Superstardom

Superstar-dom

With Singapore idol and Superstar.. It makes you feel as if anyone can be a superstar.
Anyone can turn famous overnight.
How many of us remember Weilian busking at MRT stations.
When you walk pass him then, did you once think that perhaps some day he'd be famous.
Maybe one day, you'd see him on TV with a legion of fans voting for him?

I always wonder how long these will last?
How many fans of Taufik are still fans of Taufik?
How many fans of Sylvester are still fans of Sylvester?
Or rather, just how many of those fans buy their albums and will continue to do so?

Singapore Idol, Superstar are purely for entertainment sake.
It was, and perhaps never will be meant as a platform to produce someone as popular, and on a grand scale like Jielun or Wong Lee Hom.
Because Singapore Idol and Superstar are just too fantasy-ish.
It is never easy to be an idol.
I think the real superstars learn them the hard way.

I am not saying that its easy, taking part in a contest like this, and building a fan base from there, getting Singaporeans to sit up and notice you.
But how many idols out there are produced this way?
They all start from somewhere, the hard way.
Contests are just the easy way out, and you are never guaranteed anything.

I give it another 3 months.
And perhaps we'd never remember the names of all the contestant anymore.