Reading the interview below with Randy Jackson, what’s really interesting is not what he says, but what is left unsaid and some brad hints dropped like a few bombs.
Though the eleventh season of “Idol” has begun, there really isn’t a buzz around it- not like before, anyway.
Some we know who have followed the show with almost religious zeal are now taking a very blasé view of this new season.
It no longer matters what Jennifer Lopez is wearing or what Steve Tyler has to say to stoners and no one has ever really cared what “The Dawg” has droned on about.
Frankly, Ryan Seacrest has kept that show together and we hear he’s leaving after this season- even if there is another season of the same warmed-up, well, stuff.
The contestants? Who really cares when one thinks back to how little has happened to former “Idols” like Lee Dewyze, Kris Allen, Crystal Bowersox, Pia Toscano, Katherine McPhee etc.
The red carpets are cluttered with quasi celebrities and many of us are fed up of it.
Add the name Adam Lambert to this list: What has his record label done for him?
Where is that Number One record we all thought would have happened around five years ago?
The guy seems headed to being a reality “star” which is an oxymoron, anyway, or someone to gawk at on the red carpet, or making some controversial statement on talk-shows.
Want controversy, get the “Glambert” on “Ellen”.
Sure, he gets nominated for a few awards- but rarely wins any.
And so we come back to “American Idol” and really have to wonder if this concept is taking its last gasp.
So, Nigel Lythgoe, “Idol’s” Executive Producer, gets a bit of hype going by inviting Barack Obama on the show- and, good grief, we hope the latter doesn’t embarrass himself and take the carrot being dangled.
Prez, you have a country down the crapper and need to WORK to get it back in shape.
Enough of the empty promises. Enough of humming Al Greene songs.
And enough of Nigel Lythgoe being another transparent opportunist.
Elsewhere, Simon Cowell’s “The X Factor” has become more like Max Factor: It’s either a forgotten brand or something needing a huge facelift. Or a complete overhaul.
Crikey, remember all that press given to whether that has-been and never-been Paula Abdul would join her old sparring partner from “Idol” on “The X Factor”?
Did anyone really care?
Is the media being paid to peddle all this hype?
Cowell is no fool, but is firing his judges and host and keeping on Sony Music’s L.A.Reid- well, he has to- going to change anything?
So what if Mariah Carey becomes a new judge? And then what? The “formula” is too formulaic: We- the audience- can see the plots, the sub-plots.
We, the audience have had enough of no-talent wannabe singers with little or no talent.
We are tired of the annual freak show during “audition week” with all those plants.
No amount of hype and the hiring and firing and pimping of celebrity judges is going to work anymore.
We’ve had enough and need more meaningful entertainment in our lives.
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