Why Do You Like American Idol?

January 20, 2010 by cloften  
Filed under General Insanity, Silliness and Rants

I believe that by now that all people who follow American Idol and many who don’t have seen the incredible Pants on the Ground audition.  If not, here you go:

Something happened in the aftermath of this that surprised me.  Some friends of mine that are big American Idol fans of mine didn’t really like it.  These friends are the hosts of my favorite morning radio show, The Morning Rush on B98.5.  I was stunned.  How can fans of Idol not just love the General?

Then it hit me.  Some people love American Idol: the Singing Competition.  My family and I, on the other hand, love American Idol the Trainwreck of Craziness that Becomes a Singing Competition.  We love the craziness at the beginning, the people who can’t sing but don’t know it and even the people who dress like idiots, know they can’t sing and are just looking for attention.  Then when it turns into a singing competition, we pick someone to root for and follow them all the way.

If there is any part we don’t like, it’s Hollywood week.  It’s contrived drama.  They take crazy melodramatic artists, keep them up all night, pair them with other crazies and then they cry.  No thanks.  Either give me the bad singers or let’s get on with it.

How about you? Singing competition? Trainwreck of bad singers? Contrived drama and crying?  What do you like about Idol?

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2 Responses to “Why Do You Like American Idol?”
  1. We’re just like y’all. LOVE the audition weeks – it’s like its own show. Then I endure Hollywood week. Then we get down to bidness – pick our favs, root for them, vote like crazy at the very end. We’ve been this way since season 1. Though, I’ll admit I kinda halfway paid attention a couple of years in there while I was having spring babies, but other than that, die hard loyal fans. We’ve gone from watching it without the kids to it being a family event over the years. And now added to our AI traditions – checking in on your fb to see your take afterward. Fine, Loftens, very fine.

  2. Megan says:

    I had to go back and check just to be sure, but I wrote a very similar thing on my blog two years ago.

    “The way I watch AI is to tune in for the first auditions, blow off the early Hollywood stuff (especially that first “week”–hell week, I think–that they string out over several shows), and get back into it for the top 12-24. So join in the discussion with me, if you don’t mind a gaping hole in the middle of the season where I will bow out from watching.”

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