Seriously, Singapore ....

WTF is going on with the Singapore Idol voting this year?

Even the trailers and ads have started admonishing viewers that "this is a singing competition". The judges are in on the act, Gurmit is doing his bit, and even the ousted Rahimah Rahim has thrown in her 2 cents' worth that it should be "about the vocals".

Listening live to tonight's elimination - Mathilda, Jonathan and Hady in the bottom 3. Good heavens! Gurmit is reminding us again that SI is looking for a singer. Yeah, well, the judges and producers should have kept that in mind a few months back when they put these same people through to the voting rounds!

Awww, Mathilda is out. I guess she really did not connect that well with audiences and her scary-eyes act is less successful than Storm Large's on Rockstar: Supernova.

Ken is scolding the teeners and tweeners for basically being idiotic. Haha, love it. Unfortunately, this would probably spur them to vote twice as often for the tone-deaf brigade next week.

Awww, Ken is being really nice to Mathilda, certainly nicer than he has ever been to her during judging. He is acknowledging that she has a voice and can sing. He is also not-so-subtly putting down some of the other contestants. I don't often agree with Ken, but this time? You go, Ken!

Geez, SI voters. Singapore is always first-in-world at so many things, so much so that a book has been written about it. Will Singapore have the dubious distinction of voting in the first tone-deaf Idol?