I was forced to watch "American Idol" again last night. It was my son's birthday, and he chose to watch it, one of his favorites.
The most wierd thing about this show is the amazing number of really, really, really bad singers that try out. It is actually physically painful to listen to some of them. Small wonder that Randy, Paula, and Simon get testy with each other halfway through the show!! I think we ought to use tapes of the show at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, those terrorists would spill their guts after listening to just one of these characters!!!
Some of them think it's a variety show and try to get everything in but actual singing. Of course, the prime motivation for most of them is the hope they will get on TV and get their 15 seconds/minutes of fame, and so they go for the "wacky factor". They figure, rightly, the more outrageous they come across, the bigger the chance of them being shown on the TV broadcast.
Maybe the producers should charge potential auditionee's some large fee to do their stuff in front of the judges, something substantial like $500 or $1000 to keep the riff-raff out. That would defray some of the huge production costs they must incur, and limit it to the truly determined and hopefully talented few. One wonders if they do any pre-filtering of the contestants before they get to the judges panel??? My family thinks they only let through 2 groups of people....the really bad and the really good. I could do without the bad ones!!!!
Sometimes the judges themselves are a great source of irritation. Simon Cowell is legendary for his quirks, but Randy and Paula have their moments too!!
I really, really, really hate this show!! Can you tell??
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