World Idol – Will It All Sound American?

There is to be a “World Idol” music competition. One wonders what it will be like though, based on the “Australian Idol” experience. The “biggest problem with Australian Idol: all those talented young people performing as if they were country and western singers straight off a Qantas jet from Nashville. Even Beatles songs were Americanised. Sacrilege! In the context of the debate over the proposed free-trade agreement with the US, in which Australia may have to sacrifice its right to set local content quotas on TV for such things as Australian drama, it really grated.”