This blog is about Campus Superstar 2009 [校园SuperStar]. (to non-Singaporeans: well, it's just a teenager singing talent-search competition in Singapore~)
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Details~ 4 hosts: Felicia Chin 陈靓瑄 Pornsak Lee Teng 李腾 Yuan Shuai 袁帅
4 judges: 黎沸挥 林倛玉 郑展伦 小寒
Top 12 contestants: Adrian 黄力生 Ai Jia 蔡艾珈 Benita 郑琪颖 Hui Shi 张慧诗 Jarod 李奕贤 Jeremy 丁文淞 Jia Min 叶嘉敏 Joselin 黄慧婷 Rachel 林瑞敏 Ridhwan (the only Malay) Mavis 李李美子 Shelly 蔡梦真
Summary of Campus Superstars 3 Round 1 - 代表自己的歌 Song Choices + Points
More info on Wikipedia here What happened at respective rounds (own words):
Stage 1A (12 Jan) - 代表自己的歌
Competition
C1 Adrian - 不完美 perhaps / most likely he's the 1st contestant who faced so many ppl, he got nervous n forgot the lyrics. he started well, then at e 2nd/3rd sentence, he started to 4gt e lyrics. he seemed "sighs", evn shook his head! at e chorus, he regained. awarded 20.5 out of 40. but i think his singing is not bad de. nice voice ^^ well, his singing tt he did not perform v well... actually suits e title of e song leh >>> 不完美. ^^
behind e scenes was.... evybody started crying... ^^
C2 Rachel Chua - 第一天 admire her! lol. she can make e atmosphere so high, by herself! i kept wow-ing.
C3 Rachel Lim - I Believe (石欣卉) when i 1st heard e title "I Believe", i immediately tot of Van Fan's... but it isnt his. she can go v 高音 1, xian mu~~ hmmm her chinese isnt v good, so she had difficulty in pronouncing n singing e chinese characters. hmm, i cant see this point when she's singing leh. hmm.
C4 Shelly - 一个人的精彩 she concentrated too much on her dance steps... said by e judges.
C5 Jarod - I Believe (范逸臣) oo haha! really Van de "I Believe" liao. omg, he started de pitch so so so high! im thinking wow, then how he continue later!? hmmm his own style. "只告诉自己 I Believe" de "I Believe" he sang high, nicely! hmmm, judges said he 感动人. Xiaohan laoshi even gave him 9.5 out of 10 marks! coz she said hearing him sing rmds her of her family or sth. he's awarded highest point of 31.5 in total. WOW! hmm i think e judges might be only biased coz he's cute. *unsure* on 2nd hear, his voice isnt very stable, n quite 抖...
C6 Joselin - 那又如何 a rock girl... the attitude is there but she's not open enuf.
Results
e 'storyline' of "全场哭成一团"..... emotional de me, cried with them too... *teary* =.=
they said Adrian is like their big brother. cant bear him getting out, no one to take care of them anymore... (参赛者的泪，不为自己，反为他们的老大而落。)
there's actually a group of 评判团 who will 判断 who will be out, this will not affect e actual results la.
out of the 6 contestants, 4 of them went into the 安全区 1st, which oso means they got into the next round la.. for this round, 1st four to go in, in order: Rachel Chua, Joselin Ng, Jarod Lee, Rachel Lim.
*dangerous zone* 2 ppl underwent the 残酷淘汰方式, that is, they have to 清唱 a song. this round their elimination song is 童话 by 光良, contestants are Adrian and Shelly. Whose mic which suddenly have no voice is OUT! hmmm they must be feeling v v nervous ^^ as more expected, Adrian is OUT of the competition (until revival round). He appeared calm, instead it's Shelly who's more 'teary' (well, for subsequent rounds, it's always like this. e person who's out did not cry, n e other who went in cried.) hmm all others cried too... another one would be me =.=
Stage 1B (19 Jan) - 代表自己的歌
Competition
C1 Mavis 我要快乐 judges said she improve alot, coz last time she always like use shout de, this time she got e soft side. honestly i think her singing not v nice, though itz good. =.-
C2 Jeremy - 彩虹 hmmm somehow think hear him sing will have goosebumps ^^
C3 Jiamin - 灰姑娘 yew, maybe coz i dun like e song type, so dun like her singing... but her singing was def superb: by judges.
