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No one cares American Idol died?

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Saw no one live-posted on American Idol....

A few of my tweets:

  1. Hey @NBCTheVoice - learn from @AmericanIdol and NURTURE #diversity, or you'll soon have a #VoiceFarewell like the #IdolFarewell. #WhitesWin
  2. Just realized there have been NO Asian- or Latino-American @AmericanIdol winners, and only 1/3 black. One reason it's now #IdolFarewell
  3. The rockers really ROCKED it on the #IdolFinale - and how did @OfficialBoBice not win @AmericanIdol again? #IdolFarewell
  4. Now on @AmericanIdol #WhiteGuysWithGuitars - part of what brought us to #IdolFarewell. SOME were REALLY good, not all should've won #WgwG
  5. And THIS is why this is the #IdolFarewell for @AmericanIdol . Too white, and no support for diversity - in sound , performance or looks.
 
I could care less about the show. I doubt that a lack of diversity caused its failure however. It was simply getting stale as shows do after a number of years.
 
If I had a picture of Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive handy I would post it right now to express my opinion. :)
 
It's died the slow, agonizing death all of the other similar shows (and reality TV in general) deserve. So I guess it's not fair to say that I don't care that it's died. It would be more accurate to say I'm nigh ecstatic over the news, but sad all the others aren't following in its footsteps.
 
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Wait, American Idol had a greater occurrence of non-white winners than percentage of population and this is a lack of diversity?

If the show were race neutral wouldn't percentage of winners by race exactly match percentage of general population?

Yeah, never cared to see singers get yelled at then judged on their looks. I can watch the Voice because the judges are more positive and there's more variety of styles but can't get much into that either.
 
I care. It was a great show. I watched for the first 11 or 12 seasons. I understand that it was still pulling down ratings of 11 million a week near the end but was watched less by younger people.

Some great great voices, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry, Jennifer Hudson, came out of the show. Some incredible performance as well. I'll never forget the kid who did the Beatles' "She's a Woman". The song started out with a bluegrass arrangement then slowly morphed into a rock anthem. Incredible.

AI was totally innovative, their showing the auditions of people who had NO singing or performing talent and didn't know they didn't, was a revelation in delusional human nature at it's most delusional. That kid, Adam (can't think of his last name) did the best version of Smokey Robinson's "Ooh Baby Baby" I'd heard since the Miracles' original.

But the show lost a lot when Simon left. I almost always agreed with his opinions as long as he didn't start with the whole thing on a performer's "looks'". I just couldn't stand Randy. Paula was okay of for a laugh.

Sorry to see it end.
 
I liked the first couple of seasons, but my interest waned off when I realized how the process worked and that most people weren't given a fair shake in the interests of getting the bad singers onstage for "great tv."

So, no.
 
To me, all Idol was was an annoying thing that pre-empted shows I wanted to watch.

As for the opening post, I can't read anything that's mostly @s and hashtags. It's unintelligible gibberish to me. Please write in English.
 
I thought American Idol was mildly interesting. I have to wonder if there will someday be a revival. Or maybe I should say a recycling of the concept.
 
Forbin said:
As for the opening post, I can't read anything that's mostly @s and hashtags. It's unintelligible gibberish to me. Please write in English.
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You know, I instinctively just skipped over the opening post. But after reading that, I decided to go try it again and Jesus.

Speaking of, what's up with people using all that hashtag crap in normal forum posts? I see it all the time.
 
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