songs they will be singing for Mambo Mania later....this is my scheduled 10pm post....(hopefully I've managed to successfully put the kids to sleep and am on my way to MediaCorp for the Results Show!)

xoxo, s.

ps. One more pic for the road - check out Charlie's Archangels! (pity Charlie and Justin had to go to the soundstage when I took this pic and Duane wasn't done yet at the time!)

pps. Majority of the boys' shirts/pants were from Growing Up! ahhaha it was written on the label!