Burnett has done it again.
All it took was half an episode of Rockstar: INXS and I was hooked for good. Granted I was a wee bit late considering they were already down to the final six when I discovered it, and I blame it fully on some long-haired dude I unfortunately witnessed in the earlier stages who thought screaming unintelligibles into the mike would totally rock (pun intended).
I’d promptly changed the channel, never to give it a thought again, until that fateful day when something compelled me to keep my finger off the “channel up” button. The combination of the black choir, the elaborate sets, the stakes, the flame-licked words “A Mark Burnett Production”, and the fact that they sang both “Imagine” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” in one day won me over.
I am so a fan.
Now it’s down to the final four and I honestly couldn’t pick a favourite to vote for even if I was voting in the first place. One goes home tonight and then there will be three. I can’t imagine how the voters are going to choose because to my untrained rock ear, they are all pretty damn good. And I still can’t believe the winner becomes the next INXS frontman.
Trust Mr Burnett to take the already successful Idol franchise and top it a thousand times over.