C4 Rachael - 勇气 honestly i think her singing is e best among e earlier contestants, but she got e least point so far. maybe im biased, coz i like this song, n i got to know her thru her blog 1st and tag her n comm.
She's quite strong as her mum has alrdy passed away. b4 it shows on css (introduction of them), i alrdy knew it thru her blog. wana cry when i read her post, n when i saw on tv... well, but sometimes / most of the time, it isnt really good to let ppl feel touched towards things like death, just lik composition...
said that when she rehearsed, she couldnt even complete singing e song, n alrdy broke out in tears. but during e competition, she managed to sing out all. comments by judge is that do not use ur hand to touch ur hair while singing, will affect e singing. *ooh*
C5 Ridhwan - 就是我 as i've anticipated, he sang JJ's song (his fav singer's) ^^ halfway, he 4gt part of his lyrics, but regained v fast. when he's being interviewed on y he 4gt e lyrics, he said he's not concentrating, but couldnt give an answer what he was thinking of.
"Xiao Han gave an encouraging score of 7.0, seeing that he's a non-Chinese and hence may have difficulty in remembering the lyrics, and also that Ridhwan was the only contestant in this episode who danced along with singing." honestly i love his singing. maybe im biased again >> coz of JJ.
one of his audition vids is kinda funny... he said he wana sing JJ's "sarangheyo zhi dui ni shuo", he ended up singing "kong qiu qian" unknowingly...
C6 Benita - 心动 singing is nice. lol, judges commented on her high heels, n that's she hunchback. my mum said v paiseh 1 lor... ^^.
Results
this round is better in that they didnt cry that much as compared to prev week.
for this round, 1st four to go in, in order: Yap Jia Min, Benita Cheng, Jeremy Teng, Rachael Zhang.
*dangerous zone* 2 ppl underwent the 残酷淘汰方式... this round their elimination song is 遗失的美好 by 张韶涵, contestants are Mavis and Ridhwan. this time is whose mic which suddenly change voice is OUT!
unexpectedly Ridhwan, who scored the lowest, went in. It's Mavis who's out... also, Mavis is more calm than Rid. when Rid was being interviewed, he said honestly i like Mavis' singing very much... n didnt expect her to go out instead. (when i read someone's comments on his FC blog, e person said that he sounded sarcastic...)
well, congrats Rid for entering the next round, unexpectedly. acually his mum who support him actually spent more than 1000 smses to vote for him! (omg!!! it means $600++. omg mad!! [each vote is 60cents])
Stage 2A (2 Feb) - 我最爱的科目
Competition
C1 Shelly - 星光 Said that she 4gt the lyrics a little. opps, i didnt realise it. evn she's not sure. she said 好像是吧 when being interviewed. well, i think her tune n some keys arent correct. the judges said so too.. but on 2nd hear, dun rly think so le.. awarded 19.0, which is actually a fail, n lowest point so far. bhind e scenes comments by Xiao Han laoshi: this song is actually a sad song, but she make it too cute (by her dance steps), so it's not appropriate.
C2 Jeremy - 豆浆油条 aha.... Xiao Han laoshi gave e comments, i cant uds. wad his singing 跟 song title 一样又像豆浆又像油条。太油腻了... oso said he's over-confident that he sounds insincere.
rofl, Lin Qi Yu laoshi oso said he do not uds wad Xiao Han is talking about. hmm his comment is that Jeremy is too alike JJ. (my mind thinking "huh, 会咩？")
C3 Joselin - 热情的沙漠 omg, choose such an old song! again, said attitude is there, but would be better if she's more open.
C4 Ridhwan - 空秋千 aha nice choice of song xP singing is v nice. *ahem, is it my bias again?!* special starting of sitting down 1st. comments by judges: mic is held too far from his mouth. by XiaoHan: song is too safe. hope he will choose more challenging songs subsequently. well, i agree la, this song dun rly have 高音... awarded 27.0, same as Joselin. cool, a tie created.
C5 Rachel Lim - 月牙湾 as usual, for me, like her singing. good at singing 高音 parts. she did some actions which e judges mentioned about, saying they are weird n not natural. actually i always see Faye (F.I.R.) doing this action... Rachel said itz Peter lao shi who teaches her to do the actions de, and also seeing e MV.
