American Farce

Can anyone else not stand this show!? Ok, sometimes when someone who sucks tries to sing on the show it is moderately funny, especially when they make us believe they really thought they were good.

What I cannot stand is how obviously scripted it is. There's no way all those people who sing really think they are good which can only lead to the conclusion that they're acting. We also know all those people are screened before they go in front of the "judges" which means the judges are not actually surprised when they hear a bad singer...they are expecting it (also called acting). After all this artificialization of the process, what do we have? A bunch of crazy people who just want to get on TV any way they can (whoever acts out the most or sucks the worst is going to go in front of the judges), and a bunch of pretty good singers (which apparently most people don't watch the show for that anyway).

Like I said, the terrible singers can be funny for a little while but how does that not get old after the first 3 morons? What's even worse is that most people feel sorry for the bad singers when the majority are only subjecting themselves to ridicule for the purpose of getting on TV! Nobody told these people they were good singers, they decided they could probably act dumb enough to have their 2 minuets of fame...and apparently they get that and sometimes a little more...

American Idol...you are dead to me!

(see votefortheworst.com or the Idol's most famous outcast William Hung to read more about this television travesty)