Divorce...
I can no longer watch the show and consider it a legitimate talent competition when Jason Castro and his smug pandering and ridiculous eyebrows is allowed to continue, while arguably the season's best vocalist, Carly Smithson, was sent to the showers (although that visual is quite nice).
Carly: Idol's best singer and hottest chick.
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The cracks in the American Idol fortress were beginning to show last season, when that little Sanjaya and his ever-changing hair and lack of talent kept getting voted through while other, more talented people were dropping like flies. I thought Danny Noriega was going to become Sanjaya 2, but happily he was eliminated fairly early on after the show took a well-deserved pounding in the media.
My hope for a down-and-dirty singing competition (like seasons 1 and 6) had been evaporating steadily week by week as Jason Castro and his "leer at the girls and make then squish" mannerisms hung on. Now, Castro the hack has outlasted the incredible Carly, for no other reason than teenyboppers are keeping his talentless ass afloat.
So now that American Idol is a popularity contest among teenage girls and not the singing competition that it once was, I can say that I am finished with it outright.
I've gained two more free hours a week as a result.
posted by Brian @ 4/24/2008
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2 Comments:
good for you... yeah, a few of these people seemed like they were brought in strictly for PR purposes.
-Vermont Neighbor
What are you talking about?! Down on Jason Castro? That guy was great (sometimes)! I found him to have a goofy charisma that was more interesting than some of the other people with better voices.
It has been revealed that many of this year's contestants are hardly the green amateurs of yesteryear. Carly was brought here by MCA a few years ago and recorded an album that sold 300 copies. Who was VP of MCA at the time this happened? Randy Jackson!
Kristy Lee Cook was signed to a record deal in Nashville with RCA or someone like that when she was just 17. Brittney Spears' production company produced her video and Brittney was supposed to appear in it. She currently retains LeAnn Rimes' former manager. And this is supposed to be a amateur?
Michael Johns was in a band that was signed to Madonna's record label.
Jason Castro was on a MTV reality show, although one that must've come on at 4 a.m. because no one's heard of it. Syesha (who has great knockers) starred in a Ford commercial, and Ford happens to be a huge sponsor of American Idol.
And little David Archuletta...this unknown won $100,000 on Star Search just a couple of years ago (I didn't even know that show was still on).
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