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[petronia]

I know - though I don't per se remember it - that I dreamt about American Idol 2 last night. This is worrisome, because last thing I remember pertaining to *that* was people in ladyjaida's lj comments pulling a Datalounge. Wah.

I like talent search shows, oddly. They seem to be my latent uber-bitch trigger; I don't actually enjoy bitching at things normally, but talent shows make me incredibly judgmental, armchair Simon as it were, in real life as well as on TV. (There is the slight possibility that Simon-on-the-telly is the same as me, and that he's really a very nice person otherwise. Or maybe organisms that walk and quack like ducks tend to be ducks.) I may have liked AI2 better at the very beginning, when they were auditioning city-by-city and the most flabbergasting people were crawling out of the woodwork. As the selection narrows down it becomes progressively less entertaining to me, because my taste in musical personalities is as quirky as my taste in everything else, and the mission of the show proper is to produce something in which I have no intrinsic interest. But maybe this is a good thing; more freedom to snark without emotional consequence. And even a salt fish may sometimes flip, as the Chinese say.

My sister says that Star Académie (the homegrown French-Canadian version) is better, more attitudinal. Guy comes on and wows the crowd with his version of Zachary Richard's "Ballade de Jean Batailleur"... None of you people have the remotest idea what I'm talking about. ^^; Just take it that the original is more a Bruce Springsteen song than a Celine Dion song. Though I'm sure Celine is by no means lacking on Star Académie.

...Has anyone ever caught themselves wishing that we got Eurovision on the telly here? Or TOTP? Mind you if there were it would be on cable music channels, and I don't get cable...

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[z107m.livejournal.com]

well, armchair Simon is being paid to be mean, so what else is one to do?

American Idol never appealed to me, it seemed too much like mini-fandom wars, where ppl bitch and bitch about ppl critiquing fics and what not, only AI has a stronger authority to just give ppl the boot without much of a hoot, and of course, they are paid to be mean.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It's exactly the same. Just... astonishingly I have sympathy for twitty fandom people, or at least don't see the point in wasting my breath mocking them. I have no sympathy for twitty people on TV, because TV takes away their humanity. XD

Though there's maybe four or five contestants who can actually sing, though. As in not flat, and not straining at the outer boundaries of range. That ain't shabby by half.

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

for a limited time, BBC America used to show TotP. and also Later with Jools Holland, which was much more worthwhile as bands were actually encouraged to perform live rather than merely mime songs. there wasn't loads on TotP to appeal to me, but i think even if you were a fan of the stuff being played, you'd probably get annoyed at the miming after a bit, too. although i could of course be wrong. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

After a bit, I suppose. Today it's all about the ineffable hankering after cheeze. :P