Ramiele Malubay has never regreted her decision to join the American Idol. In fact, she says in her exit interview, "I love every moment, every bad thing, every good thing, every sleepless night, every stress that I got. I just love every moment of it."

Ramiele Malubay’s alleged sentiments about "American Idol" spread on the 'Net

Nerisa Almo

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
08:52 PM

Following her elimination from American Idol, a blog entry supposed to be that of ninth placer Ramiele Malubay quickly spread over the Internet. In the said blog entry, the Filipino-American Idol aspirant revealed her alleged sentiments and complaints about the show.

The entry was written on Thursday, April 3, 2008—a day after Ramiel was eliminated on the ­American Idol—and was posted on her alleged MySpace blog.

The blog entry read (published as is): "I am so sad on what happened but not because of the people's decision, but what the staff told us. Please do not send me messages until I finish my statement.

"I am still here in California, by the way please vote for David Cook to be the 7th American Idol, I know he will, let's pray for him, inspirational songs for next week, and I chose heal our land but I can not sing that anymore."

After that, the entry revealed that a technical glitch on the voting system of American Idol was found out. "There are news from people here in USA who were mad, cause they were dialing my number but instead of thank you for voting ramiele, it was thank you for voting other's name.

"Technical problem. This problem is the same as on the case of Chris Daughtry."

Chris was in the final four of the fifth season of American Idol. While Idol judge Simon Cowell said he thought Katherine McPhee would be eliminated, the turnout of votes revealed otherwise. When it was announced that Chris was eliminated, he was obviously surprised with the result.

The vote-tallying website called DialIdol later on said that they have predicted that Daughtry was the lowest vote-getter of the week. Another reason given was that maybe Daughtry's fans were overconfident that he would be safe, so they did not call to vote for him.

THE PERFORMANCES. Aside from this technical concern, the blog entry also talked about the way they choose the songs that they are going to perform and how it also affects the voters.

The entry read, "You know every week we have theme, and they told that few weeks before that week. They gave us list of songs and we choose our song, but sometimes you can hear from some staffs, ‘Oh it's not for you try to sing fast songs' and they called me lullaby instead of Malubay.

"The staff also arranged the songs and most of the times judges didn't like it, and they told us about the blocking like when I performed In My Life, Simon didn't like the stair drama.

"In the case of Brooke, they told Brooke not to use guitar but she insisted it and she had a wonderful job."

NOISE FOR THE RATINGS. Lastly, the blog entry also pointed out that American Idol hypes up some issues to get a good rating. One example was the case of David Hernandez, who, according to reports, is a former stripper.

"The pilot episode's rating was lower than in Season 6, and they make some noise, and they won. What noise? The stripper issue, the racy photos which are not, the my space video, the album of Carly [Smithson], etc.

"Josiah Lemming [one of the semi-finalists in Season 7] was mad sa American Idol because we know he deserves to be on top 6, cause they pick those who would make noise."

Those mentioned in the blog entries as "noisemakers" were David Archuleta and Syesha Mercado. "David Archuleta won star search, Alexandria [Lushington] and David made a noise cause they were co-semi finalist in that said show, Syesha was the one in the US version of star academy."

In the end of the blog entry, "Ramiele" explained that she was expecting that her blog could be suspended after she published this information.

"Few hours after the result's night I made a blog that tells everything I know what happened on my myspace where Mr. Damian grass of associated press used my blog for those racy photos.

"If you can help me please put on your blog all the things that I said. Chris of American Idol 5 was disappointed cause of the technical problem, and look what happened to Taylor hicks and Chris. That's why AI showed some clips about post idol life."

In the end, it was mentioned that Ramiele is set to come here in the Philippines for Pinoy Idol. "Good thing is there are offers, I'll be there in Philippines for pinoy idol, and hopefully in ABS-CBN with a pinoy who won sa isang reality show sa Europe, I think he will be in "Altagracia" with KC [Concepcion] and John Lloyd [Cruz]."

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