I take it, then, that if he had been really, really good at singing, you’d have no objections to his behavior?
I wasn’t on Dio’s side either, because I don’t know enough or care enough about the stupid show or the people who willingly humiliate themselves in front of millions of people, but Shayna put forth these very specific scenarios complete with dialogue that would seem she was a fly on the wall of these folks’. It just seemed silly.
And yeah, I do know that I shouldn’t even be in this thread. I hate “reality TV” (snort) with the passion of a thousand suns.
Someone thinks he should be handed the title just because he’s in the Navy? How does being in the Navy make him any more talented? I still think he’s mediocre at best. He might be deluded enough to think otherwise, but aren’t they all.
I’d probably still object but at least the justification of trying to provide for his family might hold a little more water.
If this guy’s in the military, that justification is out the window anyway. He’s already got a full time job with good benefits.
Isn’t judging others without benefit of knowing all the details of a situation the great national pastime now? Isn’t a lovely steaming head of righteous indignation the most orgasmic experience a lot of people have these days?
Sad thing is it’s so unfair and yet that fact doesn’t stop those who love to indulge.
Dude. Why do you hate America? 
I know this is all very critical discourse, and I hate to derail such a nice pitting and all, but I have to ask:
Really? This happens? Color me shocked. My wife managed to deliver our two kids without dropping a deuce on the table, so I guess it never occurred to me that it was an issue.
Learn something new every day.
Indeed. I think Diogenes owes every man and woman in uniform an apology for that statement.
The same can be said about the mans role when they’re made.
Yet he’s got at least two dozen strangers talking about him on the internet right now. You think he’s not going to get at least a seat on The View, a lovely gift basket and at least $5000 worth of free baby crap from Pampers and Enfamil out of this?
Oops. I may have said too much. There’s some guys in white coats and hairy legged women knocking on my do---------ACK!
(Yes, it happens more often than not just after each push when everything relaxes, but generally the nurse or midwife quietly wipes it away before anyone notices. Still…ew.)
I’ll posit for the record that if you have any urging atall towards being a professional musician, which seems like it’d be sort of a prerequisite of volunteering for the American Idol experience, any sort of TV exposure can only help your career. I’d guess this would go double in a case like this where the publicity is at least arguably positive (as opposed to publicity for, say, getting busted for freebasing a kitten or soliciting a hooker in the line for AI).
If nothing else, if I were a betting woman, I’d bet WhyNot is spot-on with her notion about The View and Pampers.
Aerial spraying.
You do know they hack/chop/edit/encourage/suggest/hack/chop/edit these opening shows together don’t you?
Having done the opening season show in Minneapolis we got to hear a lot of the outed contestants on TV and radio tell their sides of the story. Interesting how it went down according to them versus how it’s portrayed on TV.
That cowboy guy who sang the Johnny Cash song? They interviewed him and he said he pretty much went to audition for the fun of it. He said he knew as well as other ‘bad’ singers that if they put you in round 3 that you were there pretty much for entertainment value and that they encouraged you to act serious about it in front of the cameras.
The girl that sang the Wizard of Oz “King of the Forest” song? She said she had initially auditioned with a different song, they said no, she mentioned she did the lion thing, they thought it was funny/entertaining, and they told her she could be on TV if she did the lion thing. Oh yeah, and act like your serious about it.
A lot of the shots of the people coming out with their yellow tickets are shot and reshot with directions “act really excited this time”.
After Simon/Paula say “no, thank you” and the person starts immediately singing another song? (funny how this happens a lot?) It’s just edited that way. They’re instructed when to start and stop singing.
Shots of Simon/Paula/Randy rolling their eyes, plugging their ears, spinning in their chairs in reaction to the bad singers? Shot and edited in seperately.
I guess they do have to try to make it entertaining and there’s nothing really dishonest about it. You do have to remember that it’s television and their not really obligated to show how it 'really" happened.
It’s just funny to hear people get worked up about “how can these people be so clueless? don’t they know how bad they are?” Yes, most of them do.
Doggyknees is a good egg. Sure, he sometimes tends to be extravagantly emotional and bombastic, but that’s pretty common for a Minnesotan, who are only slightly less volatile than Canadians.
Yes. Now, where were we…
Diogenes is right about as often as a stopped calendar.
Dio, I don’t understand your reasoning that if he’s in the military, he shouldn’t follow his dreams. He’s got a steady paycheck, so that should satisfy him enough? Maybe he has the potential to sell a million albums, why not try? Oh right, he’s already got a job.
Plus, WE don’t think he’s all that great, but he could have had a bad audition or maybe he didn’t realize that he’s not that great. If he really thought, “Man, I have an awesome voice. I should audition”, then he and his wife were perfectly justified in the decision to have him try out, regardless of the reality. Why not find out about his mediocrity so he can move on with his life.
Yes, just ask Equipoise:
:rolleyes:
Yes, disliking a genre of TV is certainly the biggest example of righteous indignation in this thread.