American Idol, anybody watching this show? Thoughts?

  Anybody watching the show American Idol?

Honestly I never watch it, but I've watched it this season because there's a young girl on there from my home town that I lived in years ago but no longer do, here name is Lauren Alaina. I hope she wins it all.

Anybody else watching this show?

Thoughts?

Only liked Finnish Idol because it's where a contestant sang Iron Maiden songs for the season and won.

I think its nice that those that will never have an oppurtunity at even hitting a stage can gain that through this show. There are millions out there that want to but will never be heard and have the talent to make it.  With that said, I agree with Slug on most of it. This is a Contest but there is absolutely no definite way to the title. After the judges have wittled down the masses to a manageable no#, the rest is upto chance of where the votes fall and this is anyones guess from week to week and GREAT one have gone home because of this. Its all about the drama of the entire situation that keeps one entertained. I fined myself watching certain singers and avoiding it other weeks because of singers, I can live without the drama  LOL
It is nice to see some of them really make even though they didnt get the title while others have gotten the title and havent been heard from since.

Slugbaby


Honestly, I can't stand those musical-contest shows.  It offends me that it's trivializing an art form that I love, as I watch it get flushed down the commercialism toilet.   That's always been happening, but now with AutoTune and other tricks, it's just getting worse.
I'll never encourage the contest aspect, the commercialism, or the stars that sell themselves for the TV publicity (mr. tyler....).

This is only MY opinion.  I'm glad some people find pleasure in it....

  I can't stand the contest aspect of things myself, back in the late 80's that's the main reason I quite playing music altogether, we could never get nothing done for somebody trying to play faster or show more flash guitar licks and ego's and stuff like that. All I wanted to do was play original music and everybody else wanted to play cover tunes, the only problem is they never took the time to actually learn the entire cover tunes properly, more or less they played similar chords and winged their way through parts, very discouraging to me because I was serious about playing the music, but most everybody else I ran into at the time just wanted to jam. Most of the people who were serious that I ran into around that time were already in bands or looking to get paid to play music, it was a very discouraging time for me. At least using this cakewalk software I can add everything around the guitar without having to wait or rely on somebody else to add to the music.

I'm only watching the show because I'd like to see somebody from my old hometown win. I do question the accuracy of their voting system, too many ways I can see them manipulating the vote to better market the show itself because of controversy over artist kicked off and other things "Judges Votes".

Your right about that auto-tune stuff, I can't stand it. Sadly, LOL, I don't think auto tune could help my singing, but I'm not going to throw a robot voice in my music just to add vocals, I'll just keep working on my music and maybe some day somebody will be interested in singing a few things, if not I'm happy just playing music and I guess that's all that should matter. 

I said it before in another thread. This years contestants are nearly a lackluster bunch (unlike some stand out people from years gone by).

I remember catching Taylor Hicks audition and telling my Lovely Lady that he was going to win the show. She doubted me. I also said early on that Lambert would not take 1st but would be 2nd.

This year I had early on predicted that Haley would win. I more or less pulled back my opinion over the last three weeks. But her perfomance with Casey (on the last results show) showed her true capability, there is still a glimmer of hope that I'm right.

I personally believe that since they do not publish vote counts it's the producers who actually make the choices based upon what will make the show "interesting".

I usually watch more after the initial audition shows.  I've auditioned enough vocalists for bands to understand how painful that process is to endure (for the auditioner.)

I think this crop of contestants are the most evenly matched of any season.  There are none that I can't wait to see eliminated.

Some of them are obvious "Idol Stars" and will be little more than the season's winner and a personality for a year on local talk shows and an occasional visit on a following AI broadcast in the next few years.  There are a few who look like they could be entertainers, one who could be an "artist" type and some who could end up in a touring broadway show.

They'll get to do their Idol tour and have a big time in their young lives before they find out that the music biz isn't all it's cracked up to be.  But at least, they got their foot in the door.

bapu

I remember catching Taylor Hicks audition and telling my Lovely Lady that he was going to win the show. She doubted me.

Same here. I knew the second I heard him he was going to win it.

We watch the auditions to see the terrible ones and have a good laugh, but then we don't watch the rest of the show. Especially this year, I mean ... Steven Tyler ... really??? And if I hear "It's pitchy dog" one more time I'm probably gonna hurl.

We record everything then cut out the commercials. The DVR always get's the last 20 ~ 30 seconds of Idol before our show starts so I've been hearing the farewell songs by the person who got voted off. So far, I can't see how any of them go past the audition stage ... sounds like a really bad year. They definitely are not using auto tune I can tell you that.

We don't watch TV in our house....by choice

The more I watch TV to more I'm drawn to not watching it.