Sanjaya Malakar

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Americans (or Estadophiles)! Tell me about Sanjaya Malakar, or tell me where people have been saying smart things? What I know:

• He is in the final 9 finalists
  
• He's not particularly technically good - or rather he seems to understand the shapes of the effects you want for rock/soul, but not what he has to sound like for them to traditionally 'work'
  
• He's survived six rounds against opposition from the judges, to the point where Simon Cowell's stated he's going to quit if Sanjaya wins.
  
• Some people, Howard Stern as an example, have been supporting a vote for him in order to, ahem, subvert the show into the tarmac.
  
• Dudes on MySpace be on hunger strike until he's voted off (apparently)
  

Sanjaya on "Ain't No Mountain High Enough":

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Sanjaya on "You Really Got Me":

Watch on YouTube

CNN on Sanjaya:

Watch on YouTube

(Should I really be shocked that I'm shocked by the homophobia on youtube comments? It seems so assumed, like a valid argument can be equal parts "he's technically deficient", "people are using him to game the system" and "he's gay", and all of the three parts are equally solid. I realise this is not officially a poptimists question.)

Comments

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

He's the American McDonald Brothers!

He had nice hair and then he ruined it. He seemed sweet but then he seemed very weird. It's probably just because he's so talked about now that he's staying in, over others who are better but haven't made much impression. I think only Stephanie and Sabrina were voted off unfairly, though.