Taking Sides: Peter vs. Alex. (I cannot believe I am addicted to Fame Accademy)

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Well, Alex is clearly going to win cause she's the only one that's actually talented.

Peter, however... my god. He can't sing to save his life, he dances like a baby elephant, and he falls over at least once every performance, but my god, he's so cute he's just DYING to paint my toenails.

Please tell me that I am not the only person addicted to Fame Academy this year... I've never watched a Reality Programme in my life before, but I can't take my eyes off it.

― kate (kate), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

And why is it NOT ON tonight?!?!? I have to have my friends with BBC3 tape it for me. This is so upsetting.

― kate (kate), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

And why is it NOT ON tonight?!?!?

Taking sides: that cunt with the floppy hair who massacres 60s classics in a corporate indie style vs the awesome striking power of George Hristov.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the corporate indie cunt with the floppy hair. He's so deliberately shit, but with a major label budget. He's so inauthentic he's authentic!!! He's the Robbie Williams of the Strokes generation! It's so utterly wonderful!

― kate (kate), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex is the one that looks like a Victorian chimneysweep, yes?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 6 September 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter isn't deliberately shit, I believe he does his best and that's what comes out. His Vines frontman, 'I'm bieng controlled by inner-demons, me, look!' act that he switches into about two thirds of the way through every perf is a bit embarrassing really. It makes a change from the parade of identikit sub-R Kelly types that we get on these shows though, I suppose. But it's not enough.
Alex is alright. I still prefer Pop Idol myself (for Pete Waterman reasons alone).

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Saturday, 6 September 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Phew! I was so relieved that it was on on Sunday.

I've decided that Peter is a cunt because he was so nasty to Alex in this episode! Who cares about the music? It's about a bunch of spoiled brats locked in a house and having to compete with each other about who can be the biggest rock star. Excellent. I guess the reason that I fancied Peter was because he seemed mysterious because they never featured him. But now they're focusing on him more, I realise he's just an identikit indiekid who has learned his moves by rote from the NME. He's doing The Vines doing Nirvana doing The Who, like a xerox of a xerox of a xerox, twisted and distorted and somehow made into a strange new artform, like a Warhol print.

Or maybe it's just the hair. Possibly it's just the hair.

I'm starting to warm to Caroline. They were trying to turn her into an identikit girlgroup chick, but now she's hanging out with Alex, she's letting her inner skank-ho rock chick out, which is amusing in and of itself.

Anyway... I guess it's justice for having been so rude about Big Brother for so long, now I'm utterly entranced by their interactions.

(BTW, I just saw Dave Q in this web cafe, but he scurried off. Weird.)

― kate (kate), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

So this thread died a premature death. I guess I should have started it on ILE instead.

But I'm glad to see that my predictions proved accurate. If only I'd had money on it...

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

What They're Saying: "From the start we thought she would win, she's a true individual, a diamond, the kind of talent you very rarely see etc etc"

What They're Thinking: "Winner!! She'll be just like Sinead but without all that Pope nonsense!"

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I was saying to my friends that if they really want her to be a star, they should lock her up alone in a cottage for six months with acid in the water supply and some religious books. When she comes out, she'll be mad enough to actually fit with her voice and her looks.

(Do you think that any of the others will actually have a pop career? GOd, I hope not. I think Alistair will become an actor or comic or - oh god - a "funny" TV presenter. Peter will be a pinup but never record anything. Nice to see that his affair with Carolynne has been COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN the moment that he's out of the hothouse.)

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

And this thread will die again. Dammit...

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Dammit indeed, I was hoping that someone would start a Fame Academy thread on ILE and now I've found one on ILM it's all over. Harrumph.

― Alfie (Alfie), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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