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.
Not necessarily exactly...and also, let's look at the industry. As a percentage,African AMericans are a significant portion of the successful artists out there. I would think, if AI had developed it correctly, we'd voices & people like that in competition.
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.
Do you still watch & record on VHS tapes?
Welcome to the new reality.
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.
Why #Hashtag? PArt, I am sure it is ingrained..at least in Twitter culture, it is a way to get noticed by people outside of your normal circles... Part, because that helps show up on search engines.
Okay, just tried reading the opening post again.
Is it just me, or is he upset because they didn't ban white people from auditioning and/or making it the final rounds (or whatever it is they did)? Admittedly I only know the show from reputation so I dunno the details on how it works, but that certainly seems to be what he's upset about.
I think it's just you. Our family has notice din recent years how they focus on very few people, and you can tell who they don't care about.
it isn't about banning white people -- it's about finding different kinds of voices, and those who can surprise or thrill us. At the finale, for example, the two white finalists were just awful -- worse than many auditions.
Didn't give a shit, lost interest after the first few seasons.
That being said, you kind of undercut your own point if you complain about too many white guys with guitars and white people in general winning, but then the only person you mention by name who you think should have won is... a white guy with a guitar.
Here's the thing... especially in his semifinal performance -- Bo Bice was
excellent. Most people concerned with diversity would have been fine with him winning one year, as long as it wasn't year after year of the same (but blander..again see his performance then, and even now).
I should've mentioned Melinda Doolittle...though her situation, in my opinion, was like the 3 Divas... consistently good, but for the time it mattered for them, fans had been
so confident they'd make it through, they didn't bother to vote,becuase they assumed she'd make it easily. In the Doolittle season, fans of the other 2 were so worried their person would be off the show if they didn't vote, that both wound up beating Melinda.
Jessica Sanchez was another one that was
really good. I thought I mentioned her too.i might have missed some tweets.