Guest: Huang Jing Lun 黄靖伦 sang 月光~ nice xD
after singing.... Felicia Chin (host) ask him wad was his school. he stumbled a few seconds, er 聚英中学~ haha, cool! my previous sec sch ^^ was a little surprised, not tt i didnt know it but only coz i 4gt about it. actually i know it frm a schoolmate last time. but 4gt abt it. aha hmm yeah... ^^ (my mind is thinking... arh? dun tell me he studied till sec sch, jiu stop education? ｏ．Ｏ)
abt e sec sch, Pornsak (host) duno is joking or ignorant says "giant baby"? Jing said no, is 把所有的英才聚在一起. WOOTS! xD
then Pornsak ask what he says to the contestants, using 1 sentence. Jing says no need, just 3 words will do. *Pornsak: 什么？伦语录？(name of his album)* Jing laughed/smiled a little, v fast changing face to blank, *said 没有啦！* 用心唱~ applause frm audience, if i rmb correctly...
CUTEx~
Results
Started with 黄靖伦 singing 缺席~ nice la. hmmm i like his live singing more than his CD version, which is scary to me. too high pitched... (one of e reasons y i dun like 张信哲, who is 靖伦的偶像... if 靖伦 is older, i might not like him liao. again, im biased, i know...)
i admit that thru his performance on css that i like him more. :] ooh ya, plus his performance on ShengSiong, he oso sang these 2 songs (月光 & 缺席) at tt time.
for this round, 1st three to go in, in order: Ridhwan Azman, Jeremy Teng, Joselin Ng.
Rid appeared happy/touched when he's e 1st one to be in. Hosts asked him how different he felt, as last week he was among e last ones. ^^ hmmm, he always like to say "ya, ya, ya". LOL.
omg, Jeremy... his face 变得很厉害 sia！at 1st he looked down n sad... when he's announced that he's in, his face changed to happy almost immediately~
last few: Joselin, Rachel, Shelly. said to be the bestest frens. host said "S.H.E." but too bad, 1 of them still have to be out... appeared teary when Joselin was IN.
*dangerous zone* 2 ppl underwent the 残酷淘汰方式... this round their elimination song is 天黑黑 by 孙燕姿, contestants are Rachel & Shelly. this time is again, whose mic which suddenly change voice is OUT!
i was actually scared that Rachel might be out.
e 2 judges predicted it was Shelly who will be out from e start. n they are right. Shelly was out, as more expected. said tt she did cry bhind e scenes just now, coz her score is 偏低的... when she's announced out, she still smiled. n ya, no need to think, Rachel cried...
omg!! those C1 is damn unlucky! per week, it was C1 who's out. (i dun think i realise it till i see e css3 forum on it)
Stage 2B (9 Feb) - 我最爱的科目
(the episode when I slpt, didnt watch on TV, so only watch on Net. 4gt much alrdy - nth much to comment on them)
when i know their choice of songs on e mediacorp site, im rather surprised Jarod choose a female's song. he got e lowest score, drop so much! =O
Guest: Kelly Poon 潘嘉丽 Sang 本小姐不爱. wah unfamiliar song, okok la.
Comment on Wikipedia: Jia Min edged out others in her scores due to her consistent performance. Jarod, the contestant with the highest score to date, unexpectedly scored lowest in this episode. Benita had an asthma attack at the Far East Plaza event last Saturday and that might have affected her performance. Generally, contestants chose the same genre of songs and judges commented that it was time to see contestants picking up other genres to challenge themselves. Jarod also escape from eliminated as he has the lowest mark for the night
Results Started with 潘嘉丽 singing 限时的遗忘~ nice song. She also bcums one of e jugdes who predict who will be out.
both 3 judges predict Benita will be out. Yuan Shuai judge based on popularity.
for this round, 1st three to go in, in order: Rachael Zhang, Yap Jia Min, Benita Cheng.
wow, Rachael 1st to enter. she really improve, i guess. n her popularity v high! wah, all predict wrongly. Benita is safe. woo, break e "curse" liao ^^
*dangerous zone* 2 ppl underwent the 残酷淘汰方式... this round their elimination song is 城里的月光 by 许美静, contestants are Aijia & Jarod. Still, whose mic which suddenly change voice is OUT!
the 2 hosts said they are quite surprised that these 2 are standing there. lol.
oh ya, e 3 judges all change their prediction to Aijia, though her score is better than Jarod. they are right. Aijia is out =[ i think she really sing better than Jarod this time... Comment by judge during e competition is that she should choose a different type of song. hmm yeah true she kept choosing those songs which are high (can bring up atmosphere de) aha, xiao di di (as ppl call him) still in xD i think he didnt cry out loud, but of coz teary. n Aijia still smiled...
