AMERICAN IDOL
AMERICAN IDOL
Slowly but surely killing real music since 2002.
(American Idol contestants)
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No… American viewers/listeners are killing music.
no… fake music is killing real music.
what is fake music, anyway?
See above photo
Win.
i guess we have differing definitions of “fake,” but i appreciate the joke.
Hey it’s not just us Americans! Have you heard the trash that constitutes Euro-pop? Lay off of the stereotypes, ya ol’ fool.
Mmmuhhhh?? American viewers and listeners will accept anything that’s fed to them. If we gave them Three Dog Night they’d like that too. But we don’t because real music is too expensive to produce because you have to pay artists and songwriters; it’s far easier to have your music written and produced by a committee and have a bunch of little kids pretend to perform it.
thank you, sir.
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There are some talented people, but it is mostly about image, of course.
American Idol, paying for Simon Cowell’s fleet of compensation cars since 2002.
lol. so true.
sad, but true.
4th?
More like garlic in the American Music Industry coffin.
There is something worse than American Idol. It’s the attitude of way too many people that their taste in music is some sort of holy and divine writ, and the last word on what is good or worthy. Get over your tiny, pointless little selves, folks.
I personally don’t like American Idol, but I don’t see it as any sort of threat to “real music” (which I am assuming means “whatever the caption writer likes and absolutely nothing else in the history of the world”), and neither do I see any popint or validity in disparaging anyone who watches it.
*applauds*
*also applauds*
AI SUX! Anybody who watches it, sux! It’s not that’s it’s killing music (rock has been dead for years!) but that’s it’s killing brain cells!
As denoted by the above comment’s lack of language comprehension. ^^
Win.
I bet you like laugh tracks and canned applause too. Full House, Now That’s Comedy!
laugh tracks go back to days when real comedy WAS on the air.
And Full House used a live audience. Laugh tracks/canned applause were infrequent in that show. Insult fail
You think that sound of rocks being shaken in a cigar box was the studio audience laughing? They augment the hell out of “live audience” television. There probably wasn’t more than 10 percent “live audience” in anything you heard.
Hell yeah Killer!
Hell YES. Thank you.
I love you.
Nice.
I couldn’t give a crap about what people think about just a dumb reality show, but Adam Lambert is an amazing singer.
MIRANDA MIRANDA MIRANDA.
I’m sorry. I’ve wanted to do that for, like, forever.
American Idol ranks right up there with boy bands. All flash, no substance.
I am amused at how seriously some people take one silly LOL.
i LOVE ai if you dont like then dont watch it but i watch and i love it and there are soem really good singe4rs on there(ada, lambert, allison iraheta, kris allen)
BGT > AI
And you’re what…12? Goes to show the mentality of it’s viewers. *sigh*
And to that moron who said rock is dead…better look again. Half of the retards on Am Idol are singing rock songs. Also, every city in the country has (or can tune in to) a classic rock station. Kinda puts a stick in the spokes of your argument, don’t it?
ha! You proved it’s killing real music right there! They’re “really good singe4rs [sic]” not “really good vocalists” and definitely not “really good MUSICIANS.” Those would require singing with something other than canned pre-recorded accompaniment, where you actually have to have the musicianship to work with another real live musician. There’s a difference between good karaoke and good music.
WIN.
Too True. I’m a bassoonist in an orchestra, and I have a lot of respect for our chorus members. Singing like they do takes true talent and know-how; This B.S. about singing along with a tape like you do in 3rd grade music class is nonsense.
There are two ads for american idol merchandise on this LOLpage…
fail.
make that four- sorry.
I actually like AI, but even if I didn’t why the hell make it public to the world and possibly offend some people (Exaggerated fans of AI, the contestants on AI, the people who put most of their time to making the show happen. . . .) in the process.
I don’t like AI, but some people up there are pretty talented. And what is real music?
You know, stuff that isn’t relevant. OH BURN.
Wow. Yes. *fabulous* burn. A real scorcher. Your commanding presence and use of the the subtle and nuanced language of insult is astounding.
And yes, I realize that I used the word “the” twice in a row. I humbly beg your icy forgiveness…
Dude, your sarcasm actually inflicted pain on me.
Gee, and that’s why Queen offered Adam Lambert, the runner-up of this year’s Idol, a chance to be their new lead singer.
That’s why Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Hicks, Daughtrey, Kellie Pickler and Fantasia are hitting the top of their respective charts.
That’s why American Idol raised MILLIONS the past two years for charities all over the world, including several here in America.
Because it’s all fake and “killing” music.
Uh-huh. Sure.
I highly doubt their raising money for charity has anything to do with the quality of the music on AI, whether “fake” or “real”.
It is crap television and crap music and I could honestly not care a tiny bit less about what charities they give to. Or what “charts” these “people” are on the top of.
