World Idol Results (spoiler alert)

[damo]

Here are the results of the World Idol competition (already broadcast in other parts of the world)

1. Kurt - Norway - 106 points
2. Kelly - USA - 97 points
3. Peter - Belgium - 83 points
4. Heinz - S.Africa - 80 points
5. Will - U.Kingdom - 72 points
6. Ryan - Canada - 62 points
7. Guy - Australia - 56 points
8. Alex - Poland - 55 points
9. Alexander - Germany - 45 points
9. Diana - Pan Arabic - 45 points
11. Jamai - Netherlands - 36 points

Kurt was voted number one by every country except Pan-Arabic.

 

[torismom]

That is wonderful he won. He did do the best. I missed the show where they announced the winners. Thanks for sharing

We switched drom direct tv to dish and they had to change our intsall date till Jan 4 so we have no Tv.

 

[Fromeurope]

Can someone tell me why our Dutch idol Jamai received almost no points. He is really cute, you know.

 

[Tinkbell]

Was Kurt from Norway the one who sang the U2 song?

 

[damo]

Yup

 

[Fromeurope]

Damo,
The dogs are really cute. They look like the dog I used to have, sadly enough he passed away. But at an age of 17 years so luckely enough I have spent many years with him. I am still thinking of him everyday...
Are they all yours?

 

[smileybrat]

I think they should have sang more songs so you could get a better idea of their range. Most people can find at least one song that sounds good when they sing it even if others sound terrible. Some of the singers may have been having a bad voice day too.

 

[damo]

Originally posted by Fromeurope
Damo,
The dogs are really cute. They look like the dog I used to have, sadly enough he passed away. But at an age of 17 years so luckely enough I have spent many years with him. I am still thinking of him everyday...
Are they all yours?

No, we have golden cocker spaniels. They are adorable aren't they! There is a link on the picture if you are interested.

 

[Luckymommyx2]

I was a little disappointed in this show overall. First, I agree there should have been more than one song. Second, last night in particular, there was way too much fluff. What happened to Sebastian Guy from Australia?! Maybe it's just me but I thought he'd be in the top three with Kelly and Kurt!!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Is it just me, or did Kelly look.....kinda pissy?

I don't know, she just looked REALLY annoyed half the time they showed her.

 

[Luckymommyx2]

I love Kelly but I admit that she looked a little upset. I think maybe she thought she'd run away with it. Don't know.

 

[damo]

I think the judges gave Kelly the impression that she was "the race horse and the others were donkeys". Unfortunately, the judges don't seem to be right all the time.

I think it was kind of interesting how the contestants were judged a lot by appearance (except for Kurt whose amazing talent took over). The quirky looking people didn't do nearly as well as the nice looking ones. That is a good reason why you can't judge on one performance. People make a lot of first impressions on looks.

 

[Mskanga]

I only saw the winner sing the last song after he won....is that how he sang? if so, I did not like it.

 

[CBRorBust]

I loved Kurt! I was thinking last night, do you think people didn't vote for Kelly because they figured he was a shoe in? Just curious? Like if we could have voted for her, I think I would have voted for Kurt just to make sure he'd be in the top 3 since I would assume Kelly would be #1.

Also did you notice that the Pan Arabic audience voted USA, UK, and Canada in the bottom 3?

 

[sgtdisney]

I noticed that Kelly appeared a little off last night as well. I did notice, very briefly, that it appeared that the Peter guy (sang the Kurt Cobain song) appeared to be taunting her when he was neck in neck with her in the beginning. It was just a glimpse, but it was like he was laughing at her. I would love to hear from Kelly what happened. I am sure since she is the biggest selling artist (by far) of all them there could have been some tension (jealousy?) from the other singers? In every interview I have ever heard, seen or read from Kelly she seems to be a very good sport and have a lot of class. She doesn't appear to me that she is a 'Diva' so I would find it hard to beleive that she had an attitude because she wasn't winning a trivial competition.

I liked Kurt, but Kelly should have won in my opinion. I doubt I will watch another World Idol show (if they have one.) The whole thing seemed contrived and lackluster. Kelly didn't belong with most of those other people there. A number of them wouldn't have made it past the first or second cut here. Just my opinion of course.

Regardless of the vote, Kelly's album has gone multi-platinum and she has to be thrilled with that.

 

[Pixie_Dust]

Originally posted by Fromeurope
Can someone tell me why our Dutch idol Jamai received almost no points. He is really cute, you know.

I think he just did not have enough pizzazz to stand out. He would do well in a boy band but not solo. But I thought the Dutch and the South Africans (which I guess have a lot of people of Dutch descent there) did the best job of ranking the Idols (i.e., I agreed with their voting order!)

But I was surprised so many countries ranked the South African guy so high; they must have been impressed by his looks. And I would have ranked the Canadian higher.

Kurt obviously deserved to win, and as other posts mentioned Kelly looked miffed. I felt she had been led to believe she would win, and that the producers had tried to influence the show to that end since they stand to make a lot of money if she sells a lot of albums.

Personally I am not that thrilled with her. Notice they said she performed to "universal acclaim" since that is the spin they wanted to put on it, conveniently forgetting they judge from the week before who criticized her "shouting." I call it grunting, and also do not like the bobble-head moves she does. As far as I know she isn't black, and it seems weird to me that she acts like that.