Stage 3A (16 Feb) - 献给师长的歌
Competition
C1 Rachael - 至少还有你 thinking - yew, dun like this song. *female discrimination* oh my, she's v soft. im right - judge says so too ^^ song does not suit her, too high perhaps. hao bu rong yi improve, now worsen =X
C2 Benita - 恋之憩 thinking, wadz this song? when sing le, wah v old song....
C3 Rachel Lim - Beautiful Love wow, high notes 掌握得很好~ as usual. wow, got 30marks. omy~ like the hosts said, go into the 30-mark club. ^^ this song is indeed diffi to sing lo! aha XH laoshi's good fren =] e judges lik kept nodding their heads!
C4 Ridhwan - 翅膀 my 1st reaction - OMG! 又是林俊杰的歌!? (omg, JJ Lin's song again!? not that i. sick of JJ hor!) he still sings well, but i think he deproves. his score is same as previous time though. i think this time he's quite nervous, 唱到没力气.... some parts like breathing... comment by QiYu lao shi, "stop choosing JJ songs, can?"
Guest: Yoga Lin 林宥嘉 sang 爱情是圆的. didnt hear b4... funny song, lol. not much tune. but nice song of him~ aiyo ah, still emo. but better le ^^ he jumped n play-play a little. eh? seems familiar... EASON Chan!
Comment on Wikipedia: Rachel Lim achieved an amazing score of 30.0 after a wonderful performance. She is the third person, after Jarod and Jia Min, to have ever obtained a score of at least 30. Format of this episode was also different, with the teachers whom the songs were dedicated to, invited on stage for an interview after each contestant's performance. Benita's teacher was the only one who were not able to attend due to overseas commitments, but the teacher pre-recorded a video.
Results Starts with 宥嘉 singing 病态~ i on tv late for few minutes.... weee, i guess correctly that he singing this song ^^
he oso judge to predict who will be out. but sian la!! he dun wan choose. he said dun haf leh. then all rubbish. lol not rly la. hmmm. i 4gt what e other 2 judges chose.
1st 2 to go in: Benita and Ridhwan left Hui Shi n Rachel... omg!? lowest n highest scorers respectively...
*dangerous zone* 2 ppl underwent the 残酷淘汰方式... this round their elimination song is 安静 by 周杰伦, contestants are Hui Shi & Rachel. no change, whose mic which suddenly change voice is OUT!
v nervous sia!!! n omg, 1st time they singing so long. (evytime is the third time, tt person will be out le) this time they sing till e song about to end, then know who's out. make ppl more jinzhang LOL. at last, HuiShi's out. whew for Rachel! HuiShi's action is fast! didnt even hear e mic change voice...
Stage 3B (23 Feb) - 献给师长的歌
(1st time im watching Live On Web. watch on e site. i got real real real excited!! Alrdy at e site b4 e live-on-web starts. waiting while i watch e prev vids - last week's which i hvn watch yet. there's some voting taking place at e site, which contestant is the most sporty, healthy, n jovial... cant rly rmb. for jovial, voted for Jarod of coz ^^ other 2 dun rly know who to vote for...
when live on web starts (10min b4 competition starts), i got abit blur. i see must log in to duno wad. then after downloading the Octoshape thingy then can work le. no need to do anything coz straightaway logged in to my mediacorp acc (nick is "lihui"), whew no need pw coz 4gt wad le. - excited - eh, y no sound!? then duno how, a while got le. "live chat" alrdy there. i started chatting with e other ppl there. - still excited - LOL so fun!! so started watching on e backstage vid. cool! ^^ then e competition real starts~ *discussing n chatting with ppl at there - e live chat* lol, my name mentioned many times... quite slow leh. not lik msn, doesnt appear str.away... lol, ppl recognise Jeremy as "the mrt guy" coz he made e mrt sounds on the 1st opening concert, rofl..
e 1st time i noticed e judges got put headphone. LOL. n i concentrated on chatting, rather than watching.
4 Js btw, see their names ^^)
Competition
Guest: Sing 石欣卉 Sang 无能为力. i like e song =] though got discrimination towards her...
