do you dream of becoming rich and famous and your name becoming a household brand? wait, let me change that. do you STILL dream of becoming all of that?

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just a few hours ago i watched the latest episode of the idol-series equivalent local singing reality show and to my surprise, which i will explain later why, there were two singaporeans in the top 10. now question is why? well, i heard either one of them or both took part in a similar competition back in singapore and guess what, they didn't make the cut. thing is in the mandarin music industry taiwan is a monster and for them to make it this far in this competition deserves way more than a pat on their backs. so, is the singapore music industry moving the right direction? of course we can say that a local show like this should appeal to the local masses but i believe that any producer would understand that ultimately for the winner-singer to make it big, he/she has got to move out of singapore and into the world. i mean the local results of such contests haven't made it anything big. let's not consider the world, they haven't even taken a foothold of the music industry in Singapore. are we moving in the right direction?

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these reality series- the american idol finals of which i have stopped watching completely because there are way too many "idols" already who hardly make it past their second album, and the other 2 local singing contests here- made me think. you know how as small kids, i mean teenagers, we used to dream of being rich and famous and earning lots of money and spending even more money and living in houses which are insanely huge and then have a million ferraris and to top that up half a million lexus and more bmws and mercedes and having a harem of girls all around you and full access to the casinos all around the world and flying first class everytime even when you travel from singapore to sentosa and having luxury designer items and fur coats and... all this nonsense. i realised that it is so much easier for the lame man on the street to get rich and famous all at the same time. go for competitions like that, even if you don't make the cut, act stupid and have your name all over youtube or some tabloid. people of long ago made it this far just because they had what it took to get them here today. is it right for me to say that competitions like these make a mockery of the ardous starting journeys of yesteryears' singers?

do i still wish to be rich and famous?

i think reality kicked in.