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Re:Idol - 2008/09/08 17:25
terrapin wrote:
quirky chick like every other quirky chick on a big label (sorry Aaron - i know you were just clutching at ANYTHING of interest).
Well, yeah. But she is, at least, someone with an interesting voice - I do genuinely think she has the most textured charismatic voice - the only one in the comp, really. But, yeah... what you said as well! 
And peter, your comments are really interesting - I love when someone can offer a different perspective but perhaps arrive at the same place. I don't like showtunes, personally, I'm looking for more alternative music. But we both end up hating the show, coming from antithetical mindsets!
I think this year looks like the most homogeneous, by far - the most mainstream, ever, in fact - and the youngest. That actually has a lot to do with the audience they have left, it's exactly the same thing as we saw in Big Brother. Once those crowds start tuning out, they're left having to cater a show to the demo that is left, which will always be the mainstream bogan crowds. So the content reflects it - a catch 22 for these shows, because in trying to reflect it, they then lose every last drop of the rest of that other audience they once had as well. So BB ended up all the young tragics, and now this is really just a karaoke competition with weak imitations of mundane pop.
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