Myth #1. American Idol is a Talent Show.
It is not! American Idol is a popularity show. If talent were the criterion for picking the winner, then maybe Haley Rheinhart, Pia Toscano, James Durbin or Casey Abrams might have won. The last two finalists, Lauren Alaina and Scotty Mc Creery were lightweights compared to those who were eliminated. In AI you don’t need talent to win, you need sheer luck and pimping from the judges and producers. And of course you need to be cute and non-threatening to get the girls’ vote.
Myth#2. AI judges are fair and impartial.
They are not! It was clear from the very start how they were rooting for both Scotty Mc Creery and Lauren Alaina. Both Scotty and Lauren have made it in fact to the top 10 very surprisingly, robbing real and better talents like namesake Lauren Turner, Brett Lowenstein and others. While the judges pick on better talents to criticized, Lauren and Scotty’s obviously mediocre performance were unreasonably well-praised. The judges, JLo and Randy turn deaf and blind everytime their favorites perform. Some people just don’t care to lose their basic sense of hearing and vision for money.
Myth #3. Americans have the best music.
American Idol proves that America is a one-trick country singing pony. Why do I say that? Because we have two country singers battling it out during the finale in a snooze-inducing affair. Where is jazz, where is R&B, where is pop, where is rock and roll and the combination of all these? They were all voted off. So we were left with an awkward singer who mistakes his microphone as a flute, who twitches his eyebrows ridiculously and sings at a very limited range like a moo-ing cow. The results may also reflect a younger population’s (who were to blame of the “rigged” voting) declining musical taste and preferences. Is that to blame on technology or food or culture? America should be scared.
Myth #4. The winners have the most number of voters.
The winners do not necessarily have the most number of voters. This issue came out when Pia Toscano was shockingly eliminated. A voter can obsessively vote a hundred and more times for a favorite. They alleged that the tween voting public was to blame for the rise to fame of the two young and uninitiated finalists. So it does not necessarily mean that more Americans voted for them, it only means that some Americans have voted for them with greater frequency than the rest.
Myth #5. America is a liberated country.
It is not a liberated country. It is a “fake-conservative”. Mothers and grandmothers who voted for the final two thinks that sans talent the final two are wholesome American Idols. These are the same mothers and grandmothers who shirked at Lady Gaga’s ‘obnoxious’ style. These are the same people who could have kissed the crossed after an hour of closed door meeting with Gaga ‘The Witch’. They are scared of her because she reminds them of the natural monsters lurking in their subconscious.
Until then, I admit I was hooked with American Idol and I was deluded into thinking it is real. It started out as real but now it turned out to be a big farce. This is definitely the end of American Idol.
