Cobus Bodenstein/M-Net
Popular shows are usually not cool shows. Television made for a mass audience is usually toned down (no pun intended) leaving the in-jokes, meta references and quirky deliciousness to niche programming for a clever viewership that will get it.
But the first episode of the 7th season of Idols on M-Net (Sundays, 17:30) changed all that. The reality show suddenly became brilliantly self-aware and hilariously self-referential when the pop culture skewing group The Brothers Streep from Bergvliet did a simply superb ditty as a brilliant send-up of Idols. The Brothers Streep sang a super funny song poking fun at Idols and basically all of the show's previously unmentionable scandals, under currents, and more salacious side that up until now has played out more in lurid newspaper headlines outside of Idols that actually inside the show.
From Mara Louw and Liezel van der Westhuizen, from ProVerb to the Idols voting scandal, Gareth Cliff and Randall Abrahams - they all got deliciously roasted in The Brothers Streep's in-joke laden song. Even more wonderfully astounding: the Idols producers pro-actively worked this simply hilarious self-aware moment into the show and M-Net allowed it! The Idols song of The Brothers Streep can immediately be downloaded from the official Idols website.
It's a rush transcript and therefore not perfect but here's the words as I could make it out of The Brothers Streep's too cool for school Idols song:
We're never gonna be, SA Idols on teevee, we're never gonna have a single charting on the top forty. We're never gonna win the prize. No cars, no cash, no wireless mics. We'll never get called to turn on the Cape Town flashing Christmas lights.
Sometimes living out your dreams ain't as easy as it seems. You really want to make it far, though you're [unintelligible] star. But there's no need to lament, those that can't sing can present.
Liezel can't have it too hard reading her job off a card. Maybe presenting is our game, maybe we'll find honest fame - unlike ProVerb - that's not even his real name.
And if presenting's not for you, you can judge a song or two. Just no comments based on race - or Unathi'll take you place. Do the best job you can do to get the nation behind you, because any moment you feel led, you can punch Gareth in the head. Judging is a last resort. They must be running short - just take Randall, he looks like a tanned Voldemort.
We're never gonna be, SA Idols on teevee, we're never gonna have a single charting on the top forty. We're never gonna win the prize.
We'll only stand a chance if they still aren't counting the voting right.
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