At bilang penitensya, sila ang pagbibilangin ko ng barya

For me, the results of the Top 3 contestants were a telling indicator of the kind of culture we in the Philippines have:

1. Be offended if you must, but I won’t apologize for this. Filipinos in general don’t really know a good talent when they see one. (Case in point: Sarah Geronimo, who had the advantage of being near the last batch of finalists for “Star of the Night”.)
2. Corollary #1: Filipinos in general don’t have taste. Or at least, good taste when it comes to culture. We still eat Hollywood crap and call it “culture”.
3. Corollary #2: The text-voting Filipino audience can’t be trusted to vote in a talent show insofar as “talent” is concerned. It’s more of a popularity concert. The mere fact that Baguio Metamorphosis made it to the Top 3 was already a giveaway…what “talent” is there in a group that has been routinely doing those dance routines annually for the Panagbenga Festival? Heck, let’s force a showdown between Baguio Metamorphosis and the other groups who regularly participate in the Panagbenga and see who really got talent (pun intended).
4. Corollary to #2: We’re still very far behind from being a very cultural country. This is a very controversial statement, but I’d rather elaborate on this in a future post.
5. Those who have real talent won’t win unless they’re also aiming to compromise their artistry to popularity.

I really wish the guitar boy and the piano/violin (and also drums) girl made it to the Top 3, together with the Velasco Brothers. But that’s just me against the Jovit fanboys/fangirls

The results were not very surprising, after all, the judges were not professional singers/musicians