MUSICAL TALENT HUNT SHOWS Getting competitors to re-enact songs that have made their marks is not the best approach to access their musical ability or talent; anyone can perform a song that has generated or created its own appeal or “a winning blueprint”. This ideology only allows a competitor to reproduce a song; note by note and tone by tone without any form of originality and real talent being exhibited. Whoever reproduces better, automatically wins the competition. This is a far cry from intended objective. The act of “copy, paste and display” will no way bring out the best talented competitor; it only re-echoes originality done by someone else. In other words, what they do in real sense is miming to songs. This can be likened to a chef who went for a cooking competition and dishes out already cooked or prepared meal and is expected to be scored on that to judge his culinary skills. Is this not an irony? We should put a stop to this practise. “ . . . anyone can ...