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February 7th, 2012, 04:23 AM | #1 |
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American Idol and singing "talent"
I don't watch American Idol, but my mom watches it pretty much every season. One thing I've noticed is that most contestants, especially the females, try and belt out some Aretha Franklin or Donna Summers impression during their audition and get praised for being so wonderful, as if they don't come across as a piss poor carbon copy of a thousand other singers. Is it just me or is singing from the soul/R&B era not the be all end all of singing? The mainstream music machine seems to think that it is. It's either that or some pop country twang sounding singing. Both come across as so damn phony, like the product of successful brainwashing.
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February 7th, 2012, 01:59 PM | #2 |
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The problem with American Idol and similar shows is exactly the same problem that pop music has. People don't go out and "sing" the songs, they "perform" the songs.
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You would think it would be far more interesting ...
... to have a competition in which contestants performed only their own original music... or at least limit the number of cover songs?
Their target audience doesn't seem to care much though, & even in this format seldom votes for the most talented performer. |
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It's the post-boy/girl group concept. They've been casted, too. Media corporations have found a new way of making money by using common people and making fun of them in front of millions of people. You got clones of this show worldwide. We had Starmania in Austria and there's Deutschland sucht den Superstar in Germany, hosted by Dieter Bohlen, the sponge face you might remember from Modern Talking. What happens to the winners? They become one-hit wonders, only to dissapear soon back to where they come from. Meanwhile, new clowns try to make it and so on. And people still watch these shows. It's fake like wrestling. Looks like Sigmund Freud was right: there is no free will.
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I thought they were trying to be Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston (RIP), with their melisma and all. Melisma means vocal runs--stretching a syllable and giving it different notes.
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February 15th, 2012, 04:55 AM | #8 |
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Those two singers could be taken into consideration as well. And yes that whole Melisma thing is f*cking annoying.
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February 15th, 2012, 09:25 AM | #9 |
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The one thing that sums up IDOL and shows
its really all about the next money spinner and not helping real talent William Hung- She Bangs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RrLQUN8UJg Last edited by buttsie; February 15th, 2012 at 09:48 AM.. |
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I can say with great pride I have never watched a minute of these shows and reality television.
As someone said to me 'the talentless performing, judged by the talentless and consumed by the tasteless'. It's an insidious disease engineered by music companies across all genres where people like Alfie Bowe, Kathryn Jenkins are trumpeted as great performers when they are not and people with undue influence in the business. Someone like Cowell. It would be great if he could disappear along with the rest of his coterie and clones across the globe. |
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