But she’s spent the last 15 minutes going on about who she thinks is talented on it, who she hopes will win, who she thinks is/was bad, how she thinks people make their decisions in the voting, etc., etc., etc.
The trouble is, I’ve never watched the show and have zero interest in it; so I have no idea what she’s going on about!
Well, at least it’s an informed hatred.
I show my disdain for AI by never watching it. Well, never except when it runs long and interferes with the beginning of “Fringe”. And then I really hate it.
I too hate AI. Stuffing the American music palette with so much sonic McDonalds should be a crime of some sort, but I also catch the end part when it runs over into the shows that I do watch and I kind of at least want to know who the people are so that when they pop up other places later I’m not totally bereft of an idea of who they might be.
That’s how you turn into your dad you see…
I hate it too. Now. I’ve hated it since the week a couple of seasons ago when Melinda Doolittle got voted off.
I decided then and there that the show no longer has any real excuse for existing. And I say that loud and clear whenever anyone tries to engage me in a conversation about it.
It usually manages to get the subject changed. Give it a try.
I hate Lost and yet I have seen every episode except last nights which is DVRed and ready for when I am feeling masochistic. Especially since it’s going to be a Locke heavy episode. shudder
She blames it on her 19-year-old daughter, who never misses it. Since they live in the same home, coworker ‘has to’ watch it. :dubious:
I used to like AI and force my husband to watch it. Now I flake off pretty early in the season. My husband still turns it on, but I wander off and find something else to do.
There are a lot of annoying things about American Idol, but instead of fixing any, they just seem to add more… coughKaracough.
I watch it every week to make sure I still hate it.
I’ve heard Simon make criticisms of contestants saying “That was like a karaoke performance.”
Dumbass!! That’s what the whole show is! It’s a show of karaoke performances!
The might as well call it American Karaoke.
And they must pay A TON of money to those guest mentors. Who else would go on a show that plays like the equivalent of Donnie & Marie or The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. You know how much shit Slash must have to take from his friends for going on AI. “Yeah, but look at how much they paid me” is his only retort.
It really is a rather silly embarassing little show.
I hate the show (the ugh “judges”) but like a couple of the singers they’ve found. Melinda Doolittle has been mentioned. Carrie Underwood is a decent country singer. But I only watched it last year, & because of David Cook. I’ve since seen him in concert and he’s fantastic. Glad he won and got the good stuff that goes with winning - now if he can just get haters to get past the AI stigma.
I hate the show for sucking up so many damn timeslots. It makes it that much harder for a good show to find a home!
Wait, American Idol is on more than once a week?
I just discovered this. Apparently, while LOST is running, Fox plays a show where they tell you who won the night before. To get there though, you have to watch an hour of the remaining contestants do choreographed shlock like Broadway medleys. It’s like a really bad awards show, except it happens every week.
I can honestly say I’ve seen about five episodes and can see why people tune in. I just think it blows. I did genuinely think that Fantasia Barrino had a great, husky, very non-AI voice—about three episodes I’ve seen were that season. The rest of it seems really redundant to me. All mugging and notes held too long.
I suspect the guest “mentors” don’t get a whole lot of money. What they do get is exposure. They get to perform in primetime on the number 1 rated show for 30 million viewers and sound incredibly good compared with the contestants.
Hm. I only ever saw it once. It was the episode with William Huang. Hi-larious! Not that I am some kind of snob (feel free to search me in CS and see how “high brow” my own tastes are), I just don’t have a TV so what I watch I have to totally watch on purpose, I never wind up watching something by accident. I’ve seen a lot of Bulgarian Idol, though. Take the bad singing of AI and add in the “I don’t speak the language I’m using” component and you get something extra specially bad. (ETA: I TOTALLY watched it so that I could talk about it with my students the next day. And then I would lecture them on how they needed to pay attention or they would go on TV and make fools of themselves like that poor girl.)
(Also, a guy from my village got on the show in the early auditions and sang a little ditty about…my village! Of course he was terrible but we were all delighted.)
I manage to avoid it completely except for local news. See, every Fox station is required to talk about AI every night, complete with scripted “banter” between the anchors. The only local station that has news about our area is a Fox station, and so I occasionally get to watch this performance. You can just see in the anchors’ eyes how much they hate themselves for having to whore out like this as they “chat” about who they think did the best this week. It amuses me.
Bingo…you look at what happens to the mentor’s back catalog the week after their appearance, and you know exactly why there are so many people lining up to mentor.
Clearly you missed Gwen Stefani and Jamie Foxx’s recent performances.
Plus, they are almost always promoting something, and they let them do a plug at then end, like No Doubt’s new tour, Slash’s new album, Jamie Foxx had “The Soloist” coming out, etc.
I watch in the beginning for the trainwrecks and at the end to see if I can pick the winner. I’d never buy an album by any of the Idol winners to date.