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Taylor Hicks for American Idol baby!!!
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
i can't believe i am about to put myself on blast here, but i have to admit my secret.i voted...
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Taylor Hicks for American Idol baby!!!
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my wife canceled out your vote ... sorry
but she also said she got only static and electronic noises several times instead of an answer or busy signal
if Taylor wins, we'll know there were voting irregularities, and call for Al Gore or Maxine Waters or somebody to investigate!
i think that taylor will get the "everybody else" vote. all of the people that voted for elliot...check. all of the people that voted for chris...check.
if katharine wins, i will have lost all hope for america's ability to judge talent.
then again, ashley simpson and britney spears should have been enough to lose hope...
taylor has talent michelle. he is a great singer with lots of soul that you CANNOT learn. you either have it or you don't.
now, that being said, he definitely isn't your style, and i respect that. but there is a HUGE market for joe coker/sam cooke style southern soul that is gonna make this dude rich.
elliot should have won. there is no doubt about it.
It's interesting to see the comments here and on numerous other sites about this, and the emotional investment we have in who wins. I'm fascinated that we get so passionate about which among the twelve people who are total strangers to us is going to be crowned the latest national flash in the pan.
*** WARNING!!! *** Much of what follows is personal opinion, and is sure to be different from the personal opinions of an awful lot of people who read this. It's just an opinion, and just mine, and - for those who've forgotten - just a television show that, ten thousand years from now, isn't going to matter a lot to most of us. Have a little perspective here - this isn't worth fighting over.
First off, Taylor Hicks isn't the only one of the twelve whose fortune has been made by the show. At least five others have the talent to immediately get careers in the entertainment industry, and will never again have to face the prospect of getting a real job. These talented people have what it takes to succeed, but in their niches. Comparing them to each other is an apples-and-oranges undertaking. Mandisa has a tremendous future in the gospel music niche, and won't be selling a lot of records in the alternative rock genre; Chris will be a star in that field, but won't be thrilling a lot of Broadway devotees; Katherine may soon be headlining on Broadway, but won't be seeing a lot of fortune from niches other than her own. For all we know, Kellie may be occupying a fifth barstool shortly with the Blue Collar Comedy team, and I would have paid good money to see her look at Wolfgang Puck's snails and announce "where I come from, we call that bait!" I frankly enjoyed her comedy a lot more than her musical performances.
(harsh...)
Be happy I'm not commenting on Kevin or Ace.
Second, this isn't a talent show; it's a popularity contest. Ryan Seacrest never tells you to vote for the most talented; he tells you to vote for your favorite. And there's a lot of room in thsi country for a wide range of tastes. There are people in this country who liked Kevin Covais, and some of them aren't twelve-year-old girls running amok with mommy's cel phone. VoteForTheWorst (caution: coarse language!) does a good analysis of what American Idol is, and what it is not.
You want my opinions, without the sugar-coating? I rooted for Chris until about five weeks from the end, when I really started getting impressed with Elliot. Taylor was always fun to watch - he simply is at home performing. I got tired of Katherine's overdone winking, cutesy routine early on. I didn't want to hear any of them, even the ones I didn't like, doing any kind of music they aren't going to be doing commercially. No one ever became a success doing alternative rock AND show tunes AND Bacharach AND love songs. Each contestant should be doing what music speaks to them, not what some producer has a whim to hear.
I don't want Ryan Seacrest returning next season; this show is not all about him. Paula Abdul needs to check into rehab (you don't honestly believe that's Coca-Cola in her red tumbler, do you? "Thanks for drinking" was not the best ad slogan to use around her), and I thought she had an awful lot to say about how good people looked and how loved and amazing they were, and not a heck of a lot about the quality of anyone's performance. Randy could be replaced by a recording that randomly spits out four phrases: "Dawg," "a'ight," "that was hot," and "check it out." If I were a performer and I was looking for a manager, I'd be looking for someone like Simon Cowell, who would not let me get away with a performance that was good enough, and demand I excel. His was the only opinion worth listening to.
