Listening to: Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle
This is not going to be a very long post.
I don't like American Idol. The music it produces is invariably not my thing, and with the notable exception of Taylor Hicks, I have never found anyone on that I even slightly enjoy, style-wise. Blue-eyed soul for the win!
I think my primary problem with the show is this: You basically go in as a stereotype. You know and are always cogent of the fact that you are MARKETING yourself as a specific kind of product. You can be talented as all hell (and I won't deny that there is talent present), but in the end, it is people declaring that you are "the rocker." You can't just be some guy with a shitty haircut who can sing like rock music - you have to market yourself as the "rocker product."
I'm just saying, vary it up. Don't let a pigeon hole be what makes you win.
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But then, my favorite bands are led by people who are either artists strung out on redonkulous amounts of cocaine (David Byrne of Talking Heads), prematurely gray with a very, very distinct baritone voice (Michael McDonald of The Doobie Brothers), prematurely bald with a very, very distinct throaty voice (Phil Collins of Genesis), or ugly as sin (Donald Fagen/Walter Becker of Steely Dan; Geddy Lee of Rush).
Granted, they've all had their successes, but it wasn't for being presented as "rockers." They were just guys who played rock-music.
Oh... and I guess I'm just not that impressed by a singer who can... ::gasp:: play an instrument!
I mean, holy hell, Phil Collins sings and plays a massive 14-something-tom drumkit while doing so!
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*plops down next to Julia on the couldn't-care-less-about-Idol bench
What you said.
I've had some singing talent in my day, but I wouldn't want to be one of these people; I want to sing what *I* want to sing, not what Simon Cowell thinks I should sing.
Could you see Idol ever having a Yes, Rush, or Steely Dan night?
Me neither.
Believe you me, if there was a Steely Dan night, I would not watch.
And chances are, neither would Don and Walt.
I mean, it's bad enough hearing them sugar-up or stink-up a "regular" song. The thought of them taking such amazing and wry lyrics and turning them into something the whole country would enjoy?
It's like a zeppelin bursting into flames: Oh, the humanity.
I get what you said, but that's not what's important. What's important is that you've been tagged. :)
and btw, I still love my Jason even if he's the "dreadlock guy".
Yeah, well I think you're fulla crap.
AND that wasn't a very short post.
;-)
*smooch*
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