Akademi Fantasia 6: Mama Rina brings the house down
April 6th, 2008Ever since the end of AF3, the franchise has basically been under my radar, not helped by some forgettable performances by the so-called champions of the top reality show of the nation, one mosquito-slapping throughout the entire performance and the other’s vocal control getting worse and worse as the song went on.
But since last night’s theme was rock, my favourite genre, I thought I’d break a record of sorts and sit through the entire 90 minutes.
It was surprisingly worth it, as I was treated to two extremes: one whose performance could be the worst ever dished out by an AF student, a tone deaf monstrosity. Perhaps one could even say it’s a drug rehab type of performance. Is it any coincidence that his name is very similar to the name of AF4’s champion? This is not to say that anybody bearing that name can’t sing, as very well proven by the champion of OIAM in 2006.
And the other one is of course Mama Rina’s cover of Metallica’s magnum opus, Enter Sandman. It was not a perfect performance, but still it was so good that it brought the house down, and definitely made me dig up Metallica’s black album right after, and brought back memories of 17th August, 1991 when, a mere 5 days after the release of the black album, I saw Metallica in front of my eyes performing that song.
As for Mama Rina, how I wish she performed the real version and not the truncated 2:30 version, but I’m sure that ditty is going to be her signature song once AF6 ends.
In conclusion, at last a performance that restored, if only a little bit, my faith in AF.
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I only wanted to watch Stacy (for obvious reasons, haha) and switched to other channel as she was the first performer. Who would have thought the last performance was that great - and Mama Rina was really really good.
I know of that Metallica song and I thought she held her own performing it. Thanks for sharing
(p/s did you jump and play air guitar that time?)
I was enjoying her performance too much to even think of that!
i agree abt mama rina’s performance. It was definately hot and fun. I was screaming like crazy woman in front of the tv as if i was in the hall to watch it live….LOL….great!
errr…ben…jgn jak ko pun terikut buang ‘head-banging’ mcm bpr..hehehe
Mama Rina yg kasi provoke BPR bah tu
mama rina is definitely a mamasita…!!! the mama of all mamas…. at first i cant imagine she can rock better than teens in their 20’s…. i will definitely ask all malaysians to vote for her…. let’s create another tsunami - but this time af tsunami…… by voting her till she become champion of af6…
as for faisal rendition of ekamatra’s sentuhan kecundang… i think it is the worst ever performance on any live television in malaysian history…. even juara kugiran kampung di remote place di kemboja or swaziland or timor timur performs better than faisal af6…….!!!!!!!!
I don’t watch AF.. but I couldn’t resist clicking on the link, the one that you mentioned “tone death”. Wahahahahhaah!!!! Not only he cannot sing, I dislike his style of singing. Can’t he do something else, other than open his leg wide and sing? He looked so stone…
faisal is more suitable to sing at S-21 - a notorius death torture jail camp during the infamous and brutal khmer rouge regime in cambodia in the 1970’s.. and he might as well sing in front of the likes of pol pot and duch the butcher… baru dia kena torture sampai sentuhan kecundang!!!!!!!!!
BEBEK & Cindy: but the bottom line is: Faisal is STILL in AF6, not yet kicked out!
i will make sure he will be kicked out this week concert on 12 april!!!!!!!!
wow mama Rina bulih tahan wor. dia guring habis dipunya style .sora dia lain dari konsert sebelum ni. gud gud . i like