For the record, I don’t give a rat’s ass who wins "American Idol."I don’t know which one is the homosexual and which one is the Christian and could care less. Surely, coming to a music department near you will be Adam Lambert and Kris Allen CD’s. You can bet on that while Simon Cowell laughs his smart ass all the way to the bank.
One columnist said it well, “Isn’t the stuff on ‘American Idol’ the exact reason rock n roll was created in the first place?”
What has "American Idol" contributed to the wealth of pop music? Nothing! Okay, Carrie Underwood is generic chart topping country music. Ho-hum, they all follow the same formula. We’ll put Sara Evans above them all. Ah, but the real country stars are ones like Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton.
The format drives me nuts. Who needs the freak show in the early episodes just to see how Simon rips the contestants to shreds and how they pout and burn in return?
“American Idol” perpetuates bland, highly commercialized pop music. Who needs more of that? In today’s world with three mega-international corporations and a floundering EMI controlling about 80% of all recorded music and such a huge chunk of radio owned and operated by CBS/Viacom and Clear Channel, fresh, creative music is the casualty.
I don’t think I’m getting old. I think music from the 1990’s forward is just plain uninspired garbage or poor knockoffs of better stuff from the past. I was 16 years old in 1969, the whole music scene was exploding in all genres; however, the worst of the worst was some of the most awful music too.
All forces in the industry and the entertainment media are stacked against there ever being a new pop sensation the scope of the Beatles or an era of unbelievable creativity as we witnessed in the 60’s and early 70’s.
Meanwhile, I just placed the order today, the beginning of my 4th refresh of the Rolling Stones albums from the beginning of Rolling Stones Records in 1971, “Sticky Fingers,” “Goats Head Soup,” “It’s Only Rock N Roll,” and “Black and Blue.” The 1974 Virgin records refresh did miracles over the original CBS/Sony release of these albums on CD. They are pretty darned good and at least rival the quality of the European releases on vinyl, but with the promise of hearing more clearly defined instruments and a fuller sound, this fan can’t get enough. Why the music industry did such a shoddy job of putting CD’s on the market in the first place is the subject of a future posting.
Tonight, I’ll be watching the Orioles get massacred in Yankee stadium or “The O’Reilly Factor.” I’d probably watch two hours of the Sham-Wow guy over “American Idol!”
One columnist said it well, “Isn’t the stuff on ‘American Idol’ the exact reason rock n roll was created in the first place?”
What has "American Idol" contributed to the wealth of pop music? Nothing! Okay, Carrie Underwood is generic chart topping country music. Ho-hum, they all follow the same formula. We’ll put Sara Evans above them all. Ah, but the real country stars are ones like Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton.
The format drives me nuts. Who needs the freak show in the early episodes just to see how Simon rips the contestants to shreds and how they pout and burn in return?
“American Idol” perpetuates bland, highly commercialized pop music. Who needs more of that? In today’s world with three mega-international corporations and a floundering EMI controlling about 80% of all recorded music and such a huge chunk of radio owned and operated by CBS/Viacom and Clear Channel, fresh, creative music is the casualty.
I don’t think I’m getting old. I think music from the 1990’s forward is just plain uninspired garbage or poor knockoffs of better stuff from the past. I was 16 years old in 1969, the whole music scene was exploding in all genres; however, the worst of the worst was some of the most awful music too.
All forces in the industry and the entertainment media are stacked against there ever being a new pop sensation the scope of the Beatles or an era of unbelievable creativity as we witnessed in the 60’s and early 70’s.
Meanwhile, I just placed the order today, the beginning of my 4th refresh of the Rolling Stones albums from the beginning of Rolling Stones Records in 1971, “Sticky Fingers,” “Goats Head Soup,” “It’s Only Rock N Roll,” and “Black and Blue.” The 1974 Virgin records refresh did miracles over the original CBS/Sony release of these albums on CD. They are pretty darned good and at least rival the quality of the European releases on vinyl, but with the promise of hearing more clearly defined instruments and a fuller sound, this fan can’t get enough. Why the music industry did such a shoddy job of putting CD’s on the market in the first place is the subject of a future posting.
Tonight, I’ll be watching the Orioles get massacred in Yankee stadium or “The O’Reilly Factor.” I’d probably watch two hours of the Sham-Wow guy over “American Idol!”
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