American Idol has been a success across the United States. People love watching others make complete idiots of themselves with bad singing and horrible choreography. The show has people on who are so bad you wonder how the judges sit there through the whole process. BC idol was no different.
BC Idol, our campus’ own version of the hit television show, let any person who could write their name compete in the competition. Contestants had to display their talents singing karaoke style in front of the panel of judges. While trying to imitate the show, the judges acted like the famous critics we all know.
Don Clark was Paula Abdul, who always gives positive feed back; Joe Ruiz was Simon, being extremely harsh yet humorous; Patti Rapp and Carla Reyes made up the fat guy.
This event was a lot like the real American Idol, and you wanted to kill yourself 10 minutes into it. It started off with a number written and performed by Positive Mike, the positive rapper. I couldn’t tell you what he was rapping about because he mostly ran back and forth on the stage muttering his lyrics without an attempt to be clear. If you think William Hung could be the next Ricky Martin, then Positive Mike could be the next Yanni.
Other ear-bleeding voices followed and many singers did the same song. I had no idea that Celine Dion was that popular. The song list gave a huge variety, everything from hip hop to metal, but most people competing didn’t take advantage of that.
Not every act was horrendous. Keith Silvas’ performance and strip tease of “Drive” by Incubus made it worth sitting in the hot sun. Micah Card belting out “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” by Queen reminded you that not every person who signed up had delusions of grandeur.
Then there were those who decided to make the event more fun by being more comical. Joey Kuntz and Nate Bruhn got a few laughs, singing “Say My Name” by Destiny’s Child.
“We knew we sucked,” said Kuntz. “Everyone was doing serious songs so we decided to have some fun.”
One definite memorable moment came from Katlyn Hulsy and Sara Tielsch doing a duet of “Moulin Rouge.” Tielsch was far from shy shaking it up on stage. It was topped off by Clark saying, “Next time we’ll have a pole in the middle of the stage, and Katlyn will be giving lap dances in the cafeteria.”
The performance wasn’t without its share of problems. Many contestants got cold feet and quit before telling the crew. This caused a good gap of dead time between performances, which lead to song mix-ups and sound problems. Not to mention a random, strange woman who would often take the mic from the skinny emcee and give her two cents on performances. She wasn’t a judge but no one seemed to care to stop her.
Finally the judges made their decision. The two awards, the Best in Show Award and the William Hung Award, were given to contestants that weren’t there. So they went to the runners up. Silvas won Best in Show and Positive Mike got the other one.
Silvas had a conscience and said that he would give his award to the actual winner, Micah Card.
“She’s worked really hard on her voice,” he said. “She deserves it.”