And the Winner Is...

FINALE, ooohhhoohhhh!
FINALE, ooohhhoohhhh!

And guess who won?! THOMAS GODOJ! =) Yooooooohooooo! My predictions were right all along, AND Germany finally picked someone well worth it. In the past, the people who won were for some reason most of the time gay (no offense to gay people, but just not my style) and left the spotlight within minutes -- one exception: last year's winner.

But FINALLY someone who sings in my kind of style, is worth looking at, and is as natural as BIO can get [note: Germans love anything "BIO" (organic); bread, socks, plants, phone calls, cars etc.] He's got a lot of potential and according to RTL's Voting Results, he was everyone's favourite from the beginning, with always ca. 50% of the votes. =)

His first performance: 'Fairytale Gone Bad' by Sunrise Avenue


DSDS Thomas Godoj: Fairytale Gone Bad by Sunrise Avenue

His second performance: 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol


DSDS Thomas Godoj: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

His third performance (Finale Song): 'Love Is You' by Thomas Godoj, produced by Valicon


DSDS Thomas Godoj: Love Is You

His fourth performance together with the remaining finalist, Fady Maalouf: 'My Way' by Thomas Godoj & Fady Maalouf


DSDS Thomas Godoj & Fady Maalouf: My Way

Thomas sings his winning song (62% of the votes)


DSDS Thomas Godoj: Love Is You - Singing as DSDS' 2008 Superstar

I know, I know...I think I've tired everyone out with DSDS. Again, I am not usually such a big supporter of the show, but Thomas always took my breath away, as he did with Germany. Does that mean I have something in common with Germans?! ;) I hope you at least enjoyed it as much as I did -- and look out for him in the international charts!

Germany vs. England

At DSDS' 7th Mottoshow, the theme was Germany vs. England. Each of the final remaining candidates needed to sing two songs: one in English and the other in German. Thomas' picks were 'Wonderwall' from Oasis and 'Mensch' from Herbert Grönemeyer. I absolutely love the song Mensch and Thomas' interpretation was actually pretty good! I love the way he really tries to entertain the audience and always comes up with some creative way to perform the song - not like the others, who mainly just walk back and forth. He's the only candidate who really uses the stage, looks relaxed, and is believable.

The English theme (sorry, couldn't find any video that was just of him singing + all of the jury's comments, therefore it's a little long):


DSDS Thomas Godoj: Wonderwall by Oasis 7. Mottoshow 2008

The German theme:


DSDS Thomas Godoj:Mensch by Herbert Grönemeyer 7. Mottoshow 2008

In my opinion, Germany won this round by far! I didn't like the way he sung Wonderwall at all, and Mensch just brought out the best of him.

Party Hits & Acoustic Ballads

Finally we get to hear and see more from Thomas!
As there are now five remaining candidates, each has two songs to sing instead of one. Yesterday's theme was "Party Hits & Acoustic Ballads" and Thomas Godoj sang the songs "You Get What You Give" by The Radicals and "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who. The first song I love, but I don't particularly like Limp Bizkit's version of 'Behind Blue Eyes'. However, it seems as though Thomas can turn any song I don't like into a song that I can play over and over...of course sung by him. ;)

DSDS Thomas Godoj: You Get What You Give by The Radicals

I found his second performance much better than the first. Judge for yourself:

DSDS Thomas Godoj: Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit

Three shows to go!

Dont Speak Too Soon

I am someone who believes that if you speak your wishes too soon, it will most likely never happen. This has occurred to me on several occasions when I always regretted saying something to someone about something that I really wanted to happen, and then for some reason, it never did.

On DSDS 4th Mottoshow, Thomas speaks about how everyones been criticized in some way throughout the show, but luckily he hasnt had to have gone through that ordeal yet. Then as soon as he started singing one of the songs from my favourite artist, U2, he forgot his text. And not once, but a couple of times. On top of that, he was sick. Still, it certainly wasnt any disaster and still my favourite from the evening.

Thomas performance of U2 - I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For:


DSDS Thomas Godoj 4 Mottoshow - www.myvideo.de

It was a great attempt, but Bono's original version will always remain my favourite. =)

Thomas Godoj Will Be the Next Idol

After seeing this guy sing on the German version of American Idol (DSDS = Deutschland Sucht den Superstar), I knew he would make it really far. Today's show not only confirmed my beliefs, but made me believe he would win at the end. Anyone want to place any bets?

Here's him singing at the first Motto show: Stark by Ich&Ich


Thomas Godoj-Stark - www.myvideo.de

Ich glaube ich bin verliebt...einfach Geil ;)

Top 15 Show

DSDS has started again and of course I already have my favourite picked out: Thomas Godoj! Watching the castings, he was someone who stuck out as being very authentic with a great voice and body. =) Usually I don't watch the show as no one had ever really impressed me, but this time I'm watching it just because of Thomas. Here is his first performance 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol, which I personally think is one of his best throughout the whole show (I'm back-posting...). Right away he shows so much emotion like no other and pulls the audience right in.


Thomas Godoj: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

Incredible!