Today, the world is less of another potential superstar...
Derrick is out of the competition...
It's a cruel contest of talents...
It's a cruel game of elimination...
It's a cruel duel of accusations...
A week ago when Jason was eliminated from the contest, many Weicong and Derrick fans were cheering... Cos they believed that "he who has deprived others of their chances has finally got his just deserts"...
*Pls refer to this article named "The End Of The Jason Curse" if you're unclear of what's happening...
However... His interview spun another round of chaos amongst the remaining contestants' fans... Due to his debatable comments as follows:
You mentioned just now that you believe in several criteria to a SuperStar: singing, packaging, stage presence and the feel you give people. How do you think the remaining three semi-finalists rank in these criteria?
Jason: Wei Lian is in a different context because of his handicap, so he will lose out a lot on stage presence. But then again, because of that, he can just stand there and people will feel for him. As a SuperStar, you need to reach out and touch the people. His voice already touches his audience. If I’m a judge, I’ll not bother so much about his stage presence; I’ll just want to see how he improves, how he performs and how he has the confidence and courage to move on the next round. As a visually handicapped person, it’s not easy to be in a national competition and have everybody’s eyes on you. You can’t see them but you have so many eyes looking at you.
So I’ll rank Junyang, Wei Lian and Derrick. I’ll add another criterion: at the end of the day, to be a SuperStar, you must be humble. It’s not good to have airs.
Do you mean a semi-finalist has airs now?
Jason: Maybe he has forgotten that this is just a competition. Don’t be so competitive because if you get a contract after the competition and you aren’t humble and have a celebrity air about you, you lose your own character. You might win something but when you are arrogant, people will just shun you.
After much egging on and prompting, Jason finally told us some concrete examples of how this semi-finalist has changed.)
You just know that the person is different. He talks differently. He’ll treat fans in a certain way because he knows they are important but he’ll treat other people differently.
A sense of self-importance?
Jason: Ah yes… you get the feeling of ‘Wahhh, I’m enjoying limelight. Wherever I go, people like me…’ from him.
We get the impression this person is one of the three semi-finalists, and according to your ranking, it’s pretty obvious who he is.
Jason: You all can go ahead and guess, hehe. Maybe you can feel it, because it’s quite obvious; anybody can feel it. Even his fans also get the same impression. They came up to me last night and asked me to tell him to be humble no matter happens. They told me, ‘He seems to have changed, so much so that I don’t even recognize him anymore. I don’t know why…’
So what exactly possessed him to say something so irresponsible... Only he knows...
After reading forums n messageboards full of fans bombarding each other and each others' faves... I've come to a decision that it could have totally been a ploy to make Junyang and Derrick's fans detest one another...
Derrick's heart-wrenching thank-you speech that made me start bawling my eyes out like there's no tomorrow... And hearing Weilian's insensitive remark to Derrick was such a low-point... I think he really shouldn't have said it...
This is what he said in brief to Derrick:
"Derrick, pls tell ur fans not to blame me, or to be angry with me and boycott me cos I drove you out of e competition... cos it's not that I want it... but competition is cruel..."
if he had just said "Carry on the good work Derrick! Your hard work will not be in vain! Success will definitely be yours one day!" it would have left a much better impression of him on people... now i feel that by saying wat he said he has become e bad guy... it's like macam luo jin xia shi...even TTT oso commented that he's not good in PR... i think he could make others dislike him for what he said... even if he did want to protect Jason, or WHATEVER...he shouldn't have said those words... it's insensitive to someone who has just lost his chance at making it big, and i feel as if that he was making things worse for him... No doubt... in the end Derrick burst into tears when saying his speech and singing his last song "Hen Xiang Ni" (my fave) to the fans... n bowing for a long time at the end of the song, and giving a flying kiss to all his fans... in turn the fans bawled their eyes out... it looked like a sincere gesture of mutual appreciation of the latters' support and the former's recognition of their undying and steadfast support...
so... my question remains...
if he's so sincere... n thankful... y would Jason say that he's changed n become an arrogant peacock???
peace out
Same Old Fanatic
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