{"id":4119,"date":"2007-01-18T00:16:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T05:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4119"},"modified":"2007-01-17T21:17:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T02:17:13","slug":"the_singing_mal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/the_singing_mal\/","title":{"rendered":"The singing Malakars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to start by emphatically stating (for the record) that I DO NOT WATCH American Idol.  I would rather admit to drinking toilet water.  However, I <em>really<\/em> was flipping channels when I came across the cutest sister (19)\/brother (17) from Washington trying out for the show in Seattle.  I had to stop and watch.  Whatever.  I do hate myself. [Pics via <a href=\"http:\/\/uberdesi.com\/blog\/?p=134\">Uber Desi<\/a> from American Idol]<\/p>\n\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanidol.com\/photos\/view\/?set=112\"><img class=picture height=168 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/Smal1_1.jpg\" width=224 border=0><img class=picture height=168 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/smar2_1.jpg\" width=224 border=0><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Shyamali sang Summertime. Paula Abdul said she was very nervous, but didn&#8217;t need to be. Simon Cowell wasn&#8217;t impressed, but both Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul said &#8220;yes.&#8221; Her brother Sanjaya Malakar sang Stevie Wonder&#8217;s &#8220;Sign, Sealed, Delivered.&#8221; Simon Cowell said he was a lot better than his sister. All three judges agreed on putting Sanjaya through to Hollywood. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realitytvmagazine.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/american_idol_s.html\">Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>You can tell already that the Idol editors are going to play up the whole sibling rivalry angle which is unfortunate since I&#8217;ll bet that these two are as close as a sister and brother can get.  Even though the judges thought Sanjaya had a better voice (but his sister better stage presence) he didn&#8217;t rub it in on camera.  Since I am never watching the show again, I&#8217;ll count on some of you readers to let us know what happens with these two.  I think they are both too shy but if Clay Aiken could get as far as he got then anything is possible.<\/p>\n\n<p>There have been a lot of desis on TV this week.  Good stuff.<\/p>\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to start by emphatically stating (for the record) that I DO NOT WATCH American Idol. I would rather admit to drinking toilet water. However, I really was flipping channels when I came across the cutest sister (19)\/brother (17) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/the_singing_mal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}