TV

This is why we have lost great abundance of new creative bands outthere. Or if they are outthere you have to search indie sites etc or even PA. Beacuse we are " Amused To Death" via the precious TV Box and force fed idolism.

Bellringer wrote: You people actually own televisions?

Several, actually.

I hate this whole pop idol thing as inane talentless fodder.

Oh, and wtf is "jump the shark"?

Oh my God, are you just awakening to the major threat that this TV show is to Earth's civilization ? Have you not read about the enormous death toll resulting from the immense viewership of this show that has been buried by the media ? You are surely aware that even the U.N. has proclaimed this the greatest evil that humanity has faced during its' entire existence. I mean, how long before the revolution begins and the TV studios are stormed with no mercy spared for the audience, judges, and contestants ?
Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooopppppppppppssssssss !

I just remembered. This is mass media mainstream entertainment. One that many enjoy. Not that I care for it. But I've somehow managed to NOT watch the damn show by either changing the channel if I'm watching TV; reading if my wife is watching it, or at times just going down to the basement and playing guitar.
Mind you, for some, actually using their freedom of choice, or worse, allowing others their own freedom to choose, seems to elicit inane remarks that try to position one as somehow superior because one is above & beyond even tolerating such trifling entertainment. Did I mention that that is what Idol is ? Entertainment !
Did I really need to ?

Reality TV would go away if people would just stop watching it. Like that's going to happen. I blame Jerry Springer and Phil Collins.

Who is the woman on the panel for American Idol? Is it Paula Abdul? I'm still waiting for her to turn to someone and say 'Look, you're sh!t, getta outa here and stop wasting my time' She just cant be nasty. You could go on there and fart the theme tune from CHiP's, and she'd still cut you some slack.

It's an awful show, but it's popularity, just like that of the UK original 'Pop Idol' speaks volumes about what people want to watch at prime time. Put it this way, they dont want to see a bearded jester in a cod piece playing old folk tunes on a Hammond organ, or some guy with a mullet playing a twin neck guitar. They want to see good looking boys and girls trying to impersonate Justin Timberlake, or Beyonce.

Vompatti wrote: Um.. What's the difference between the different seasons?

Simply put what singers they wheel out and spoon feed us.

Um.. What's the difference between the different seasons? 

My wife loves that crap and I just try and steer clear.  She was watching the Tuesday finale and comes running into the bedroom telling me she will have to rewind so that I can see the great showdown between the two.  I told her she most certainly did not need to rewind but she made me watch it.  My ten year anniversary is coming up and I know I am dead meat since I have no idea what to get her so I had to at least go through this I suppose.  Torture

like Harmonium.