Sanjaya Malakar Holds An Indian Sign Over American Idol
IS SANJAYA Malaka, American Idol’s song whisperer, is at the centre of a plot.
As the Enquirer asks: “Is Simon behind a conspiracy to keep the clownish contestant on the show.”
Sanjaya’s clown is no Marcel Marceau – if only. Nor is he a hooting Harpo Marx. Sanjaya’s clown has a voice. If you listen hard and turn up the volume on your TV set, you can almost make out Sanjaya singing.
Many believe the noise is good. Some equate the listening experience to being tossed in a windowless cell and forced to drink a pint of President Ahmadinejad’s urine.
But all know for a fact is that Sanjaya is good for American Idol’s ratings. And that is what the show is all about.
Says a source: “The public is bored. FOX network executives are pressuring the producers to do something more exciting. So they are trying to get Sanjaya to do crazy things.”
To date these crazy things have centred on Sanjaya putting his long hair up or down, sometimes at the same time.
It is a simple trick that is working well. The show is attracting a huge audience and being talked about.
But it cannot last.
Sanjaya is American Idol’s Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards, the enthusiastic amateur flailing in a sea of talent. It is Sanjaya’s essential lack of talent that makes him attractive. The problem for Sanjaya, like Eddie, will come when he is made to perform on his own and the audience realises that he really is rubbish. And they can do rubbish as well as the next man.
Sanjaya needs context. And his peers are fast disappearing as each week another singer – miles better than Sanjaya – is voted off the show.
At the end Sanjaya will be the No.1, standing at the top of a long ski jump to oblivion…
Posted: 11th, April 2007 | In: TV & Radio Comments (5) | TrackBack | Permalink
