Can somebody please tell me why American Idol is entertaining? I'm open to discussion because I cannot figure out the draw. Maybe I'm just not that interested in someone else's success or perhaps I just don't like watching people be judged by the likes of Paula Abdul...though to her credit, she is mostly positive and not a cold-hearted snake.
We've even become obsessed with talent shows over seas! These are people that we didn't even breed as a nation and yet we cannot stop watching it, talking about it on stupid morning radio, and writing about it. And now I'm forced to write about it, and that chaps my hide (when was the last time you said "chaps my hide"....if ever? Think about it, I'm bringin' it back).
And it's getting worse, I noticed an entire article the other day dedicated to the minute, banal factoid that Susan Boyle disagreed with a judge's statement and may have raised her middle finger. Really? We're gonna write a whole article on that and report the disagreement? Who gives a crap!! Am I missing something here? Are celebrities and entertainers more important than I'm giving them credit for? And keep in mind at this point, these people are only POTENTIAL rock stars; for the most part they're flash in the pan puppets that are yesterday's news, sometimes a literal day later.
I can't think of anyone who's had a truly respectable career coming out of this stupid show and the offshoots its spawned. Kelly Clarkson has had a pretty solid career, she was the very first winner; but let's not forget, her music sucks! But how bout her counterpart Justin Guarini? Exactly, I didn't remember him either, had to look him up. Point is nobody remembers these people after the spotlight is off them. Rueben Studdard? Where the hell is he? He actually won, and yet his loafer-light opponent Clay Aiken is still more popular........and that's only because he announced that he's gay. Once again, who friggin' cares! You don't get extra attention for being gay.
Isn't it just pathetic that some people are famous merely for being famous? Lindsey Lohan, both Simpson sisters, Nicole Ritchie, Paris Hilton etc. I can't name one artistic contribution from one of these people....granted, I don't pay attention, but yet I know of them and about them and I should because they don't DO ANYTHING!
I had some guy not too long ago mention something he saw on VH1, something about Amy Winehouse being in the news, and when I seemed like I didn't know who she was (and essentially asking, why is this important?), he responded, "dude, you don't know who Amy Winehouse is?"
"No I don't, sorry.....see, you watch VH1 apparently, so I stopped listening to you as soon as you mentioned that awful habit in your life. Secondly, she's on VH1, so her music probably sucks and she's more famous for who she's screwed while on bender at the Viper Room on the sunset strip, and lastly......I'm gonna get back to work.
"You mean, you don't watch American Idol?"
"No.........I read."
It's tiresome and pitiful to hear and read people going on and on about celebrities for the sake of their celebrity.
Shoot me. Shoot me now.
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