I can’t put my finger on it- I can’t even put my toe on it- but it’s been rather a strange season of “American Idol.” Sure there have been totally bizarre seasons before like when Simon Cowell all but hijacked the Season which was his last before going off to host/judge/own the flop that became the American version of “X Factor”, but there has been a weird and somewhat strained vibe to the judges panel on “Idol” this Season. What has reallycome through loud, clear and full of camera time has been the focus on Jennifer Lopez. Has she hi-jacked the show? Is she holding it to ransom? Is she planning something new to take the J-Lo Brand further and into a show of her own?
From being a very average singer who was dropped by Sony Music for lack of sales and had no new movie roles coming her way, Ms Lopez has, somehow, used the “Idol” juggernaut to get her career back to Group 1 Superstar status through a new recording deal with UMG, the music company behind “Idol” and for whom she has recorded some “dance” tracks which showcase her best- and butt- attributes.
Sure, it’s titillating stuff though I’m still not quite sure what exactly she is famous for other than her fabulous butt as she makes very average sounding Dance records, she hasn’t made a new movie, she cannot act, so, one can only assume that all she has going for her is being a judge on “Idol.” And her fabulous butt and bad memories of that awful movie that was “Gigli”.
Anyone who might have watched the last few shows- and at a time when she is “thinking” whether to continue being a judge which is usually, a thinly-veiled ploy to ask for more money- Jennifer Lopez has taken over from Randy Jackson and his Dawg Pound to be the “chief judge.” While Steven Tyler is simply “there” but, perhaps, not really anywhere, Jennifer Lopez is given the most amount of screen time and the most amount of time to rabbit on. Sure, she’s a fine specimen of a woman, especially, at her age of 41, but it’s obvious that she wants to prove and show that she works hard for the money. At least she is not as fucking annoying as watching Kara what’s-her-name who tried way too hard when a judge on the same show..but, with her whiney voice, Jennifer Lopez is getting there. She’s been “working it” since last Season.
Now, divorced from Marc Anthony, she’s found a new toy boy and choreographer named Casper Smart for whom she has been able to wrangle a reality show.
Smart, he is as is she and let’s see how long this relationship of convenience lasts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RExWQeuKx5Y
This week, she announced her World Tour- does she have enough hits to prop up a “World Tour?” which young Smart is choreographing and is always building and re-building the J-Lo brand.
So, with J-Lo-mania in the news, in gossip columns etc, all in all, “American Idol” has become “her” show. Is this a good thing? Eh.
Perhaps. Randy Crawford has become boring and has out-stayed his welcome whereas Steven Tyler is on Remote and there for contractual reasons.
As for the rest of the cast, well, Jimmy Iovine is simply there for the sake of being there and I fail to see what he or any of the “mentors” bring to the contestants.
Sometimes, however, the real Iovine appears and talks sense: Too many young contestants on “Idol” are made to look far older than they are.
For entertainment value, having some names on the show is, I guess, Okay, but Akon as a “mentor”? Isn’t that an oxymoron when Akon is more like an Acorn and acorns cannot sing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkyO7Ys9RTA
As for the contestants, well, they were Okay, though many outstayed their welcome while others came and went too early. Then again, without them, there would be no show though that “save” of Jessica Sanchez was pretty much telegraphed weeks earlier to boost rating and was, I guess, “good television.” If that “save” wasn’t a setup, I’ll bite off both my elbows.
Jessica Sanchez HAD to be saved. She ran RINGS around everyone else on the show though I remain wondering what kinda record she’ll make.
Please let it not be a Charise-type of record and without the heavy hand of David Foster turning it all into mush..
But that “save” and J-Lo screaming was truly cheesy. Here, watch it again. Carefully.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29bXzZlmWDM
Of course, by now, who’s the winner of this Season’s “American Idol” and as we will be told, “America has voted.”
The result was expected and what will be interesting now is to see where all this leads.
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