Livin' on a Prayer on Oz Idol

18-year-old Nathan Brake sings Prayer on Australian Idol

I am still against these pop idol shows

and me mate, they have it on a plate and it pisses me off. You have bands that have had to do it the hard way, trawling the clubs, carrying there own gear not gettin any exposure for years , untill some takes note and says yeah they got it

Simon Cowell is Satan, and the viewers are his evil minions.

Livin' on a Prayer always seems to wound up in Idol. We hade Prayer last year to when Desmond Child was guest in the jury here in Sweden. This guy made it pretty good !

It's terrible. No point in making the key change if it's going to sound like that

Terrible? I wouldnt say it was perfect but definately not terrible.

I thought he made a pretty good fist of it. It's not going to sound like the record but it's better than what Jon could do flying solo. I hadn't really watched Idol in about 5 years but it's been better this year than I remember.

The show is obviously catered to a particular audience (one of the contestants from this year got panned for picking "obscure" stuff like Radiohead and Muse) but it isn't the free ride most people seem to think it is either. The winner from 2 years ago is no longer with the record label, and another winner from a few years earlier now sells stuff at the markets. In this year's top 12 there was a guy who's been playing pubs and clubs for a decade, and auditioned this year because it was his last year of eligibility, so I'd say he's done some hard yards too.

The key change doesn't sound like the key change at all. Sounds like a poor back vocal for the real key change.