If you watch, enjoy, or support this show in any way, I hate you. This show is nothing but a propagation of the “music as a product” theory. If your idea of music is “an auditory piece of merchandise”, fuck you!! Music is, and always will be, art. Advertising is a completely separate venture. When the 2 of these merge…music will lose it’s identitity and credibility forever. Actually they did this long ago, guess it’s too late now. Long live executive profits!!! Is fucking myself homosexuality, or masturbation? Both seem to suck, cuz, music sellers are both pimps and wankers. Mostly both. Joe Budden??? are you retarded???Prominent music videos are no longer for the new and the groundbreaking, but for the latest freak-show-reject. Kelly Clarkson didn’t make it in the "real"world for a reason, reality TV makes a star out of anyone…and I mean anyone…(Trishelle…).
So you don’t like American Idol. Is that what you’re saying?
Tell the person holding a gun to your head and forcing you to watch to please put it down carefully and let you watch one of the 33,728 other channels you have.\
And YOU can get a friggin’ grip.
Well, thank god we’ve got people like dnooman, brave champion fighting for the integrity of Art. For we all know that Art cannot be comercial. As soon as money enters the equation, all Art ceases to be. In rigidly controlled labratory test, top scientists have pinpointed the moment when all the deeply felt emotions that go into fueling an artistic performance are obliterated by the mere presence of cash.
Artists must remain starving, unapreciated and uncompensated. Preferably they should be depressed and alcaholic. Self-mutilation is optional.
Also, remember: Television is not Art. Comercials are not Art. Contests have no Artistic components and Reality TV is unArtistic in the extreme. And even if they were, no right thinking person would want artistic genres to mix in any way. We don’t yet have a working definition of “Art”, but as soon as we have one that excludes all the proper things, we’ll get back to you.
[sub]“Oooh look! An art critic!”[/sub]
I watch Canadian Idol. 
Just for the record, art and capitalism have a long, long history together - this isn’t an invention of modern society. If you make a product other people want, they will want to buy it and you can sell it to put food on your table. I think you may have a very high-minded ideal about what “art” actually is.
23 weeks of young Canucks singing Anne Murray songs and “Hockey Tonight”?
shudder
FTR, I just got back from a business trip to Korea. They have an Idol-type show where the contestants are all grandmothers. I am so glad I didn’t get to see that.
It’s “Hockey Night in Canada.”
Lyrics are as follows:
Da da da da da DAAAAAAAA! Bom-bom-bom-bom!
Da da da daaa da DA-DAAAAAAA! Bom-bom-bom-bom!
Da da da daaa da DAAAAAAAA da da da! DAAAAAAAA da da da! Da-da-da-da-da DAA!
You do understand that there is such a thing as bad art right?
Just because you don’t like it, and it isn’t “avant garde” doesn’t mean it isn’t art.
Elvis on velvet is art. As is dogs playing poker.
I really like the show, thought Kelly deserved to win, and I really am irritated by her christina Aguilera song. I watch the show because I’m entertained by it,
I don’t watch the video or listen to what I don’t like on the radio because I’m not entertained by it.
I watch the show only for two reasons:
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The painfully insipid banter, jokes, and skits which are so awful they’re funny (or maybe I’m a masochist).
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Ryan Seacrest is a hottie.
Love this AI site:
Season 2 - http://fyd.fuxored.net/americanidoldiary2.htm
Season 1 - http://fyd.fuxored.net/idol.html
American Idol sucks donkey ass.
But what do I know about quality TV? I LURVED Joe Millionaire, Mr. Personality, and Temptation Island.
I admit I started watching it when they did the wild cards, but only because Clay was from North Carolina.
I doubt that I would watch another one, especially the one with kids that starts in July. I think that one could get pretty ugly. You know how some parents can be.
It wasn’t the show that really changed my mind. I read an editorial in my local newspaper that just really hit home. There had been some talk about the show being rigged and not being fair. Everyone heard that. But this lady writes in, stating that people were throwing such a fit about it not being fair because Reuben was a big black guy and that it was just unheard of for someone like that to win, instead of the skinny All-American white kid. Now, I hadn’t heard any remarks at all about the fact that Reuben was heavy or black or the combination. The only thing I heard was that people were upset because they tried for the entire time to get through to vote. They thought the phone line setup was rigged or was not sufficient enough to support the program. After reading this woman’s comments, I just couldn’t believe that she’d write in and spread that kind of malarkey. It was about the phones, not the color, size, race, song sung etc.
It’s not fair! I have a Canadian friend who’s close enough to the U.S. border to get American channels, so she could watch the U.S. American Idol AND now she gets to watch Canadian Idol! We don’t GET Canadian Idol!
Waaaah!
Oh, yeah, as to the OP, who said the music biz doesn’t produce products? Heck, even the great classical composers got paid for what they wrote or they didn’t write it. It’s not exactly a new concept. Get a grip.
I have never, ever watched any reality TV show, from The Real World to whatever the latest one is (except Fear Factor, because my grandparents watch it, and when I’m at their house that’s what’s on the TV, so I pretty much can’t help it). The bottom line: I’m better than all of you people. Nanny nanny boo boo.
I don’t think AI counts as a reality show.
If star search or the Miss America Pageants or even game shows for that matter don’t.
Much Like Frida Kahlo really wasn’t a surrealist, rather she was just similar to them at the right time, I think we’re calling it one when really it’s some other related genre of tv show.
It’s like we share a brain.
I only watch “American Idol” in the early stages, when they show all the truly, greatly AWFUL acts.
Come to think of it, what I need is more like a revival of “The Gong Show” then “American Idol”.
Actually, I kind of like American Idol. Firstly, it’s allowing someone to get into the music business who wouldn’t otherwise be able to, and I think that’s good. Secondly, as a musician, even though I don’t want to be famous or somesuch, I like to sing along. Yes, I’m a dork. I haven’t watched it in awhile, and I never did watch it on a regular basis. But it does form some sort of purpose.
Let your hate of me burn like the heat of a thousand curling irons, for I am your nemesis! I am personally responsible for the Death of Art! And Ruben Studard is my instrument! Clay Aiken is my minion! And Kimberly Locke is my succubus!!
Muahahahahahahahaha!