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No singers please, it's only pop music
No singers please, it's only
pop music
7 June 2003
By Emma Chalmers, Courier Mail
ELENI Pippos's family know she is a great singer, but
apparently she's too good to star on a reality television
series.
The 16-year-old Year 12 student from West End was one
of the thousands of hopefuls trying for a place on the
new Popstars-style reality series, Australian
Idol, at auditions this week. The series is part of
a worldwide television "idol" phenomenon and
offers one winner a record deal with label BMG, the recording
home of, among others, Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne.
Ms Pippos, a budding opera singer, made it through to
the third round of auditions on Wednesday with a rendition
of Think Of Me from The Phantom Of The Opera
musical.
But she went no further and was told by judges, singer
Marcia Hines, program producer Mark Holden and BMG executive
Ian Dickson, she was simply "too good". She
was also told she was "too young", despite meeting
the audition requirement of being 16 to 28.
Although the audition was open to all vocal styles, Ms
Pippos said it was plain to see the style the judges were
after was pop.
"A lot of people didn't get through because of their
vocal styles," she said. "It is Australian Idol,
not Australian Pop Idol."
The conditions of auditioning state the producers' decisions
are final and the interests of the program override those
of any hopeful.
The judging panel consist of singer Marcia Hines, former singer
and now writer and producer Mark Holden and BMG record label
representative Ian Dickson.