I believe that if 24 had played "You Had A Bad Day" at the end of the final episode as Jack Bauer was being shanghai'd to Shanghai on that slow boat to China after a hard day's work saving America, it would have been not only a hoot, but also a tremendous cross-promotion.
And you all thought Qoheleth couldn't be harsh!
Honestly, putting all kidding aside, I've watched three shows this season: 24, American Idol, and CSI, and I'm finding myself having a reaction to these three (I won't go off topic on the other two. Unless you ask.). Overall, I'm feeling a little convicted about the time I've wasted, and after the letdown I felt with how they ended, I'm giving serious thought to the urge to KILL MY TELEVISION. We are too much an entertainment-addicted culture that can't drive, work or live without being plugged in by the umbilical to a media outlet. I'm ready to give mine the heave-ho.
Well, at least until football season.
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Friends: first off, a huge thank you to Michelle (lovelymw)! It gratifies me no end to read compliments of that caliber.
I'll be honest - I never voted. I never miss a real election, but the notion of being a party to trying to propel a stranger from anonymity to instant celebrity never much mattered to me.
I picked up a brand-new book recently: American Idols, The Worship of the American Dream by Bob Hostetler (2006, Broadman and Holman). It's not about the television show American Idol as much as it's about American idolatry, and how we worship the false gods of celebrity, entertainment, wealth, sex and a host of others. It's a good read, and I recommend it.
The following is a rant. Be warned.
I have never met any of the twelve finalists on American Idol, and I'd bet good money none of us have. They impact my life not one whit. Why are sixty million Americans coming to blows with each other over whether this one or that one should be the winner? Why does this matter so much, when so many other things that are more important can't inspire us to act?
This was the first season I watched American Idol. I imbibed in the guilty pleasure of ridiculing all the contestants who were so blessedly free of the burdens of self-awareness, that they couldn't tell they just couldn't sing - and then I confessed how unloving that attitude was: how it wasn't kind (1Co 13:4), it was rude (v. 5), and it fell short in a whole lot of ways. I'm supposed to be better than this.
And I got disappointed in all the hype. Odds are pretty good I won't be watching next season.
Previously on 24, after a season of watching CTU run protocols, set up perimeters, upload schematics, Jack Bauer saved the world through a brilliant ploy, and in what is probably the bummer ending of the network season, got PUNK'D by the Red Chinese with the old isolated-phone-off-the-hook trick. It's been a season of improbable events with a letdown ending bordering on total disappointment. And for months I planned my weeks around THIS??!? What kind of a mental defective am I, anyway?
We are addicted to entertainment. I love football, but how my team fares does not affect my life. At all. After a game, thousands of fans exit the stadium or walk away from their televisions saying "we won." We? Dude, I didn't see you on the field.
"OUR" team? Really, how many shares do you own? How much of a hand did you have in building the team? What allegiance do they have to us? Shaquille O'Neal was committed to Los Angeles as long as the team that happened to be in Los Angeles was paying him. And when he got traded to Miami, his allegiance changed faster than I change socks. His allegiance is to the benjamins. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but his allegiance is to the benjamins.
Heck, we all know how strong a tie the entire Los Angeles Rams franchise had to the people of that city, don't we? It's a business, and the product they sell is entertainment.
Kobe Bryant does not know whether you're one of the people who have been duped into paying your hard-earned dollars for the privilege of giving him free advertising on that jersey you bought. He does not know if you drive down the street with a purple flag on your car, advertising his boss' company.
There are entire communities in this country who are so emotionally involved in the fortunes of the teams that happen to play in their cities, that they will celebrate a season win by joyfully smashing windows and lighting other people's cars on fire. And they will demonstrate their wrath over losing by rioting, smashing windows and lighting other people cars on fire. And they are not even on the team. The victory or the loss is not even theirs.
Are we taking some of this just a little too seriously?
qoheleth took many words outta my mouth. I watched and enjoyed American Idol. I agree we/I spend too much time behind the "One Eyed Monster". I completely agree with that guy except about his facination with 24... I never got into that show...
CSI is one of my favorites, but I too was disappointed with the finale...
-Frank Loaiza
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