Overdue Philippine Idol Entry

It's been almost a month since the first Philippine Idol ended, with undeniably the deserving winner. Back then, while it was still going on, it would be very easy to come up with a lengthy post, criticizing every sucky performance of every other sucky performer and giving praises to every magnificent rendition of every other magnificent finalist. One of the best performances, if not already the best, would be this, the final song of the last finalist for the night- Mau Marcelo, the winner. She simply brought the house down.

For comparioson's sake, I am also embedding here the original version of the song- Whitney's Try It On My Own. It was definitely a very good song choice by the producers.

Whitney's:


And Mau's:


This is what the judges had to say:


Her performance just gave me (and it still does) goosebumps.

PS This is what I have to say about the judges: Pilita and FM are a bunch of nonsense craps. Cayabyab would've been more magnificent by himself, with no one (or two!) to give out trash comments.