Mae Flores Eliminated from Pinoy Idol

Mae Flores was eliminated from Pinoy Idol. The show officially sucks. I'm curious, how many votes does Pinoy Idol get in a week? A few hundred thousand? A million?

They never say. Nor do you hear or see people convincing each other to make voting urgent. The show doesn't make as much buzz as a Manny Pacquiao fight nor produce songs people rip into their music players. Coming from a station who has fought the war of network ratings, it's strange that Pinoy Idol has never boasted of its numbers.

Because there are not that much numbers to speak of.

And how many unique voters does Pinoy Idol get? I vote for contestants I like but I don't send 200 votes for them. Just a few, until my fingers get stiff, or I become cranky. And why are there so many bad contestants left there. To have a proverbial Sanjaya Malakar is understandable, but none of the less talented contestants have a hairstyle or a smile that's palatable and memorable for all of them to have survived that long.

Do people still vote for a Pinoy Idol? There isn't anyone in the show left to pull out huge numbers from a throng of believers. I maintain it's the friends and relatives of the remaining contestants who vote.

And why is this show taking forever to end?

I vote for the reinstatement of a Regine Velasquez-hosted pop star search. I think Regine Velasquez is meticulous enough not to let her work turn mediocre as evidenced by a number of singing contests she has starred in. They all are better than Pinoy Idol.