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Toronto is Officially the Backwards Sanjaya

By Rebecca Pardo

070416_sanjaya_vmed_10a.widec.jpgHe was a disaster with a ponytail mohawk, and somehow he made it to seventh place. We’re awesome, and for some reason we’re getting nowhere.
Though Toronto consistently produces the greatest number of aspiring singers in the Canadian Idol auditions (and delivers the most top 22 finalists of any city), no Torontonian has made it to the top 10 finals since the first season. Voting largely depends on the contestants’ regional followings, and while Newfies and Albertans are committed to propelling their representatives to the top, Torontonians, well, just don’t seem to give a shit.
But it’s not just that. According to Idol EP John Brunton, the underrepresentation of Torontonians is also partly due to a national anti-Toronto bias. That’s right. They’re conspiring against us.
But there are still a few Torontonians left in the competition. So do the right thing. Clear your schedule on Monday night. Pick up the phone. And call the toll-free number on your screen. We may not care about Canadian Idol, but ain’t nobody gonna mess with our reputation.
Photo from MSNBC.com.

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  • rek

    Is it possible we could call in and vote to end the series?

  • guest

    I thought the voting was for talent not geography. I like the idea about voting to end the series.

  • guest

    This is a ridiculous article! Obviously Canada knows talent when they see it, more so then the Americans! Why should the people of Toronto vote for their own, when their own were the weakest of all the competitors!? It’s not ONTARIO IDOL, it’s CANADIAN IDOL… I vote for who I like the sound of, who I would buy an album from, it’s not about what Province they are in! I am personally happy that Canada voted correctly and those who left last Wednesday night were the ones who should have left! Funny how the judges over the past couple of years have been pissed off that there has been “regional” voting in other provinces, keeping in the game week singers… but when it’s not happening in Toronto, it’s totally different.

  • brokenengine

    American/Canadian Idol could almost be considered sci-fi. Instead of mad scientists trying to create life, its washed up celebrities trying to create other celebrities. When one of their Idol’s “careers” sputters worse than usual, CTV just sparks them up with a little more electricity(hyperbolic publicity) to get the automaton lurching again.
    The doomed little girl in this scenario? Real talent. The rest of us should play the de riguer role of angry townsfolk weilding torches and pitchforks.
    aka this show is a crappy version of a crappier show, and has a lot to do with the elevated sense of entitlement you see more and more of these days. Kill it, and kill it quickly.