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by mg at 12:19 AM on January 23, 2003
If you were at all entertained by American Idol you probably already know that the second year began last night. If, like me, you didn’t catch on to last year’s show until the later episodes and the only contestants left were the “best of the best,” I want to encourage you to really tune into these first couple weeks.
Heck, even if you thought the show was ridiculous and hateful, I encourage you to watch. These first couple weeks aren’t about talent, they are about the complete lack of talent, shame, or basic human dignity. To see these kids make complete fools of themselves, it sad and funny, and not to be missed.
Next Tuesday’s show, is the last episode of the first round of auditions. I caught tonight’s show, and saw some of the worst performances I’ve witnessed since my days in vaudeville, and there were even more people in black face. Some of these kids were so bad, I swung all the way from making fun and wishing death (or at least some vocal cord debilitating accident), to wanting to give them a big hug and tell them “everything is going to be all right honey.”
As the weeks march on the hopeful idols’ numbers dwindle. We learn more about their deaf parents, trailer park childhoods, and hair styling secrets. Eventually, performances turn from cringe-worthy to applause-worthy. While there is only one ultimate winner, there reaches a point where every one of the contestants deserves a recording contract.
But, there is something to be said for the losers, don’t you think?
Personally, I’d much rather watch the losers than the winners. On Saturday nights, when I’m home drinking alone and quietly sobbing to myself, the only thing that makes me feel better is getting to see amateur night on It’s Showtime at the Apollo. Just this weekend the Apollo audience booed a six year-old off the stage. And, while I’m no television producer, the current success of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, screams this is the perfect time to bring back The Gong Show.
You know, as much as I like seeing people fail, I don’t much like the feeling myself. Once again Bad Samaritan is absent from the final ballots of an award show to remain nameless. Nikolai will die for this. I’m not saying I’ll have anything to do with his death, but I think it’s a pretty sure thing going to predict that at some point, some time in the very distant future, that bastard will die.
With the one weblog award not entirely out of the realm of possibility, there are still the Anti-Bloggies to look forward to. I really think I’ve got a chance of wi… ah, fuck it; I’ve got no chance and I might as well just accept it sooner rather than later. I’m going to go practice my scales and dance moves, now.
comments (9)
I too am a sucker for the early rounds. Whether intentionally or not, producers fail to do even the most rudimentary screening of contestant. Now that's entertainment.
by Anna at January 23, 2003 7:46 AM
I just can't bring myself to watch that garbage... I am afraid that once I started I wouldn't be able to stop. Much like my sister and 7th Heaven. (eek!)
mg, I hereby present you with the Best Weblog of the World award, which is decided by a panel of one, and whose award is shaped like the beer I will one day buy for you. PBR?
by Linz at January 23, 2003 11:22 AM
okay, bad sam should definitely win some reward, and i'll tell you why...you know how when you have kaaza's client installed on your computer, it monitors the pages you're viewing and pops up ads to try to match the content? well when i came to bad sam this morning, it decided i needed to see some ads for Jewish dating servies. so i hereby award you...best jewish dating site without the annoying matchmaker theme song!
by JC at January 23, 2003 11:33 AM
oops...reward should read award. that is all.
by JC at January 23, 2003 11:33 AM
MG, the best things never get the credit they deserve.
JC, get Kazaa Lite. The ads go "bye, bye".
by MrBlank at January 23, 2003 3:02 PM
Yeah, Bad Sam is tops in my book. I can't believe you weren't nominated. I don't even read any of those other blogs, except well, the obvious ones.
I love Bad Sam. I wish I had a t-shirt, or better yet underwear themed with Bad Sam. :oP
by Syd at January 23, 2003 4:50 PM
I really need to make T-shirts. Underwear ain't such a bad idea either. Of course, the underwear would have to be just a picture of the author's face. Hopefully people would go around wearing them inside out. It'd be about the close I've come to sex in a while.
by mg at January 23, 2003 6:16 PM
Speaking strictly for myself, I dunno about my mug participating in someone else's wedgie. Then again, it could be fun.
by Anna at January 24, 2003 7:45 AM
i voted for bad sam!
linz, american idol isn't all bad, i was teaching my students about john adams and had several students that knew that he was the 2nd pres. & j.q. was the sixth because one of the contestant's claims to fame (which far pales to his new accomplishment of making it to hollywood) was being related to the 2nd & 6th pres.
i do NOT watch 7th heaven. B-I
by shannon at January 24, 2003 9:53 AM