C1 Joselin - 我相信 wow. nice. pro! some high notes she sang low. chat by others said she lower many keys... ^^ woo, 28m. not bad. bam! those who watch tv n at e site told us e marks, not jin zhang liao.
C2 Jarod - 改变自己 woots. nice too. wow, involving audience. e NANANANANA part. =D judge said he finally choose a song thatz suited for his age! he last time kpt choosing those emo n sad songs. lol. btw, he's sick too =[ vomiting just before e competition.
C3 Jiamin - 有你多好 started by sitting... cannot sing e low keys well. no ppl minded. her singing is good la, but mayb coz i dun lik e songs by females, so ..... got 34.5marks! OMG!!! kept exclaiming... she's simply mad! next time get 40 liao la!! =.= extremely pro!! lol e hosts ask her to do some dancing or pose saying yeah. rofl. then in e end she did it tgt with evyone - hosts n teacher. i think she got a little proud? face doesnt really show. but lik blushing or sth. if me oso lik this, receive compliment or sth, i will lik wan smile, dun wan smile. wadeva....
C4 Jeremy - 专属天使 lol scary again. coz lik a girl ^^ love e song though. he got e least score, as i expected. n i think he will be out. well, evn b4 they all sing, i guess it shall be Jeremy to be out... no offence to him, his fans / frens. ^^
when i see e css site on their choices of songs few days ago... was shocked. - Joselin chose 我相信 by Yang Pei An! simply mad, lol. she got sore thrt too. - Jarod chose 改变自己... quite diffi to sing, i think.
Jiamin's n Jeremy's choices are lik their same styles... well, Jiamin will surely sing well la.. this style. As for Jeremy, ahem.
Guest: Fish Leong 梁静茹 Sang 没有如果. nice song. duno y, didnt expect her to sing this. of coz nice ^^
Results Starts with 石欣卉 singing. i duno wad song. coz on tv a little late. ran back to my room... take laptop go out... as in go back living rm watch tv. omg, Fish Leong went back le... btw i duno if i like her. can i say i like her songs n voice, but not e person? ... ^^
石欣卉 predictor too. YuanShuai chose Jiamin. lol, siao ah, where possibly out. he said just for tv effect, see if miracles happen. lol. n Jiamin's face.... other 2 chose Jeremy.
hmmm i was at a blog site where e person updates about css immediately de... got ppl rote Jeremy out. maybe he/she got go there or wad. so know results le. wah then not anxious anymore.
1st 2 to enter: Jiamin & Jarod. WHEW!
Jarod appeared... want to cry or vomit!? scary... e host say he wan cough... ^^
*dangerous zone* 2 ppl underwent the 残酷淘汰方式... this round their elimination song is 记得 by 张惠妹, contestants are Joselin & Jeremy. this time is again, whose mic which suddenly change voice is OUT!
though high chance is Jeremy to be out, still real anxious! Joselin has sore thrt, so her voice n face expression are funny... not e mic change, is her voice change... rofl. in e end, finally.... Jeremy's mic change voice le. omg, FUNNY!! coz change alrdy he still kept singing. e voice is real funny 1 la!! =.- aha so he's out, expected like i said much much earlier. sry wor...
OKAY, THAT'S ABOUT ALL. what happened weekly. ^^ like i kept saying, next week shall be interesting!!! Revival round... they gota challenge Derrick Hoh 何维健. those who got higher mark than him can re-enter e competition. if many jiu compete again. sth lik this. shall qi dai next week. =D long ago know 2 mar got Derrick le, thru his blog de fans. ^^
(2009)
28 Mar - JJ's World Tour concert
29 Mar - FLH's autograph session
1 Aug - Wilber's autograph session & showcase
21 Aug - Kelvin Tan's Moving Notes
28 Aug - Mayday's DNA SG concert
(2010)
12 Mar - Xiaogui's autograph session
13 Mar - E-awards 2010
28 Mar - JJ BDBYB + Photo taking
28 Mar - JJ Party 4
(2011)
12 Feb - JJ autograph session
5 Mar - JJ I AM concert
25 Jun - OB25 concert
11 Sep - 第17届新加坡金曲奖 入围名单发布会
(2012)
17 Mar - JJ autograph session
3 Apr - "3X Trouble" Meet & Greet and Gala Premiere
25 Apr - The Originals IP Spectacular
