NationStates Jolt Archive

Jeez, this has GOT to be one of the WORST Reality TV series EVER. I mean first off, it's a glorified karaoke contest. Hell I can go to a bar on a Friday night and watch people try their best to ruin my favorite song by belching it out over the Karaoke machine, and I get *fan fare* American Idol! I mean the contestent doesn't sing original songs, they don't play any instrument, they just stand their and try their best to sing other's people song. Wow.... such a hard contest there. Hell Simon should come and visit me in my shower, then he can hear me sing! Now, if the contestent were forced to write their own songs, play their own instrument (allow bands), then maybe, it'd be worth watching. But until then, American Idol has American Idle.

It's kinda funny watching the really bad singers who think they're good. Having auditioned hundreds of potential musicians over the years, I can genuinely feel the pain that Paula, Randy, and Simon put themselves through.

It's kinda funny watching the really bad singers who think they're good. Having auditioned hundreds of potential musicians over the years, I can genuinely feel the pain that Paula, Randy, and Simon put themselves through.

Yea but are they really musicians, or just vocialist who parrots other people's song? I mean when I think of musicians, I think of people who can write their own song, and can usually play an instrument.

We don't get American Idol. We get "Idol." Sucks about the same, but the judges are meaner.

Yea but are they really musicians, or just vocialist who parrots other people's song? I mean when I think of musicians, I think of people who can write their own song, and can usually play an instrument.

This is a singing contest, not a musical contest.

Yea but are they really musicians, or just vocialist who parrots other people's song? I mean when I think of musicians, I think of people who can write their own song, and can usually play an instrument.

Well, yeah ... it does make it all the worse that these are karaoke losers. I think it adds a certain element of comedy. Made even funnier when a reject like William Hung gets a career out of it.

It's not Shakespeare, it's Fox Network television.

Well, yeah ... it does make it all the worse that these are karaoke losers. I think it adds a certain element of comedy. Made even funnier when a reject like William Hung gets a career out of it.

It's not Shakespeare, it's Fox Network television.

I know I know, I dunno, I'm one of those guy who just loves the History Channel and the Discovery Channel. I mean I watch fun shows like King of the Hill, or The Simpsons, but I like stuff that makes me think, and I just don't get the whole Reality TV thing.

"Now, if the contestent were forced to write their own songs, play their own instrument (allow bands), then maybe, it'd be worth watching. But until then, American Idol has American Idle."

You should watch Rock Star: INXS. in the end they had to write their own songs with a band included. The only good part of watching american idol is the auditions. Those people are really rather terrible.

It's Fox, the people who booted Arrested Development for encore presentations of Prison Break. The people who cancelled Family Guy and Futurama to make way for that long list of shows Peter mentioned in the first episode of their comeback.

And in any case, sometimes I watch the very start of the season where you can just watch the idiot singers. I really hope some of them are actors...otherwise there goes what's left of the respect I had for the world.

After that's over, I'm out and don't care about it anymore. When someone talks to me about it I laugh at them for wasting time of their lives. *has just realized that he has spent at least an hour on the internet by now*

...I'll be going now...

I know I know, I dunno, I'm one of those guy who just loves the History Channel and the Discovery Channel. I mean I watch fun shows like King of the Hill, or The Simpsons, but I like stuff that makes me think, and I just don't get the whole Reality TV thing.

I used to think that too, but then I saw episode 11 of Love Hina. It was different when they *really show the perspective of the 'idol.' Plus, I like the song Naru sings^_^

Yea but are they really musicians, or just vocalist who parrots other people's song? I mean when I think of musicians, I think of people who can write their own song, and can usually play an instrument.
The voice takes training and practice, just like any other instrument. (I'm not a vocalist by a long shot, nor am I really all that fond of singers in general, but gotta be fair)

And they don't have the luxury of pushing a button or setting a string to be in tune or even playing the right note (and yes, it's more than that on a 'normal' instrument.)

Further, a musician performs music, a composer writes it. Now often you will find a musician who also composes-in fact more often than not-but being a composer is not requisite to being a musician. A musician brings expression to the music, both literally and figuratively.

Having said all of that, I don't like the music they sing on this competition, the idea of musical competitions in general, the criteria they are judged on, or any part of the process. But if the contest proves one thing, not any yay-hoo can just sing. It takes more.

What worries me is that all those people who came in and sang and where bad, I mean crazy horrible. They all had people who told them that they rocked, that American Idol was crazy to not send them to LA. Makes me look sideways any time someone approaches me about my work. Especially that period where I was 'the best saxophone player no one had heard.' (I heard people talking about how good I was without having ever heard me, taking it on the word of other people who also hadn't heard me play. It was ridiculous and embarrassing, and I'm not sure how it happened because if anyone asked I would always shrug or say "Could be better.")