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| From | "bob" <segarini@rogers.com> |
| Subject | Re: INXS thread, my two cents (Canadian) |
| Date | Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:36:40 -0500 |
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Hutchence is dead...they ARE a cover band.
...and the fact that INXS found their new lead singer in public, on TV,
smacks of a marketing and and press ploy, leading me to believe that had
they done their auditions in private, in their minds, no one would be the
least bit interested in them...but we'll never know, will we?
I can't watch these "Idol" shows. Like ALL reality television, all I see are
a bunch of greedy TV Weasels making stupid money at the expense of writers,
actors, and good director's livelyhoods.
It's a shame the veiwing public continues to be glued to this tripe, more
interested in Jessica Simpson/Elton's impending marriage/Tom Cruise's
sonogram machine/ Springer's Trailer tarash melee's/Montel's obsession with
tracking down every guy that had a one-night stand resulting in a fatherless
baby, and karaoke trials where the winner gets a shot at a career instead of
a t shirt and a pitcher of beer.
TV is SOOO great right now...many roses in a feild of horse manure. God
Bless Jerry Bruckheimer and all the great crews, actors, and writers that
make it possible.
Reality TV? Get off the damn Island...
bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Myers" <paulm@shaw.ca>
To: "Audities" <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 3:41 PM
Subject: INXS thread, my two cents (Canadian)
> First off, let me mildly chide Jamie Vernon. While I champion your
> eloquent defense of the band for soldiering (soldering?) on, I hasten to
> point out a seeming contradiction in your dismissal of the reality show.
> First you state, "Having not seen the TV show I wasn't sure what his
> qualifications were for getting the gig..." but later you seem to have
> seen it in full. How else could you pronounce that, and I quote, "the TV
> show was a gratuitous self-promotional indulgence.." and that " the band
> crossed the line into whoredom with the reality show idea..." which,
> presumaby, "cheapens the product."
>
> With all due respect, and I say that sincerely, perhaps calling the final
> output "product" is already an admission of its cheapened status.
>
> I personally got hooked in to the Rock Star series after several credible
> friends of mine raved about it to me. Yeah, most of the rock singers were
> either bar band schlocky or woefully miscast to stand in for Hutch.
> The show, far better than the amateur hour shows like American (and
> Canadian) Idol, had a level of professionalism that made it far more
> relevant as a real "talent search" than any of the lottery shows out
> there.
> My main problem with JD Fortune, over say Marty who had real newness to
> him, was that he was a non-descript front guy who does an ace Hutchence
> impression. Fine in a cover band but where can that take you but
> backwards?
>
> PM
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