No, music’s well and thriving. I just wish music snobbery would go away though. I love Animal Collective. I also love the Macarena. Surely there’s no harm in that?
Everybody loves the Macarena
…Right?
Well, American Idol is a ridiculous trainwreck of commercialism. But the contestants are actually very, very talented people, for the most part. It is definitely not easy to perform a song you’ve only had a week to practice, live, in front of millions of viewers. They’ve got no lip-synching, no auto-tuning, no overproduced beats. So when you do find someone even marginally talented on this show, you know they’re a thousand times better than all the Britney Spears or Lady Gagas of the world.
I would bet that whoever wrote this is a bored teenager who’s never watched the show, judging from the fact that they can’t spell. Please, know that “real music” is not the same as “music you like”. You are not the coolest person in the world, and your choice of music is not a standard of the musical world.
No one is killing music. And if someone were, it would be the arrogant losers who tell anyone else that what they like is not “real music”.
WIN.
I take great pride in never having watched more than a minute or two (and even then it was muted) while waiting for a real show that was on after American Idol.
Congrats. You want a medal?
Or a chest to pin it on, Sir Honeydew?
All this is moot, simply because AI is not what ruined “real music”. The culprit, of course, is MTV. EMpTV was more responsible for taking what was once art and turning it into a widget, for making it more about image and superficial claptrap than about content. Would Milli Vanilli have been possible without eMpTV? Doubtful. Would half the shite that’s out there pretending to be music with substance exist without eMpTyV to bang it over our heads how PRETTY they are? Music is about what your EARS tell you, not your eyes. Some awfully ugly people make some awfully fine music….and some of them are even OLD!!
The shame is, it started out good. It was a chance to see artists you didn’t normally see and get a sense of what they were about (Zappa live=WIN). But the money quickly took over as soon as the fu(king suits and lawyers discovered what a valuable marketing tool
it could be and assumed control. And that, my friends, is what the M in MTV stands for. Marketing. Oh, and manufacturing.
C’mon kids….close your eyes and LISTEN.
Nah. American Idol only kills music for those who use it as their main source of musical enjoyment. And those people are idiots, and they should be killed.
Openmindedness FAIL.
Haha, the guy on the top is making the GIRUGAMESH
I’d say it’s having absolutely no impact on “real” music. All it does is accelerate the cycle of worthless fire-and-forget b-list pop singers. No big deal.
…I like American Idol…
But yeah, they mostly suck.
American Idol is diminishing the respect for singers everywhere. It sends out the message that any regular jackoff who can stay on key is a musician and a learned vocalist, which is total b.s. Try actually LEARNING something about music first, assholes!
ANd to finish the job it started is joeness bros and miley ciris
I’m always a little bit enraged by theses sort of LOL Celebs. I understand that humor is all about opinion, and some people will find this hilarious and “full of win.” Still others will argue until they’re blue in the face about how it’s totally wrong.
I just want to say that, in the end, whatever this LOL’er has made their opinion to be, we who enjoy the show (or even just some of the singers that come off of it) can keep enjoying the show for as long as it’s on. There will always be flak, but people give flak to others only to make themselves feel better.
As a musician, looking at some of the singers from American Idol, they are damn good. Adam Lambert has a range that a lot of males don’t have (as most humans are only blessed with about a two-octave range). That may not “redeem” the show in anyone’s eyes, it’s not supposed to, it’s just a fact.
Also, people have been singing songs written for them by songwriters since the beginning of music. Not all great vocalists are also songwriters, not all great songwriters are also vocalists. Just because someone doesn’t write their own music does not mean they aren’t connecting, it doesn’t mean they aren’t an artist. I don’t think Aretha Franklin wrote a lot, if any, of her own lyrics, but she’s still considered an amazing artist.
Just my two cents.
winny win win…
Right on, Lu. If you hate the music on the show, stop wasting time blowing the whistle on it and being a hater. Turn off the TV, and listen to whatever you do actually like.
If you like it, watch. If you hate it, don’t watch. It’s that simple.
That idea would be fine if Pap Idle and its ilk didn’t pervade the radio and Tv news and chat shows so much these days.
Actually it is NOT fake. They sing real music, and introduces the younger generation to michael jackson, the beatles, motown etc. And I bet the top 13 of any year can outsing 90% of today’s chart toppers. HA
adam and allison are my 2 favs!
ONLY since 2002?
i can’t believe they fired paula!!!! she was like 40% of the show
Love that picture.
take away the caption, and it might actually be funny.
I think the op is giving AI a bit too much credit. As I see it, American Idol is just a reflection of the music industry today. In reality its the consumer that is ruining music as they are the ones that watch and buy crap. If they didn’t, AI would’ve never gotten off the ground.
I’ve hated american idol in principal since day one, but i must say Adam Lambert was the first one who impressed me, when he sang/performed i was in awe