You know, if I wanted to watch people mangle popular hits of the last fifty years, I'd travel around the country going to high school talent shows. I just don't understand the attraction of American Idol. I am kind of baffled by its success. So much of it is filler (it makes the Bachelor look like "don't blink or you'll miss something" television), and, really, watching the same people sing week after week, with the filler increasing each week is not gratifying in the long term. Plus, there's something absolutely, fundamentally, atomically wrong with a singing competition that's judged by Paula Abdul.
Posted by waking slow at January 20, 2004 07:36 AM