Matters of The Heart: Idol Reality Shows In Singapore

Ever since the first Singapore Idol started, more and more idol reality shows have appeared out of nowhere. Shows like Project Superstar, Campus Superstar, Super Host, Super Actor, Super Band and Singapore Idol 2 have taken the media industry by storm. Is this a healthy sign for Singapore indicating that many talents are emerging from their shell into public and gaining fame for this Little Red Dot on Earth?

In my opinion, anything that is done out of balance is bad. MediaCorp has created so many idols in the past 2 years so much so that if they are going on this rate, celebritism in Singapore will become a norm and where ever you go you will get to meet with someone who was either on TV or someone who had won some contest.

Being a celebrity is an exclusive thing, a celebrity is the voice of a nation, it is like a walking state of the art. More than just flaunting their appearances, they are ambassadors of important messages such as : "Please donate if not these people will die", "Keep a dengue free home", "Let's stand together to fight SARS" etc...
Apart from their serious roles, they are those with talents and looks way above and beyond the general crowd being able to catch your attention due to their stunning x-factors.

Therefore, if those idol reality shows keep on coming with acceleration, Singapore would be overflowing with stars causing the exclusivity of celebritism to be degraded. Some would argue that no matter what those idols will still have a certain amount of value as they are voted by part of Singapore's population. Here is one thing that we mislook always, probably less than 10,000 people voted for our new Super Host, that means only less than 0.0025% of Singaporeans have given this lady the green light to be our first super host and not forgetting usually a large amount of people would love to do multiple voting. You do the maths.

How much are our idols really worth? Is our media industry doing too much in making stars? You tell me.