I would like to hear from other countries as to how they presented the show in your country, just out of curiosity. In the US they had the UK hosts but focused on Kelly.

I can't wait for the next American Idol, can you? They cut the auditions into such a humorous show

Does anyone besides me think they must be paying that "Like a Virgin" guy to compensate for his humiliation every time they show him as the "world's worst singer"?

Cheers

 

[damo]

Originally posted by CBRorBust
I loved Kurt! I was thinking last night, do you think people didn't vote for Kelly because they figured he was a shoe in? Just curious? Like if we could have voted for her, I think I would have voted for Kurt just to make sure he'd be in the top 3 since I would assume Kelly would be #1.

Also did you notice that the Pan Arabic audience voted USA, UK, and Canada in the bottom 3?

Here is the voting results from Pan Arabic
PAN ARABIC
Diana
1. Alexander, 2. Ryan, 3. Heinz, 4. Alex, 5. Peter, 6. Kelly, 7. Kurt, 8.Will, 9.Guy, 10.Jamai

They voted Canada second.

Here is how each country voted:
UNITED KINGDOM
Will
1. Kurt 2. Kelly, 3. Peter, 4. Heinz, 5. Guy, 6. Ryan, 7. Diana, 8. Alex, 9. Alexander, 10. Jamai

BELGIUM
Peter
1. Kurt, 2. Kelly, 3. Heinz, 4. Alexander, 5. Will, 6. Alex, 7. Jamai, 8. Guy, 9. Ryan, 10. Diana

AUSTRALIA
Guy
1. Kurt, 2. Kelly, 3. Heinz, 4. Peter, 5. Will, 6. Ryan, 7. Diana, 8. Alex, 9. Jamai, 10. Alexander

UNITED STATES
Kelly
1. Kurt, 2. Heinz, 3. Diana, 4. Peter, 5. Guy, 6. Will, 7. Ryan, 8. Alex, 9.Jamai, 10. Alexander

PAN ARABIC
Diana
1. Alexander, 2. Ryan, 3. Heinz, 4. Alex, 5. Peter, 6. Kelly, 7. Kurt, 8.Will, 9.Guy, 10.Jamai

POLAND
Alex
1. Kurt, 2.Peter, 3.Kelly, 4. Will, 5. Heinz, 6.Guy, 7.Alexander, 8.Jamai, 9.Ryan, 10.Diana

NETHERLANDS
Jamai
1. Kurt, 2.Kelly, 3.Will, 4. Peter, 5. Guy, 6. Ryan, 7. Alexander, 8. Alex, 9. Heinz, 10. Diana

CANADA
Ryan
1. Kurt, 2.Kelly, 3.Peter, 4.Heinz, 5.Guy, 6.Diana, 7.Will, 8.Alex, 9.Jamai, 10. Alexander

GERMANY
Alexander
1. Kurt, 2. Kelly, 3.Alex, 4. Heinz, 5. Diana, 6. Will, 7. Peter, 8.Ryan, 9.Guy, 10.Jamai

NORWAY
Kurt
1. Kelly, 2. Peter, 3. Ryan, 4.Will, 5. Heinz, 6. Alex, 7. Jamai, 8. Guy, 9. Diana, 10. Alexander

SOUTH AFRICA
Heinz
1. Kurt, 2. Will, 3. Kelly, 4. Ryan, 5. Peter, 6. Guy, 7. Jamai, 8. Alex, 9. Alexander, 10. Diana

 

[Pixie_Dust]

Originally posted by CBRorBust
Also did you notice that the Pan Arabic audience voted USA, UK, and Canada in the bottom 3?

I noticed the US and UK ranked their Idol a lot higher than they ranked ours. This is imposing our PC ideals on a completely foreign mindset imo. They may think what she did was "cool," but...

I also noticed in the first show they said she was the only one in her competition to sing all traditional songs all in her language, which made me think she won as a political statemnt of the voters rather than on her talents alone.

But the Arabs have totally different taste from the West, obviously, as proven by the fact they ranked the German first! Yeesh!

 

[Fromeurope]

I thought it was really strange that the Pan Arabic countries joined the World Idol contest, because they really have a different taste.
That's okay ofcourse, but their song wasn't really comparible with the American and European songs.
And I was very surprised to see they got so many points from the US. Why was that, you think?
I am still a big fan of the Dutch Jamai, but he isn't the guy for such a contest, you know.

 

[WDWfan uk]

I was very disappointed in the whole show - it was little more than an ordeal we have here once a year called the "Eurovision Song Contest" - and if you want to see political voting then that is THE programme to watch. Actually the voting is so funny it's the only part I'll watch if I've nothing better to do. (OK- before any Europeans say anything, I have to say that the UK entry in the last Eurovision was so bad it deserved NIL points - interesting that we keep entering such naff singers/songs.)

It is interesting that you thought Kelly (who has a fantastic voice) looked upset - the UK entry, Will Young, was visibly unhappy to be there and did not put anything into his song at all. I think maybe both of them were only there for contractual reasons, they both are top-selling artists.