Is anyone else sick of hearing about this show? I couldn't find the relevant info on the official site, but I've heard from several sources that contestants go through 2-3 auditions with the show producers before Simon gets a chance to humiliate them on national TV. And ya know what? I totally believe it.
During the couple episodes that I was paid to watch--'cause that's the only way I'll watch them--there were oodles of horrible contestants and a handful of great contestants. But no mediocre contestants. Does anyone else think it's sick that the producers intentionally single out a bunch of delusional hopefuls specifically because Americans for some reason enjoy watching Simon humiliate them?
Uggghhhhhh, I am so sick of this show!
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Is anyone else sick of hearing about this show? I couldn't find the relevant info on the official site, but I've heard from several sources that contestants go through 2-3 auditions with the show producers before Simon gets a chance to humiliate them on national TV. And ya know what? I totally believe it.
It's true. That is in fact how the show works. The TV judges couldn't possibly sit through 10,000 auditions a day. There are multiple layers of runners and PAs you have to get through before you get on TV, good or bad.
During the couple episodes that I was paid to watch--'cause that's the only way I'll watch them--there were oodles of horrible contestants and a handful of great contestants. But no mediocre contestants. Does anyone else think it's sick that the producers intentionally single out a bunch of delusional hopefuls specifically because Americans for some reason enjoy watching Simon humiliate them?
Uggghhhhhh, I am so sick of this show!
Ummm... don't watch it?
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I can say with pride that I have never watched an episode of this, or survivor, or the dance shows, or any of them....
...with the sole exception of Who Wants to Be a Superhero - just because its Stan The Man.
I can say with Much pride I didnt even watch that drivel. I can say with horror though that I did watch a lot of other things.
Which one is the Osbornes?
Ummm... don't watch it?
I guess I should have written "I'm sick of hearing about this show everywhere I bloody go."
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Which one is the Osbornes?
Ummm... don't watch it?I guess I should have written "I'm sick of hearing about this show everywhere I bloody go."
But now you started this thread you need to hear about it here too. Ironic huh?
I don't hate it. I sometimes watch the later rounds (of the local verison of the show anyway) when they've narrowed it down to the good singers. I don't like those early episodes where they have all the crap people who think they can sing.
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Which one is the Osbornes?
Ummm... don't watch it?I guess I should have written "I'm sick of hearing about this show everywhere I bloody go."
Ah, well that's the curse of hating things that are popular. I loathe the music of the Beatles, and thankfully I wasn't a teen in the 60's, but it does still intrude on my classic rock stations in between the multitude of bands I do like, though happily not so much now as it used to. We all have our crosses to bear.
As far as showing the kooks and the wack jobs on TV... well, it's television, and people love to see the drama, whether sappy, sweet, sad, heartwarming, or just plain nuts. Also, realize that a great many people try out for the show with the specific intention of finding their way onto TV, and if they know they can't REALLY sing, they will go the opposite route and go gonzo, like the girl in the bikini on this season's first episode in Phoenix, or the guy in the bunny suit on the Salt Lake City episode that aired tonight. If you can be nutty enough or weird enough to get on TV, well, some folks get off on the attention.
I'll give you that there are plenty of delusional Idol wannabes who can't believe that they (or their child/brother/sister/friend/etc.) aren't getting their chance and the judges suck and how dare they and "No, I'm the real American Idol" - no argument. But hey, nobody put a gun to anybody's head and made them audition, and as much as they have the right to act like idiots when cameras are around, the rest of America has the right to point and laugh when they do. It's a gladiatorial assumption of risk by the contestants, they sign the waiver giving the show the right to use their image and performance however the editors see fit, and they get to choose if they're going to be cool or if they're going to be wacko.
Still, for people who don't like wackos, skip the audition weeks, probably skip the hysterics and melodrama of "Hollywood week," and just wait for the actual showdown part of the show to start in earnest. By the time they get to the final 24 (or 36 this year), most of them are pretty good singers.
The real biggest group of Idol wannabes is the group of folks that really can sing just fine... but not in a way that actually stands out. Some years ago, Simon gave a comment to an auditioner along the lines of, "You know, you have a nice voice, but there are a thousand girls in Hollywood right now who do the exact same thing that you do." That's the really hard truth - when you actually are a good singer, which probably 3/4 of the 10,000+ who show up at these stadium auditions are, but you are just not good enough to stand out in any meaningful way from the vast sea of B-grade voices out there. That is the real nut-crusher, that you've worked hard, you've done well, but you've kinda gone about as far as you can go and this is where any dream you had of glory probably goes to die.
So there we go, a long post on American Idol. I didn't know I had it in me... :)
BTW, I do watch the show with my 11 & 14 year old. I didn't watch it for years but I saw most of the past 2 seasons.
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My roommate's a reality TV Junky.
That said, I can tolerate American Idol when down to the actual contestants. Same thing with 'so you think you can dance.' I didn't get the international dancing show untl the last two episodes. This 'popping' isn't dancing, damnit!
Survivor's so so, watchable until all the women get all skinny and boney.
Don't watch much of the reality stuff. I did watch Who Wants to be a Superhero, because it's Stan and because Major Victory 'got it'. The guy was so campy I expected cubscouts to come out from under his cape.
That and Matthew Atherton is a cool guy, per one of my co-workers.
Didn't get into season 2 as much.
Well if time Warp, Mythbusters, Master Blasters, Weapon Masters and the like a 'reality' then I watch them.
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There was a reality show on History Channel some years ago where they took a group of police officers and trained them to be Roman Legionaires. That was a pretty cool show.
There was another one where two teams of engineers had to build trebuchets and then fire them at a castle wall built as a target. Also, very cool.
Now that I haven't had cable or satellite for abour 5 years, I haven't seen a good reality show. I admit, I sometimes watch the REAAALLLY bad ones as a guilty pleasure. True Beauty, anyone? LOL.
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There was a reality show on History Channel some years ago where they took a group of police officers and trained them to be Roman Legionaires. That was a pretty cool show.
There was another one where two teams of engineers had to build trebuchets and then fire them at a castle wall built as a target. Also, very cool.
Now that I haven't had cable or satellite for abour 5 years, I haven't seen a good reality show. I admit, I sometimes watch the REAAALLLY bad ones as a guilty pleasure. True Beauty, anyone? LOL.
No, no, the epitome of all bad reality shows cannot be anything other than the one starring the greatest reality star of all time:
Fla-vor FLAAAAAAAAAAVVVV!!!!! Yyyyeaaah, BOYEEEEEEE!!!
Whom I actually saw at nightclub (just hangin out at the club, not performing) in Houston about 10 years ago, along with Shaquille O'Neal. And yes, FF was wearing a clock around his neck in real life.
Odd coincidence, given that I've only been to a nightclub about 4 or 5 times in my life, but sheer random chance is like that I guess...