American Idol Sucks Part II

There is no question that my most viewed blog entry to date has been "Why American Idol Sucks". And of course my feelings and attitude for the show remain as originally posted. But just surfing around I stumbled across this piece which I think summarizes the show, why it sucks and why the people that enjoy the show are pretty much dolts...I recommend reading the entire article, but here are a couple highlights:

...a cruel freak show, which plays on viewers’ inherent tendency for indulging in schadenfreude, which morphs into a standard talent show--albeit one with putative audience participation. The change-up happens right after the freaks are shown the door--and it should be pointed out that, in season three, there seem to be a larger number of deliberate pranksters this time.

And when the rest of the “talent,” to use that word in its most liberal sense, is shaped and pared and steered toward the inevitable countdown to idoldom, what’s left is a major snoozefest.

People get hooked on American Idol during its slow-motion-car-wreck phase, and some of them don’t have the good sense to turn the show off when it starts showing its hand, aesthetically speaking. Once the goofballs are gone, it’s easy to keep watching, with the hope that someone else will melt down in the middle of some hideous ballad or after a serious bitch-slapping from the judges.

So, perhaps it isn’t that people care, as the Bee’s Kushman stated. It’s just that they’re too hypnotized to change channels.

And wraps it up with:

And once the alluring hook of seeing something weird and different and awful at the show’s beginning is removed--before the “workshopping” segments kick into high gear--American Idol turns into nothing more than a foisting mechanism for mediocre swill. It is best avoided.

So, if you’re still watching this mess, here’s a tip: Stop. There are better uses of your time, like organizing your stamp collection or looking up words that begin with “V” in the dictionary or staring at the ceiling.